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YOUNGSTAR EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS are firmly committed to privacy in accordance
with the Guidelines issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner. This
statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices
for this site.
If you are submitting personal information over the internet which you wish
to remain private, please note that, while all attempts are made to secure
information transmitted to this site, there is a possibility that
information you submit could be observed by a third party while in transit.
Information logged
When you visit this site, our server logs information that is provided by
your browser. This information is used to create summary statistics which
allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our
site, discover what information is most and least used, determine technical
design specifications, and help us make our site more useful to visitors.
The information logged is as follows:
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the type of browser you are using;
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the date and time of your visit;
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your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc);
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the address of the referring site;
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your server's IP address (a number which is unique to the machine
through which you are connected to the Internet: usually one of your
service provider's machines).
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the address of the pages accessed and any documents downloaded.
No attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities,
unless disclosure is required by law or due to a mandatory requirement of a
Court, Governmental Agency or Regulatory Authority. We use the information
only for statistical analysis or systems administration purposes.
Electronic mail addresses (Email)
We will only record your e-mail address if you send us an email message. It
will only be used for the purpose for which you provide it, and will not be
added to a mailing list unless you request that this be done. We will not
disclose it without your consent.
Subscription and Feedback Forms
Some pages of this web site provide the facility for users to fill out an
online form for the purpose of subscribing to a special service or to
provide us with feedback about our website. We will ask you to provide only
enough personal information to fulfil that purpose. We will record it to
facilitate follow up and for statistical analysis. Only authorised YOUNGSTAR
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS staff will have access to this information.
Cookies
A cookie is an electronic token that is passed to your browser and your
browser passes it back to the server whenever a page is sent to you. Cookies
are used on our site.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie
has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly
generated unique number.
Two types of cookies are used on this website:
Session Cookies: which are temporary cookies that remain in the
cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. Session Cookies are
used as follows:
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To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid
having to re-enter information.
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To allow you to maintain a shopping basket
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Within registration to allow you to access stored information
Persistent cookies: which remain in the cookie file of your browser
for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific
cookie). Persistent Cookies are used as follows:
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To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you
return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or
advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you
the same adverts repeatedly.
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To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand
how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our
website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred
interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used
by themselves to identify you.
How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect
We do use cookies on our site as they are an integrated and necessary component
of our shopping cart software order process. Further to this, we also utilise
real-time web tracking to collect and analyze traffic on our site. This
information helps us understand customer interests and helps us improve our
website. A cookie is used to store small amounts of information. This
information is collected for traffic analysis only. The cookie does not contain
personal details. We do not sell, give, or trade the statistics they store to
any 3rd parties for data-mining or marketing purposes.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in
your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features
of our site if cookies are disabled.
If you do experience any problems on our site please
contact us.
Links to External / Third Party Sites
This site contains links to external/third party websites for the convenience of
our visitors. However, YOUNGSTAR EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS, independently nor jointly
have any knowledge of, nor control over, the privacy practices of these web
sites and has no knowledge of whether cookies or other tracking devices are used
on linked sites. You visit these websites at your own discretion.
Pricing
All pricing is subject to change. For all prices, products and offers, YOUNGSTAR
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS reserve the right to make adjustments due to changing
market conditions, product discontinuation, manufacturer price changes, errors
in advertisements and other extenuating circumstances.
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