| Adest has established this Privacy Policy to explain how
it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you (the
customer) online.
1.
| >1. Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
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Your use of the Adest site and/or your registration for
Adest products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy
Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please
do not use the Adest site.
Adest may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When it does, Adest will
also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In
addition, Adest will seek a customer’s prior consent, by email, for any new uses
or proposed disclosures of information collected from the customer prior to the
change. Adest will notify customers by email of changes to this policy that
will affect information collected from them in the future. In certain
circumstances, however, Adest will not inform and obtain the consent of the
customer, such as in connection with an investigation of a breach of an
agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where the life, health or
security of an individual is threatened, the collection of a debt or in
compliance with the request of a law enforcement agency or a court order.>
A customer may withdraw his or
her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time by using this
unsubscribe form
click here
Please note that, if you do, Adest may suspend its provision of products and
services to you. When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period
for any Adest product and you request a refund, the guarantee will be honored.
Adest collects, at the time of your registration and your
sign-on to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that
personally identifies you) including but not limited to your name, email
address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your
computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser
type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).
Adest has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect
personal information received from its customers, and to respond to any
inquiries. The Privacy Policy also provides that Adest will use appropriate
contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal
information which is sent for processing by third parties on Adest’s behalf.
Adest has designated responsibility for your personal information to its
Privacy Officer, who ensures
compliance with the principles in this Privacy Policy. Other Adest individuals
may be delegated to act on behalf of the
Privacy Officer.
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3.. |
Purposes
for Collecting Personal Information |
Adest
collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:
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(a)
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to
understand customer needs regarding Adest’s services; |
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(b) |
to
develop and provide our web site and our products and services for our
customers; |
(c)
to fulfill your requests for products,
services or information;
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(d) |
to
communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to
inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services
available from Adest, its affiliates and third parties;
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(e) |
to allow
customers to access limited-entry areas of Adest’s site; |
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(f) |
to
personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver
targeted advertisements and offers from Adest and third parties;
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(g) |
to bill
accounts and maintain payment records; |
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(h) |
to
comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government
request; |
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(i) |
to
respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that
you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements
or policies that govern your use of the Adest site or any Adest product
or service; |
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(j) |
to
protect the services, products or rights of Adest, including but not
limited to the security or integrity of the Adest site; and |
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(k) |
to
identify and resolve technical problems concerning Adest’s site,
products and services. |
Adest also
uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually
attributable to you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other
promotional purposes.
If we hire other
companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only
provide those companies the personal information they need for the Identified
Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your
personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.
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4. |
Limiting the Collection of Personal Information |
Adest limits
its collection of personal information to only that information which is
necessary for the Identified Purposes. Adest does not direct its site to, nor
does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age
of thirteen.
When you
visit the Adest web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie
may be read if you have visited the Adest site previously. Adest uses cookies
to allow Adest to determine which products and services you have already
purchased so that Adest does not provide redundant information to you, and, if
you are an Adest affiliate, to track Adest sales made to customers referred by
you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you
choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Adest web site, you may
not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalised
visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the Adest
site.
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5. |
Disclosure, Processing and Retention |
Adest does
not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, except:
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(a) |
to
someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the
Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above); |
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(b) |
to
Adest’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates,
consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and
agents, acting on Adest’s behalf for any of
the Identified Purposes; |
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(c)
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as
necessary if Adest has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or
unintentionally) with Adest’s rights or property, other users of Adest’s
web site, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by
such activities; and |
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(d) |
to
respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement
agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to
public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.
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In addition,
as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy
other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company.
In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred
business assets. Also, in the event that Adest or
substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be
one of the transferred assets.
Your
information may be stored and processed in the United States, or in any other
country in which Adest or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain
facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of
information outside of your country.
After your
account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our
database), Adest will keep your personal information in its archives.
Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or
to prove Adest’s compliance with any applicable law.
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6. |
Accuracy
of Personal Information |
Adest will
use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the
Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the
possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such
information. Customers are responsible for informing Adest about changes to
their personal information. You can do this by calling
 +612.9527.4690
or sending an email to
our privacy
department. Adest will use new or updated personal information it receives
from customers to update its own records.
Adest will
use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.
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8. |
Access to Personal Information |
Adest will
afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your
file, if you so request by calling +612.9527.4690 or writing to:
ADEST
11 Seaforth Avenue
Cronulla NSW 2230
Australia
... or upon
request to the Privacy Officer.
If Adest is
not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s personal information,
it will provide reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would
likely reveal personal information about a third party, or that it is
confidential commercial information or attorney–client privileged
communications, or that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a
contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to
threaten the life or security of another individual.
Customers
have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended
as appropriate, by contacting Adest or the Privacy Officer as described above.
Adest will promptly correct such personal information. |
