Your privacy is important to us

Verified Pty Ltd is committed to the protection of your personal privacy. The following policy governs how Verified Pty Ltd handles your personal information and safeguards your individual privacy.

Verified Pty Ltd commitment to privacy

As part of Verified Pty Ltd' commitment to the protection of your personal information, we have developed this policy in line with the voluntary National Principles for the Fair Handling of Personal information (NPP) developed by the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner, which represent industry best practice and the Privacy Act 1988 as applicable. The NPP represent a generic base standard and provide Verified Pty Ltd with its benchmark for handling personal information. You can obtain a copy of the NPP from the Privacy Commissioner's website at www.privacy.gov.au.

Verified Pty Ltd is also bound by various Industry codes of practice.

About our privacy policy

Verified Pty Ltd' Privacy Policy applies to the collection, storage, use and dissemination by Verified Pty Ltd of your personal information.

Our Privacy Policy contains the following important details regarding your personal information:
1. What kind of personal information Verified Pty Ltd collects
2. Use and disclosure of your personal information
3. Storage and security of your personal information
4. Access to your personal information
5. How we will look after your concerns about privacy
6. Disclaimer
7. Further information on privacy
8. How to contact us

If we determine it necessary, we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time in line with industry best practice. By reviewing our Privacy Policy regularly you will ensure your satisfaction and consent to all amendments to our Privacy Policy.

1. What kind of personal information Verified Pty Ltd collects

Verified Pty Ltd collects information on website activity to enhance your usage and continually improve our site. This includes information such as the number of users who visit the website, the date and time of visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what country and what systems have used the site and, when entering the Verified Pty Ltd website from another website, the address of that website. "Cookies" are commonly used by websites on the Internet to achieve these objectives. They are usually placed on your hard drive to recognise and identify your computer. The cookie does not contain any information that personally identifies you and we do not use cookies in order to obtain such information. Your browser should allow you to refuse cookies if you so desire.

This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide Verified Pty Ltd with statistics that it can use to analyse and improve our website, Verified Pty Ltd programming and our communications.

2. Use and disclosure of your personal information

Verified Pty Ltd relies on third party suppliers to conduct specialised activities such as direct marketing and research. These third parties act on behalf of Verified Pty Ltd and do not facilitate their own commercial agendas while using your personal information. While personal information may be provided to these third parties to enable them to perform their agreed tasks, such information remains the property of Verified Pty Ltd at all times and the third party organisations are bound by specific confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements.

Further, Verified Pty Ltd takes its obligations to protect your personal information seriously and will make every effort to deal only with ethical third parties who share and demonstrate the same attitude and who are bound by the new National Privacy Principles.

Verified Pty Ltd undertakes not to sell, rent or trade your personal information.

Verified Pty Ltd will not disclose personal information about you, unless the disclosure is: - required by law - is authorised by law, or - you have consented to our disclosing of the information. Verified Pty Ltd will not disclose information that personally identifies you to advertisers or sponsors. Verified Pty Ltd may be required to disclose some information that does not personally identify you to advertisers or sponsors to provide them with aggregate statistics of people that have seen or been linked to their advertisements on our website. This provision of information with advertisers assists Verified Pty Ltd with improvements to the site and assists Verified Pty Ltd to provide the site to users at no cost.

3. Storage and Security of your personal information

Verified Pty Ltd is committed to keeping your personal information secure and we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration. We also require our staff and service providers to respect the confidentiality of your personal information.

Due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your personal information will always be secured during transmission or from unauthorised access during storage. However Verified Pty Ltd will always endeavour to protect your personal information from misuse, loss or unauthorised access, and once we receive your transmission, we will undertake our best effort to ensure its security.
Please contact Verified Pty Ltd immediately should you become aware or have reason to believe that there has been any unauthorised use of your personal information.

Verified Pty Ltd stores your personal information in electronic form in a database. This database is secure and can only be accessed by authorised users. Hard copies of personal information may also be kept by Verified Pty Ltd for legal requirements. If Verified Pty Ltd does keep such information it is secure and can only be accessed by authorised personnel.

4. Access to your personal information

You may contact us to amend any of your personal information that is inaccurate or request that your personal information be deleted. We will use reasonable endeavours to amend or delete your records as requested within 21 days of receipt of notice. If applicable, any legal requirement on Verified Pty Ltd to maintain certain records of your personal information shall prevail over any such requests.

Please contact us for access to your personal information if required. We will use reasonable endeavours to provide a complete list of your personal information within 21 days of receipt of your enquiry.

Before Verified Pty Ltd provides you with copies of your personal information, it may be necessary for you to prove your identity.

If you wish to access or modify your personal information which you have provided to Verified Pty Ltd, you can email us at email@verified.com.au or write to us at Verified Pty Ltd, PO Box 181, Glen Iris VIC 3146.

Verified Pty Ltd is not obliged to give you access to your personal information if:

• Providing access would pose a serious and imminent threat to the life or health of an individual
• Providing access would have an unreasonable impact upon the privacy of other individuals
• The request for access is frivolous or vexatious
• The information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between Verified Pty Ltd and you and the information would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings
• Providing access would reveal the intentions of the organisation in relation to negotiations with you in such a way as to prejudice those investigations
• Providing access would be unlawful, may prejudice an investigation of possible unlawful activity, may prejudice enforcement of laws or denying access is specifically authorised by law.

If Verified Pty Ltd does not allow you to access your personal information we will provide you with reasons for our decision.

5. How we will look after your concern about privacy

Any concerns you may have regarding privacy in the first instance should be made to Verified Pty Ltd by contacting us (refer How to contact us) by telephone or in writing by letter, facsimile or email. You should explain your concern and give proof of your identity so that Verified Pty Ltd can respond to you.

Every effort will be made to deal with your concern. If this cannot be properly dealt with immediately, Verified Pty Ltd will respond within the shortest possible period from initial receipt of the concern lodged.

In some circumstances, for example where a request is made by telephone, a matter may be too complex to be dealt with verbally and you may be required to put your concern in writing. In these cases, Verified Pty Ltd will respond within the shortest practicable period from the date of receipt of your communication. If you have not received a response within 30 days of making your concern known to Verified Pty Ltd or consider the response to be inadequate, you may refer your concern to the Privacy Commissioner.

Verified Pty Ltd will make every reasonable effort to resolve all concerns unless they are deemed frivolous, vexatious or not made in good faith. Verified Pty Ltd will maintain a record of all complaints received.

6. Disclaimer

Verified Pty Ltd will only collect, use or disclose information that personally identifies you as set out in this Privacy Policy unless in our opinion Verified Pty Ltd is required by law to protect the rights or property of Verified Pty Ltd or any third party or to avoid injury to any person.

7. Further information on privacy

If you would like any further information about your rights to privacy, please see the Australian Privacy Commissioner's website or contact The Internet Industry Association.

8. How to contact us

If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy or would like to read, amend or delete any of your personal information please contact

Verified Pty Ltd: email@verified.com.au