This privacy policy

This privacy policy describes Manufacturing Focus’s current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by Manufacturing Focus through its website, manufacturingfocus.com.au. This privacy policy is independent from Manufacturing Focus’s offline personal data collection practices. The term "personal data" refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address, and any other information that is identified with you personally, including your individual business information.

Notification of changes to this policy

Manufacturing Focus is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to its website and improving and adding to our existing products, services, and programs. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, Manufacturing Focus’s data practices will change from time to time. If and when our data practices change, Manufacturing Focus will post the changes on our website Privacy Policy Page. We encourage you to check this page frequently.

Personal data collected through this website

Other than cookies, as described below, the only personal data Manufacturing Focus currently collects through its websites is the information you voluntarily give us when you use our site.

For example, you may use this site to contact Manufacturing Focus for an enquiry. When you fill in the enquiry form on our website, you may provide your name and other contact information, including your company's name, your e-mail address, and other personal information. When you submit information to us through manufacturingfocus.com.au, you will receive a confirmation e-mail if you enter a valid e-mail address.

Use of personal data collected through this website

Manufacturing Focus uses the personal data information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Manufacturing Focus and our affiliates also use this information to help us improve the content and functionality of our websites, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services. Manufacturing Focus and our affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about products or services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future communications.

Similarly, we may provide "subscription" e-mail services, either directly or through affiliates, which enable you to receive current news about Manufacturing Focus products or services. For all such services, we will provide an opportunity to "opt-out" of, or cancel, the subscription.

Anonymous data collected through this website

In addition to the information you provide when you use our websites, Manufacturing Focus uses technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our websites. For example, we use technology to track how many visitors access our websites, the date and time of their visit, the length of their stay, and which pages they view. We also use technology to determine which web browsers our visitors use and the address from which they accessed our sites.

This technology does not identify you personally. It simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our sites. Manufacturing Focus and our affiliates use this anonymous data and share it with third parties to improve the content and functionality of our websites, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer and they cannot be used to discover the identity of a user. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not and whether you are required to accept the cookie to view certain content. Manufacturing Focus may use cookies to "persist" a user session — that is, to maintain connection with a user as he or she moves through the Manufacturing Focus website. The purpose of cookies in this context is to remember user inputs.

Disclosure of your personal data

Manufacturing Focus may share some or all of the personal data collected through this website with our affiliates, who use this data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Both Manufacturing Focus and our affiliates may share personal data collected through its websites with third-party vendors who act for or on behalf of Manufacturing Focus or our affiliates (for example, companies that provide support services to us, including data processing services, or that help us market our products and services). These companies may need information about you in order to perform their functions. These companies are not authorised to use the information we share with them for any other purpose. In addition, there may be some other, limited circumstances in which Manufacturing Focus or our affiliates may share or transfer the personal data in our databases, for example, to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your vital interests, or in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event.

While no method of data transmission is guaranteed against unlawful third party interception or other misuse, Manufacturing Focus uses commercially reasonable efforts to ensure protection of your data including industry-standard encryption and offline security methods in our physical facilities (e.g., your data is protected onsite by our Information Assets Protection Policy).

Links to other sites

Manufacturing Focus’s website may contain hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by Manufacturing Focus or one of our affiliates. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party websites or any association with their operators. Manufacturing Focus does not control these websites and is not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any personal data about yourself.

Governing Law

This privacy policy forms part of our website Terms and Conditions and as such shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Australia.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or concerns about the way Manufacturing Focus processes your personal data, please contact us.

Last Updated on Sunday, 04 July 2010 19:46