INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
In order to set up services with iVent Services, or place an order, we will need to request certain information from you. This will normally include your name, address and contact phone number(s), email address and may also include payment information such as credit card details.

In the first instance, we make sure you are confident about who you are sending this information to, and also that it gets to us and no-one else. We use a 128-bit (strong) encryption SSL certificate certified by GeoTrust

OTHER INFORMATION SOURCES
In the course of providing services to you, we may also obtain additional details to help us provide services to you, or for general statistical and administrative tasks. This can include such information as your IP address, your browser manufacturer and version, web pages that referred you to our site, the date and times of access to our services and similar information.

The privacy of this information is upheld rigorously. We do not provide this information to end-users, even if you are the account holder, unless specifically required to do so (for example, by a court order).

We may utilise various public information sources (such as ASIC, the Australian White Pages, registry whois data, and similar) to help maintain the accuracy of your contact details. If you are applying for ongoing services or if we have reason to suspect credit risk, we may request a commercial and/or personal credit reference check from Baycorp Advantage or other information providers to assess or credit risk in dealing with you. This information will not be used for any other purpose.

WHY WE NEED THIS INFORMATION
Personal information you provide will be kept confidential and used only to ensure we are able to identify you as our customer (as we are required to do under Australian law) and to see that we have sufficient details to be able to provide the requested services to and ensure their smooth ongoing operation.

Please note: If you are registering a domain name, you should see the important additional information below as some of the details you provide do need to be made publicly available as part of the domain name registration process. By requesting us to register a domain on your behalf, you consent to the disclosure of the information you provide during the registration process to the required third party registries. Note that the various domain registries around the world each have their own independent privacy policies and may be subject to different legal jurisdictions.

In our normal course of business we may need to contact you in order to continue to provide service for you, e.g. to arrange a change of password for your account, to obtain additional information if necessary, to ensure customer service and so on. We also have government obligations under Australian telecommunications industry law to be able to identify the authorised owner of several of the services we provide.

EMAIL PRIVACY
While it may be technically possible for iVent Services to read the contents of your mail messages we are certainly not in the habit of doing this.

Occasionally, however, routine system operation, diagnostic or maintenance tasks can require closer examination of activity and data including stored email.

Once your mail or data leaves iVent Services and goes through our Internet gateways, iVent Services has absolutely no control over what happens to it. There is considerable scope for other parties on the Internet to view your mail without your knowledge or consent. If you are sending sensitive information via email, you are strongly advised to take appropriate precautions to ensure your message is only readable by the intended recipient(s). There are several packages to achieve this, such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) (which is free for non-commercial use) and the The GNU Privacy Guard (GNUPG) (which is free for any use under the GNU public license).

iVent Services, as with almost every other web hosting company, maintains detailed logs of mail activity for statistical and diagnostic purposes. These logs may contain the address from which you send email, addresses to which you send mail, the size of such messages, the time and date of email activity and the status or outcome of the delivery (e.g. successful, deferred, bounced due to unknown user, etc). These logs do not contain any information from the actual message body, or subject of messages you send or receive.

HOSTED WEB SITES
If you have a web site hosted by iVent Services, detailed logging information is collected from visitors to your web site. Your web site logs will not be disclosed to any third parties without your explicit consent. This information is used to provide you with summarised statistical reports ("web stats") indicating information such as the most popular pages on your site, top search engine key words, and the growth in your site traffic over time. These logs are also one factor used for our billing processes for some hosting plans.

The logs are standard "common log format" logs and contain information including the hostname and/or IP address of visitors to your site, the request page URL, date and time of the request, size of the request, status (e.g. successful, page not found) and referring URL (if provided).

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Under no circumstances will your personal information be sold to any outside organisation. We do not share or distribute mailing lists, user lists or other databases of our customer details. (If you are registering a domain name, please see the important information below.)

Your details are treated with the utmost privacy and respect. We do not send regular advertising material or subscribe you to any on-going mailing list, electronic or otherwise.

We may occasionally contact you to inform you of any changes to the service or any new services we think you may be interested in.
We may disclose some aspects of the information you provided to us to some of our service providers under specific situations for the purposes of delivering the services to you. This may include:

• passing certain details about the nature of your account to third party help desk and technical support organisations for the purpose of responding to technical issues with your account;
• obtaining a credit reference or rating for your account;
• passing your contact and service details to our solicitors and/or a third party collection agency for the collection of overdue amounts owed to us.

MAINTENANCE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Should you need to update any personal information you have previously provided to us, you can contact us to amend your details at any time.

It is important your contact information is kept up-to-date as we rely on this to confirm your identity. For example to reset a password on your account or provide billing details to you, we will need to contact you to confirm your identity. If your current contact details differ from those we have on record, we will need to take further steps to confirm who you are and this may introduce unnecessary delays.

NOTE FOR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRANTS
If you are registering a domain name, details of the domain name owner will normally be available on a public database on the Internet (maintained by the relevant authority and outside of our control). The registrant's postal address, telephone number and email address will usually also be made available.

While it is uncommon for information in such registries to be used for marketing or other unintended purposes, we cannot guarantee this will not happen. Most domain name registrations will be in a company name where this information is probably already in the public domain.

However, if you are registering a domain name in your own personal name, for your protection you may prefer not to list a silent telephone number or your home address. We suggest you use a post office box number or equivalent.
If you do not have access to a post box or suitable phone number for the public record, we may be able to act us your authorised agent for the maintenance of the domain name to avoid publication of any sensitive details. Please contact us if you have any specific privacy requirements you wish to discuss.

Requirements of ICANN and most registrar agreements require that the administrative information listed for a domain name be true, correct and kept up to date. Deliberately entering misleading or incorrect information into domain whois records is certainly not recommended and may result in losing your domain license and may even now be a criminal offence in some juristictions including the United States. While you do need to provide real information, there is generally no problem with using a post office box address or mobile phone number which may be beneficial to your privacy while still meeting the requirements for accurate contact information.

Note that providing misleading, inaccurate or out of date information on your domain name registration can be sufficient grounds for the domain name to be de-registered in many cases. This means you may lose the right to the domain name as well as any web or email addresses associated with it. Consequently it is very important to ensure your details are accurate at all times.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
iVent Services occasionally updates this privacy policy based on client feedback, changes in our business structure and the changing views in the various markets in which we operate. We encourage you to read our privacy policy periodically to stay informed with our current efforts and procedures to ensure your privacy is protected.

CONTACTING US
If you have any special privacy requirements you wish to discuss, or any concerns about the information you are being asked to provide or have already provided, please contact us for assistance. If your request or query contains or relates to sensitive information, you may wish to send you query directly to:
iVent Services Pty Ltd
Attn: The Privacy Officer
96 Cascade Street
Katoomba NSW 2780

COMPLAINTS ABOUT PRIVACY ISSUES
If you have a complaint about our handling of a privacy issue or any privacy-related request you feel requires further attention, please send your request our Privacy Officer at the address above.