Country Energy - security & privacy

COUNTRY ENERGY PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment
Your Personal Information
How we collect Personal Information
Disclosing your Personal Information
Ensuring we hold accurate information
Accessing your Personal Information

Website information
Links
Data Security
How to contact us
Disclaimer

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY

OUR COMMITMENT
Country Energy is committed to providing customers with high quality and reliable services. This commitment includes protecting your privacy.

Country Energy respects and upholds your rights to privacy protection under the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information held by Country Energy may include your name, date of birth, address, e-mail address, telephone number and credit card number.

Country Energy uses your personal information to deliver our services to you or to inform you of new products and services. If you choose not to provide personal information we may not be able to provide you with the high level of services you require.

Your personal information is also collected to promote and market other services which we consider may be of interest to you. You can choose not to receive this additional information by simply contacting us.

When your personal information is no longer required by Country Energy we will destroy it or de-identify it in a secure manner.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect this information in a number of ways:

when you provide information by phone or in documents;
via our website;
during your visits to one of our customer service centres;
from publicly available sources such as telephone listings; and
from third party organisations, including credit reporting agencies.

DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Country Energy will not disclose personal information about you except:

in accordance with the law;
as authorised by you in our contract with you; or
with your consent.

In order to deliver our services, we may need to disclose your personal information to organisations outside Country Energy.

These organisations may include:

service providers such as mailing houses, information technology firms and market research agencies;
your authorised representatives or legal advisers;
other related companies including subsidiaries and joint venture partners;
credit reporting agencies; and
government and other regulatory authorities as authorised by law.

In these circumstances, confidentiality arrangements will apply.

ENSURING WE HOLD ACCURATE INFORMATION
Country Energy aims to ensure that the personal information we retain about you is accurate, complete and up to date.

When dealing with us please provide us with complete and accurate information and inform us if you believe your records are inaccurate or incomplete.

ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have a right to access any personal information, subject to some limited exceptions allowed by law.

Country Energy reserves the right to charge reasonable costs to provide you with access to your information.

To arrange access to, or correction of, your personal information, please contact us on 13 23 56 or write to The Privacy Officer at Country Energy, PO Box 718 Queanbeyan NSW 2620.

WEBSITE INFORMATION
Country Energy monitors traffic and access to our website (www.countryenergy.com.au) for security and other purposes via the creation of web-logs. When you access our site we record information such as the previous site you visited, which parts of our website you access, at what time, what browser and operating system you were using, the next site you visit and your internet protocol address.

This information is unidentified and is used for statistical purposes only in order to create better performance, functionality and delivery of our online services or as otherwise authorised by law.

We do not use cookies to gain personal information about you.

LINKS
Our website provides links to other sites. These sites may have different privacy policies to those of Country Energy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.

DATA SECURITY
Safeguarding your personal information is important to us and we have taken all reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, loss and unauthorised access. This is especially important when you are performing on-line transactions. Although Country Energy has implemented substantial security measures in relation to your personal information, as the internet is inherently insecure, Country Energy can not provide any absolute assurance regarding the security of any online transaction.

HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions or would like further information on how Country Energy protects or uses your personal information, please contact us on 13 23 56, write to The Privacy Officer at Country Energy, PO Box 718 Queanbeyan NSW 2620 or visit www.countryenergy.com.au.

DISCLAIMER
This website privacy policy is subject to amendment at any time without notice. Information received prior to an amendment will remain subject to the policy applicable before the amendment.

This page was last amended on 3 July 2007.