Your privacy is important to Education Research Services Pty Ltd (ERS). This policy applies all our websites, currently

• http://educationresearch.com.au
• http://curriculumlearning.com.au and
• http://curriculumorganiser.com.au

The latter site can have different addresses before “curriculumorganiser” to reflect the different client base, such as http://sstuwa.curriculumorganiser.com.au . This privacy policy applies to all sites.

We take our responsibility seriously to protect the data that you provide us in the normal course of interacting with our site. Therefore, we have developed the following privacy policy to help you better understand what data we collect and how we use it.

Customer and Membership Information:

Customer account information and Membership account information that you provide (such as your email address, address, phone number, passwords, credit card or payment information, etc.) is held in strict confidence and will not be sold or rented to 3rd parties, but will be used for the purposes of providing services described on this website.

Email Privacy

• Email Forms: ERS uses subscription forms for individuals to request information or products. We collect contact information (like your name and/or email address among other data) to provide you with the information that you requested. We do not sell or rent email addresses to any 3rd parties.
• Confirm OPT-IN: In some cases we provide confirm opt-in opportunities for email list(s) that you choose to receive. We use your email address to send you the requested product and related information.
• No Confirm OPT-IN: In other cases, we don’t have a specific Opt-In clause but use your email address to provide you with the products or services purchased or requested and related information. This related information includes emails to you requesting advice on your use of the program and providing product updates.
• Transactional Relationships: Customers, Members, and/or Users are considered to be engaged in a transactional relationship with ERS and as such, we may need to email or communicate with you from time to time in order to deliver our services.
• Unsubscribe: You can unsubscribe/opt-out for any or all email lists that you previously chose to receive or where your email address has been provided to us via another process such as a product purchase. If you wish to cease receiving all email communication from us, then as well as not receiving future emails, you may not be able to access our services.
• User/Member/Client Communications: When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your requests and improve the quality of our services.

Personal Information and Other Data We Collect

• ERS collects personal information such as your name, email address, postal address, school, phone numbers, when you register for various services we provide, such as when creating a membership account.
• ERS servers may record/log information automatically any time you interact with our site or use any of our products & services. This may include information such as your IP address, URL, browser type, domain name(s), access dates & times, operating system, country of origin, language type, page views and user sessions to help diagnose problems and/or deliver our services to you.

Uses

• We may use the personal information you provided to provide the services you requested and for our own research and analysis to operate and improve on the services and products that we deliver, as well as develop new services and products.
• Personal information we collect may be shared with business partners, purchasers of our business, suppliers and service providers we engage, but only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or to which you otherwise consent.
• We may share the aggregated non-personal information with 3rd parties outside of ERS.
• When we use 3rd parties to assist us in the processing of your personal information (example: shopping cart service provider), we ensure they comply with our Privacy Policies, confidentiality and security measures.
• We may share information with 3rd parties in limited circumstances when complying with legal process, preventing suspected fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
• We may use your postal and electronic address to send you items and/or information relevant to your use of our services.
• We may conduct member and/or user survey's in order to improve our services.

Links

• This site contains links to other 3rd party sites and these sites are not covered under our privacy policy. We have made attempts to make sure these links are currently active but do not assure any responsibility for the content of these websites. We highly recommend that you review the privacy policies of these websites as well.
• ERS may present links in a way that allows us to track whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our services.

Security Management and Data Security

The ERS web sites have reasonable security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control, including management procedures and specialised training for those who work directly with our databases. We take measures to protect against the unauthorised access of personal data, including physical security considerations of the stored data. We restrict access to personal data to ERS employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, innovate, and deliver our services.

Notification of Changes

From time to time, ERS will occasionally update our Privacy Policy. If there are any material changes to how we use your personal information, we will notify via email and provide you the opportunity to opt-out prior to any substantial change that has been taken. However, if you have opted out of all communication from ERS you will not be contacted, nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. ERS encourages you to periodically review our privacy policy to be informed of how we are committed to protecting your privacy.

Your Choice

You can decline to submit personal information for any of our services, in which case ERS may not be able to provide services to you.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our web site or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Contacting this Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, you can contact contactus@educationresearch.com.au