The National Invention Centre (NIC) is committed to the protection of your privacy. To heighten your confidence in dealing with the NIC, we have chosen to opt-in as an organisation covered by the National Privacy Principles (NPP) in the Privacy Act (1988) of the Commonwealth of Australia. The NIC also complies with the Spam Act (2003), which deals with restrictions on sending emails.

Collection, Use and Disclosure of Information

We collect personal information that is used only for the purposes stated to support our customer relationship with you. We may collect information about you through this Website, by e-mail, by telephone, by written response or through personal contact. Information collected may include any personal details that you give to us such as your name, email address, telephone numbers and contact address. We maintain records of any contact we have with you, which may include information about the date(s) of contact, nature of inquiry, our responses and any services or products purchased through the NIC.

We may also store information that you give to us pertaining to your intellectual property. We do not keep copies of any reports, research or other information generated on your behalf when you engage in our services. Neither the NIC nor our merchant facilitators retain credit card details. We use confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements with all of our clients when our services are engaged and unless agreed to otherwise, we will only use our own confidentiality agreement. In any case, all commercially sensitive information is treated with the utmost confidence. You may request, without prejudice, that any information we have about you be updated, corrected or removed from our records by providing us with a written request to do so.

The NIC is the sole owner of the information collected about you. We will not sell, share, rent or disclose any information collected about you and your intellectual property to third parties without your express consent or unless otherwise required to by law. We may, on rare occasions, use emails to alert you to new features and special offers. If at any time you do not wish to receive this information, you may ask us not to send it to you.

Security

This Website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the Website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our order form asks you to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.

Links

This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the NIC is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
If you wish to access your information or you have a complaint concerning your information privacy, please contact us at contact@inventions.net.au.