Protecting your privacy is important to us at zendie (ABN 11 379 404 493). As part of our commitment, we have developed the following policy in compliance with the voluntary National Privacy Principles developed by the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner. Our privacy policy will help you understand how zendie collects, uses and safeguards any personal information provided to us by you. This policy should be read in conjunction with the terms and conditions governing use of this website. 1. What you should know about your privacy Whenever a member, or subscriber, voluntarily discloses personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in discussion areas - that information can be collected and used by others. If a member posts personal information online that is accessible to the public, they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Whilst we discourage the collection of emails for the purposes of unsolicited emails, zendie cannot be held responsible for any messages, advertising material, spam or other information sent to you by third parties that obtain your details in this way. 2. What you can do to protect your privacy You can also play an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by maintaining the secrecy of your subscription password and/or any account information. Please also remember to logoff and close your browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place. You are responsible for the security of and access to your own computer. Please notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your membership account by any other Internet user or any other breach of security. 3. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through our website When you become a member of zendie.com, you will be allocated with a unique user ID or password. You can change this password by going to your 'account' page once logged on. You will be required to provide your name and email address. If you live outside Australia, your residential address is also required if you are not paying Australian GST . You may also be asked to provide additional information such as your gender and age group. Information of this type is optional and need only be provided if you wish to do so. To make a purchase on zendie.com, you may click on the checkout symbol displayed on the payment page of the website. This will link you to our payment gateway NetRegistry, who will process your credit card and payment details. NetRegistry will then email us with confirmation of payment and we will then email you with the receipt. There will not be anyone at zendie who will see any credit card details unless you elect to pay our subscription fees by fax, telephone or mail. If you do provide us with credit card details, we will hold them in the strictest confidence. zendie does use "cookies" (text files containing information about your website preferences which is stored by your browser on your hard disk). Cookies are used to participate as a user in the on zendie.com to hold your username, password and viewing options to allow you to login. IP addresses can be viewed by zendie administrators but are not used for tracking to retrieve personal information from your computer. The only way zendie can know who each member is, is if the member logs on using their user name and password. When the member does this, it allows us to: a) Provide access to each member's account information and the services available to them as members of zendie.com; and b) Track each member's progress through the site and the time they spend so that we can better understand how the site is used and make improvements to its functionality. zendie may also ask members for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) member surveys, contests or promotions sponsored by zendie.com or when a member reports a problem with our site or services. If a member submits feedback about our site's features and content, we will keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever zendie.com collects personal information we will include a link to our Privacy Policy on this page. 4. The organisation collecting the information If you choose to make a purchase on zendie.com using one of the payment gateways on the website, your credit card and payment information will be collected and held by either National Australia Bank, PayPal or NetRegistry. All other information provided by you will be collected by employees, contractors, subcontractors or agents of zendie. 5. How the information is used Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to build user profiles so that we can enhance the functionality of zendie.com and provide our members with useful and relevant information regarding clothing, fashion and related issues. zendie will not share personally identifiable information about any visitor and/or member and/or subscriber with unrelated third parties without first obtaining the consent of that person. zendie will not sell or disclose your personal information to unrelated third parties without your consent. We may share non-personal, aggregate information about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and site usage with unrelated third parties, including sponsors and advertisers. We may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may by violating zendie.com's Terms and Conditions of Use or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) zendie.com, other zendie.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. zendie may disclose or access account information when we reasonably believe that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services. 6. Receiving email from zendie.com zendie will contact you by email when you subscribe, or register as a member for the forums and to respond to any questions or problems you may notify us of. We use email links on the 'about us' page of our website to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have. We read every message sent in and try to reply promptly to each one. If you are interested, we can also send you email communications to provide information which we think you will find useful, including announcements about new products and services from zendie, sales alerts and newsletters on specific topics, as well as communications on behalf of third-party companies who offer products and services we think would be of value to you. It is our policy to send such email only to members or subscribers who explicitly give us permission do so. In every such email message, we will also have instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you will not receive any such messages from zendie in the future if you do not wish to. 7. Updating or correcting member information You may review, correct, update, or delete personal information that you provide to us at any time. All you have to do is to logon using your zendie.com logon name and password, go to 'your account' on the navigation bar and edit your details. You will need to write to us, or send an email, if you want us to close your account. 8. Security of your personal information zendie endeavours to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information. zendie has implemented appropriate technical and managerial procedures to maintain information that is accurate, current, and complete, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, zendie.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from our services. These activities are conducted at your own risk. 9. Third party vendors, advertising and links to other sites We may form relationships with third party vendors who may advertise products on our website. It is up to you to satisfy yourself that the vendor's privacy policy is acceptable to you. zendie may also have arrangements with third parties who provide advertising banners or sponsored links. These linked sites are not under the control of zendie.com, and we are not responsible for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the privacy policies / terms and conditions of using their websites. If you have questions about the privacy policies of such third parties, we suggest contacting them directly or visiting their websites to review their posted privacy policies. Please note that this privacy policy does not apply to use of third party sites that are available through and/or hyper linked to the zendie.com website. 10. Your Consent By using the zendie.com website and the services available to you on the Site, you consent to our collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy will be reviewed and may be revised from time to time. zendie reserves the right to change our Policy at any time and notify you by posting an updated version of the Privacy Policy on this website. We encourage you to regularly review these policies. 12. Further information If you are interested to know more about privacy issues and legislation in Australia we encourage you to visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's website