a. "As is"
The information is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, to the extent permitted by law, including but not limited to any implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Winetitles will not be liable for any consequential, incidental or special damages resulting from the copying and use of the information.
b. "Not professional advice"
Before relying on the information on the website, users should carefully evaluate the accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance of the information for their purposes, and should obtain appropriate professional advice pertaining to their particular circumstances.
c. "Accuracy of information"
Winetitles takes reasonable care to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on the site and updates the information regularly, but Winetitles can not guarantee and does not accept legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information.
The information represents the state of our knowledge as at the date of publication on the website and may not be the most current knowledge on the subject.
d. "No endorsement"
On this site we have links to websites of other businesses and organisations. These links do not imply any endorsement or approval of those websites or the business or activities of those businesses or organisations.
We respect your privacy. We collect some information about you via the website. We do this to ensure this website remains relevant to you. If any part of the website involves recorded information about you, we will specify the purpose/s for which we record the information before doing so.
Scope
This statement sets out what we do when data about you comes to us.
Your "footprints"
When you visit the Winetitles website, our website hosting provider automatically records certain data about you. Most other websites do too. The data is recorded in a log of accesses (the "footprints") to our server.
Your trail
This log includes the web address you request, the machine from which you make the request,
the web browser and version you use, your screen operating system, the time you make the
request, a measure of the time each page is open on your computer screen and a record of
each page visited.
Where parts of our website require password access, data as to the login name, password
entered and number of login attempts will be recorded.
No "Tracking"
In some instances it is possible from the gathered data to guess who you are (we can guess by analyzing the data, or to continue the analogy, by tracking your footprints and trail. We are interested only in the total number of footprints and where they occur on our site and we will not track you.
Limited Use of Data
We use this data for statistical purposes only. We analyze the data and use the information we glean from this analysis only to help us improve our website and to monitor or prevent security breaches. We will not pass the data on to any third parties. We will only disclose the content of our access logs if we are compelled to do so by a legal warrant.
Personal Details
If you provide us with your personal details through our site while subscribing to a publication or ordering a book, those details will only be used for the purposes we disclose to you when you give us your details.
We will not add your e-mail address to a mailing list without your agreement.
We will not pass on the personal details we collect for subscription or purchasing requests to third parties.
An e-mail that we receive through our web site may be archived or backed up on our server
for our own records only.
In addition to the content of e-mail messages, we record (as is the standard practice) the date and time of message transmission, when the message was received and opened, and the e-mail addresses of the sender, recipients and mail programs.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to determine the last time that you accessed our website. The sole purpose of recording this data is to show you whether a given web page has changed since you last accessed it.
Limitation of scope
This privacy statement does not extend to external sites our site links to. The organisations that operate those sites are responsible for privacy issues arising out of their sites.
Privacy complaints
Winetitles desires that all complaints about privacy matters are dealt with in the following way.
If you have a complaint about how your private information has been handled by the Winetitles (Complaint), the following will occur:
* The Complaint is free of charge to you;
* the Complaint must be in writing (i.e. not in electronic form), marked and posted as follows:
Winetitles Website Privacy Complaint
C/- Winetitles
PO Box 6015
Halifax Street SA 5000
* Complaints are to be sent by post and must include your return postal address;
* upon receiving a Complaint, the Institute will appoint an officer (Officer) to hear the Complaint;
* the Officer will have or will be given sufficient power to deal with the Complaint;
* the Officer will determine a resolution of the Complaint within ten (10) business days of receiving the Complaint;
* the Officer will communicate his/her decision by post to you;
* the Officer will give general reasons for the decision; and
* the Officer will provide, with the notice of his/her decision, information on further action you can take if you are dissatisfied with the decision.
If you have noticed our site contains any potential breach of common privacy principles,
or if you have any questions, please contact us at:
mmajor@winetitles.com.au.
This disclaimer has been provided by the Intellectual Property and Technology Law unit of Finlaysons Lawyer. For further information, please visit the Finlaysons website at www.finlaysons.com.au
