Privacy Policy

1. This Privacy Policy is the Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd.'s official privacy policy and it applies to all personal information collected by the Technology Education Centre Pty Ltd. In this policy, we explain how and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and what controls you have over our use of it.

2. The Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. is committed to complying with Australian Commonwealth legislation (http://www.privacy.gov.au/) governing privacy of personal information by businesses and to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you deal with us.

Collection of Information

3. Some information provided to us by clients, customers and contractors and other third parties might be considered private or personal. Without these details we would not be able to carry on our business and provide our services to you. We will only collect such personal information if it is necessary for one or more of our functions or services.

4. In particular, personal information is collected from people in the following situations by the Technology Education Centre.

* If you contact the Technology Education Centre, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
* When you submit your email address to our web-site.
* When you purchase a product using our web-site.

5. At or before the time the personal information is collected by us, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of who we are, the fact that you are able to gain access to the information held about you, the purpose of the collection, the type(s) of organisations to which we usually disclose the information collected about you, any laws requiring the collection of the information and the main consequence for you if all or part of the information is not collected.

6. The Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. will never request your credit card information by email.

Use of Information Collected and Disclosure of Personal Information to Others

7. We may use or disclose personal information held about an individual for the express purpose for which it is collected (e.g. provision of our services, including administration of our services, fulfillment of orders placed by you, notification to you about changes to our services, record-keeping following termination of our services to you and technical maintenance). We may also use such information for a purpose related to the primary purpose of collection and where it would reasonably be expected by you that we would use the information in such a way. This information is only disclosed to persons outside our business in the circumstances set out in this policy or as otherwise notified to you at the time of collection of the information.

8. In addition, we are permitted to use or disclose personal information held about you:

* Where you have consented to the use or disclosure;
* Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious, immediate threat to someone's health or safety or the public's health or safety;
* Where we reasonably suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in and the use or disclosure is a necessary part of our investigation or in reporting the matter to the relevant authorities;
* Where such use or disclosure is required under or authorised by law (for example, to comply with a subpoena, a warrant or other order of a court or legal process);
* Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes or wrong-doings or the preparation for, or conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal by or on behalf of an enforcement body.

Security and Storage

9. The Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. places a great importance on the security of all information associated with our customers, clients and contractors. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control.

10. Technology Education Centre Pty Ltd retains the information you provide to us, including your contact but not credit card details, this enable us to verify transactions and customer details and to retain accurate records for legal and accounting purposes.

11. Information stored within our computer systems can only be accessed by those entrusted with authority and password sanctions.

12. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect users' personal information, the Technology Education Centre Pty Ltd. cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or from its online products or services, and users do so at their own risk. Once the Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. receives your transmission we make every effort to ensure its security on our systems.

13. You should be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

14. The Technology education Centre Pty. Ltd. is committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about our customers, clients and web-site users.

15. So long as your request for your personal information is in accordance with the National Privacy Principles, then we will give you access to that information.:

16. In order to correct inaccurate information in an order, you must contact us directly.

17. Inaccurate information held by the Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. will be corrected upon receiving advice to this effect from you. To ensure confidentiality, details of your personal information will be passed on to you only if we are satisfied that the information relates to you.

18. If we refuse to provide you with access or correct the personal information held about you by us, then we will provide reasons for such refusal.

Complaints

19. If you have a complaint about our Privacy Policy or the collection, use or safe disposal or destruction of your personal information, your complaint should be directed in the first instance to us via email at:

tecc@tecc.cc

21. We will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or destruction of personal information held by us about you in accordance with the Commonwealth Privacy legislation. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of this procedure then you may request that an independent person (usually the Commonwealth Privacy Officer) investigate your complaint.

Changes to Privacy Policy

22. If the Technology Education Centre Pty. Ltd. decides to change its Privacy Policy, it will post changes on this Privacy Policy page so that users are always aware of what information is collected, how it is used and the way in which information may be disclosed. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Contacting us

23. If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following email address:

tecc@tecc.cc

24. Should you wish to read more information on privacy legislation or the National Privacy Principles we recommend that you visit the Federal Privacy Commission's web-site at:

http://www.privacy.gov.au/

Acceptance

25. You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
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