This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for Pivotal Solutions (ACT) Pty Ltd trading as Adventure Professional Publishing / AdventurePro Australia & New Zealand at www.adventurepro.com.au

Information Collection and Use

Pivotal Solutions is the sole owner of any personal information (For example, name, address, email addresses provided during subscriptions, registrations or product purchases) collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Pivotal Solutions collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Ordering

We request information from users on our order forms. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is also used to get in touch with the user.

We use PayPal as our internet payment gateway. PayPal is a trusted and secure world leader in electronic payments via the internet. PayPal is an industry leader in fraud-prevention methods.

When taking payments for our services, payment processing is completely controlled by PayPal. When a payment is approved we have access to a portion of the information collected during the transaction --- including name, address, country, payment method and amount. We do not have access to credit card or bank account details collected by PayPal

PayPal does not sell or rent its users' personal information to third parties and will disclose users' personal information only in accordance with PayPal's privacy policy.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Public Forums and Posted Information

Certain portions of AdventurePro are designed to offer you the opportunity to post information on the site, including but not limited to information about yourself (Posted Information). For example, you may post your profile information in the public forums this site makes available to its users.

Please remember that any Posted Information becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. If you decide to post any information, that Posted Information is exempt from this Privacy Statement.

For additional terms applicable to Posted Information, please see...

www.adventurepro.com.au/ap.pl?id=Forums_Register.

Advertising

AdventurePro displays advertisements or information and links to third parties. These advertisements or links may contain cookies placed by those third parties. AdventurePro is not responsible for how those advertisements, the web sites to which they are linked, or how any other linked sites, may use their own cookies. For example, cookies received with banner ads may be collected by the company posting the ad on our site. Please refer to that company's privacy statement for further information.

Sharing

We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we (Pivotal Solutions) are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Newsletters

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we ask for contact information such as name and email address.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order forms, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

Site & Service Updates

We send active sites (in the AP Guide) site and service announcement updates. Active sites are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service, while actively listed in the directory. We communicate with users to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account(s) via email or phone.

Want More Information?

For further information please contact Tony Barnett