Privacy Policy

The Commercial Academy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexis Quadrant Pty Ltd, a company registered in Victoria, Australia. Hexis Quadrant Pty Ltd ABN 91 620 161 257 appreciates your patronage and commits to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (Privacy Policy) applies to your personal information that we collect.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand what personal information we may collect from or about you, how we may use or share this information, and what steps you may take to control such use or sharing. If you do not agree with any term in this Privacy Policy, please do not provide any personal data to us.

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will post changes to this Privacy Policy to our website, and we encourage all visitors and users to check this Privacy Policy from time to time so that you are aware of any changes or updates.

In this Privacy Policy, "personal information" has the meaning set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Essentially, your personal information is any information or opinion about you, or from which you are reasonably identifiable.

1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Hexis Quadrant collects the following types of personal information where it is reasonably necessary for our business purposes:

· name

· address

· email address

· telephone number

· where you apply for employment with Hexis Quadrant, information which may be contained in a resume and which may be recorded during any interview or pre-employment checking

We do not generally collect sensitive information about you. However, in certain circumstances, we may ask that you provide us with certain health information (such as when you contact our consumer information service or apply for employment with us).

You may notify us that you wish to deal with us by not identifying yourself or using a pseudonym. However, if we are not able to collect personal information about you we may not be able to provide you with the products, services, information or assistance you require.

2. HOW HEXIS QUADRANT COLLECTS PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

We collect personal information from you in the following ways:

· when you make a purchase

· when you contact our consumer information services via telephone or our contact us web page

· when you sign up to receive our newsletter or other marketing materials

· when you enter a promotion

· when you apply for employment with us and during the recruitment process

· when you conduct business with us

· when you provide your information to our staff

· when you supply goods and/or services to us

We may also collect personal information about you from publicly available sources (such as the internet) and from third parties (such as your referees provided during the recruitment process if you apply for a job with us).

3. PURPOSE OF COLLECTION & USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect your personal information for the following purposes:

· to fulfil an order you have placed

· to conduct business with you

· to respond to your query submitted via our consumer information service

· to process your entry into a promotion

· to consider your application for employment

· to send you marketing materials (but only where you have consented to receive those marketing materials or where we are permitted to do so by law)

· for any other purpose that was communicated to you at the time of collection

Any additional purpose for the collection of personal information (not set out in this policy) will be identified at the time that we collect personal information from you, or as soon as practicable afterwards.

4. DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in connection with one or more of the purposes outlined above.

In particular, we may disclose your personal information to any one or more of the following third parties:

· any third parties to whom you have directed us to disclose your personal information (e.g. referees);

· our contractors (such as product suppliers, manufacturers, marketing agencies, insurance providers, website and data hosting providers and other IT suppliers) and others persons who provide services to us;

· companies who may use your personal information in order to tailor electronic advertising to you (e.g. on a webpage) in relation to our products and services;

· our accountants, insurers, lawyers, auditors and other professional advisers;

· in the event that our assets are or may be acquired by a third party, to that third party and their advisors;

· in certain circumstances, third parties that require the information for law enforcement or to prevent a serious threat to public safety; and

· otherwise as permitted or required by law.

Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will use reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that such third parties protect your personal information in a manner consistent with this privacy policy.

5. OVERSEAS DISCLOSURE & STORAGE

Hexis Quadrant does not directly send any personal information overseas.

Service providers who provide us with services including data storage, information and data aggregation and processing, remote access, back up and scanning, email filtering, and virus scanning may perform some of those services in overseas locations. We use reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that these third parties protect this personal information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

6. COOKIES & INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OUR WEBSITE

For example, like many websites, Hexis Quadrant uses "cookies" and other technologies, to collect information about matters including but not limited to the date, time and duration of visits and which pages of the Website are most commonly accessed.

This information is generally not linked to the identity of visitors, except where the Website is accessed via links in an email or another electronic message we have sent or where we are able to uniquely identify the device or user accessing the Website, such as when you are logged into an account.

We may use this information for purposes including but not limited to understanding and measuring your online experiences, determining what products, promotions and services are likely to be of interest to you, and to provide you with relevant marketing materials when you visit third party websites.

You can generally set your browser to accept all cookies, to reject all cookies, or to notify you whenever a cookie is offered so that you can decide each time whether to accept it. To learn more about cookies and how to specify your preferences, you can search for "cookie" in the "Help" (or similar) portion of your browser.

7. STORAGE & SECURITY

We may store personal information on computer databases and/or in hard copy, and will employ reasonable commercial physical and electronic security measures to protect any records which contain your personal information.

We may also engage third party service providers to assist in storing and processing certain types of personal information for us. Some of these service providers may be located overseas, or use facilities located overseas to provide us with services.

We will take reasonable steps to keep any personal information that we hold about you secure from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure as required by the privacy legislation.

However, except to the extent that liability cannot be excluded due to the operation of law, we exclude all liability (including in negligence) for the consequences of any unauthorised access to your personal information. Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any breach of security.

8. CONTACT INFORMATION

You can contact us if:

· you want to access or correct any personal information that we hold about you

· you want to unsubscribe from our marketing database

· you think that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and you want to make a complaint

· We can be contacted about privacy issues by phone +61 (03) 9071 1829 or by email at admin@hexisquadrant.com

When contacting us, please provide as much detail as possible in relation to your query, issue or complaint

Please note that:

· Your complaints are will be assessed by an appropriate person with the aim of resolving any issue in a timely and efficient manner and in accordance with the privacy legislation. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of our assessment of your complaint, you may wish to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

· If you require access to the personal information that we hold about you, we may charge a fee for providing access to this information and we may refuse access where the privacy legislation allows us to do so.