Nikon Australia Privacy Practices on the Web

Because protecting your right to privacy is very important to Nikon Australia, we have adopted a series of policies outlined below. They are designed to safeguard your personal information and protect its confidentiality.

Personal Information

While much of the content of the Nikon Australia website can be visited without any requirement on your part to tell us who you are, there are some sections that may require you to provide either a password and/or a log-in identification. This is so that we may provide you with additional material in a secure manner. On other occasions, for example when downloading software patches, we may in addition require you to provide your name and address, so that such software is properly licensed and its location identified.

Other examples might be when we need to validate a subscription to an e-mail newsletter or process an order for you. It is our intention that we will let you know how we will use any information, at the time that you provide it. It is your choice to provide us personal information over the Internet. Our obligation is to ensure that it is appropriately used and with confidentiality.

If, at the time of a transaction requiring the use of your name or a password, you tell us you wish us to make no further use of that information, we will respect your wishes. We do, however, keep track of the domains from which people visit us. This is used to look at trends and compile statistics, or in an extreme situation to locate the source of a virus passed to our server from outside. Once analysed, the data gathered is discarded.

Ultimately your personal information is used by Nikon Australia for three main purposes:

• To assist you in quickly finding the information, services or software that your require.
• To enable us to provide you information on product upgrades, special offers, updated information and new services from Nikon Australia.
• To enable us to create Web content that is most relevant to you.
  

Business Relationships

Nikon Australia's website offers you links to other websites. Nikon Australia is not responsible for the privacy practices or any content you may find on such sites. We do, however, review the stated privacy practices of such sites from time to time.

Cookies

A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to the browser in your computer, which may then store this piece of data on your system, usually in a temporary Internet file or cache file. This piece of data helps us provide you with tailored information better suited to the interests you have told us you have, or based on pages that you have accessed in the past.

You can set your browser to tell you, by way of a warning prompt, when you receive a cookie. This provides you the choice of whether to accept it or not:

• Not accepting it simply means that the next time you visit the site you may have to make a number of additional choices about what you view.
• Accepting it helps the Nikon Australia site to more quickly direct you to your particular area of interest.

Storage and Access

All personal information you provide to Nikon Australia is secured in our server with restricted access. Nikon Australia reserves the right to use agents, who are bound by strict confidentiality guidelines, to provide storage and processing functions. Only designated employees or agents who need to carry out legitimate business functions are permitted to view personal data. No use of such data is permitted other than in the course of technical or statistical analysis, after which any such personal data is discarded in a secure manner.

Future Developments

Technologies are now emerging that will, in the near future, enable Nikon Australia to put specific control in your hands of to whom and how personal information is released, wherever you go on the Net.

Contact Us

If you feel that we have failed to meet the principles stated above, we ask you to notify info@nikon.com.au of any concern that you have based on an experience from the use of the Nikon Australia website. We will take all reasonable commercial steps to investigate your concern and correct any problem found. Our other contact details can also be found here