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[Kim Holburn]

They are happy to collect data about you and disclose it to other companies.

Oh and you get 1GB free storage.

On 2013/Feb/04, at 1:37 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> https://digitalmailbox.auspost.com.au/
> 
> Introducing your digital mailbox ..


https://digitalmailbox.auspost.com.au/pdf/Terms_and_Conditions_for_the_Digital_MailBox_Service.pdf

> 	• 1.2  We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time. It is your responsibility to check the Website regularly for updated versions of the Terms. Your continued use of the Digital Mailbox Service following the posting or notification of changes will mean you accept and agree to the changes.


https://digitalmailbox.auspost.com.au/pdf/Privacy_Policy_APDM.pdf

> 3.1 Collection of Personal Information
> 
> We may collect personal information in a number of ways including when you visit our website (http://digitalmailbox.auspost.com.au) ("Website"), register for our products and services, use our products and services, participate in online promotions, provide us with feedback, complete online surveys or communicate with us via email.
> 
> We collect this information for the purpose of providing our product and services to you and for the purpose of enhancing our ability to improve service delivery to you and other customers in the future. The information will be used to analyse product usage, deliver new or enhanced functionality or services to you, send you administrative notices, alerts and communications relevant to the digital mailbox service, for troubleshooting and for detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity. We will not sell or rent your Personal Information at any time.
> 
> Examples of what personal information we may collect:
> 
> • personal information such as name, mailing address, email, notification preferences and transactional information such as your credit card number – to enable you to receive communications directly from your connected providers and enable you to make payments to providers;


> 	• usage information such as where and when you use your computer and mobile devices – to assist us in the provision of security services;
> 
> 	• tracking information about your visit which is sourced from the browser or application on your computer or mobile device, including IP address, cookies and the pages you request — to analyse trends, administer the site, track your navigation of the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use (note that IP addresses are not linked to “personally identifiable information”); and
> 
> 	• aggregate information sourced from multiple users without personally identifying individuals, such as geographic region, which we may share with our business partners — to improve understanding of customer needs and provide relevant services.

> Technologies Used for Collection
> 
> Personal information can be collected in various ways, including:
> 
> 	• (a)  Cookies
> 
> When you visit the Website or use our products and services, you should be aware that a short text file known as a "cookie" may be stored on your hard drive. These cookies do not collect or track any personal data or information about you but are used by us to monitor and review Website usage so that we can improve our services and the functionality of the Website in future. We will not use cookies or other tracking data to circulate advertising or promotional material. You can adjust your internet browser to disable cookies but this may affect our ability, and the ability of other third parties engaged by us, to provide you with all the products and services we offer via our Website.
> 
> 	• (b)  Click Stream Data
> 
> "Click stream data" is information which is information derived from an analysis of your website activity based on the sequence of links which you click on while browsing our Website. When you visit the Website or use our products and services, we will collect this information for analysis, maintenance or reporting purposes and to improve the performance of our Website. This can include information such as your IP address, the duration of your visit and the date and time of your visit.
> 
> 	• (c)  Web Beacons
> 
> "Web beacons" are images that are used to track your activities. We may use web beacons to collect your personal information. You can adjust your internet browser to disable web beacons by turning off cookies but, again, this may affect our ability, and the ability of third parties engaged by us, to provide you with all the services we offer via the Website.


> USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
> 
> In addition to using your personal information for the purposes otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy, we may use that information for related purposes (to the extent permitted by the National Privacy Principles) including the following.
> 
> 4.
> 
> (a) Third party service providers
> 
> In certain circumstances we may make personal information available to strategic partners who work with us in delivering products and services to you. This may include, for example, third parties who facilitate the use of our products and services by providing payment facilities.
> 
> We will also share your personal information with organisations which assist us with our analysis, research, mail and delivery, auditing, consulting, security, maintenance, platform hosting or other technology services.
> 
> We may also send you administrative notices, alerts and communications to assist in trouble shooting and detecting and protecting against error, fraud and criminal activity.
> 
> Personal information will only be shared by us to provide or improve our product or services to support you; it will not be shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that if personal information is made available to a third party in the above circumstances, the third party undertakes to protect that information from unauthorised disclosure and to generally handle the information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
> 
> 	• (b)  Occasional contact about new functionality
> 
> We will contact you periodically, as a condition of your use of our products and service, to advise you of new or enhanced functionality which is available in connection with our products and service. You will not be obliged to adopt any such functionality. Please note that such communications from us are an integral part of the service we offer and are not intended to constitute "direct marketing".
> 
> 	• (c)  Disclosure to related companies
> 
> We may disclose personal information we collect from you with our related bodies corporate to assist us in providing our products and services, or to delivery new or enhanced functionality, products or services to you.
> 
> 	• (d)  Analysing customer needs and personalising content
> 
> We may aggregate your personal information with the personal information of other users for the purposes of:
> 
> 		• (i)  de-personalised analysis to help us better understand the needs of our customers so that we and third parties can better deliver products and services to you;
> 
> 		• (ii)  providing content (including third party content) that is tailored to what we believe are your areas of interest; and
> 
> 		• (iii)  analysing your product and services usage to improve your experience and to enable us to deliver new or enhanced functionality to you.



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Kim Holburn
IT Network & Security Consultant
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