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Our Commitment To Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect:

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Dinkum Democrats Blog And Or Australian Democrats websites. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, join the Australian Democrats, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:

• Your Name
• Your Address (Only When Ordering A Product)
• Email address
• Phone number (Only When Ordering A Product, Service, Joining or With Your Approval For Support)

When Donating Or Joining Us:

The Australian Democrats Home Website may have it’s own policies and you should check the relevant privacy policies there where applicabale.

When donating to the Victorian Branch: We use external trusted agencies for our order processing.  Those agencies have their own privacy policies.  We never ask for, store or receive your credit details or number beyond the name of the person on the credit card.  For your security those agencies do store this information inline with requirements of banking practice and within the required security arrangements specified by banking and credit agencies as per the requirements of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Way We Or Our Payment Agencies Use This information:

In this section of our policy the word “we” includes DinkumDemocrats.com Website and our Agents and Authorized Payment Agencies.

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

Where we offer gift-cards by which you can personalize a product you order for another person. Information you provide to us to create a gift-card is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

You can register with our website if you would like to receive our information or additional products as well as updates on our new products and services. Information you submit on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the relevant registration form. for that specific service.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and services. We do not disclose anything that could be used to identify you at anytime.

We may use cookies from time to time to assist in understanding your usage on this website (but never external websites or external organizations or companies) and for the purposes of helping you automate our services and your use of them such as logging into forums and leaving comments on our website articles or using our contact forms.  You may, at your discretion, disable cookies in your web browser.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above and at all times you have can always choose  to opt-out or otherwise unsubscribe from any contact or service.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online and require our Agents and Order Processing Agencies to do the same.

Our Online Forums

Our online forums and comment sections are subject to moderation by DinkumDemocrats.com staff.  Innapropriate posts in our forums and the judgement on the nature of those posts is entirely at our discretion.  Any information posted on our forums becomes the exclusive property of DinkumDemocrats.com and the Victorian Branch of the Australian Democrats.  No appeal process will be entered into.

Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13.  We request that in our online forums persons under 13 only access those forums with parental or legal guardian supervision.  Where such supervision appears not to be in place we may, at our discretion, delete accounts and posts by persons under 13 without notification.

Please Contact Us:

If for any reason, at any time, you have any concerns about your privacy, have any questions or feel your information has not been used inline with this policy then we urge you to contact us using the form. available from the menu above, in the first instance so as to help you address any issue.

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