Privacy
Lawskool Privacy Statement
This Lawskool Privacy Statement describes the information we collect about you and explains what may happen to that information. By using the lawskool website, you accept the Privacy Policy as set out under the following headings:
Our commitment to best privacy practices
Why does lawskool collect personal information?
Disclosure of your personal information
Our 'use' of cookies
What else you should know about privacy
If you have a problem
Contacting Us
1. Our commitment to best privacy practices
Lawskool Pty Ltd (lawskool) is committed to best-practice privacy standards.
We are committed to protecting personal information and letting you know the type of information we collect and how this information is used. Our Policy is based on the Australian Privacy Principles, developed by the Office of the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner, which came into effect 21 December 2001. lawskool also intends to comply with any guidelines or laws introduced in Australia to strengthen protections for your privacy.
2. Why does lawskool collect personal information?
Lawskool will collect your personal information if you create a user account on our website when ordering products or services from us. Lawskool may also collect personal information if you choose to list a textbook for sale or register yourself as a tutor or create a listing of study groups.
We may use your personal information for research to improve our website, services, products and marketing campaigns.
We analyse the data for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of our site users are visiting, what products are being sold; where people are studying and how they heard about lawskool.
Subject to the disclosure principles outlined below, we may also use your personal information to notify you of updates to the website via e-mail.
Please contact us if you no longer wish to receive e-mails from us.
3. Disclosure of your personal information
lawskool will not disclose any information about you without your consent unless legally required to do so or if we consider it necessary to:
implement our terms of service;
provide you with the products or services you have requested;
protect the rights or property of lawskool any user of lawskool or any member of the public; or
lessen or prevent a serious threat to a person's life, health or safety.
However, if you order products from lawskool, we may disclose your personal information to suppliers and distributors in order to fulfil your order.
lawskool will seek to take all reasonable steps to keep any information we hold about you secure, accurate and up to date. Your information is stored on secure servers that are protected in controlled facilities.
lawskool will take all reasonable steps to ensure that our employees and contractors respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by lawskool. You should notify us immediately if there is any unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security. However, lawskool does not accept responsibility for any consequences of the unauthorised access to your information.
4. Our use of 'cookies'
Some of the pages found on the lawskool website use 'cookies' to help us remember who you are. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies help us provide you with services and features that are tailored to your needs when you visit the lawskool web site again.
Cookies are used when ordering products or services from lawskool. They are an essential part of the e-commerce system, and are necessary for your transaction to be managed. The cookies used are permanently deleted once you have completed your order.
Cookies in themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's browser. The cookies simply operate as a unique identifier.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse them, although this means you may not be able to order products from our website or use certain other features, and you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently during a session.
5. What else you should know about privacy
We do not store credit card information. If you choose to pay by credit card you will be redirected to PayPal, a secure online payment facility.
We do not control the privacy policies of third parties; you are subject to their privacy customs and policies. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
To the extent that you disclose information on the Internet to parties other than lawskool, different rules may apply to the use and disclosure of your personal information.
Ultimately you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your username and passwords and any account information.
If you are a registered lawskool user, we will provide you with notice if our privacy policy changes and an opportunity to reject such changes.
Please also note that our website servers are located in the US. When accessing our website, you are interacting directly with this offshore server. Lawskool does not export your information from servers located in Australia to servers outside Australia. This is standard practice, and please be assured that your personal information is safe and is highly unlikely to be compromised in any way.
6. If you have a problem
Our customers are very valuable to us. If you have an inquiry relating to our Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, or website, please contact us. We take these issues seriously and will endeavour to address your concerns in the shortest possible time.
You can obtain further information about privacy in Australia and the protection of your personal information on the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's web site.
7. Contacting us
Our contact information is available here. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions, concerns or requests.