Privacy Policy

This privacy statement details the privacy practices of Teacher's Marketplace® (www.teachersmarketplace.com.au). We are dedicated to protecting the privacy and security of our online visitors. This Privacy Policy applies to our online practices only. This site is intended for adults and legal residents of the Commonwealth of Australia only.

REGISTRATION

In order to access the resources on Teacher's Marketplace®, users must first complete a registration form. During registration, the user is required to give certain personally identifiable information (such as a first and last name, e-mail address, street address and phone number). Registered users receive regular newsletters detailing new content. It is possible for members to cancel the member newsletter and still have access to the member site. It is possible for any user to cancel the free newsletter and still have access to the free site.

Information that we use internally to identify you as a user in our system, such as your selected User Name, is not considered personally identifiable information. Teacher's Marketplace® (and/or our agents or affiliates) may collect online and use personally identifiable information from our online visitors: (1) to process and fulfil transactions; (2) in connection with contests, games, surveys, forums, subscription registrations, content submissions, classroom activities, message boards, blogs and our requests for suggestions; (3) to customise the content of our site for our visitors current and future needs; and (4) to provide service related announcements to you. We may even share such information between the buyers and sellers on our site in connection with transactions between such buyers and sellers. In addition, this personally identifiable information may be used to provide our visitors, via e-mail or other means, information about materials and activities that may be of interest to them, including products or services of third parties. For these reasons, we may share such information with third parties. If you are an individual who has provided us with your personal information online or offline and you do not want us to share your information with third parties, or if there is a media notification that you no longer want to receive from us, please let us know by sending us your full name, e-mail and request to: membership@teachersmarketplace.com.au. In addition, every e-mail that we send will contain a link to allow you to opt out of receiving future e-mail communications.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE

During the registration process, we collect your e-mail address, address and birth date. This information helps to ensure we can properly pay you. During the Sign Up process, you will also have the opportunity to provide a public Member Biography about yourself and the Teaching Content that you wish to make available through Teacher's Marketplace®. Sellers choose to provide as much or as little information about themselves in your public Member Profile as you see fit. We may also have open message boards or blogs where you can provide any personal information that you choose. Please note that the information you provide in the Member Profile, message boards or blogs is open to the public and available for anyone to view.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can view any personally identifiable information we have collected from you in your ‘My Account’ page by signing in to your seller homepage. Here you will be able to add, edit, or remove information as you see fit.

COOKIES

A cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive, containing information about you such as information about your browsers (e.g., Firefox or Internet Explorer), operating systems (e.g., Windows or Macintosh), internet service providers (e.g., Telstra or Optus) and other similar information which we track in aggregate form. Cookie technology helps us to know how many people visit us and where visitors go on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. The cookie will not terminate if you opt to save the cookie. You might set a cookie on our site so that you might not have to log in more than once, but this is entirely your option. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.

USE OF IP ADDRESSES

We collect IP addresses to obtain aggregate information on the use of TeachersMarketplace.com.au. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by a Web server when you're on the Web. When you are on our site, we have a back-end server that logs your computer's IP address. We only use the information we find out from tracking IP addresses in the aggregate, such as how many users entered a specific area of our site, and not to track a specific IP address to identify an individual user. However, we may use such information to identify a user if we feel that there are or may be safety and/or security issues or to comply with legal requirements.

SECURITY

We ensure that all personally and non-personally identifiable information that we receive via the internet is secure against unauthorised access. This information is kept in a safe and secure system isolated from direct connection to the internet. This means that no-one except us will ever see the information that our visitors send to us, unless we indicate otherwise, or it is in your Member Biography, message board or blog area. We will give out personal information as required by law, for example to comply with a court order or subpoena or to assist in criminal investigations. We may also give out personal information when we deem it advisable in order to protect the safety and security of our sites and visitors to our sites. We use secure server software over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) line to protect your credit card information. It encrypts all of your personal information so that this information cannot be read as it travels to our ordering system, and once it is received, it is stored in a location not accessible via the internet.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Teachersmarketplace.com.au contains links to enable you to visit other websites of interest. We do not have any control over those other websites. Therefore, once you have used these links to leave our site, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the particular website in question.

Last Updated: 20 January 2013