Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection does not read any of your private online communications.

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection and Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection collects and uses your personal information to operate the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection and its affiliates. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection, in order to determine what Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection pages, or register with Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection site or services, a cookie helps Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection at s.mckell@crcplantbiosecurity.com.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.