Privacy Policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR ADB WEB SITE USERS.

Australian Disc Brakes Pty Ltd (ADB) and its related companies comply with the National Privacy Principles. To that end, we offer this statement to inform our users of how we gather and utilize personal information. Australian Disc Brakes will take all reasonable steps to protect user privacy, consistent with the National Privacy Principles.

1. Australian Disc Brakes gathers personal information about our users in two different ways:

a.You supply it in response to a request from us: - Australian Disc Brakes collects personal information from users when voluntarily submitted by a user, such as participating in a contest. We request that a user be 18 years of age or older before submitting personal information and we ask minors to get permission from their parents or legal guardian before submitting personal information.
b.Purchasing products or services: - If you purchase products or services or apply to become an Australian Disc Brakes customer, Australian Disc Brakes requires you to provide certain details so that we can establish an account and provide you with the product or service. This includes details such as your name and contact information, or in the case of businesses, information about the company, department or association making the purchase or setting up the account. Australian Disc Brakes requires this information to help us process and manage your account.

2. Australian Disc Brakes and its related companies may use personal information collected online to develop and improve the products, benefits and services we offer to our members or website users. For example, Australian Disc Brakes may contact users to notify them that they have won a contest or to provide a requested email newsletter.

3. Australian Disc Brakes may also use its customer database, including information provided by you through this website, to distribute information about other Australian Disc Brakes services and other organizations' services to you. Australian Disc Brakes, its business associates, distributors or franchisees, periodically sends new release information, coupon offers and other information to Australian Disc Brake's membership. Australian Disc Brakes may also disclose to its business associates certain membership information for use in marketing goods and services to our membership.

4. The personal information collected from you at this site is or may also be used for:

a. credit verification purposes;
b. billing purposes;
c. maintain your account;
d. notify you about other or new services or promotions from time to time;
e. to provide customer support;
f. to provide you with the products, services or information you have requested.

Aspects of these functions may be outsourced to third parties, who are only authorized by Australian Disc Brakes to use this information for these purposes. Australian Disc Brakes may also disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts or external advisors where permitted or required by law.

Australian Disc Brakes's policy is to provide you with the opportunity to limit the use and/or disclosure of your personal information. You may do this when you register via the registration page on this website, or at any time when you receive email communications from us, or at any other time by written notice to Australian Disc Brakes. If at any time you no longer wish to receive email or postal communications from Australian Disc Brakes, you can contact Australian Disc Brakes customer service at any time by email to customerservice@adbbrakes.com or fax to 1300 18 13 18.

5. Cookies - Australian Disc Brakes utilizes cookie technology to process and identify order data. A cookie is a piece of information that is transferred to a user's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. If users choose to, they have the option to set their browser to refuse cookies.

6. Each time you visit Australian Disc Brake's website, anonymous navigation information is collected by our servers. This information includes:

a. your server's IP address;
b. the date and time of your visit;
c. the address of the previous site you visited;
d. the website you leave our site to visit;
e. the type of browser and operating system you are using;
f. the address of the pages you accessed.

This information provides Australian Disc Brakes with statistics about how the website is used and navigated, including the number of hits, the frequency of visits and the duration of visits to each web page on the site. It does not personally identify individual users unless the user has previously elected to identify themselves by submitting personal information.

Information collected on this site may also be combined and de-identified to provide Australian Disc Brakes with anonymous demographic and usage information. Australian Disc Brakes can then use this aggregated information to develop new and/or more appropriate services and products to offer to customers and may also be provided to third parties.

Other than as described above, Australian Disc Brakes will not make any attempt to identify users or their browsing activities. However, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Provider's logs.

If you have concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us.

7. When you look at this website, our Internet Service Provider also makes a record of your visit and logs the following information for statistical purposes:

your server address;
your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc);
the date and time of your visit to the site;
the previous site you visited;
the type of browser you are using;
the pages you accessed and documents downloaded.

If you wish to know more about your rights and remedies for breaches of privacy you can access detailed information at the Australian Privacy Commissioner's web site at http://www.privacy.gov.au/rights.