Our Website and Your Privacy

At Barossa Light Development Board, we do our very best to protect and respect your privacy. In general, you can expect that personally identifiable information you submit to us, whether through our website, email or other communication, is treated as confidential.

This document discloses the privacy practices for our site - www.bld.org.au - including:

• What personally identifiable information of yours is collected
• What organization is collecting the information
• How the information is used
• With whom the information may be shared
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
• What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to us via our contact form.

Under 18's

We ask that minors (under 18 years of age) do not submit any personal information to us.

Information We Collect.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience while using our services. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience easier and quicker.

Using the Site's web server log files, we use IP addresses to analyze trends, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you are using, your IP address etc.

In addition, we use cookies on certain pages of our site. We may also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests. Cookies are stored on your hard drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted at the end of a session. The other type of cookie we use is a 'persistent' cookie. This stays on your hard drive and we use this to automatically identify who you are. We use this cookie so that you do not need to log in manually every time you visit the site if you are a registered user. The cookie itself contains no personally identifiable information but it does pass an ID to our server which allows us to tie the cookie to your personal information. We do this to allow us to let you know on the homepage what has changed on the site since your last visit. We also use the cookie to track how often you visit the site so we know who our most loyal users are. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you will not be able to use certain features on our site. For example, if you disable cookies, you will need to log in manually each time you visit the site as we cannot use a cookie to remember who you are. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Caramel only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or third parties.

Surveys, Newsletters & Contests. From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys, contests or for a particular service (e.g. newsletter). Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested will include contact information (as supplied to the site during registration) and supplementary information on your professional interests, opinions and preferences (e.g. choice of software, working practices, opinions on industry issues, feedback on the bld.org.au web site).

Our Use of Your Information.

We use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyse site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customise our site's content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

We use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other communications (for example, security alerts or product specials) that you have requested from the Site. In compliance with the Australian Spam Act 2003, all our correspondence includes an opt-out option.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.

By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

As a general proposition, we do not sell, rent or willingly suppy any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.

Legal Requests. bld.org.au cooperates with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Local, and international law enforcement agents can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.

Suppliers and Other Service Providers. From time to time we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.

Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information

You can at any time ask to see and have removed any information that we have stored on you, though we reserve the right to charge for this service. Please contact us if you would like your personal information removed. We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed.

Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are other members of the Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.

Security

In the event that you supply credit card details (or other details related to electronic payment), we will ensure that this information is collected and stored on a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) secure server, to prevent interception by third-parties while in transit. Your browser may inform you as you enter or leave a section of our site secured with SSL.

On the bld.org.au site we use best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, but do not use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. This is because we do not believe that, apart from the credit card or other payment information, the personal information we currently collect warrants such measures and the accompanying loss of speed experienced. You should be aware that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Changes to Privacy Policy

If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email, prior to making such changes. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice, before changes go into effect, on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Disclaimer

While we work hard to ensure that the information presented on this site is as accurate and up-to-date as possible, you should be aware of the following:

1. Use of the information and data contained in this website is at your sole risk. If you rely on the information on this site you are responsible for ensuring by independent verification its accuracy, currency or completeness. All linked websites are linked "as is" and Barossa Light Development:
2. does not sponsor, endorse or necessarily approve of any material on sites linked from or to this Site; do not make any warranties or representations regarding the quality, accuracy, merchantability or fitness for purpose of any material on sites linked from or to this Site; does not make any warranties or representations that material on other web sites to which this site is linked does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person anywhere in the world;
3. Does not authorise the infringement of any intellectual property rights contained in material in other sites by linking this Site to those other sites.
4. If you use automatic language translation services in connection with this Site you do so at your own risk. The information and data on this Site is subject to change without notice. The Government may revise this Disclaimer at any time by updating this posting.
5. Barossa Light Development, its staff, agents or representatives: make no representations, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information and data contained on this Site; make no representations, express or implied, as to the accuracy or usefulness of any translation of the information on this Site or any linked site into another language; make no representations as to the availability of the site; accept no liability for any use of the said information and data or reliance placed on it (including translated information and data); make no representations, either expressed or implied, as to the suitability of the said information and data for any particular purpose;
6. accepts no liability for any interference with or damage to a user's computer, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this site or its use or any site linked to this site.

Copyright

Copyright subsists in the various forms of work and subject matter on and accessible from the caramel.com.au website.

Apart from any fair use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968, Barossa Light Development grants visitors to the site a licence to download, display, print and reproduce this material for private use or use within your organisation, for non-commercial purposes only. No licence to publish, communicate, modify, commercialise or alter this material is granted.

For reproduction or use of our copyright material beyond this limited licence, permission must be sought from us, or in the case of third-party content, the third-party contact as identified in the relevant section of the site. That permission, if given, will be subject to conditions that will include a requirement that the copyright owner's name and interest in the material be acknowledged when the material is reproduced or quoted, either in whole or in part. No permission to reproduce or use Barossa Light Development copyright material, other than that expressly stated above, is to be implied by the availability of any material on this site.