Privacy Policy

The Academy for the Science of Instruction Pty Limited has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.  

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

The Academy for the Science of Instruction Pty Limited has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy.  The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Introduction

www.scienceofinstruction.com.au (this website) is owned and operated by The Academy for the Science of Instruction Pty Limited (we, us, our). We respect the privacy of our website users (you, your). This privacy policy explains how we may collect, store, use, and disclose personal information that you provide to us. By accessing and using this website you confirm your unconditional consent to us collecting, storing, using, and disclosing your personal information in the manner set out in this privacy policy.

Terms of Use & Disclaimers

Your use of this website is governed by our Terms of Use. Accordingly, this privacy policy must be read in conjunction with our Terms of Use.

Disclosure Statement

Collecting your personal information: We may collect personal information from you (including, without limitation, your name, email address, phone number, and postal address) when you use this website. You may decide not to provide your personal information to us. However, if you do not provide it, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain information or products.

Safe and Secure Shopping: We ensure your security and protection when you shop online with us.  When you use your credit card to make a purchase on our website, you are using our safe, reliable & secure shopping cart which ensures all credit card details are encrypted and truncated for additional security. We do not store your credit card details.

Security of Credit Cardholders: Our provider is 100% PCI/CISP compliant and uses Secure HTTPS/Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption and to encrypt all information you provide before sending it to our servers. SSL is the industry standard and the best software available for secure ecommerce transactions. We have intruder detection software and procedures to deal with a breach. When you provide us with any personal information including your name, address, email and credit card number, it is processed over a secure connection on secure servers. We do not store your credit card details. We have intruder detection software and procedures to deal with a breach.

Email Information: If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

Automated collection: When you visit this website, we may use automated tools and methods (such as cookies, sessions, and usage monitoring software) to collect certain information about your visit. This information will be used in aggregate form to analyse how this website is being used (for example: to analyse usage patterns in order to improve this website). Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any such information except in aggregate form.

Cookies: This website may use cookies and sessions to provide you with certain services or functionality. Cookies and sessions may be used to identify you as an individual user of this website. Accepting a cookie will not give us access to any data on your computer other than the data stored in the cookie. Although you may configure your web browser to not accept cookies, you may experience a loss of functionality as a result.

IP Addresses: IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.

Choice of Opt-In / Opt-Out: This site allows visitors to unsubscribe from email newsletters or subscriptions so that they will not receive future messages. After unsubscribing we will discontinue sending the particular messages as soon as technically feasible.

Additional collection: We may gather more extensive information if we are concerned, for example, about abnormal website usage patterns or website security breaches.

Use: We may use your personal information to: provide you with services and information that you have requested; provide you with important notices and information about this website and our services; provide you with other information (including promotional material, news, and event information) where you agree to receive such information; verify your identity and to assist you if you forget your username or password; improve or update this website and our products; respond to your enquiries and communicate with you; and personalise this website in accordance with your preferences.

Other use and disclosure: We will not sell, rent, or lease your personal information to third parties. We may disclose your personal information to our professional advisors, contractors, business associates, related companies, and others who have agreed to treat your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. We will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information except: for any purpose set out in clause (additional use); where you have otherwise authorised us to do so; where we have given you notification of the intended use or disclosure and you have not objected to that use or disclosure; where we believe that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to assist a law enforcement agency or an agency responsible for national security in the performance of their functions; where we believe that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce any legal rights we may have, or is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of us, our users, or others; or as otherwise required or permitted by law.

Third party websites: This website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the content of such websites, or the manner in which those websites collect, store, use, and distribute any personal information you provide. When you visit third party websites from hyperlinks displayed on this website, we encourage you to review the privacy statements of those websites so that you can understand how the personal information you provide may be collected, stored, used and distributed.

Right to access and request correction: It is important to us that the personal information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date. If you are aware that this is not case and would like your personal information corrected, or simply desire access to your personal information, please contact us. You may request access to your personal information that we hold. Where you make any such request, we may ask you to put your request in writing; in some circumstances permitted by law, we may not provide such information to you (and we may not be able to require our contractors provide such information to you); we decide not to correct or provide you with access to your personal information, we will give you our reasons for our decision; where we provide the requested information or carry out the requested correction (or where we attach to that information a statement of any correction sought but not made), we may require you to pay a reasonable fee determined by us.

Public Forums: This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Membership Sites: This site may make membership sites available to its users, and if we do this will be covered under the Terms of Use.

Surveys, Contests & Polls: From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Acquisition or Changes in Ownership: In the event that the website (or a substantial portion of its assets) is acquired, your information would be considered part of those assets, and may be part of those assets that are transferred.

Your Consent: By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Contacting the website: If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Website, feel free to contact us by click on the ‘contact us’ page of this website.

Changes to our privacy policy: We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time by publishing the revised privacy policy on our website. If you continue to use this website or if you provide any personal information after we post changes to this privacy policy, this will deemed your conclusive acceptance of any such changes.