Privacy Policy

About this Privacy Statement

This policy sets out how Spring In A Bag generally handles your privacy and also applies to this website. This Privacy Statement applies to this Web Site which is operated by Spring In A Bag ( ABN 58 131 918 299 ) under the domain names www.springinabag.com.au and another associated sub-domains.

This Privacy Statement may also apply to services offered by Spring In A Bag on its Web Sites

Spring In A Bag understands and appreciates that you are concerned about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of information we may gain about you online. Spring In A Bag is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with Spring In A Bag Web Sites.

As Spring In A Bag Web Sites develop and as technology evolves, Spring In A Bag will continue to strive to provide you with better and more customised services and with a more effective web site. Spring In A Bag encourages you to review the Spring In A Bag Privacy Statement periodically because the Privacy Statement may change from time to time.

In addition to the provisions of this Privacy Statement, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions which apply to certain sections of Spring In A Bag Web Sites. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, you should review them wherever they are accessible by you on Spring In A Bag Web Sites. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Privacy Statement and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.

Security of Information

Spring In A Bag takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the Spring In A Bag Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted). If secure transmission is indicated, Spring In A Bag currently uses 128 bit SSL encryption.

Spring In A Bag regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although Spring In A Bag strives to protect such information, Spring In A Bag cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.

Information Collected

The information that we will collect about you will depend on how you use the facilities offered by the Spring In A Bag Web Sites.

If you visit an unsecured area of Spring In A Bag Web Sites,(that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system may record such information as the date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. However, our systems will not record any personally identifiable information.

Spring In A Bag Web Sites may offer interactive facilities including tools such as usage planners and calculators, as well as online application forms.

If you use any of the tools such as the usage planner or calculator we generally do not capture any personal information that you may enter when using these tools. An exception is where a tool such as a usage planner allows you to suspend or save your plan and retrieve the details at a later time. In that case, the information may be stored on our systems so that you may recover the information when you resume your plan. Any information stored in a suspended or saved planner or other similar tool will not be viewed by Spring In A Bag .

If you decide to complete an online application form, the information that you enter into the online form will only be collected by us if you submit your online application. If at any stage you cancel your application or log out prior to submitting your application, the information you have entered up to that point will be automatically deleted. If you suspend or save your application, for example because you wish to complete it at another time, the information that you have entered may be retained in our systems so that you may recover the information when you resume your application. You may only recover this information within 30 days. After this time, the information will be deleted. Online applications that have been suspended or saved will not be viewed by us and are not processed by us.

Spring In A Bag Web Sites also contain links to the web sites of third party providers of goods and services ( "Third Party Web Sites"). If you have accessed Third Party Web Sites through Spring In A Bag Web Sites and if those third parties collect information about you, Spring In A Bag may also collect or have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties.

Third Party Web Sites should contain their own privacy statements and those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.

We use "cookies" as a fundamental part of our interaction with your Internet browser. The purpose is to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective web site.

Spring In A Bag uses cookies for two different purposes. We allocate a cookie to each Internet browser that visits the Spring In A Bag Web Site. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. We use this cookie for security purposes.

Most of functional parts of the Spring In A Bag Web Site operate by using this type of cookie. Accordingly, if you wish to make full use of the Web Site, it is required that you accept cookies.

Spring In A Bag also uses cookies for secure services (that is, an area where you are required to log on) on the Spring In A Bag Web Site. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including for security and personalisation reasons. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies you will be unable to use secure services on the Spring In A Bag Web Site that require cookies in order to participate

You may still be able to use some ?information only? pages even if you do not accept cookies.

Advertising and Tracking

Spring In A Bag does not use any tracking information or any other information collected deliberately or incidentally to advertise or market to you either directly or through any other third party.

How We Handle Email

We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by Spring In A Bag employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected. Spring In A Bag response to you may also be monitored for quality assurance issues.

Use and Disclosure of Information

Information about you or information owned by you ( such as information in your emails ) will not be disclosed to any third party without your specific permission

Acceptance and Changes Privacy Statement

You acknowledge and accept that your use of Spring In A Bag Web Sites indicates your acceptance of the Spring In A Bag Web Sites Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement.

This is the current Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Privacy Statement for Spring In A Bag Web Sites published on Spring In A Bag Web Sites to date. Spring In A Bag may at any time vary the Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Privacy Statement on Spring In A Bag Web Sites. You accept that by doing this, Spring In A Bag has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.