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Saleyards.com.au Privacy Statement

Your privacy is important to us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the safest and most powerful online services that you can get.
In this document, 'Saleyards.com.au' is Saleyards.com.au Pty Ltd ABN: 133 181 843, trading as Saleyards.com.au, and all or any of its employees, officers, agents and affiliates.

Why Information Is Collected

The types of personal information that we collect from you will depend on how you use the Saleyards.com.au services and web sites. Some of this information is essential for us to be able to accurately service you, some is to identify who is using the service, some is used to improve the structure and performance of Saleyards.com.au services and web sites and some is to provide the user with an improved service.
Saleyards.com.au explicitly asks when it needs information that personally identifies you for contact information and, where appropriate, credit card &/or banking information. Members may update much of their information at any time, most of it from within their Management Area by clicking an appropriate 'Edit' link.

How Information Is Used

Saleyards.com.au and our affiliates, servicing and marketing partners may use your personal information to operate the Saleyards.com.au sites and services, to communicate with you regarding your Saleyards.com.au accounts and to compile general statistics.
Saleyards.com.au will not make your private details available to third party service providers unless you specifically request it. For example, Saleyards.com.au offers a Livestock 'Wanted' service, whereby Saleyards.com.au will privately service your needs without specifically identifying you to others. With this service, you may select to give your consent to be contacted but without such consent this will not be possible.

Email Addresses

We will only record your e-mail address if you register for a particular service or send us a message. It will only be used for the purpose for which you have provided it and will not be added to non-Saleyards.com.au mailing lists. We will not use your e-mail address for any other purpose, and will not disclose it, without your consent.
As part of your participation in any of the Saleyards.com.au services, Saleyards.com.au allows you to elect to receive or not receive certain information and e-mail from Saleyards.com.au or its service partners. New Saleyards.com.au service users may receive information via their email address explaining the service and/or their account specifically.

Disclosure To Third Parties

Some Saleyards.com.au services e.g. Business directories and classified services, necessarily provide information about Saleyards.com.au members to the Public and via certain non-member services. If information is published to the general public on the web then it will be accessible to millions of users from all over the world. Such publicly viewable information can be copied, and used by any web user. Once this information has been published on the web, Saleyards.com.au has no control over its subsequent use and disclosure. However, members have the ability to modify the information displayed to their satisfaction via their management area.
Saleyards.com.au may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal process, protect and defend the rights or property of Saleyards.com.au, it's sites or the users of Saleyards.com.au's products and services or to protect the personal safety of users of Saleyards.com.au's products and services or the public.
While we support other Web site operators using Saleyards.com.au web sites and services complying with our privacy statement, you should carefully examine the privacy statements of sites linking to or from Saleyards.com.au sites. Personal information that you choose to provide to other Web sites will be subject to the privacy policies of that Web site.

Security

Saleyards.com.au always endeavours to provide secure transmission of user information and when payments are required Saleyards.com.au provides security accredited by the major banks. Note that there are risks associated with using the Internet as an information transmission medium. Saleyards.com.au uses the Internet solely for its user communications and as such has no other options for providing the information.

Use Of 'Cookies'

Some parts of Saleyards.com.au web sites and services use a technology called 'cookies and you may be required to enable cookies to utilize some of our services.' These are used to make it easy and convenient for you to login to our services, and to remember certain information that you may find repetitious if you had to keep entering it on future visits. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Sites where you are prompted to log-in or that can be customised typically require that you accept cookies. We may use cookies to measure certain traffic patterns and visiting patterns of users as a group. We use this research so that we can improve each new experience on Saleyards.com.au web sites. We do not use such information to capture private or personal information on users and no attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except, in the unlikely event of an investigation, where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect the service provider's logs. A record may be made of your visit via a log of the following information for statistical purposes - the user's server address, the user's top level domain name (eg. .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.), the date and time of the visit to the site, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser used.
When you visit the Saleyards.com.au web sites and any third party sites that you may access through Saleyards.com.au web sites, read the information provided on the sites you are using. This includes certain services offered which may have separate terms of use and privacy information.
Information provided may be subject to change from time to time so we encourage you to check our online Privacy policies and this Privacy Statement regularly. Users seeking additional information regarding the principles should consult the Help section.

Enquiries

Please email admin@saleyards.com.au if you require further information.