www.Classifieds.com.au
respects the privacy of its users. In this document,
we explain how we will use the information you
supply us via the Classifieds.com.au web
site. This privacy policy may be modified in the
future. If it is, a new policy will be posted on our
Web sites, and you will have the opportunity to
modify your information on file with us as explained
below.
This
Web site is the product of Classifieds.com.au. You
may have arrived at this Web site by following a
link from a Classifieds.com.au newspaper affiliate
or other affiliate, in which case that affiliate
will be clearly identified at the top of the home
page of this Web site. If so, please be aware that
this Web site was customized by Classifieds.com.au
for the affiliate, with whom Classifieds.com.au may
share your information (as described below in the
section titled “With whom do we share the
information we collect?”). During your visit to
this Web site, the affiliate may independently
collect other information from you.
The
policy that follows is applicable to Classifieds.com.au’s
information collection, use and disclosure
practices. For information on the policy applicable
to the affiliate’s information collection, use and
disclosure practices, please review the privacy
statement on the affiliate’s Web site (this may be
the site from which you linked to get here). Also,
please note that this Web site contains links to
other Web sites. Classifieds.com.au and its
affiliates are not responsible for the content or
the privacy policies of any Web sites to which this
site may link.
What
personal information do we collect?
Visiting:
You are not required to provide personally
identifiable information to visit the cars.com
site. We do collect usage data, postcodes and
other information on all users, but it is not
personally identifiable except as described below
under the section IP Addresses (Below).
Registration,
Service Requests and Web Forms: You may be asked
to provide personal information to use certain
services on this Web site, which will be apparent
from the forms we ask you to complete. When you
sign up to join Classifieds.com.au as a registered
user, request a dealer price quote, use one of our
other interactive services or enter a contest, we
may request specific information about you,
including your name, age, address and phone
number, as well as demographic and vehicle
information. To sign up to join Classifieds.com.au
as a registered user, request a dealer price
quote, use one of our other interactive services
or enter a contest, you must be 18 years of age or
older and agree to the Terms and Conditions of the
Web site.
Premium
Services: Visitors 18 years of age or older may
use an order form to request optional services at
some parts of our Web site. We may collect your
credit card information to bill you for these
optional services. All other areas of our Web site
are free and may be used by visitors 18 years of
age or older without a fee.
Cookies:
Cookies are small text files that are placed on
your computer’s hard drive by our computers (or
servers) to identify your computer. Cookies are
read only by the server that placed them there and
are unable to execute any code or virus. We use
cookies to recognize you when you visit our Web
site, to personalize your experience and generally
to serve you better. For example, if you enter
your name, address or postcode on one of our
forms, it may be stored in a cookie so you do not
have to enter it again. Cookies also can tell us
what advertising you have seen on our site, which
allows us to offer you a more diverse selection of
advertising information. Cookies also may compile
data about our visitors that may be shared with
other companies, such as an outside advertising
company. However, no personally identifiable
information stored in cookies will be shared with
outside companies for any purpose without your
permission. You can disable cookies or otherwise
manage them through tools provided with your
browser software and with third-party software
packages. If you turn off cookies, many Classifieds.com.au
features will not work as well or at all.
IP
Addresses: Classifieds.com.au compiles IP addresses — the
location of your computer on the Internet — for
administrative and analytical purposes. Classifieds.com.au
does not routinely collect any personally
identifiable information through its compilation
of your IP address or the location of your
computer on the Internet. However, in cases of
suspected abuse or service problems, we may use an
IP address in conjunction with other personally
identifiable information to enforce our terms of
service and to protect or troubleshoot the
service, the site, its users or others who may be
affected. No personally identifiable information
associated with IP addresses will be shared with
third parties for marketing purposes without your
permission.
How do
we use the information we collect?
Site
Interaction: The information you provide when you
register with Classifieds.com.au or fill out other
forms on our site may be stored on our servers or,
in some cases, in a cookie on your computer. This
information will be used to compile aggregate data
that is not personally identifiable and may be
used internally or shared with third parties. This
information also may be used to confirm and fulfill
a request you are making, to follow up on
that request and to communicate with you about the
Classifieds.com.au service. The messages that Classifieds.com.au
sends for these purposes may incidentally include
promotional material or other content from Classifieds.com.au
or its partners. In the case of these messages, we
are not sharing your personally identifiable
information with third parties, nor will we
continue to send you promotional messages if you
ask us not to, as described below in the section
titled “Accessing Changing or Deactivating
information Collected by Classifieds.com.au.”
Direct
Promotion: Using the contact information provided
by registrants 18 years of age or older, including
e-mail addresses, Classifieds.com.au, its
affiliates or third parties to whom Classifieds.com.au
discloses such information in accordance with this
privacy policy (including its partners or
advertisers) may periodically send you promotional
or informational messages. In any case where we
might use your contact information for this
purpose, you will be able to indicate at
registration whether you wish to receive such
promotional or informational messages. However, by
providing us your personal contact information
when you register or request specific services,
you agree that Classifieds.com.au may contact you
regarding account status, changes to this privacy
policy or other terms of service, and to confirm, fulfill
and follow up on your registration,
service or information request.
Visitor
Behaviour: Classifieds.com.au may perform
statistical analyses of user behaviour in order to
measure interest in the various areas of our Web
site, for development purposes, and to inform
advertisers and partners about consumers who click
on their advertising or other messages. In these
analyses, we will disclose information to third
parties only in aggregate form, except as
specified below. We also may use personally
identifiable information to improve your
experience while you are visiting our Web site.
This might include pre-filling your personal
information into Web forms so that you do not have
to retype it or presenting you with editorial and
advertising content that may be of interest.
With
whom do we share the information we collect?
Classifieds.com.au
will share personally identifiable information
with third parties in the following cases:
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With
affiliated newspapers and other affiliates for
whom we provide Web sites. Certain affiliates
have Web pages that are branded with both
their trademarks and ours. You may visit us
through a co-branded page of such a site, for
example, a Classifieds.com.au page that is
co-branded with XYZ Newspaper’s Web site. If
you entered the Classifieds.com.au Web site
through a site maintained by one of these
affiliates, then your personally identifiable
information may be shared with that affiliate
on the condition that the affiliate’s use of
the information is consistent with this
privacy policy.
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As
is necessary for third parties to provide
information or perform services specifically
requested by you. For example, if you request
a vehicle price quote from a dealership
through our service, we will share the
information you entered with that dealership.
Similarly, if through Classifieds.com.au you
request additional information from a car
manufacturer or financial institution, we will
share your information with those companies.
Personally identifiable information also may
be included in reports to these third parties,
but only when you have already submitted the
information to the third party as described
above. After the information is provided to
such third parties, Classifieds.com.au does
not and cannot control their subsequent use or
disclosure of information.
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For
direct marketing purposes, but only if you
have authorized Classifieds.com.au to do so
and only if you are 18 years of age or older.
Although Classifieds.com.au will notify all
third-party direct marketers that the
information provided to them is confidential, Classifieds.com.au
does not and cannot control their subsequent
use or disclosure of information.
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To
perform analytical and other services as an
agent of Classifieds.com.au. In some cases, we
may work with third parties that do analysis
and development on our behalf. We may share
your personally identifiable information with
such a third party on the condition that the
third party maintains the information as
confidential and uses the information only to
perform the services specified by Classifieds.com.au.
Message
Boards
Classifieds.com.au
may offer message boards, or forums, on some
of its Web sites for use by visitors who are 18
years of age or older. Any information you
disclose when posting a message in these forums
becomes public. Moreover, registrants who post a
message in our forums make their e-mail addresses
available to others through a feature of our
software, which could result in unsolicited e-mail
from third parties.
E-mail
a Friend
Classifieds.com.au
sometimes offers you the ability to send an e-mail
to a friend or other third party. E-mail a Friend
functionality is for informational purposes only
and may not be used for any unlawful purpose. This
includes all harassment or threats. Classifieds.com.au
expressly reserves the right to release
information you provide through use of this
functionality (including but not limited to e-mail
addresses, names and IP addresses) to third
parties in any case of suspected abuse or other
problems, in order to enforce our terms of service
and to protect or troubleshoot the service, the
site, its users or others who may be affected.
Information collected under the “E-mail a
Friend” functionality is otherwise subject to
the same limitations of use, access, security and
disclosure described elsewhere in this privacy
policy.
How do
we handle changes to your information or to this
policy?
Notification
of Changes: Any changes to this policy will be
posted on our Web site in this location. If those
changes affect how we use your personally
identifiable information, we will contact you at
the e-mail address in our records to notify you of
the change before it takes effect in regard to
your information. You can then either agree to the
changes, modify your personally identifiable
information or deactivate your user record.
Accessing,
Changing or Deactivating Information Collected by Classifieds.com.au:
If you wish to access, verify the accuracy of,
change or deactivate your personal information on
file with Classifieds.com.au; change your
permissions regarding use of personally
identifiable information for direct promotion
purposes by Classifieds.com.au or its partners
(including affiliates and third parties identified
in this policy); or deactivate your Classifieds.com.au
membership, you can use the account area
interface..
Deactivation
of User Information: If you deactivate your user
information, your account information will no
longer be used by Classifieds.com.au or made
available to third parties except in an aggregate
form or as required by law.
Security
Your
personal information is one of our most valuable
assets. It is kept physically secure in our data centres
and is accessible only to authorized
personnel as needed to perform operations governed
by this policy. In addition, when we collect
credit card or other highly sensitive information
from you, such as a Social Security number, we use
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, the industry
standard for ensuring privacy in Web transactions.
Children's
Guidelines
We
believe that it is especially important to protect
children’s privacy online. We encourage parents
to get involved with their children’s online
usage and to be aware of the activities in which
they are participating. Note: We define
“children” as minors younger than 13 years
old. We do not knowingly collect or use any
personally identifiable information from children,
and we do not provide any personally identifiable
information, regardless of its source, to any
third party for any purpose whatsoever from our
visitors younger than 13 years old. We do not
knowingly allow children to register with us or to
participate in any of our promotions or contests.
No information should be submitted to or posted at
Classifieds.com.au by visitors younger than 13
years old. In the event that Classifieds.com.au
obtains information from an individual who
indicates that he/she is younger than 13 years
old, Classifieds.com.au will promptly discard the
personally identifiable information without
collecting, using or disclosing such information
to any third party. You should be aware that if
your child voluntarily discloses his or her name,
e-mail address or other information on any Web
site, such disclosures may result in unsolicited
messages.
Does
this privacy statement extend to links to other
sites?
This
site contains links to other sites. While we
encourage our business partners to adopt privacy
policies that build users’ trust and confidence
in the Internet, we are not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of Web sites
linked to any of our sites. We may allow third
parties to sponsor promotions and sweepstakes
through our site. The use of any personal
information provided to such a third party will be
governed by that party’s privacy policy.
Collection
of Information by Third Parties
Classifieds.com.au
uses a third-party advertising company to serve
ads when you visit our Web site. This company
may use information (not including your name,
address, e-mail address or telephone number)
about your visits to our site and other Web
sites in order to provide advertisements about
goods and services of interest to you. In
addition, we share Web site usage information
about visitors to our sites with this company
for the purpose of managing and targeting
advertisements on our Web site and other Web
sites. For this purpose, we and our third-party
advertising company note some of the pages you
visit on our Web site through the use of pixel
tags (also called clear gifs or single-pixel
gifs). In the course of serving advertisements
to this Web site, our third-party advertising
company may place or recognize a unique
“cookie” on your computer. If you would like
more information about the information
collection practices of this third-party
advertising company and to know your choices
about not having this information used by this
company, www.advertise.com.au
