Privacy Policy – www.indomedia.com.au
Last modified: Nov 2016
Indomedia operates www.indomedia.com.au (‘site’). This document informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of our site. The Policy applies to information about users and anyone who interacts with us including subscribers.
We use your personal information only for providing and improving our site & contacting you with newsletters and other marketing/promotional materials. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information (if any) collected by our writers / contributors or photographers for the purpose of gathering news or contents.
Information Collection and Use
While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name (“personal information”).
The main type of personal information we collect is Registration Information. This may include information you provide to us (such as name and email address) to become a subscriber, become an advertiser, receive a newsletter or enter a competition.
Essentially, when we do collect information about you, we use the information to make both our content (including advertising) relevant to you. We may also use the information provided for research and data analysis, to enhance our services and fulfill our administrative functions such as billing/account/marketing management. We may make your information available to certain third party service and/or content providers who help us manage or provide us with related goods and services, including any sponsorship.
For example, if you win a competition run by one of our sponsors / advertisers through our site, we may disclose your information to them and relevant regulatory authorities, as/if required. We may also publish your details in accordance with the competition terms and conditions. When required, we may also remove certain information or alter the information we collect about you so you can no longer be identified from that information.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site (“Log Data”). This log data may include information such as your computer’s internet protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this information.
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, from time to time.
Cookies and other technologies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many sites, we may use “cookies” to collect information about your visit. Information may include computer, browser, geo-location data, software/hardware info and a unique device identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.
Note about Advertising Cookie:
• Our site may be displaying AdSense ads and participating in Google certified ad networks or other third party vendors.
• Where this is the case, Google and other ad network use cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the site.
• When users visit the site, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
• Most Third party vendors and ad networks, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website.
• Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad-Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Opt Out
You can block certain advertisements by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings. Some third party providers use tracking technology other than cookies to deliver targeted advertisements. Visit aboutads.info to exercise your choice and opt out.
If you do not want to receive promotional or marketing information from us, you can change your account settings or follow the unsubscribe instructions.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We will do what we can to protect your Personal Information, however we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
Other Important Information
o Financial Information by a Payment Service Provider: Where applicable, you will be directed to the webpage for that Payment Service. Where this is the case, any information you provide when using a Payment Service may be collected and used by the Payment Service Provider in accordance with that provider’s privacy policy. Please check the provider’s Privacy Policy to understand how your information will be handled.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at editor@indomedia.com.au