1. What information does eWord Development gather?
eWord Development will gather specific information from you including your
name and address among other personal data. Information that is essential to
the provision of services or products will be designated "as required" in this
website. Additional information that would provide eWord Development with
flexibility in the provision of services and may be used for internal
statistic studies and market research is as optional. For example a credit
card number is required when ordering a product, whereas a fax number may not
be essential but will provide eWord Development with another means of
communication with you.
The choice of how much personally identifiable information
you disclose to eWord Development is completely at your discretion. Our
fundamental concern is that you control the use of your own personal
information. To this end, it is not mandatory for you to answer any questions,
although in some circumstances if you choose to not answer questions it may
limit the services and products that eWord Development is able to offer.
2. How does eWord
Development use personal information?
In providing personal information to eWord Development you are agreeing to
allow eWord Development, its subsidiaries and its affiliates access to storage
of and use of the data in any of the countries where eWord Development, its
subsidiary and its affiliates do business whether inside or outside of the
United States of America or Australia.
eWord Development may use the personal information you
submit for any purposes related to eWord Development's business, including but
not limited to generating statistical studies, conducting market research,
improving its products and services, sending new surveys and notifying you of
product upgrades and updates, new products, special offers, seminars and
conventions and any other changes within eWord Development that may affect
you.
If you wish to limit the use of your personal information to
purposes other than those outlined in these paragraphs you should advise eWord
Development forthwith in writing.
3. What choices
do you have about how your personal information is used
and what is eWord Development's commitment to data quality and reliability?
eWord Development
respects your privacy and realises that not everyone likes to receive special
offers or information. If you would like your name deleted from eWord
Development's list or if you don't want to receive eWord Development's email
bulletins, please use the contact information below to request that eWord
Development remove you from its list. Be sure to include your name, postal
address, telephone number, information contained in the eWord Development
mailer and/or other necessary information requested for removal. If you
believe that eWord Development may not have your correct and current personal
information, you may update your information at any time by using the contact
information below to inform eWord Development of changes in your personal
information.
eWord Development will use reasonable efforts to honour your
requests, but we appreciate your patience in allowing us a reasonable amount
of time for processing.
4. Does eWord
Development share the information that it gathers with third parties?
eWord Development
shares data with third parties as a value-added service that will assist you
in finding products or services which you may not normally come across in
daily life. eWord Development carefully reviews the materials of third parties
and only selects those, which it believes would interest you. However, eWord
Development does not assume responsibility for any actions of third parties.
Should you decide you would not like your information shared
with third parties, please use the contact information below to request that
eWord Development remove you from its lists. eWord Development will use
reasonable efforts to honour your requests. Please be aware that eWord
Development has no control over removing your personal information from the
lists of third parties. If you continue to receive materials from third
parties after informing eWord Development to remove your name, please notify
the particular third parties regarding removal of your personal information.
5. Your
information will be processed using the Camtech e-Commerce Payment Gateway
The Camtech
E-Commerce Payment Gateway, which resides at Camtech, connects directly to the
Australian banking network into five Australian Financial institutions (CBA,
Westpac, NAB, St George Group and Bank West). The Camtech E-Commerce Payment
Gateway is capable of processing multiple Merchant Server sessions and
validates incoming connections through the use of digital certificates. When
the customer’s credit card information is received from the merchant’s web
server it is then passed to the bank in the correct AS2805F format. The link
between the payment gateway server and the bank is a dedicated private segment
and uses non-routable networking addresses. This server is protected by SUN
Microsystems EFS SunScreen Firewall and Checkpoints Firewall-1 as well as a
hardened operating system. The link between the Merchant Server and Payment
Gateway is encrypted using 1024 bit RSA encryption standard. This ensures the
highest level of encryption available so that sensitive information is kept
confidential.
6. Does eWord
Development share the information that it gathers with government agencies or
law enforcement?
eWord Development
reserves the right to monitor, and disclose to, government officials or law
enforcement, without your consent, any communications and personally
identifiable information, whenever prompted to do so, by legal authorities,
even when you have requested that your information not be disclosed to third
parties.
Personal information including your address given in the
course of this transaction may be used to determine your liability to
Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) or to taxes imposes by any of the
States of the United States of America; including in particular Alabama,
Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Texas, Washington, and
Wisconsin, depending on your residency. You are taken to permit such
disclosure of your personal information by use of this Website.
7. What is eWord Development's commitment to data
security ?
eWord Development recognises your concern for security, and will use
reasonable efforts to establish secure connections with you and to limit
access to databases containing personal information to authorised personnel
only.
8. Does eWord
Development use cookies?
"Cookies" give users
a unique, random ID by storing small text files onto a user's computer hard
drive with the user's browsers. Cookies enable a website to track a user's
activities on a website. For example, eWord Development may use cookies on its
home page to save users time so they do not have to choose a country site each
time they visit eWord's website. This is an example of how eWord Development
may use cookies. eWord Development may use cookies in other areas on its
website now and in the future.
eWord Development cookies do not contain personally
identifying information. Users are free to change their web browsers to
prevent the acceptance of cookies.
9. Are there
online risks?
You should be aware
of the risks when you communicate on public newsgroups and message boards. On
these forums, personal information may be collected and used by others outside
of eWord Development to send unsolicited e-mails or postal mailings. eWord
Development has no control over these actions. You should not post any
information on these forums that you wish to keep private.
