Byteside Privacy Statement

Byteside (Byteside Pty Ltd [ACN 139 045 060]) understands the need to protect the privacy of personal information collected about our users. For the purposes of this Privacy Statement, the word users includes visitors to our web sites and subscribers to and users of our services.

The National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) provides the standard in relation to the handling of personal information. This Privacy Statement applies to the collection, storage, use and dissemination by us of your personal information. Access to the Byteside Network is conditional on your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Statement.

How personal information is collected
Byteside may collect personal information in a number of ways. This includes directly from you, through the use of online or other forms, but may also use other technologies such as cookies that track how you move around on the Byteside Network.

What personal information may be collected
Byteside may collect and use personal information such as:
* Information about your use of the Byteside Network.
* Information that you provide using for the purpose of registering with the Byteside Network.
* Information about transactions carried out over this Byteside Network.
* Information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the Byteside Network services.
* Any other information that you send to Byteside.

Using personal information
Byteside may use your personal information to:
* Administer the Byteside Network.
* Personalise the Byteside Network for you.
* Enable your access to and use of the Byteside Network services.
* Send you marketing communications in accordance with your stated wishes and/or applicable laws.

Byteside will not disclose information that personally identifies you to any third party other than as set out in this Privacy Statement. Byteside may provide certain information about you including your personal information to third parties, where necessary in the normal course of business and to fulfill your requests, for example, to allow the delivery of a prize, or if you opt-in to receive information about a partners products.

Where Byteside discloses your personal information to a third party for these purposes, the part in question will be required to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, Byteside may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Access to your personal information
If you wish to access your personal information held by us, you may contact us using the details below to see what personal information we hold and if it is up to date. This will be subject to any exemptions allowed under the Privacy Act.

Accuracy of your information
All reasonable steps are taken by us to ensure that your personal information held by us is accurate, complete and up to date. If you believe that any of your personal information is inaccurate, please contact us (see below) and we will take all reasonable steps to correct it.

Public Information
Any information posted on bulletin boards and/or communicated in chat areas becomes public information. While Byteside strives to protect and respect your privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose in a chat session or bulletin board. If you voluntarily disclose personal information in our publicly available forums or through any other method on the Byteside Network then Byteside is not responsible for any consequences of doing so including any loss or damage suffered as a result. Byteside strongly advises you not to share personal information on its publicly available areas, especially passwords or account information.

Securing your data
Byteside will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Byteside will store all the personal information you provide on secure servers. Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be protected by encryption technology.

If you reasonably believe that there has been an authorised use or disclosure of your personal information please contact us using the details below.

Cross-border data transfers
Information that Byteside collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Byteside operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website may be published on the internet and may be available around the world. By submitting material for publication, for example on the Byteside forums, you agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Your consent
By your use of the Byteside Network you consent to the collection, storage, use and dissemination of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Statement and as otherwise permitted under the Privacy Act.

Updating this statement
Byteside may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites
The Byteside Network contains links to other websites. Byteside is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact Byteside
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Byteside’s treatment of your personal information, please write by email to privacy@byteside.com