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Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment
to provide the highest quality service with the highest level
of integrity in dealing with our visitors and members. The
Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect,
use and safeguard the personal information you provide to
us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using
our site. This statement will be continuously assessed against
new technologies and our members and visitors needs.
What Information
Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our
Web site. Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site
utilises a standard technology called "cookies"
(see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and
Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site
is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server
logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed,
time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just
before and just after our Web site. This information may be
collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information
is associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use
the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes
of administering our club activities. Occasionally, we may
also use the information we collect to notify you about important
changes to our Web site. The lists used to send you information
are developed and managed under our traditional standards
of integrity to safeguard the security and privacy of our
visitors and members personal information. As a visitor or
member, you will be given the opportunity, at least once annually,
to notify us of your desire not to receive these Web site
announcements.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows
Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web
site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by
a users Web browser on the users hard drive. Cookies
can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page
to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by
the same user or to use the information to streamline the
users transactions on related Web pages. This makes
it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page. Cookies
should make your online experience easier and more personalised.
How Do We Use
Information We Collect from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and
Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users
browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web
site and better serve our visitors and members. This information
assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most
user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site
to better meet the needs of our visitors and members.
Cookies help us collect
important technical statistics. The information in the cookies
lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site
as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow
us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web sites visitor capacity. We do not use these
technologies to capture your individual email address or any
personally identifying information about you.
Sharing Information
with Affiliates
From time to time you may notice offers from outside companies
advertised on our Web site. We take measures to select providers
that are responsible and afford privacy protections to their
customers. However, we cannot make any representations about
the practices and policies of these companies.
Sharing Information
with Strategic Partners
We do not share information with any third parties, without
your specific permission.
How Do We Secure
Information Transmissions?
E-mail that you may send to us may not be secure unless we
advise you that security measures will be in place prior to
your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask
that you do not send confidential information such as Credit
Card No's or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect
Your Information?
Information
Security. We utilise encryption/security software
to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we
collect from unauthorised access or disclosure and accidental
loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically,
our online conduct practices are reviewed for compliance with
club policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality
and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our
club values, ethical standards, policies and practices are
committed to the protection of user information. In general,
our club practices limit member access to confidential information,
and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorised
persons, processes and transactions.
What About
Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so,
in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law
requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
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