The lowdown.com.au, published by Creative Information Pty Limited, is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a safe online experience. This Privacy Policy applies to the lowdown.com.au website (the “Website”) and governs data collection and usage. By using the Website, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

Collection of Personal Information

Lowdown.com.au collects personally identifiable information such as your email address, name, home or work address, and telephone number. Additionally, lowdown.com.au collects anonymous demographic information, such as your postal code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites, which is not unique to you.

Information about your computer hardware and software is also automatically collected by lowdown.com.au. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This data is used to operate the service, maintain service quality, and provide general statistics regarding use of the Website.

Please be aware that if you disclose personally identifiable information or sensitive data through lowdown.com.au public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Lowdown.com.au not read any of your private online communications.

Third-Party Websites

Lowdown.com.au encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from lowdown.com.au so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. Lowdown.com.au is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of The Lowdown and its family of websites.

Use of Personal Information

Lowdown.com.au collects and uses your personal information to operate the Website and deliver the services you have requested. Your personally identifiable information may also be used to inform you of other products or services available from The Lowdown and its affiliates. Lowdown.com.au may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Lowdown.com.au does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties. Lowdown.com.au may contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In such cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Lowdown.com.au may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to lowdown.com.au, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Lowdown.com.au does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Lowdown.com.au tracks the websites and pages our customers visit within lowdown.com.au to determine which services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within lowdown.com.au to customers whose behavior indicates they are interested in a particular subject area.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Lowdown.com.au will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with legal obligations; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of lowdown.com.au; and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of lowdown.com.au, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Website uses “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize lowdown.com.au pages or register with the Website or services, a cookie helps lowdown.com.au to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the services or websites you visit.

Security of Personal Information

Lowdown.com.au will use commercially reasonable efforts to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Lowdown.com.au secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Lowdown.com.au will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Lowdown.com.au encourages you to periodically review this Policy to be informed of how lowdown.com.au is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Lowdown.com.au welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that lowdown.com.au has not adhered to this Policy, please contact lowdown.com.au at info@lowdown.com.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.