Computer Technology Matters' Privacy Statement

This document declares the undertakings by Computer Technology Matters in relation to how we handle your data.

Data Collection
Data Security
Data Use
Data Disclosure
Data Retention and Destruction
Access by You to Your Personal Data
Information about Data Handling Practices
Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints
Enforcement
Changes to These Privacy Undertakings
Definitions

Data Collection

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to collect your data by means that are:

fair
legal
transparent

If you visit Computer Technology Matters' web site, your web browser automatically discloses, and Computer Technology Matterss web server automatically logs, the following information: the date and time, the IP address from which you issued the request, the type of browser and operating system you are using, the URL of any page that referred you to the page, the URL you requested, and whether your request was successful. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

Any additional data that you provide, e.g. in a web form, may also be logged. This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

Any additional data that your web-browser automatically provides may also be logged. This will be the case, for example, if your browser has previously been requested to store data on your computer in 'cookies' and submits them each time you request a web-page within a particular domain (such as ctmatters.com.au). This data may or may not be sufficient to identify you.

If you disclose personal data to Computer Technology Matters in conjunction with an identifier such as your name or your credit-card details, Computer Technology Matters will collect your data. Moreover, any data that becomes available to Computer Technology Matters through any of the means described in the preceding paragraphs may be able to be associated with that identifier, and hence become your data.

Subject to the qualifications immediately below, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to collect your data from you and not from other parties. This undertaking is qualified as follows:

where Computer Technology Matters reasonably considers that the protection of its financial interests requires that it gather your data from other sources, or from additional sources. This applies in particular where Computer Technology Matters has a lending exposure to you, and seeks information about your creditworthiness-
where Computer Technology Matters reasonably considers that its capability to deliver quality services to you will be materially enhanced by gathering your data from other sources. This applies in particular to consumer profile data.

Where Computer Technology Matters collects your data from sources other than you, it undertakes:

to do so only by legal means
to do so only with your consent
to declare to you what sources it uses and under what circumstances

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to declare the purpose of collection in a manner which is clear and meaningful, and to avoid vague, highly inclusive statements such as 'to support our operations'.

Data Security

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to store your data only in jurisdictions where data protections are at least equivalent to those required under the OECD Guidelines.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to transmit your data in a manner that ensures security against unauthorised access, alteration or deletion, at a level commensurate with its sensitivity.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to implement appropriate measures to ensure security of your data against inappropriate behaviour by Computer Technology Matters' staff members and contractors. These include:

training for staff in relation to privacy
access control, to limit access to your data to those staff and contractors who have legitimate reasons to access it
particularly in the case of sensitive data, audit trails of accesses, including the identities of staff and contractors accessing the data
reminders to staff and contractors from time to time about the importance of data privacy, and the consequences of inappropriate behaviour
declaration of appropriately strong sanctions that are to be applied in the event of inappropriate behaviour
clear communication of policies and sanctions
processes to audit, to investigate and to impose sanctions

Data Use

Use refers to the application of your data by any part of Computer Technology Matters, or any staff member or contractor of Computer Technology Matters in the course of their work.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to use your data only for:

the purposes for which it was collected
such other purposes as are subsequently agreed between Computer Technology Matters and you
such additional purposes as may be required by law. In these circumstances, Computer Technology Matters will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to You that the use has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law; and
such additional purposes as are authorised by law (in particular to protect Computer Technology Matters' interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that you have failed to fulfil your undertakings to Computer Technology Matters or have committed a breach of the criminal law).

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to use your data only if it has demonstrable relevance to the particular use to which it is being put.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to use your data in such a manner as to take into account the possibility that it is not of sufficient quality for the purpose, e.g. because it is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, or out of context.

Data Disclosure

Disclosure refers to making your data available to any party other than Computer Technology Matters and you. The term disclosure may include many different conditions of data transfer, including selling, renting, trading, sharing and giving.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to disclose your data only under the following circumstances:

in the course of business being conducted between you and Computer Technology Matters, where disclosure is necessary to a contractor, such as a transport company. Where your data is disclosed in this way, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to exercise control over Computer Technology Matters' contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms
in other circumstances that are directly implied by the purpose agreed between you and Computer Technology Matters at the time of data collection or subsequently. Where your data is disclosed in this way, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to exercise control over Computer Technology Matters' contractors to ensure that their actions are compliant with these Terms
with your consent, or at your request
where required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena. In these circumstances, Computer Technology Matters will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to you that the disclosure has occurred, unless it is precluded from doing so by law
where permitted by law (e.g. the reporting of suspected breach of the criminal law to a law enforcement agency; and in an emergency, where Computer Technology Matters believes on reasonable grounds that the disclosure of your data will materially assist in the protection of the life of health of some person), provided that Computer Technology Matters will apply due diligence to ensure that the exercise of the permission is justifiable.

In all cases, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to disclose only such of your data as is necessary in the particular circumstances.

Data Retention and Destruction

Subject to the qualifications immediately below, Computer Technology Matters undertakes:

to retain your data only as long as is consistent with its purpose
to destroy your data when its purpose has expired, and to do so in such a manner that your data is not subsequently capable of being recovered.

This undertaking is qualified as follows:

Your data may be retained in Computer Technology Matters' logs, backups and audit trails within short-term retention cycles that are devised to protect the company's operations. In such cases, your data will be destroyed in accordance with those cycles;
Your data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if that is required by law, such as a provision of a statute, or a court order such as a search warrant or sub poena, or a warning by a law enforcement agency that delivery of a court order is imminent. In these circumstances, Computer Technology Matters:
- will take any reasonable steps available to it to communicate to you that your data is being retained, unless it is precluded from doing so by law
- will only retain your data while that provision is current, and will then destroy your data
Your data may be retained beyond the expiry of its purpose if it is authorised by law (in particular to protect Computer Technology Matters' interests, e.g. if it believes on reasonable grounds that You have failed to fulfil your undertakings to Computer Technology Matters or have committed a breach of the criminal law). In these circumstances, Computer Technology Matters will only retain your data while that situation is current, and will then destroy your data.

Access by You to Your Personal Data

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to provide you with access to your data, subject to only such conditions and processes as are reasonable in the circumstances. In particular, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to enable access:

conveniently
without unreasonable delay
without cost

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to establish and operate identity authentication protections for access to your data that are appropriate to its sensitivity, but practical. This may involve some inconvenience; for example, relatively straightforward procedures may be involved in order to provide you with access through a channel that you have previously registered with Computer Technology Matters (such as a particular email-address), but may impose more onerous procedures if you wish to use some other channel.

In the event that you dispute some aspect of your data, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to take reasonable steps in relation to the amendment, supplementation or deletion of Your Data.

You undertake:

not to seek access for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently
to accept that deletion of some data may not be consistent with the provision of particular services by Computer Technology Matters to you.

Information about Data Handling Practices

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to make information available to you about the manner in which ThisCompany handles your data:

in general terms, in a readily accessible manner
in more specific terms, on request.

Where our data is disclosed to a contractor, Computer Technology Matters undertakes to make information available to you on request about the manner in which Computer Technology Matters' contractors handle your data.

Computer Technology Matters undertakes to ensure that the information provided is meaningful, and addresses your concerns.

You undertake:

not to seek such information for frivolous purposes, or unreasonably frequently; and
to accept that the disclosure of excessive detail may harm the security of your data and Computer Technology Matters' business processes, and may harm Computer Technology Matters' commercial interests.

Handling of Enquiries, General Concerns and Complaints

If you have enquiries, general concerns or complaints about these Terms, or about Computer Technology Matters' behaviour in relation to these Terms, you undertake:

to communicate them in the first instance:
- to Computer Technology Matters only
- in sufficient detail
- through a channel made available by Computer Technology Matters for that purpose

Computer Technology Matters undertakes:

to provide one or more channels for communications to Computer Technology Matters , which are convenient to users
to promptly provide acknowledgement of the receipt of communications, including the provision of a copy of the communication, the date and time it was registered, and Computer Technology Matters' reference code for the communication
to promptly provide a response to the communication, in an appropriate and meaningful manner.

You further undertake to not pursue Computer Technology Matters through any Regulator or the media:

until and unless Computer Technology Matters has had a reasonable opportunity to respond to the initial communication
while Computer Technology Matters and you remain are conducting a meaningful dialogue about the matter.

Enforcement

Computer Technology Matters declares that its undertakings in these Terms are intended to create legal obligations, and that those obligations are intended to be enforceable under appropriate laws in appropriate jurisdictions. These include laws relating to data protection, privacy, fair trading, corporations and criminal laws.

You undertake to seek enforcement only in a jurisdiction that is relevant to the transactions that have taken place between you and Computer Technology Matters , in particular the jurisdiction in which you live or in which you performed the relevant acts, and the jurisdiction in which Computer Technology Matters is domiciled or performed the relevant acts.

If you wish to discover the relevant laws in any particular jurisdiction, Computer Technology Matters draws your attention to the following resources:

WorldLII Privacy Links
Compilation of [U.S.] State and Federal Privacy Laws, Privacy Journal, Providence RI
Privacy Law Sourcebook 2004, EPIC, Washington DC
the Australian Privacy Foundation's pages:
Privacy International

Changes to These Privacy Undertakings

Computer Technology Matters undertakes:

not to materially change these Terms in a manner that reduces the protections for your data
to take all possible steps to prevent any company that acquires this company or any of its relevant assets from materially changing the Terms applicable to your data in a manner that reduces the protections for your data
where it is considering making changes to these Terms, or creating more specific Terms relating to specific services, to consult with appropriate representative and advocacy organisations
where it makes changes to these Terms, to ensure that the differences between successive versions are readily accessible;
to maintain all prior versions of these Terms in such a manner that they are dated, and readily accessible.

Definitions

Computer Technology Matters means an Australian owned company.

Your data means data that is capable of being associated with you, whether or not it includes an explicit identifier such as your name or customer number. In particular, it encompasses all data that Computer Technology Matters is capable of correlating with you, using such means as server-logs and cookie-contents.

Your data does not refer to data that can no longer be associated with you. This includes aggregated data that does not and cannot identify the individuals whose data are included in the aggregation.

Consent means your concurrence with an action to be taken by Computer Technology Matters . Consent may be express or implicit, but in either case must be informed and freely-given.

This Privacy statement is Roger Clark's 'Privacy Statement Template' and the original can be found here: http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/PST.html