PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Personal Information Collection
This website tries to avoid collecting personal information from you - thus helping to protect your privacy - and any information that is collected is never shared or sold to third parties.
However, as hard as this website tries not to directly collect information, we do use third party advertisers to support this site and they collect certain types of information to enable them to provide relevant advertisements to you.
The information that may be collected is as follows:
IP Adresses
Whilst we do not collect your IP Address, third party links may collect it.
An IP Adress identifies the internet connection of your computer. The IP Address may be static or dynamic, depending on the type of account that you have with your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Cookies
This website does not use cookies but some of our third partiy links and advertisers do.
A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer that is used to record your preferences when visiting this site; recognising you when you return to the site (providing you have not deleted the original cookie); and compiling anonymous statistics about online activity.
Flash Cookies
Whilst this website does not use flash cookies many of the linked websites may do so if they are using Macromedia Flash Player.
Flash cookies are again stored on your computer but, due to them being placed in a special location, you cannot manage them directly from your browser.
If you wish to know how to manage or delete Flash Cookies then please visit the Adobe website HERE.
Web Beacons
Web Beacons count the number of uses who access a website or page. They are also used to detect cookie activation.
Web Beacons cannot be declined. However by disabling cookies on your internet browser, you can prevent web beacons from tracking your activity. For more information about cookies please click HERE.
URL Tracking
URL Tracking is the technique used to count the clicks on a particular website page.
Log Files
The information saved in the log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as IINET or Bigpond), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
DoubleClick DART Cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about “Heat Treatment”, you may see Heat Treatment advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about “Patents”). DART uses “non-personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.
You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting:
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
Disabling Cookies
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.
Deleting Cookies
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program or tracking. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
Mozilla Firefox has an option feature whereby cookies are automatically deleted every time the browser is closed.