SVS respects the privacy of every individual who visits our web site.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and to complying with the National Privacy Principles. This Privacy Policy outlines how and when SVS may collect your personal information and how it will be used, protected and shared in context with this web site.

Information collected :

SVS will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (e.g., your name, address, telephone number or email address ("personal data")) through our web site unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us.

When you do provide us with personal data, we may use that information in the following ways, unless stated otherwise:

• We will use that information to contact you to provide you with the information you have requested us to provide to you; and we may store and process that information to better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and services.
• The information provided by you online may be disclosed to our agents, contractors or third party service providers who provide administrative, telecommunications, computer or other services to us in connection with the operation of our business and this web site and who are under duties to SVS to keep such information confidential and secure.
• We may also provide third parties with aggregate, de-identified - but not individual - information about visitors to or users of our web site. We do not intend to sell, rent or market personal data about you to third parties.
• Additional Information Collected Automatically: In some cases, we may automatically (i.e., not via registration) collect technical information when you connect to our web site that is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this type of information include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using and the domain name of the web site from which you linked to our web site.
• Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer - Cookies: When you view our web site, we may store some information on your computer. This information will be in the form of a "Cookie" or similar file and can help us in many ways. For example, Cookies allow us to tailor a web site to better match your interests and preferences. With most Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block all Cookies or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please refer to your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

Security:

SVS maintains strict standards and security procedures to prevent unauthorised access to your personal information and ensure correct use of information. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of any information that you transmit to us over the Internet and you do so at your own risk. However, once we receive your transmission, we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your information is secure on our systems and those of our agents. Your access to your information: Generally speaking, you may access and update your personal information at any time. If you wish to do so, please contact us.

Links to other sites:

Our web site may contain links to other web sites and this statement has no application to these other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other web sites.

Complaints:

Please contact us If you have a complaint regarding the way in which your personal information is being handled by us. If we are unable to reach a satisfactory solution through negotiation, you may wish to request an independent person to investigate the complaint such as the Privacy Commissioner.