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Use of BDA Books Logos and Other Copyright Graphic Material

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RESTRICTIONS ON USE

This Web site is owned and operated by BDA Books Pty Ltd. By accessing or using this site, you agree to the terms set forth in this Terms of Use agreement as changed from time to time. BDA Books Pty Ltd retains the right, at its discretion, to change any of these terms in the future.

NO UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS

BDA Books Pty Ltd does not accept unsolicited manuscripts sent to it through its Web site, and takes no responsibility for any manuscript so transmitted.

LICENCE TO BDA BOOKS PTY LTD

By posting messages, sending e-mails, inputting data, answering questions, uploading data or files or otherwise communicating with BDA Books Pty Ltd through its Web site (a "Communication"), you are granting BDA Books Pty Ltd a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, display, sublicense, adapt, transmit and copy such Communication. The foregoing grant shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such Communication, including but not limited to rights under trademark, copyright, servicemark or patent laws in any relevant jurisdiction.

LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on the web site. The publishers, however, shall have no liability to any person or entity with respect to any inaccuracy, misleading information, loss or damage caused directly or indirectly by the information contained on the site.

Changes and additions to the information contained on the site are made frequently. The publishers may make such changes and additions to the web site at any time without prior notice. Your use of this web site is "as is", and BDA Books Pty Ltd makes no representations or warranties, express or implied, about its site or the material contained or referred to on it, and will not be held liable in any way for your use of it. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, BDA Books Pty Ltd disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

There is no guarantee that the site will be free of viruses or any other contaminating or destructive properties. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall BDA Books Pty Ltd or any affiliated company or individual be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages and expenses whatsoever (including without limitation, health problems, lost profits, and damages arising from lost data, computer viruses, deletion of files or business interruption) arising out of or in any way connected with the use of the site, or for any information, software, products or services obtained through the site, whether such damages are based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. BDA Books Pty Ltd reserves the right to change or discontinue at any time any aspect or feature of this web site.

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY OF TITLES

All prices given on this site are in Australian dollars unless otherwise indicated, and all items listed should be currently available; however as the database is updated once every 24 hours, slight discrepancies may arise occasionally. "Currently available" material is defined as items that can be reliably supplied within 90 days. In other words, stock must be in our warehouses, or must be currently on order as in the case of reprints and forthcoming publications, and all titles must be available for unrestricted sale. The online catalogue will also contain only those titles which are published or distributed in this region by us.

LINKING POLICY

Links to Third Party Web Sites from these pages

BDA Books provides links to Internet sites which are controlled and maintained by others. These links are included solely for the convenience of users, and do not constitute an endorsement by BDA Books of the sites linked or referred to. BDA Books does not in any way control the material contained on or the services or products offered through such third party sites. These terms and conditions apply solely to this site and you should always review the terms and conditions of any site that you access through a link from this site.

Links to the BDA Books Web Sites

BDA Books does not prohibit links to its web pages, provided that any such link does not suggest an endorsement by or affiliation with this Company. However, BDA Books does not expressly authorize links to its web pages on other third party web sites, and reserves the right to request that unsuitable links are removed.

JURISDICTION

This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of New South Wales without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles, and venue shall be in the state or federal courts located in the State of New South Wales. If any provision of this agreement is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, then such provision shall be severed from the agreement and the remainder of the agreement shall remain in effect.

PRIVACY POLICY

We recognise that it is important for you to know that any information provided by you to the company is handled properly. We take very seriously our responsibility to protect and maintain the privacy, accuracy and security of your personal information. We do all that we can to maintain the highest standards in dealing with personal information held for you. The staff handling personal information understand the standards and take all reasonable steps to achieve them. Privacy laws place strict requirements on us to treat any information you give us as confidential.

Collection

We collect only that information which is necessary for the conduct of our business relationship with you. Conduct of that business relationship includes not only the supply of books, other related products and services, but also the management of business transactions entered into with us, administration of any accounts you have with us, informing you of current and future books, other related products and services which may be relevant to you, and your participation in competitions or other similar activities organised by us. Some of the information we collect, for example on your use of our websites, may be used to improve our services to you and monitor performance. The information we collect is dependent on the purpose for which it is collected.

We collect the information we require in the following ways:

from you directly when you provide information either over the phone, in a form or submit details through our web sites;
from publicly available sources
from third parties such as your representative/s, credit reporting agencies, third parties related to us
from your use of our websites.

The information collected from your use of our websites may or may not identify you. It may include the type of internet browser used by you, operating system used by you, address of referring site, your IP address and clickstream information. Cookies are pieces of information that our website sends to your computer while you are browsing our sites. These pieces of information allow your browser to utilise some of the features of our sites. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. If you reject cookies you will be unable to take advantage of some of the features of our websites.

Use and Disclosure

We use your information to carry out our business with you, to facilitate our financial dealings with you, for promotion and direct marketing of our books and other related products and services to you, internal product/service analysis, and to comply with applicable laws and regulations. In relation to any promotional or direct marketing messages sent to you by us via email, in accordance with the spam legislation, these messages must:

be sent with your consent. (You may give express consent, or consent may be inferred from your conduct and existing business or other relationships),
contain accurate information about the person or organisation that authorised the sending of the message, and
contain a functional ‘unsubscribe’ facility to allow you to opt out from receiving messages from us in the future.

We disclose information to the following organisations or individuals when and to the extent necessary to conduct our business and comply with applicable laws and regulations:

Government and Regulatory authorities, as required or authorised by law,
The company’s professional advisors (including legal and accounting firms, auditors, consultants and other advisors)
Third party service providers we may engage to provide administration, technology, auditing, mailing, printing or transport services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that such third party service providers exercise the same standard of care as us in handling your personal information.
Other companies in the Group. Where that company is overseas, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that the foreign group company is subject to a law or binding scheme that places substantially similar obligations on the recipient company as would be the case of they were bound the Australian Privacy Principles.

Security and Maintenance

We have well documented and understood processes for the security of all data whether in physical or electronic form. Security of information is a high priority to us.

Access to, and manipulation of, information, both physical and electronic, is controlled using systems (electronic and manual) which are current and in line with industry standards. Our systems are regularly reviewed to ensure that the highest standards possible are maintained.

Only those employees performing services or tasks relevant to your business with us have access to your information. This includes those employees involved in direct marketing.

Information collected via the website is stored securely by authorised third parties and will only be accessed by authorised personnel.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that your information is de identified or destroyed when it is no longer required by us. As a general rule we are legally required to keep information for seven years however this may vary depending on specific legal requirements or our business needs.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that your information is current and accurate. To assist us in this regard we request that you notify us of any changes to the information we hold on you.

Access and Correction

You can access your personal details held by us by contacting:

The Privacy Coordinator
BDA Books
PO Box 988
GLEBE NSW 2037

On receiving your request we give you a time at which you can expect a response and this time will be not later than 14 days after receiving your request.

There are some exceptions to your right of access, for example, in the case of existing or anticipated legal action.

If you find that there is an error or omission in the information held about you, please contact the Privacy Coordinator and we will correct the error or omission in our current records as soon as possible.

For legal and administrative reasons we may also store records containing personal information in its archives. You may seek access to the records held by we that are not current records, but if you do so, we may charge you for the cost of providing access.

Enquiries and Disputes

If you believe that the company has breached your privacy rights in any way, or you would like to discuss any issues about our privacy policy, please contact the Privacy Coordinator. Contact details are as per the Access and Correction section of this Policy.

Policy Changes

This policy may change from time to time.