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Privacy Statement |
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Beattie & Associates is committed to upholding fundamental principles of honesty and integrity in our relationship with visitors to our web site. Our objective is to build an enduring relationship between Beattie & Associates and our users based on a foundation of integrity and trust. To that end, Beattie & Associates has adopted rigorous standards of privacy and makes the following promise to every visitor to our web site: If a visitor to Beattie & Associates is required to submit registration information as a prerequisite for accessing any content area of Beattie & Associates or to use any of its interactive services, or newsgroups, e-commerce applications, Beattie & Associates will not share or sell that personal information about our users to any outside agency, advertiser or other third party unless the user was made aware of this possibility prior to submitting their personal information. Although Beattie & Associates may use cookies to track user patterns on its web site, Beattie & Associates will not use cookies to learn the identity of its users, nor attempt to track users after they leave the Beattie & Associates site. Further, cookies will not be used by Beattie & Associates to gather specific personal information about individual users. The usage patterns tracked by individual cookies will remain confidential, and Beattie & Associates will not participate in any external site tracking programs. Nor will we share any cookie-generated information about individual users or user patterns with outside agencies or advertisers. A Beattie & Associates advertiser may be given summaries of collective user patterns. For example, an advertiser might be told their ad was viewed by 6,000 users on a particular day and 100 clicked on the ad. But an advertiser will never be given information about individual users or their browsing habits. Beattie & Associates will not send unsolicited email to its users. Nor will the use of cookies by Beattie & Associates result in a Beattie & Associates user receiving unsolicited email from Beattie & Associates or its advertisers. Beattie & Associates will not supply email addresses to any third party without having obtained the consent of a user. If Beattie & Associates asks its users to supply optional, personal information for contests, survey, e-commerce applications, or for any other purpose, that information will remain private and not be shared with any outside agency, advertiser or third party unless the user was made aware of this possibility prior to submitting their personal information. If Beattie & Associates compiles site-wide demographic information to share with advertisers, it will not compile profiles of individual users, including the gathering of names, addresses, email addresses and other personal information, to be shared with an advertiser unless the user has consented to the compilation of this material and submitted it freely in a registration form or survey. If you subscribe to our Newsletter or any other service via the internet, you can unsubscribe at any time and your name will be deleted immediately from our subscriber data base and you will not be contacted again unless you are an existing client of Beattie & Associates. If Beattie & Associates tracks user IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration, demographic profiling and traffic logging, Beattie & Associates will not use IP addresses to try to identify individual users of Beattie & Associates. Questions about the Privacy Statement should be sent to beattie@space.net.au Cookies are small text files on your system, used for keeping track of settings or data for a particular Web site. When your browser requests a page, it sends the settings that apply to that page along with the request. Because your browser will only send the settings back to the server that originally created them, cookies are a very secure way of maintaining data that is specific to a particular user. The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customised Web pages for them. When you enter a Web site using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form providing such information as your name and interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your Web browser which stores it for later use. The next time you request a page, your browser will send the cookie to the Web server. The server can use this information to present you with custom Web pages. This can also be used to keep track of scores on quizzes or browsing an interactive catalogue Cookies can be temporary or permanent. Your browser keeps track of temporary cookies as long as it is running, but deletes them when it is shut down. Temporary cookies are used to pass information between Web pages during a single visit. (Online shopping carts are a good example of this.) Your browser saves permanent cookies as tiny files on your system to maintain settings or data between multiple visits. "Permanent" cookies are actually set to expire at some time in the future (commonly between 30 days and a year from their creation date), and are automatically deleted from your system at that time. Cookies are currently the only way to save personal choices between visits to a Web page without having to log in each time you come to the page. |
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