Privacy Statement
Simplify iT Innovations is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of the simplify-i-t.com site (the “Site”); it does not apply to other online or offline Simplify iT Innovations sites, products or services. By accessing the Site, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.
On This Page
- Collection of your Personal Information
- Use of your Personal Information
- Control of your Personal Information
- Security of your Personal Information
- Protection of Children's Personal Information
- Use of Cookies
- Use of Web Beacons
- About E-mail Addresses and Privacy
- Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
- Changes to this Statement
- Contact Information
Collection of your Personal Information
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you to provide a service or carry out a transaction that you have requested such as receiving information about Simplify iT Innovations products and services, entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a limited-access premium site or service, signing up for an event or training, or when purchasing, downloading and/or registering Simplify iT Innovations products. The personal information we collect may include your name, title, company or organization name, work e-mail, work phone, work or home address, information about your job function, information about your company, and credit card information.
The Site may collect certain information about your visit, such as the name of the Internet service provider and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you access the Internet; the date and time you access the Site; the pages that you access while at the Site and the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site. This information is used to help improve the site, analyze trends and administer the site. Some areas of our site may collect information about your hardware and software in order to provide a requested service.
Simplify iT Innovations forums provide opportunities to interact with Simplify iT Innovations employees, experts, and your peers in order to share knowledge and news about Simplify iT Innovations products and related technologies. In order to avoid your e-mail address or other personal information from being gathered and used by others for inappropriate or harmful purposes, Simplify iT Innovations advises that you should be cautious about posting a real e-mail address or other personal information to newsgroups, chats, or other public forums. Read more about guidelines for safe use of Simplify iT Innovations technical communities.
Use of your Personal Information
The personal information collected on this Site will be used to operate the Site and to provide the service(s) or carry out the transaction(s) you have requested or authorized.
In support of these uses, Simplify iT Innovations may use personal information to provide you with more effective customer service, to improve the Site and any related Simplify iT Innovations products or services, and to make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your particular preference or interests.
We may use your personal information to provide you with important information about the product or service that you are using, including critical updates and notifications. Additionally, with your permission, we may send you information about other Simplify iT Innovations products and services, and/or share information with Simplify iT Innovations partners so they may send you information about their products and services.
We merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content. In some limited-entry sections of simplify-i-t.com, with your approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal information in order to provide you with personalized content. If you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized service and won't merge your personal information with site-visitation data.
When you sign up for a newsletter or agree to receive promotional e-mail, simplify-i-t.com may use customized links or similar technologies to track e-mail links that you click. We may associate that information with your personal information in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or purchase information. Each e-mail communication includes an unsubscribe link allowing you to stop delivery of that type of communication.
Some services on simplify-i-t.com offer individuals the ability to publicly display certain personal information, such as for a Simplify iT Innovations partner who wishes to publish contact information as part of offering a business service. Participation in such services is always optional.
Simplify iT Innovations occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, and sending information about our products, special offers, and other services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Simplify iT Innovations may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Simplify iT Innovations or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Simplify iT Innovations; or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Simplify iT Innovations employees or agents, users of Simplify iT Innovations products or services, or members of the public.
Personal information collected on the Site may be stored and processed in Australia or any other country in which Simplify iT Innovations or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Control of your Personal Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of Simplify iT Innovations and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission. As described below in the next section, you can access your personal information and make choices about how you wish to be contacted.
Please be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make on the Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to Simplify iT Innovations in the context of other, separately operated, Simplify iT Innovations products or services.
Simplify-i-t.com may send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service or security issues related to a product or service you requested, or confirming you requested a product or service. In some services offered by simplify-i-t.com, contact with the customer is an intrinsic part of the service. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered an essential part of the service(s) you have chosen.
Security of your Personal Information
Simplify iT Innovations is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Protection of Children's Personal Information
simplify-i-t.com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process and to personalize the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return to the Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the site's features that you customized.
Web beacons, also known as clear gif technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the cookie on our site. This technology is a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about simplify-i-t.com Web site usage, such as how many visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on a simplify-i-t.com Web page, blog or a newsletter. We may share aggregated site statistics with partner companies.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this or other Web sites you visit.
Use of Web Beacons
Simplify-i-t.com Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow simplify-i-t.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. simplify-i-t.com may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. Doing this allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views. simplify-i-t.com prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
About E-mail Addresses and Privacy
Reducing Spam Associated with Posting to Online Communities: Due to a recent increase in "spam" (unsolicited junk mail, including advertisements and sometimes malicious mail containing viruses) sent to posters in newsgroups, Simplify iT Innovations advises that newsgroup participants should consider avoiding posting to newsgroups, chats, or other public forums using their real email address. Simplify iT Innovations is also committed to continuing to address the issue of spam from a technological perspective.
To help avoid receiving unwanted messages (spam) in your regular e-mail account, you may not want to include your regular e-mail address when you post a question or reply to a post in a discussion group or other public forum. Instead you may want to do one of the following:
- Use a modified e-mail address Use a different version of your e-mail address that others will understand, but that spam tools can't automatically pick up. For example, if your actual e-mail address is "anonymous@discussions.simplify-i-t.com", consider using a modified e-mail address such as: "anonymous@discussions.simplify-i-t.com.invalid", "anonymous@REMOVE_CAPS_AND_INVALIDdiscussions.simplify-i-t.com.invalid", or "anonymous@discussions.simplify-i-t.com.NO_SPAM". In this case, the spam tools will send mail to an invalid e-mail address, and others will know to exclude the extra terms when they send you e-mail. When you post a question or reply to a discussion group, just enter your modified e-mail address in the appropriate box.
- Use a secondary e-mail account: Set up or use an e-mail account that is separate from your primary account for posting to discussion groups. When you post a question or reply to a discussion group, use your secondary account as your e-mail address.
What to do if you are already getting e-mail spam: If you posted your real e-mail alias to a public location (or even if you haven't), you may already be getting unwanted or malicious mail sent to your e-mail address. You may want to consider using this tips for reducing or managing the spam:
- Set up filters that assist in blocking junk e-mail:
- Use an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that uses technology to help filters junk e-mail. Some ISPs use technology to help filter junk e-mail before it reaches your inbox. Check with your ISP to see what services they provide.
- Avoid replying to the sender. Messages you receive may include instructions (such as to reply with REMOVE in the subject line) on how to remove yourself from future mailings from the individual or organization. Unfortunately, many senders include these instructions in order to try to confirm that they've reached a working e-mail address, not to remove you from mailings. Unless you are unsubscribing from a mail distribution list that you signed up for or you know the message sender, the best practice is to discard these messages without responding.
- Report junk e-mail senders.
- Most ISPs and e-mail services have a complaint address to help eliminate junk e-mail from their systems. If you get unwanted mail, the sender's address will show the ISP name after the at sign (@). Forward the junk e-mail to the ISP's complaint address.
- Forward any deceptive or unwanted e-mail to the FTC at uce@ftc.gov
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact simplify-i-t.com.
Changes to this Statement
We may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material changes to this privacy statement, we will notify you either by placing a prominent notice on the home page of our Web site or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
Contact Information
Simplify iT Innovations welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you believe that Simplify iT Innovations has not adhered to this privacy statement, please contact us electronically or via postal mail at the address provided below, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
Simplify-i-t.com privacy
Simplify iT Innovations
5 Centennial Ave
Bertram, Western Australia 6167
