ZDNet Australia Security & Privacy Statement

4. How does ZDNet Australia share the information?

Personally Identifiable Information
ZDNet Australia will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:

• we have your consent to share the information
• we have engaged companies to work with or on behalf of ZDNet Australia to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements
• You use co-branded services. When you use a co-branded service within our network of sites you grant us permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.
• we respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, ZDNet Australia's Terms of Use or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property or safety of ZDNet Australia, our users, or others

Aggregate Information
ZDNet Australia aggregates personally identifiable information and discloses such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Business Transfers
We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or sell a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes. In that event, we will seek to give you notice of that change in control and we will seek to get assurances that the purchaser will honour any opt-out requests you might make of us.

5. What are my options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.

We provide users with the following options:

• Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt-in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the subscription management pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
• Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site

6. How can I update my personally identifiable information?

You can correct or change the information collected during registration for any site (see above for a description of the registration process). The instructions for doing this can be found in our newsletter registration area. Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page. To amend your data go to ZDNet Australia's Membership Centre.

7. How will I know if the privacy policy is changed?

Any modifications to our privacy practices will be reflected first within this area of our network of Web sites. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our sites that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy statement. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will send affected users written notice of the change. We will also post the changes in our privacy statement 30 days prior to a change, where practicable.

8. How does ZDNet Australia manage and ensure security of personal information?

ZDNet Australia strives to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personally identifiable information of our customers. We have take steps to ensure your credit card details and other personal information are safe by using a variety of physical and electronic security measures including restricting physical access to our offices and firewalls and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorized loss or disclosure.

9. How can you find out what personal information ZDNet Australia holds about you?

You have the right to seek access to the personal information held about you and to advise ZDNet Australia of any inaccuracy. There are some exceptions to this right set out in the Privacy Act. If you make an access request, ZDNet Australia will ask you to verify your identity and specify what information you require.

10. Any questions or comments?

Questions regarding this privacy policy should be sent via e-mail to info@zdnet.com.au or to our corporate offices at Level 12, 50 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one. We may also file your comments to improve the site, or review and discard the information.

Questions regarding any other aspects of our network of Web sites should be directed to our corporate offices at 235 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.

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