Privacy Statement

 

Privacy Statement

About This Security and Privacy Statement

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About this Security and Privacy Statement Exlease is part of the Southbank Auto Auctions and we adhere to the Southbank Auto Auctions Privacy Policy. This policy sets out how Southbank Auto Auctions generally handles your privacy and also apply to this website.
This Security and Privacy Statement applies to this Web Site which is operated by Southbank Auto Auctions (ACN 006 831 358)  ( "SBAA" ) under the domain name "www.exlease.com.au" ( "Exlease Web Site" ).

This Security and Privacy Statement may also apply to services offered by Exlease on Web Sites hosted by third parties. If so, express reference to this Security and Privacy Statement will be made on those Web Sites.

Exlease understands and appreciates that you, as an Exlease Web Site visitor, are concerned about your privacy and about the confidentiality and security of information we may gain about you online. Exlease is committed to protecting your privacy. This Exlease Security and Privacy Statement explains how your personal information will be treated as you access and interact with the Exlease Web Site.
As the Exlease Web Site develops and as technology evolves, Exlease will continue to strive to provide you with better and more customised services and with a more effective Web Site. Exlease encourages you to review the Exlease Security and Privacy Statement periodically because the Security and Privacy Statement may change from time to time.

In addition to the provisions of this Security and Privacy Statement, there may also be specific and additional privacy provisions which apply to certain sections of the Exlease Web Site. Because those specific and additional provisions also relate to your privacy protection, you should review them wherever they are accessible by you on the Exlease Web Site. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Security and Privacy Statement and those other specific and additional provisions, the specific and additional provisions will prevail.

  

Security of Information

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Exlease takes reasonable steps to preserve the security of cookie and personal information in accordance with the Exlease Web Site Terms of Use and this Security and Privacy Statement. If your browser is suitably configured, it will advise you whether the information you are sending us will be secure (encrypted) or not secure (unencrypted). If secure transmission is indicated, Exlease currently uses 128 bit SSL encryption.

Exlease regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although Exlease strives to protect such information, Exlease cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.

  

Information Collected

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The information that we will collect about you will depend on how you use the facilities offered by the Exlease Web Site.

If you visit an unsecured area of the Exlease Web Site,(that is, an area where you are not required to log on) to read, browse or download information, our system will record the date and time of your visit to our site, the pages viewed and any information downloaded. However, our systems will not record any personally identifiable information.

The Exlease Web Site offers a number of interactive facilities including tools such as vehicle searches, as well as online inquiry forms.

If you use any of the tools such as the vehicle searches we generally do not capture any personal information that you may enter when using these tools. An exception is where a tool such as an inquiry form. In that case, the information is stored on our systems.

If you decide to complete an online form, the information that you enter into the online form will only be collected by us if you submit your online application. If at any stage you cancel your application or log out prior to submitting the form, the information you have entered up to that point will be automatically deleted.

The Exlease Web Site also contains links to the Web Sites of third party providers of goods and services ( "Third Party Web Sites" ). If you have accessed Third Party Web Sites through the Exlease Web Site and if those third parties collect information about you, Exlease may also collect or have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties.

Third Party Web Sites should contain their own privacy statements and those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.

  

Cookies

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We use "cookies" as a fundamental part of our interaction with your Internet browser. The purpose is to provide you with better and more customised service and with a more effective Web Site.

A "cookie" is a small text file placed on your computer by our web page server. A cookie can later be retrieved by our WebPages servers. Cookies are frequently used on Web Sites and you can choose if and how a cookie will be accepted by configuring your preferences and options in your browser.

Exlease use cookies for two different purposes. We allocate a cookie to each Internet browser that visits the Exlease Web Site. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. We use this cookie:

 to allocate an Exlease identification number to your Internet browser (but we cannot identify you from this number);
 to determine if you have previously visited the Exlease Web Site;
 to identify pages you have accessed and Third Party Web Sites you have accessed; and
 for security purposes.
Most of the Exlease Web Site operates by using this type of cookie.

Accordingly, if you wish to make full use of the Exlease Web Site, it is required that you accept cookies.

Exlease also uses cookies for secure services (that is, an area where you are required to log on) on the Exlease Web Site. These cookies are used for a variety of purposes, including for security and personalisation reasons. If your browser is configured to reject all cookies you will be unable to use secure services on the Exlease Web Site that require cookies in order to participate. Those services include (but are not limited to):

 Business Application;
 Business Finance Calculator;
 Customer Service Forms.
You may still be able to use some information-only pages even if you do not accept cookies.

  

How We Handle Email

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We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us, if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by our Exlease employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected; our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.

  

Use and Disclosure of Information

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We will only use or disclose personal information or information generated by cookies in accordance with the Exlease Privacy Policy, specific and additional provisions relating to privacy which apply to certain areas of the Exlease Web Site and as otherwise set out in this Security and Privacy Statement.

  

Acceptance and Changes to Security and Privacy Statement

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You acknowledge and accept that your use of the Exlease Web Site indicates your acceptance of the Exlease Web Site Terms of Use and the Security and Privacy Statement.

This is the current Security and Privacy Statement. It replaces any other Security and Privacy Statement for the Exlease Web Site published on the Exlease Web Site to date. Exlease may at any time vary the Security and Privacy Statement by publishing the varied Security and Privacy Statement on the Exlease Web Site. You accept that by doing this, Exlease has provided you with sufficient notice of the variation.

  
Date of Publication - 1st November 2006 - Version 2  Page top
 
 
 
 
 
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