Privacy Policy

We are committed to:

• protecting the personal information you give us

• telling you how we use the information we gather about you

• getting your consent to disclosure of your personal information.

Our Privacy Policy is set out in detail below. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. Please also refer to the Terms and Conditions of this website.

Why we collect information from you

• We want to offer you a service which you want to use. We may use information about you to help us customise our site to improve its usefulness to you. It can also help us to choose services we think will interest you.

What information do we collect from you?

• We may collect information from you when you fill in an online registration form. We may also collect information you give us over the telephone or in written or other communications. The type of information we will collect includes, for example, your name, mailing address, email address, telephone numbers, gender, preferences and, where relevant, financial, credit card or bank details.

• We collect information about your use of our website services through "cookies". Cookies are blocks of text placed in files on your computer's hard drive when you visit a website which contain information to identify you. A cookie does not contain any personal information you have provided us with, except your user name or email address, unless the cookie is attached to personal information collected another way, such as by means of your online registration form.

• Where it is lawful and necessary, we may monitor emails you send and receive.

Your Consent

• We will not make use of your personal information for direct marketing activities, or supply this information to third parties for their direct marketing activities without your consent. When you give us any personal information we may want to use this information but you will be given an opportunity to refuse consent for various uses of your information.

• If having given your consent you subsequently decide you no longer wish to receive direct marketing or information from us or our associated companies or no longer want us to pass your information to third parties, please notify us via this page: http://www.carefinder.com.au/site_contact.php

How we ensure privacy is maintained

• We endeavour to ensure that your data is stored securely and to prevent unauthorised access.

• Unfortunately, despite our measures, because of the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your information will remain at all times 100% secure.

• Please be aware that if you disclose information on chat areas, forums or other public services it may be possible for other people to use this information. We are not responsible for the disclosure of any information you post in this way.

• Our policy conforms with amendments to the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act), which became effective 21 December 2001.

Disclosing your information to third parties

• The personal information you give us is not disclosed to other businesses without your express written permission.

• We may disclose details about the use of our website to other businesses e.g. to demonstrate patterns of use to advertisers and other business partners. The information we pass on will not include any personal information by which you may be identified.

• We may forward your personal details to the Police or another regulatory body if we are asked to do so or wish to do so in order to comply with the law or in relation to any suspected misuse by you of our website or any of our website services.

• We endeavour to prevent unauthorised disclosures of your personal information by other people, but we are not responsible for any unauthorised disclosures or other breaches of security or for the actions of others if the information was passed to them with your authority or with the authority of anybody other than us or our associated companies.