Privacy Policy
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIVACY POLICY
Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors Pty Limited & Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment South Pacific Pty Ltd (News) recognises
the importance of protecting the privacy of personally identifiable
information collected about our customers. For the purposes
of this Privacy Statement, the word customers includes visitors to our
web sites, subscribers to and users of our services, purchasers of our
products and advertising customers. We are bound by the National
Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to the
handling of personal information. Where appropriate we will handle
personal information relying on the media exemption (but complying with
the Australian Press Council Privacy Standards), related bodies
corporate exemption and the employee exemption in the Privacy
Act.
Personal Information
We
collect personal information when we provide our services to
you. Generally we will tell you why we are collecting
information when we collect it and how we plan to use it or these
things will be obvious when we collect the information. We usually
collect personal information directly from you although sometimes we
may use agents or service providers to do this for us. We may also
acquire lists from other sources, both from other companies and from
other public documents.
Use of Information
We usually collect personal information such as your
name, address, telephone number, and in some instances, your financial
details. When you are online, we collect information regarding the
pages within our network which you visit and what you click on. As a
general rule we do not collect sensitive information. However, if we
do, it will usually be for the purposes of providing our goods or
services and if the law requires us to, we will seek your consent to
collect it. We use your information to provide our services to you, to
fulfil administrative functions associated with these services, for
example billing, to enter into contracts with you or third parties and
for marketing and client relationship purposes. We may share your
information with other companies which are related to News Limited
within Australia. We or they may also use your personally
identifiable information to assist us in improving our products and
services and any of us might be in touch to let you know about goods,
services, or promotions which may interest you.
Use by Third
Parties
News may disclose your
information to its service providers and contractors from time to time
to help us to provide and market our goods and services to
you. We may also share your information with third parties
who provide prizes for competitions or reader offers. If we
do this we generally require these parties to protect your information
in the same way we do.
Use of Aggregate Data
We may collect certain non-personal information to
optimise our goods and services including our Web pages for your
computer (e.g., the identity of your Internet browser, the type of
operating system you use, your IP address and the domain name of your
Internet service provider). We may use such non-personal information
for internal purposes, including but not limited to improving the
content of our sites. News may use personally identifiable information
in aggregate form to improve our goods and services including our Web
sites and make them more responsive to the needs of our customers. This
statistical compilation and analysis of information may also be used by
News or provided to others as a summary report for marketing,
advertising or research purposes.
Security
News strives to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of
personally identifiable information of our customers. We use a variety
of physical and electronic security measures including restricting
physical access to our offices and firewalls and secure databases to
keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use
or disclosure. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet
can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Access to Personal
Information
You have a right to
access most personal information we hold about you and if we deny
access in some circumstances we will tell you why. To request access,
please contact our privacy officer as set out at the end of this
document.
Public Information
Any
information posted on bulletin boards and/or communicated in chat areas
becomes public information. While News strives to protect and respect
your privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you
disclose in a chat room or bulletin board.
Cookies
Cookies are data that a Web site transfers to an
individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can
facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of a site. They allow us
to track usage patterns and to compile data that can help us improve
our content and target advertising. If you do not want information
collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in
most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the Cookie feature. But
you should note that Cookies may be necessary to provide you with
features such as merchandise transactions or registered services.
Online Links to
Third Party and Co-Branded Sites
News may establish relationships with business partners that allow
visitors to our Internet sites to link directly to sites operated by
these partners. Some of these sites may be "co-branded" with our logo;
however, these sites may not be operated or maintained by or on our
behalf. These sites may collect personal information from you that may
be shared with us. This Privacy Statement will apply to any personal
information we obtain in this manner. News is not responsible for the
content or practices of Web sites operated by third parties that are
linked to our sites. These links are meant for the user's convenience
only. Links to third party sites do not constitute sponsorship,
endorsement or approval by News of the content, policies or practices
of those third party sites. Once you have left our site via such a
link, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party
site.
What else you should know about privacy on the
internet
Remember to close your
browser when you have finished your user session. This is to ensure
that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence
if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a
public place like a library or Internet café. You as an individual are
responsible for the security of and access to your own computer.
Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information over the
Internet that this information can be collected and used by others. In
short, if you post personal information in publicly accessible online
forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in
return. Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of your username and passwords and any account information.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the
internet.
For further information
Please contact our Privacy Officer to ask for access to your
information or if you have a complaint concerning your information
privacy or if you would like more information about our approach to
privacy.
Paul Garrett, Privacy Officer
Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors
Pty Limited
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (South Pacific)
Pty
Limited ph: +61 2 8353 2171
mob: +61 422 472 151
fax: +61 2 8353 2105
e-mail: paul.garrett@fox.co
