Our Privacy Policy

This explains how your information is used, collected and protected by forsalebyowner.com.au.

1. Protecting your privacy.
We do not disclose, on-sell or rent your personal information that you provide to us to any third party, unless stated otherwise in this policy, required by law, or as required to protect forsalebyowner.com.au's rights.
Forum account information is password-protected. It is up to you to keep your password safe.
People who post on forsalebyowner.com.au may provide links to third party web sites, which may have different privacy practices. We cannot control or be responsible for these third party web sites. Users need to be aware of the individual privacy policy of each website they visit.
Please remember that any information you share in public areas, such as forsalebyowner.com.au's forum and classifieds ads, etc, becomes public, and therefore this Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you choose to make public. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not post any personal information that you expect to keep private.
We do not employ cookies, web-beacons, pixel-tags or any other tracking devices for marketing or data collection purposes.
We do not run pop-up or pop-under advertisements.
We do not send unsolicited marketing communications.

2. Data we store.
All classified and forum postings are stored in our database, even after deletion, and may be archived elsewhere. Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely. Although in good faith we make efforts to store the information in a secure environment that is not accessible to the general public, we cannot guarantee complete security.

3. Data we collect.
When you post an advert on forsalebyowner.com.au, we collect your email address for the purposes of sending post confirmation email, allowing respondents to contact you, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc. We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. By sending forsalebyowner.com.au email, you demonstrate your consent to knowingly and voluntarily provide us with your information. Please do not post any personal information on forsalebyowner.com.au that you expect to keep private.
Forsalebyowner.com.au does not store your credit card details. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway PayPal, to protect the security of your payment information during transmission Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is used.
Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and time-stamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the forsalebyowner.com.au site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.
You can choose to electronically forward a listing from our Site to a friend by entering the friend's e-mail address. We do not sell or share the addresses used in this email
Some of our services require you to register, such as our forum. We will ask you for some personal information in order to create an account such as your name and email address to establish a user id and password for your account. We will use that information in connection with providing these services.

4. Your Ability to Access and Change your Personal Information.
You can access, review and edit your forum user profile, at any time. You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password. Therefore you must not disclose your forsalebyowner.com.au forum password to any third parties.

5. Security.
There are risks associated with the transmission of information over the internet and you should therefore make your own assessment of the risks in the provision of your information to forsalebyowner.com.au. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the little information we collect. When our registration/purchase form requests users to enter sensitive information, such as a credit card number, that information is encrypted with secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology prior to transmission over the Internet. While we make reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or information we transmit to you from our Site, and you do so at your own risk.

6. Circumstances in which we may release information.
We may disclose your personal information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or with legal process, protect and defend our rights and property, protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the site or protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).
In addition to what is stated above, we share customer information only under the following, limited circumstances:
Forsalebyowner.com.au may disclose information collected from the web site to its agents, contractors and other third parties as may be necessary to perform certain functions on behalf of forsalebyowner.com.au. However, they are prohibited from using the information collected on the web site for any other purpose.

7. Links to Third-party Sites.
forsalebyowner.com.au contains links to other Web sites whose privacy practices may be different than ours. Be aware that when you click on links and/or advertisement banners that take you to third-party Web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies, not ours. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, we are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of third parties and other Web sites.
We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms and conditions whenever interacting with, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other web site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by forsalebyowner.com.au on this Site.

8. IP Internet address tracking.
All computers and servers on the internet use IP addresses to recognize and communicate with each other. forsalebyowner.com.au collects IP addresses to administer and analyze our site and report cumulative, non-personal information. When you visit our Site, our servers enter the IP address of your computer into a log. To maintain your anonymity we do not associate your IP address with records containing your personal information. We do not and cannot use cookies or IP address tracking to retrieve personal information from your computer.

9. Display and archiving of forsalebyowner.com.au postings by search engines and other third party sites.
Search engines and other sites not affiliated with forsalebyowner.com.au - including yahoo.com and google.com - archive or otherwise make available forsalebyowner.com.au postings, including resumes.

10. International Users.
By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of forsalebyowner.com.au we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your area. In addition, please understand that such data may be stored on servers located outside Australia. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.

11. Under 18's.
We do not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 18 nor does our site intentionally target to children under the age of 18. Our Site is designed for adults. Children under the age of 18 will not be granted access to this site, as placing an advert or buying off this site is a binding contract between the buyer and seller, and in Australia persons under 18 are not allowed to enter into a contract.

12. Changes to Our Privacy Policy.
As forsalebyowner.com.au continues to expand, we may include new services and features to our site. In the event that these new features, changes to the law or changes to forsalebyowner.com.au's terms of use affect our Privacy Policy, this document will and can be updated when appropriate. When materially significant changes happen we will alert you to this via a forum announcement. Your continued use of the web site after the effective date of any changes will constitute your acceptance of all of the changes.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, forsalebyowner.com.au's information practices, or your dealings with forsalebyowner.com.au, you can email us, or write to us at: forsalebyowner.com.au, Suite 704, 105 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000.

13. Governing Law.
Our Site is published in Australia. Australian laws govern in any and all disputes, including privacy or defamation issues or otherwise.
Any provision in this Privacy Policy, which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Privacy Policy or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provisions in any other jurisdiction.

14. Sale of the Company.
If forsalebyowner.com.au is sold in whole or in part, the email database and all user information shall accrue to the new owners. So that the services provided to our users may continue uninterrupted. Any such sales are not anticipated to otherwise alter the basic terms of this Privacy Policy.