Privacy Policy

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 1. OUR POLICY

Stirling Media Pty Ltd (“we, us, our”) is the owner and manager of this website and associated event websites.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by us via the website and event registration systems.

Your privacy is very important to us. For this reason, please read the following details carefully and email us if you have questions or concerns info@stirlingmedia.com.au

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This includes measures to protect electronic information and materials stored and generated in hard copy.

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect personal information from you as follows:

a) In the course of using our website if you input any personal information into the website. In addition, we also collect cookies from your computer, which enables us to tell when you use the website and to help customise your website experience

b) On registration of your details for the purpose of attending an event

c) On subscribing to a newsletter or registering your interest in receiving further information about an event

d) Any other information that is purposely sent by you to Stirling Media.

The purpose for which we collect personal information is to provide you with the best service experience possible. Some provision of personal information is optional. However, if you do not provide us with certain types of personal information, you may be unable to enjoy the full functionality of the website or provision of information direct to you.

We may use your personal information to:

a) Identify you so that we can provide services to you

b) Administer our provisions of services and events

c) For collecting payments and/or credit control purposes

d) To improve the services we provide to you and to inform you about any improvements or changes in services

e) To advertise various offers pertaining to an event that we are organising or that our partners (e.g. sponsors and exhibitors) are offering

f) To comply with our legal obligations. 

We do not disclose personal information we collect about you to any third parties without your prior consent. Similarly, we will not sell any information we collect, however, we may disclose personal information about you to service providers who provide services to us, such as providers of exhibitor services, credit collection or support services.

If it is necessary to share any information with a third party, we will first ensure that these parties have their own privacy policy that protects your privacy and understand their obligation to protect your personal information from other parties.

We may collect and provide to third parties non-personal information about the way you browse our website. This information cannot be used to identify you or any other individual customer or visitor to our website. This information is used to collect and analysestatistics about browsing behaviour for marketing and development purposes.

We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that all personal and non-personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

We will take all reasonable steps to protect the security of the personal information we hold. This includes appropriate measures to protect electronic materials and materials stored and generated in hard copy.

We would like to make it known to all our members that the internet is not a secure environment. If you use the internet to send us information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk.

3. DISCLOSURE

We customarily disclose personal information only to our service providers who assist us in operating the website. We will only disclose personal information to an unrelated third party with your consent.

4. ACCESS AND CORRECTION

You may request access to your personal information as well as the opportunity to update and correct any part of such information. If you would like to obtain such access, please contact us on the details set out above.

5. SECURITY

We have processes in place to ensure the security of your personal information, including encryption of all data when it is transferred to our service providers and limitations on access to personal information within our organisation.

6. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Our websites may occasionally contain links to external third-party websites that may benefit the user. External websites should contain their own privacy statements and we recommend you review them when using their websites. Please note, however, that third party websites are not covered by this policy, and these sites are not subject to Stirling Media’s privacy standards and procedures.