Copyright

© Alexandra Manzi Fe 2009

This work is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use only. Links to this site are freely and openly encouraged where that link advances the circulation of this material in support of its content. All other rights are reserved. Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and commercial use should be addressed to: contact@out-there.com.au

Privacy

INFORMATION COLLECTION

I. Personally identifiable information.

This site only collects personally-identifiable information from you if you choose to provide this information to us. Personally-identifiable information collected with your consent may include, for example, name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, information that you may supply in connection with orders you place, or in any responses you choose to provide to survey questions, stories or testimonials you submit or any inquires you may make through our Web site.

II. Cookies.

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This site uses first and third party cookies (session and persistent), however personally identifiable information is not collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are used to determine whether a visitor is unique or whether a visitor has viewed our site before. This site uses persistent cookies for Web site traffic analysis. Cookies are also used in sections of this site which require user log-in to authenticate and validate users and to determine whether a user’s session is active or has timed-out.
While most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you before accepting them. Your browser manufacturer has information on changing the default setting for your specific browser.

III. Nonpersonally identifiable information.

This site also collects nonpersonally-identifiable information. For example, as you browse this Web site we may collect information about your visit, but not about you personally. Via Web server logs, for example, we may monitor statistics such as: the number of people that visit our site, which page(s) are visited on our site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, hotmail.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit our site. Our Web site uses an outsourcing program to assist us in analysing this data to better tailor our Web site.

INFORMATION USE AND CONSUMER CHOICE

The information collected by this Web site is used only for responding to your inquiries and otherwise corresponding with you, for processing transactions you request, maintaining your account (if you have one), and for the administration, review and/or the improving of the content of this Web site.

Where you have submitted a personal story, photograph/s or testimonial to share with others in this site, however, contact information will only supplied therein if you have expressly requested this as part of your submission.
We may contact you in response to your comments or inquiries, and /or in order to complete a transaction that you requested.
We may also contact you to inform you of other products or services we believe may be of interest to you, but we will offer you an opportunity not to receive such communications.

If you decide that you do not want to receive further e-mails regarding your inquiry to out-there.com.au, you can reply to the e-mail and inform us of your wishes with a request that we not continue to e-mail you. We do not use outside data sources to enrich marketing data obtained online – this is strictly against our ethical policy and practices.

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site or a particular product or service, we will ask you for your friend’s name and e-mail address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time e-mail message with information about the product or service and/or inviting him or her to visit the site. This message may include your name and/or e-mail address and any optional message that you elect to send along with our e-mail. We do not retain the information that you provide as part of this referral service (although we may retain your friend’s e-mail address if he or she requests to receive additional information or e-mail messages from us).

ONWARD TRANSFER

We may disclose information you provide to us to third parties to complete a transaction and order purchase that you requested.
We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web site functions, which require access to information you supply online. In such cases, however, we require that the companies acting on our behalf abide by our privacy policy and institute safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your information.
Finally, please note that we may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.

SECURITY

We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally-identifiable information collected through this Web site. We recognize the importance of security for all personally-identifiable information collected by our Web site. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers.
Once we receive personally-identifiable information, we take steps to protect its security on our systems. In the event we request or transmit sensitive information, such as credit card information offered when purchasing goods on this web site we ensure the use of industry standard, secure socket layer ("SSL") encryption to guarantee internet transaction security.
We limit access to personally-identifiable information to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities in the processing of purchase and delivery.

POLICY CHANGES.

We may revise this online privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the Web site