Internet Merchant Policies and Procedures

Suzuki Talent Education Association of Australia (NSW) Limited (STEAA(NSW) Limited) Privacy Policy

Introduction

STEAA(NSW) Limited regards customer privacy as an important part of our relationship with our customers. The following privacy policy applies to all STEAA(NSW) Limited users, and conforms to Internet privacy standards.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us.

Collection of Information

In order to use the STEAA(NSW) Limited website, we may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible.

All correspondence may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to sales, support and accounts, including Email.

Any information collected by STEAA(NSW) Limited is collected via correspondence from you or your company. This may be via the telephone, Email, mail, fax or directly through our website.

Use of Collected Information

Any details collected from STEAA(NSW) Limited, customers is required in order to provide you with our products and/or services, and a high level of customer service.

Correspondence is recorded in order to provide service references, and to assist in our staff development.

Storage of Collected Information

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When Credit Card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete Credit Card details.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

Access to Collected Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us or updating your details through our members portal if you have access.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, Email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.

Communications

STEAA(NSW) Limited uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as Emails, accounts information, and critical service details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional Emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing us.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Third Parties

STEAA(NSW) Limited may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

STEAA(NSW) Limited does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.

Legal

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.

Links

Links on the STEAA(NSW) Limited site to external entities are not covered within this policy. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of http://www.suzukimusicnsw.com.au.

Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by Email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Online Payment Security Policy

STEAA(NSW) Limited uses the eWAY Payment Gateway for its online credit card transactions. eWAY processes online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet. All online credit card transactions performed on this site using the eWAY gateway are secured payments.

• Payments are fully automated with an immediate response.

• Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by STEAA(NSW) Limited or any outside party.

• All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate.

• All transaction data is encrypted for storage within eWAY’s bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.

• eWAY is an authorised third party processor for all the major Australian banks.

• eWAY at no time touches your funds; all monies are directly transferred from your credit card to the merchant account held by STEAA(NSW) Limited.

For more information about eWAY and online credit card payments, please visit www.eWAY.com.au

Refund & Returns Policy

  • For 1-day Events – No refund once paid.
  • For Membership payments – No refund once paid
  • Multi-Day Events – a graded refund on a timeline leading up to the event (e.g.  up to 1 month before refund less a predetermined admin fee. Inside one month – No refund). This may be overridden at the discretion of Administration team.

Shipping & Delivery of goods

At this point STEAA(NSW) Limited does not sell any physical goods through our website.

Delivery is restricted to the delivery of digital assets as covered below.

Digital Assets

Digital Assets such as our eTempo magazine and tickets to our events & training can be purchased through this website. A proof-of-purchase receipt will always be sent to the email address you have registered in our online portal. Tickets to events will also be sent electronically to the same email address unless specified otherwise.

Membership Purchases

You may pay your membership fees directly online via our website. You will receive a receipt electronically via email to the email address you have registered in our online portal.

Electronic Communication via Email

After ordering online, you will receive an email confirmation from eWAY containing your order details (if you have provided your email address). eWAY will normally confirm receipt of your order within a few minutes of ordering.

If you have not received your email more than 1 hour after payment, please contact STEAA(NSW) Limited via one of the means on our website so we can check your address and re-send.

You can log into the online membership portal to update your email address at any time.

If you have changed the address after making a purchase online, please contact our office and request that we re-send the email.