Privacy Policy
The Concept People (referred to throughout this Policy as We, Us,
Our, The Business,
Our Organization, The Concept People or TCP) provides electronic
services including a
Web site for your convenient information and communication, and as
needed, VIP Member-
ship, a subscriber special
promotion service, and Online secure ordering and payment facilities.
In the course of conducting business it is essential for Our
Organization to gather aggregate
information as well
as the personal information of Our Organization’s customers, clients,
members and visitors. This Policy
has been created in order to make you aware of the
information
gathering and dissemination practices for The Business, in the actual world,
and for The Business’s Internet
Pages, http://www.theconceptpeople.com/.au
and Our
Business’s linked Internet pages
(The Websites), in the cyber world. This Policy is in
addition to The Business’s Terms
of Use and Conditions of Use that may govern The
Website/s and should be read in conjunction with these Terms and
Conditions. By
using The Website/s you agree to Our Organisation’s Privacy Policy. If
you do not
agree to The Policy, please do not use The Website/s.
The Concept People upholds your right to confidentiality in
respect to your personal and
private
details. Personal information provided to Us over the
Internet, is processed securely
to ensure
the privacy and confidentiality of that information. Whether you provide
information
to Us in
written or digital format, you can be assured that Our Organization maintains
professionalism and strict security at all times to ensure the confidentiality
and privacy
of your
personal details.
TCP does not divulge, exchange or
sell your personally identifiable information with any
other organization. The information you provide Us
is simply to allow Us to communicate
with you, to keep you informed of any changes to Our Organization, to
announce other
important information to you including media releases, to let you know of
any money saving
opportunities in the area/s of your interest, to advise you of special offers
and deals, to run
competitions and give-aways, to inform you of business opportunities etc.
Personal
information is also collected for legislative or regulatory requirements.
TCP continually strives to expand the services and products that
are available and to enhance
the
quality of those services and products. Through your personal and aggregate
information
The Business is able, not only to communicate with you, but to
carry out the necessary
research
that will enable Us to improve in order to better meet the needs and demands of
all
Our customers, clients and members as well as
visitors to Our Internet sites.
Aggregate Information
Aggregate Information is
anonymous data, that we use to analyse trends, administer The
Websites, diagnose problems on
The Website's servers, track user's movement, gather
broad demographic information for aggregate use and to help improve the
quality of the
web pages on The Website/s. Whenever a page is requested from Our
webserver, We
record the time, date and URL and country of the request, along with
information on the
browser software that is being used. This information is collected to
enable us to better
understand the preferences of our members and to enable us to improve Our
communications and tailor Our Services to meet Our clients, customers, members
and
visitors needs. Our Organization does not connect any of this information
with Personally
Identifiable Information.
Personally Identifiable
Information
Personally Identifiable
Information is any information that personally identifies you.
When you become an online member
through The Website/s by joining our club,
or when you register for information, enter competitions, open an
account with TCP,
make credit card payments or carry out other online transactions with
Us, We ask you
for your personal details including: personal name, business name,
post code, date of birth,
country of origin, gender, residential address, delivery address, email
address, other contact
details and credit
card details. We also collect information, which may be necessary to
satisfy the legislative account opening requirements and to comply with
other legislative
and regulatory requirements.
We may also ask you to provide Us with some lifestyle information when you register with
The Website/s or open an account
with TCP or for various features of The Website/s. All the
information you provide, enables Us to identify who is using the service and
allows Us to build
Our Organisation to suit Our
valued customers, clients, members and web visitors. It also
enables you to get the most out of The Website/s and Our services.
Disclosure
Here are some ways we might use
or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information:
the section “Privacy of Your Personal
Information”)
We will not disclose any
Personally Identifiable Information about you for any other purpose
without your
consent unless We believe it is necessary:
the performance of its functions.
the public.
We may retain the content of any email that you send to Us. Any personally identifiable
information
contained within those emails, including your email address, will only be used
or disclosed in the ways set out in
this Policy. Our Organization, may monitor the content
of your email message for business
purposes, or during routine security checks for email
abuse.
We also send you site and service
announcement updates about services for which you
have registered. Members are not able to unsubscribe from service
announcements,
which contain important information about the service. We communicate
with you to
provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to your
account via the email
you registered with us.
If you've given us personally
identifiable information in the past and you want to
update it, here are your choices:
personal details,
A cookie is a piece of data
stored on your hard drive containing information about your
computer. The use of cookies on websites is a common industry standard.
Cookies act
as unique identifiers, used to distinguish between different
members. They can enable
us to track and target your interests to enhance your experience on
our site. For instance,
by setting a cookie on the Website/s, you would not have to log in a
password more than
once, thereby saving time while on our site.
The Website/s use cookies to
allow access to the “members only” and “account holder only”
sections. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd
prefer, you can set yours
to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You
can also delete cookies
from your hard drive at any time. If you reject or delete cookies, you
may still use the Website,
however, you will not have access to “members only” and “account holder
only” areas of the
site. This means that you would not be able to: participate in any of
our competitions; register
for, or use, an online account; apply for, or utilise, your
membership; shop at Our online store,
or register for business opportunities etc.
We may also use cookies when we
conduct voting polls, surveys, and contests to limit
multiple responses and registrations. You can be certain that We will never use cookies
to retrieve information from your computer (except if it was
originally sent by us to you in
a cookie). We do not associate information obtained from cookies
with Personally
Identifiable Information.
Some of the Internet sites linked
to Our Organisation’s Websites may use cookies (for
example, advertisers). The Concept People has no access to, or control
over, these cookies.
TCP has taken reasonable
precautions to protect the security of your Personally Identifiable
Information, which We collect, either digitally on the Website/s or in written
form. These
precautions include: protection of passwords using secure web pages and
industry standard
encryption; procedures and fail-safe administrative practices to preserve
the security of the
information in our own systems and to prevent unauthorised access,
modification, use or
disclosure; and back-up systems to prevent accidental or malicious loss of
data.
Unfortunately, there's always a
risk involved in sending information through any channel over
the Internet and you send information over the Internet entirely at
your own risk.
To the extent permitted by law,
we will not be responsible for any unauthorised access or use
of this information.
When you register on the
Website/s you will create a user name and password. You can play
an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by
maintaining the
confidentiality of any passwords and account details you use on the Website.
If you suspect that someone has
your user name and password without your permission,
please let Our Privacy Officer know, or change them immediately on The
Website/s. You can
change or reset your password online when you log in.
A few of our employees and
contractors will have access to your personal information to a
level that is necessary to enable them to perform their jobs. They are
legally obliged to
respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
The Website/s contain
links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to
be aware that when
they leave our site it is important to read the privacy policies of
each and every web site
that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy
applies solely to
information collected by Our Website/s.
If The Concept People decides to change this privacy policy, We will post those changes
on the
Website/s so Our users can always check what information We collect, how We
use it,
and under what circumstances, if any, We disclose it. If at any point We decide to
use
personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at
the time it
was
collected, We will notify Our customers, clients and members by way of an
email.
Users will have a choice as to whether or not We
use their information in this different
manner.
We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the
information was collected.
We
do not sell or give out our customer’s personal information to other
organisations except in the case of when we may contract out printing/delivery
activities. The business we use for this service does not
disclose your personal information to any other parties.
ONLINE and LAY-BY information is requested for your facility
during an ONLINE PURCHASE. The information provided is facilitated by a data
centre which is not monitored by us, but stores your identity for faster
processing. It is up to our clients to either use the facility or not. We
cannot take any responsibility in the procurement of security of third parties.
CREDIT CARDS are not Stored in our Facility. We ensure
to keep all information as private as possible.
The Concept People