Privacy Statement

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that CARPLUS.COM.AU collects, and the ways in which CARPLUS.COM.AU uses that personal information.

Personal information collection
CARPLUS.COM.AU may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation.
information that you provide using for the purpose of registering with the website
information about transactions carried out over this website
information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters and
any other information that you send to CARPLUS.COM.AU

Using personal information
Personal information submitted to CARPLUS.COM.AU via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
CARPLUS.COM.AU may use your personal information to:

administer this website;
improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
enable your access to and use of the website services;
send to you offers and specials;
send to you statements and invoices;
send you general commercial communications;
collect payments from you;
send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
send to you marketing communications relating to our business or carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user and
deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.

Disclosures
CARPLUS.COM.AU may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, CARPLUS.COM.AU may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

We may also disclose your personal information to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which CARPLUS.COM.AU selling.
Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, CARPLUS.COM.AU will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider. We will share information with that provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments.

Securing your data

CARPLUS.COM.AU will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

CARPLUS.COM.AU will store all the personal information you provide on its secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be protected by encryption technology using SSL technology.

Evidently, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and CARPLUS.COM.AU cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. CARPLUS.COM.AU will never ask you for your password (except when you log in to the website).

Cross-border and international data transfers
Information that CARPLUS.COM.AU collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which CARPLUS.COM.AU operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information which you provide may be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in Australia.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world. CARPLUS.COM.AU cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You agree to such cross-border and international transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement
CARPLUS.COM.AU may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Your rights
You may instruct CARPLUS.COM.AU to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:

(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at $20.00AUD); and

(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity: for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

CARPLUS.COM.AU may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by email at any time.

Other websites
This website contains links to other websites.
CARPLUS.COM.AU is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which CARPLUS.COM.AU hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Cookies

A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the CARPLUS.COM.AU. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit.

Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.]

Our advertisers and payment services providers may also send you cookies.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including CARPLUS.COM.AU.

Contact CARPLUS.COM.AU
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or CARPLUS.COM.AU treatment of your personal information, please write: