STATEMENT REGARDING OUR PRIVACY POLICY
SSS Pty Limited recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of
personally identifiable information collected about its customers. For
the purpose of this Privacy Statement, the word customer(s) includes visitors
to our web sites, users of our services, and wholesale and retail purchasers
of our products.
SSS Pty Limited and its subsidiaries are bound by the National Privacy
Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to the handling of
your personal information. SSS Pty Limited is committed to handling your
personal information with great care however where appropriate, SSS Pty
Limited will rely on any exemptions available to it, related bodies corporate
exemption and the employee exemption in the Privacy Act.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
SSS Pty Limited collects personal information when we provide our services
to you. Generally, we will advise why we are collecting information, when
we collect it and how we plan to use it, or these things will become obvious
when we collect the information.
SSS Pty Limited usually collects personal information directly from you
although sometimes we may use agents or service providers to do this.
SSS Pty Limited may also acquire lists from other reputable sources, companies
and public documents.
USE OF INFORMATION
SSS Pty Limited usually collects personal information such as your name,
address, and telephone number. 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 purpose of providing a good or service
to you and if the law requires, we will seek your consent to collect it.
SSS Pty Limited uses your information to provide its services to you,
to fulfill 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.
SSS Pty Limited may share your information with other companies associated
with SSS Pty Limited, within and outside Australia. We may also use your
personally identifiable information to assist us in improving our products
and services and we may also communicate with you to let you know about
goods, services, or promotions that may interest you.
When SSS Pty Limited collects your information, we will give you the ability
to indicate if you do not want us to use your personal information for
disclosed secondary purposes. At any time, you may notify us of your preference
on this issue by contacting us via e-mail at: privacy@sewgroup.com , by
slow mail to: The Privacy Officer, 16 Valediction Rd, KINGS PARK NSW 2148
or by calling +61 2 9672 3888 .
At any time, you may notify us of your preference on this issue by contacting
our privacy officer whose details are listed below. Please allow a reasonable
time for your preference to be implemented.
RESTRICTED AREA ACCESS – PASSWORDS & LOGINS
SSS Pty Limited provides its wholesale clients with a PIN (personal identification
number or password) to access restricted areas within the website such
as wholesale price lists and promotional and/or marketing information.
A unique password or PIN is allocated to each client for access to the
wholesale database.
Each time a wholesale client logs on to the restricted area of our website
using their unique PIN or password, we record the location from which
the system has been accessed and monitor the pages and products clicked
on.
Wholesale clients with restricted area access are advised against revealing
their unique PIN and/or password. Should a breach occur, SSS Pty Limited
reserve the right to withdraw access to restricted areas of the website
without notice and without limiting its right to prosecute.
USE BY THIRD PARTIES
SSS Pty Limited may disclose your information to its service providers
and contractors from time to time in Australia or overseas to help us
to provide and market our goods and services to you. If we do this we
generally require these parties to protect your information in the same
way we do.
USE OF AGGRAGATE 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.
SSS Pty Limited 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 SSS Pty Limited or provided
to others as a summary report for marketing, advertising or research purposes.
SECURITY
SSS Pty Limited 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 secured.
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 to your personal information, please contact our Privacy Office.
PUBLIC INFORMATION
Any information posted on bulletin boards and/or communicated in chat
areas becomes public information. While SSS Pty Limited 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
SSS Pty Limited 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.
SSS Pty Limited 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 SSS Pty Limited
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 YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT INTERNET PRIVACY
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,
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 MORE 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.
+61 2 9672 3888
privacyofficer@sewgroup.com
16 Valediction Rd KINGS PARK NSW 2148
WEBSITE CONDITIONS OF USE
Welcome to Sewgroup.com Sewgroup.com provides its services to you subject
to the following conditions. If you visit or order through Sewgroup.com,
you accept the following conditions. In addition, when you use any current
or future Sewgroup.com service you also will be subject to the guidelines
and conditions applicable to such service or business.
SSS Pty Limited reserves the right to change any pricing, product or offer
without notice.
Sewgroup.com is a part of SSS Pty Limited. All content included on this
site is the property of SSS Pty Limited and is protected by Australian
and International copyright laws.
SSS Pty Limited grants you a limited license to access and make personal
use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify
it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of SSS Pty
Limited. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of
this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings,
descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents;
any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another
merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering
and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be
reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited
for any purpose without express written consent of SSS Pty Limited.
Links to other Internet Sites if available are provided for your convenience
only and the presence of such links does not mean that SSS Pty Limited
endorses, recommends or represents them in any way. SSS Pty Limited does
not control and is not responsible for any such sites or their content.
SSS Pty Limited disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, as to
the accuracy, legality, reliability or validity of any content of such
sites.
THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY SSS PTY LIMITED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS. SSS PTY LIMITED MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES
OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR
THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE.
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, SSS PTY LIMITED DISCLAIMS
ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SSS
PTY LIMITED DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT
FROM SSS PTY LIMITED OR SEWGROUP ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS. SSS PTY LIMITED WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY
KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.
CERTAIN LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION
OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR
ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
How to contact us
Enquiries regarding the management of your personal information
can be address by contact our privacy officer on (02)9672 3888.
If you have a complaint, you can contact us in the following
way;
Privacy Officer
SSS Pty Limited
16 Valediction Rd
KINGS PARK NSW 2148
Ph: +61 2 9672 3888
e-mail: privacy@sewgroup.com