Mac Technology Association - Privacy Policy
The Mac Technology Association will endeavour to keep all information we
collect about your private or personal details confidential. The
following document forms our policy on handling your information -
please read or print it for your reference.
How do we collect personal information ?
We collect information from you:
- when you register with us to get your dealership listed on our website
- when you make an enquiry about any of our products or services
- when you apply to become a member of the Association
- when you request information about any other aspect of the Association's activities or services
To save you time and make our website services easier to use, when
you originally log-in with us you will register a username and password
on our servers. By using these next time you log-in to our website, we
will not require you to re-enter your details, and you will
automatically be taken to the correct range of information pages
relevant to your membership status.
When do we disclose personal information ?
Because the
Association is constantly in negotiation with suppliers and providers
of services that could be of interest or benefit to our members, we may
occasionally pass your details on to other companies for them to
contact you about these negotiations or offers to you. These offers
will also be publicised on our website and also communicated direct to
you by the Association. If you would rather we did not pass on your
details to third party companies, please let us know.
In addition, we may supply just the relevant personal information
about you or your company to other service-related companies, for
product shipping and delivery services for instance. In these cases,
your information will be governed by the policies of the company
concerned.
In line with all other holders of such data, we will also
comply if we are ever required by law or legal process to disclose your
personal information, and we may also disclose information about you if
we believe that disclosure is necessary for the public interest.
How do we protect your information ?
The Mac Technology Association safeguards the security of the data we hold about you with
physical, electronic and managerial procedures. We advise you to take
basic precautions in protecting your personal data when you are on the
Internet by changing your passwords often, using a combination of
letters and numbers, and making sure you use a secure browser.
Can you access the information we hold about you ?
Every registered user of our website can access and view their data by
logging on to our site and going to your 'my info' link. Here you can
view, edit or delete the information we hold about you, and these
changes will automatically affect all other database info we hold. If
you are not a registered user, please contact us by email to request
copies of any information that we may have on file if you believe we
hold any.
Do we collect any other information ?
When you browse the
Association's website, you do so anonymously. Your browser does not
tell us any personal information about you, and we do not request any,
apart from telling us the type of computer and operating system you are
using.
Currently the Association website does NOT use “cookie” technology,
although this is planned in the future. We will update this policy
accordingly at that time.
You will see in most of our emails to you - and throughout our
website - we use "click-through" URLs which will take you through our
web servers to another Web site that is the relevant destination for
the information or service you are seeking. We will track
click-throughs to help us determine the overall interest in any
particular information or service.
Our general privacy commitment
The Mac Technology Association web site has links to the sites of other companies. We are
not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to research the privacy policies of those companies.
