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PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
WOODS Battery Chargers is the operator of Australia's leading Battery Charger Design and production facility.
This statement sets out WOODS Battery Chargers' policies relating to the collection and use of your personal information. It applies to your conduct on the WOODS Battery Chargers Website. These policies are in addition to WOODS Battery Chargers' general Terms of Use. Before disclosing your personal information to any third party you should read the relevant policy or terms of use.
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT TO US.
WOODS Battery Chargers recognises that your privacy is very important to you and that you have a right to control your personal information. We know that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that seriously. Unless you give us explicit consent to act otherwise, the following policy will govern how WOODS Battery Chargers handles your personal information and safeguards your privacy. WOODS Battery Chargers is committed to protecting your personal information and giving you choice in who can use your personal information and how it can be used. We believe that our privacy policy not only complies with relevant laws but represents industry best practice.
WOODS MEMBERSHIP
WOODS Battery Chargers in the near future will be implementing a membership system, designed to offer users a more rewarding and personalised customer experience ("Membership"). To obtain the full benefits of Membership, users will be required to register with WOODS Battery Chargers and login as members each time they visit the WOODS Battery Chargers Website. However, even if you don't sign up for Membership or log onto the WOODS Battery Chargers Website as a member, you are still able to access many of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website and much of the WOODS Battery Chargers content. This privacy policy will also govern the membership and forum sections of our site once implemented.
COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
There are two main ways we collect information about you:
IF YOU DO NOT LOG IN AS A WOODS MEMBER
Whenever you visit our site, our servers automatically record information about your usage of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website such as the time of the visit, its duration and the pages which you visit. This is intended to help us to understand what parts of our WOODS Battery Chargers Website our users enjoy and utilise the most, and to help us to ensure that any changes to our website and advertising is most directly relevant to your interests. The information we collect about you remains anonymous, and we do not link it to any other personal information. Therefore if you have not identified yourself on the site, such as by registering for Membership or logging on as a member, we will not link a record of your usage of our WOODS Battery Chargers Website to you personally.
If you do not want us to retain any information at all, even in an anonymous form, you can use the Preferences on your browser program to remove all cookies and set the browser not to accept cookies in the future. For more information on disabling cookies, click here
IF YOU LOG IN AS A WOODS MEMBER
Once you have become a WOODS Battery Chargers member, we collect personal information about you in order to provide you with the full benefits of Membership. When you first register for Membership, we collect information from you directly and also from time to time thereafter if you provide us additional information.
Once you have logged on as a member, we keep a record of how you use the WOODS Battery Chargers Website. This helps us to build a profile of what interests you, so that we can personalise your experience of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website and publish you information which is directly relevant to your interests.
Any further collection of your personal information than that explained above will only occur with consent from you. WOODS Battery Chargers only collects information from your use of our WOODS Battery Chargers Website. We do not collect information about you from other organizations or from websites outside the WOODS Battery Chargers Website that you may visit.
PRESERVING YOUR PRIVACY
Surveys show that most internet users are concerned about their privacy, want to keep control of their personal information, and do not trust many of the web sites which they visit. In fact, research shows around a third of internet users give false information online rather than saying who they really are.
WOODS Battery Chargers understands that even with our privacy policy, some people still will not feel comfortable disclosing their personal information in order to become a WOODS Battery Chargers member. So if you don't feel comfortable with disclosing your real identity, but you still want to take advantage of WOODS Battery Chargers Membership, then you can register for Membership using a pseudonym (or "nym") - a different name. This way, you choose your own nym, which might be "Joe Bloggs" or "Jane Doe" and that's what we will call you. We won't know who you really are, but we will still be able to find out what you like most on our WOODS Battery Chargers Website and therefore give you the most enjoyable and customised experience of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website possible.
OUR USE OF COOKIES AND APPLETS
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies. However, if you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse cookies (for more information on disabling cookies, click here. In some instances this may mean you will not be able to take full advantage of parts of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website. For instance, our forums will not allow you to maintain your log in.
The use of cookies can enhance your enjoyment of what is offered by WOODS Battery Chargers, because they can help personalise your experience of our website. They can make it easier for you to shop online (when implemented) and can ensure that information provided to you is most relevant to your interests. Cookies can provide us with aggregated information on how people use our website, which helps us to keep improving our WOODS Battery Chargers Website. We also use cookies to operate the Membership system, as they help us to identify visitors to the site who have previously registered.
Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's browser. The cookies simply contain a unique identifier which help us to know what our customers find interesting and useful on our website, almost like a continuing questionnaire.
WOODS Battery Chargers uses tracking code to collect the following core information on the usage of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website:
The number of page views (or page impressions) that occur on the WOODS Battery Chargers Website;
The number of unique visitors to the WOODS Battery Chargers Website;
How long these unique visitors (on average) spend on the WOODS Battery Chargers Website when they do visit; and
Common entry and exit points into the WOODS Battery Chargers Website.
This aggregate, non-personal information is collated by our servers and provided to WOODS Battery Chargers to assist in analysing the usage of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website.
*The use of Javascript and/or Java Applet is dictated by the browser you use. Typically Internet Explorer users with Version 4 or above will use the Javascript method. Netscape users, or users whose browser does not support Javascript 1.1, will use the Java Applet method.
USING AND DISCLOSING YOU PERSONAL INFORMATION
WOODS Battery Chargers will not use or disclose any information about you without your consent, or access your communications on our websites, unless:
Required by law.
We believe it necessary to provide you with a service which you have requested.
To implement our terms of use.
To protect the rights or property of WOODS Battery Chargers, any WOODS Battery Chargers user, or any member of the public.
To lessen a serious threat to a person's health or safety.
WOODS Battery Chargers and its affiliates recognise the trust you place in us when you give us personal information. In order to operate the website or deliver a service you have requested we may sometimes share your personal information with a service such as courier or delivery agents to ensure deliveries and such are made on time and to the correct address.
We will not give any of your personal information to advertisers or any other organisation without your express consent.
"SPAM" (promotional email)
We will not send you "spam" (advertising information) without first asking you whether you wish to have promotional information sent to you. If you are receiving promotional information about WOODS Battery Chargers or its affiliates and do not wish to receive this information any longer, you may remove your name from our list either by visiting the website from which the communication was sent and following the instructions on how to withdraw your information from that site (where that facility is available), or emailing us on our privacy@woodsbatterychargers.com.au and asking to be removed from our mailing list. Please allow seven days for this request to be processed.
STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
WOODS Battery Chargers will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date. Your information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by WOODS Battery Chargers. However, WOODS Battery Chargers will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
You can also play an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by maintaining the confidentiality of any password and accounts used on the WOODS Battery Chargers website. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account by any other Internet user or any other breach of security.
YOU CAN ACCESS ALL THE INFORMATION WE KEEP ABOUT YOU
As indicated above in section 3, if you do not log on as a WOODS Battery Chargers member, we do not collect information which identifies you personally. If, however, you log on as a WOODS Battery Chargers Member, you are able to access, change and update your Membership profile at any time. If you wish to know what other information we hold about you whilst you have been logged onto the WOODS Battery Chargers Website, please send an email to us via privacy@woodsbatterychargers.com.au setting out your username and email address and the details of your request. We will endeavour to respond to your request within 30 days.
WOODS AND LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
WOODS Battery Chargers may provide links to websites outside of the WOODS Battery Chargers Website, as well as to third party WOODS Battery Chargers Website sites. These linked sites are not under the control of WOODS Battery Chargers, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using their websites.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM OR QUESTION
If WOODS Battery Chargers becomes aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with sites on our WOODS Battery Chargers Website, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns. If you have any further queries relating to our privacy policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us via privacy@woodsbatterychargers.com.au.
FUTURE CHANGES
Our commitment to make WOODS Battery Chargers Australia's leading battery charger and technical leader means that we are constantly adding new features to the WOODS Battery Chargers Website. Because of this, from time to time, our policies will be reviewed and may be revised. WOODS Battery Chargers reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the policy on its website.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON PRIVACY
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's website. www.privacy.gov.au