LEADING EDGE GROUP LIMITED

PRIVACY POLICY (Policy)

Leading Edge’s commitment to protecting your privacy

Leading Edge Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries (Leading Edge) are committed to the protection of your privacy.  Leading Edge upholds your right to privacy protection under the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 as amended and we are required to comply with the National Privacy Principles in relation to the collection, use, disclosure and handling of personal information.  

What is personal information?

Personal information is any information about you that identifies you or information by which your identity can be reasonably identified.

Why do we collect personal information?

Leading Edge collects personal information so that we are able to effectively provide you with goods and services that are supplied by our suppliers.

What information do we collect?

The types of personal information that we may collect will depend on the circumstances of collection and the kind of service that you request from Leading Edge.  We may collect some personal information when you use the internet. We collect information relating to the pages on websites that we operate which you visit.

How do we collect your personal information?

Personal information is generally collected during the course of our relationship with you. We may collect personal information about you when you deal with us over the telephone, send correspondence, visit websites that we operate or through personal contact. There may be occasions when we collect information about you from a third party, for example from a work associate who provides such information to us or from a database provided to us.

How we use your personal information?

We use the personal information that we collect to provide our services to you, to fulfil administrative functions associated with these services, for example billing, to enter into contracts with you and/or third parties and for marketing and client relationship purposes.
When we collect your personal information we will give you the option of advising us that you do not want us or any third party to use the information for any disclosed secondary purpose. You may also at any later date notify us of your preference on this issue by contacting our privacy officer (see below for contact details).

Access to and correction of information we hold about you

We will on request provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you in accordance with the National Privacy Principles. We may recover our reasonable costs from you in supplying you with access to this information. If we decline to give you access in certain circumstances we will provide you with reasons for this. To request access, please contact our privacy officer (see contact details below).

Ensuring your personal information is up to date

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is accurate, up to date and complete whenever we collect or use it. You may contact us at any time to update your personal information or to tell us that the information is inaccurate or incomplete.

Security

We will take all reasonable precautions to safeguard your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures including restricting physical access to our offices, firewalls and secure databases.

Online Privacy Issues

To the extent that the other sections of this Privacy Policy apply to online privacy issues, they form part of the terms of use for any website operated by us. This section of the policy provides information specifically relating to websites operated by us.

(a) Online collection of personal and aggregated data

We will collect personal information from websites operated by us where you register for email bulletin services, register as a member or purchase goods or services through the website. We will use this information for providing the relevant service to you and in other ways described in this policy.

We may also collect other information when you access a website operated by us - some of this is personal information and some of it is not - to optimise our goods and services including our web pages for your computer. This information will include the identity of your internet browser, the type of operating system you use, your IP address and the domain name of your internet service provider.

This information is aggregated for reporting purposes. Personal identifiable characteristics are removed and users remain anonymous unless you have provided express consent to us to recognise your usage. This data is gathered by us to examine internet trends and demographics and to assist in improving websites operated by us, and may be provided to third parties for marketing and research purposes.

(b) Cookies

To enhance your experience with websites operated by us, many of our web pages use “cookies”. Cookies are text files that a website transfers to your computer’s hard drive for record keeping purposes. Websites operated by us use cookies to support your current activity on the website by providing a unique identifier in order to allow our web server to distinguish your web browser from any other web browser accessing the website, and to customise the website for you. They also allow us to follow usage patterns and compile data that may help us improve the website and targeting advertising. Cookies by themselves do not tell us your e-mail address or other personal information. However, once you choose to provide the website with personal information this information may be linked to data stored in the cookie.

You should adjust the settings in your web browser if you do not want information collected through the use of cookies. However, this may slow down or restrict access to parts of the website.

(c) Links to other websites

Some of the websites operated by us contain links to third party websites, being advertisers, sponsors or other companies that we have a relationship with. Although a website may be linked to a website operated by us, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of the linked website. Any concern that you may have in relation to privacy policies of a linked third party website should be directed to the operator of that website.

(d) Online disclosures

From time to time we may have relationships with other companies that we allow to place advertisements on web pages of sites operated by us. As a result, when you visit a website operated by us, advertising server companies may collect information such as your domain type, IP address and clickstream information.

(e) Promotional e-mail

If you are receiving promotional e-mail from us and you no longer wish to receive this information, please e-mail us and we will ensure that you no longer receive this information.

Do I have to be identified at all?

Whenever it is lawful and practical to do so, you may transact with us without providing personal information. This may however impact on the level of service we can provide to you.

Sensitive Information

Privacy Officer
Leading Edge Group Limited
Phone: (02) 9497 4000
Fax: (02) 8208 3245

LEADING EDGE GROUP LIMITED

WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Acknowledgment and acceptance

This website (Website) is owned by Leading Edge Group Limited (ACN 007 946 019) and its affiliates and subsidiary entities (Leading Edge).

By using this Website you agree to the Terms and Conditions below (Terms and Conditions) and acknowledge that you have read and understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.  

Leading Edge may amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time without notice. Your continued use of this Website after any amendment becomes effective constitutes an agreement by you to abide and be bound by these Terms and Conditions, as amended.

Links to other websites

This site may contain links to websites maintained by other companies and organisations. Leading Edge does not make any representation as to the accuracy of information contained on those websites and will not accept any responsibility for the accuracy, ownership or any other aspect of the information contained on those websites.

Copyright

Unless otherwise indicated, we reserve all copyright in the content and design of this website. We own all such copyright or use it under licence or applicable law. You may make a temporary copy of part or all of this website on your local computer for the sole purpose of viewing it, and print a single hard copy of a whole page of this website for personal use, provided that any copyright notice on such page is not removed. You may not, in any form, or by any means:

• otherwise reproduce, adapt, store in a retrieval system, transmit, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of the content or design of this website,
• cause any of the Material to be framed or embedded in another website,
• commercialise any information, products or services on this website, or
• except with our prior consent written or as permitted by applicable copyright legislation.

We own the trade marks “LEADING EDGE GROUP”, “LEADING EDGE COMPUTERS”, “LEADING EDGE MUSIC”, “LEADING EDGE VIDEO”, “LEADING EDGE BOOKS”, “LEADING EDGE JEWELLERS”, “LEADING EDGE TELECOMS” and “LEADING EDGE ELECTRONICS”, and reserve all rights in relation to them. Other product and company names referred to on this website may be trade marks owned by third parties.

Virus warning

Leading Edge does not represent that any information (including any file) obtained from or through this Website is free from computer viruses or other faults or defects. It is your responsibility to scan any such information for computer viruses. Leading Edge will not be liable to you or to any other person for any loss or damage (whether direct, indirect, consequential or economic), however caused and whether by negligence or otherwise, which may result directly or indirectly from any such information.

Release and indemnity

You waive, release, forgive, discharge and relinquish any and all claims that you now have or may have against Leading Edge, its related bodies corporate, directors, employee, agents and representatives which are connected with, arise out of, relate to or are incidental to any transaction.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Leading Edge, its related bodies corporate, directors, employees, agents and representatives harmless from and against any and all claims, loss, damage, tax, liability and/or expense that may be incurred by Leading Edge, its related bodies corporate, directors, employees, agents and representatives arising out of or in connection with the performance of its duties as described in these Terms and Conditions including the legal costs, fees and expenses of defending itself against any claim by any or all of the parties to any transaction and/or by any other person and/or as a result of you taking any action or refraining from taking any action or instituting or defending any action or legal proceeding.

Applicable law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of New South Wales. You and Leading Edge agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the state of New South Wales. If any provision(s) of these Terms and Conditions is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.

Limitation of liability

Leading Edge will in no way be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, resulting from your use or your inability to use this Website or for the cost of procurement of substitute products or services or resulting from any products or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through this website or resulting from unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data or of any information contained on this Website, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangible, even if Leading Edge has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Where any Act of Parliament implies in these Terms and Conditions any term, condition or warranty, and that Act avoids or prohibits provisions in a contract excluding or modifying the application of or exercise of, or liability under such term, condition or warranty, such term, condition or warranty shall be deemed to be included in these Terms and Conditions, however, the liability of Leading Edge for any breach of such term, condition or warranty shall be limited, at the option of Leading Edge, to any one or more of the following:

(a)        if the breach relates to goods:
     (i)         the replacement of the goods or supply of equivalent goods;
     (ii)         the repair of such goods;
     (iii)        the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; or
     (iv)        the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; and
(b)        if the breach to services:
     (i)         the supplying of the services again; or
     (ii)         the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again. 

Refunds

In the event that we are unable to fulfil your online order, we will refund you the full amount of the order via credit card/debit or cheque. As soon as your online order has been processed, your credit card details are deleted from our records. When a refund for the online order amount is required on your credit card, you must again provide us with your credit card details so that we can process the refund.

Disclaimer

The information contained on this Website is provided by Leading Edge in good faith on an "as is" basis. The information is believed to be accurate and current at the date the information was placed on this Website.

None of Leading Edge, its related bodies corporate, any of their directors, officers or employees makes any representation or warranty as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information contained on this website (including in relation to any products or services) and none of them accept any responsibility arising in any way (including negligence) for errors in, or omissions from, the information contained on this Website. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Leading Edge disclaims all representations and warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Leading Edge makes no warranty that the Website or any products or services advertised on the Website will meet your requirements, or that the website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free.