THORPE BOWKER PRIVACY POLICY

Thorpe Bowker (ABN 77 097 830 745), a division of R R Bowker, LLC ('Thorpe Bowker') owns and operates this website. Our postal address is PO Box 101, Port Melbourne, Victoria 3207, Australia.

If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please contact us by sending an e-mail to customer.service@thorpe.com.au or writing to The Publisher at the above postal address.

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy Thorpe Bowker provides 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 home pages and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. This notice applies to all information collected from or submitted to all Thorpe Bowker websites.

Participation on our websites

By using our websites, you consent to the collection, use and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on our websites.

Data gathering, usage and storage

Thorpe Bowker collects the domain names, contact details and e-mail addresses (where possible) of visitors and subscribers to our websites and the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail. We aggregate information on what pages visitors and subscribers access or visit, as well as information volunteered by the visitor (such as survey information and/or site registrations). By using our website you consent to the transfer overseas of this information for the purpose of storage and hosting on our servers. The information we collect is used for internal review to improve the content of our websites, used to compile internal statistical and usage information, used to notify visitors and subscribers about updates to our websites, used to inform visitors and subscribers of other Thorpe Bowker products or services they may be interested in, and used to inform visitors and subscribers of helpful products or services offered by others. Visitors and subscribers who provide their mailing address, telephone number, and/or e-mail address may be contacted for these purposes using any of these methods. The information we collect may also be disclosed to a third party for marketing purposes.

Cookies

Electronic 'cookies' are codes placed on your hard drive to enable sites to recognise if you have been there before. Cookies are given to visitors and subscribers of our websites so that Thorpe Bowker can keep track of the domain from which people visit.

We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies or third party advertising agencies that track certain Internet activity.

Future changes to privacy policy

From time to time, we may use information collected and supplied by visitors and subscribers for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our websites to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.

If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should refer to this online privacy policy page periodically.

Opt-out

Visitors and subscribers who have supplied us with information may elect not to receive e-mail, postal or telephone communications from Thorpe Bowker and/or other organisations this information is shared with by e-mailing us at the above address or writing to us at the above postal address.

Access or correct your information

Upon request, we can provide visitors and subscribers with access to a description of information that we maintain about them. We also offer visitors and subscribers the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information. Visitors and subscribers may request this information, or have this information corrected, by e-mailing us at the above address or writing to us at the above postal address.

Data security

We always use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving data exchanged with our site. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

Outside links

Thorpe Bowker has provided several hyperlinks to outside resources in an effort to help individuals gather information. Thorpe Bowker is not responsible for the content provided on these sites, their privacy policies, or how they treat information about their users. Some hyperlinks, primarily to book industry sites and entities, are provided as a service to our users. Other hyperlinks to suppliers are available as part of paid advertising packages.

Contact us

If you would like to contact us for any reason regarding our privacy practices, please contact us by sending an e-mail to customer.service@thorpe.com.au or writing to The Publisher at the above postal address.