Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously. We have published this Privacy Policy to help you understand how we collect and use your personal information.

Identification of Anyone Involved In Family Law Issues Is Against the Law

Because of the special nature of family law proceedings, which often involve children, section 121 of the Family Law Act makes it an offence to publish proceedings that identify persons or witnesses involved in family law proceedings. This prohibition also extends to the publication of any picture. This means it is an offence for you to identify your ex-partner or your children specifically in any public entry on DivorceResource.com.au. For exceptions to this general prohibition, see section 121(9) of the Family Law Act.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information 

Certain features of DivorceResource.com.au require you to provide personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable information generally includes information that could be used to determine your identity, such as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and birth date. The following are certain situations in which we may collect personally identifiable information from you:

  • Registration. When you register with us, we may ask for personally identifiable information like your e-mail address and birth date. We collect this personally identifiable information from you.
  • Use of Forums. If you choose to transmit, submit or post information through any forums available on DivorceResource.com.au, we will collect the information you provide.
  • Forms. We may collect personally identifiable information from you if you choose to fill out any forms, profiles, or surveys on DivorceResource.com.au.
  • Correspondence. If you send us personal correspondence, such as e-mails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on DivorceResource.com.au, we may collect that information about you.
  • Business Partners. We may receive your personally identifiable information from one of our business partners.
  • Newsletters. We collect the e-mail address of visitors that subscribe to our newsletter. These emails are only used for sending Newsletter or Notices. We send only verified, double-opt-in e-mails, specifically requested by our subscribers.
  • Other Sources. We may receive and collect information about you from other sources, such as instant messaging services, blogs, newspapers, and other users of our products and services.

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes your ISP address, ISP provider and region.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We use your personally identifiable information within our business as follows:

  • to fulfil your requests for certain products and services;
  • to contact you and deliver information to you such as administrative notices, offerings, and other communications relevant to your use of DivorceResource.com.au;
  • to analyse site usage, conduct market research, improve marketing and promotional efforts, and improve and customise our content, layout, products and services;
  • to provide customer support and troubleshoot and resolve problems and disputes;
  • for trying to detect and protect against error, fraud or other criminal activity, enforcing our Terms of Use, other internal purposes, and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection; and
  • as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

You expressly agree to our use of your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

The following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business:

  • Forums. Any information that you place or submit to be placed within any forum on DivorceResource.com.au may be disclosed to the public.
  • Advertisers. We may aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and
  • promotional purposes.
  • Service Providers. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of our business, product and service operations (e.g., technology, Forums, analytical tools, advertising campaign management) and therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers. We implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of your personally identifiable information by internal service providers, unless you have provided permission for additional uses.
    • Please note that if you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then the internal service provider’s use of your personally identifiable information is governed by the internal service provider’s privacy policy. You should evaluate the practices of internal services providers before deciding to provide information directly to an internal service provider.

Your details would only be disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorised use of our Website.

Once we have fulfilled our obligation to you in terms of service delivery, your personal information is discarded.

Unsubscribing

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by updating your preferences in your My Account profile.  Please note, although we do not provide your details to third parties, your details may have come to us from them so after you opt-out of our use of your personally identifiable information, third parties may continue to use any personally identifiable information that may be in their possession and you may still receive offers from third parties. You must contact these third parties directly to opt-out of their use of your personally identifiable information. We are not responsible for any third party's use or failure to stop using your personally identifiable information.

Cookies

We use cookies to store visitor’s preferences, record user-specific information on what pages a user access or visits, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site and for Google Ads.

Ad Servers

To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information. For further information, consult the specific information regarding Google Ads. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. 

Security

We have industry standard security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. Please note that, although we use security measures to keep your personally identifiable information anonymous, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable. In addition, due to the existing environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Therefore, notwithstanding anything to the contrary within this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use or DivorceResource.com.au, you use DivorceResource.com.au at your own risk and we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications are guaranteed to remain private. In the unlikely event that an unauthorized third party compromises our security measures, we will not be responsible for any damages directly or indirectly caused by an unauthorized third party's ability to view, use or disseminate such information.

Use by Third Party on Transfer of Entity

Personally identifiable information and other personal information collected from you may also be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization, other transfer or bankruptcy (a “Transfer”) involving us and/or our affiliates. We specifically reserve the right to transfer personally identifiable information collected from DivorceResource.com.au, and any of its databases, together with any personally identifiable information contained therein, to a third party in connection with a Transfer, and nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer all or part of our business and/or assets (including DivorceResource.com.au) to an affiliate or independent third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation whatsoever.

Links to Other Web sites

DivorceResource.com.au may include links to other third party Web sites. Such links are not an endorsement by us of those Web sites and/or the products or services offered there. Third party Web sites may have different privacy policies and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third party Web sites. If you click on a link to a third party Web site, we encourage you to check the privacy policy of that Web site, as it may differ substantially from that of this Privacy Policy.

Access and Use of DivorceResource.com.au

DivorceResource.com.au is intended to be accessed and used only by adults and is not directed to children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly permit registration of personally identifiable information by anyone under the age of 18. You hereby agree not to submit any information to us about anyone under the age of 18. We cannot verify that a submission does not constitute information about a person under the age of 18.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update, amend and/or change this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion and without notice. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted here. Any information we collect from you online is subject only to our most current Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. Our last update was September 22, 2014. Your continued access and use of DivorceResource.com.au following the posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of the same. In the event one part of this Privacy Policy is found to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the other provisions shall remain valid and enforceable provided that doing so does not render the Privacy Policy meaningless or of no value.

Amendment

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the DivorceResource.com.au. All amended terms shall automatically be effective when posted on DivorceResource.com.au. If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us with your concerns.

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