Privacy Policy

Effective 26/11/2012
PCDepot.com.au respects your individual privacy. This Privacy Policy embodies our commitment to its protection through adherence to fair electronic information practices. This Policy puts you, the individual, in control of how your personal information is processed. You have our promise that we will not electronically process your personal information in any way that is incompatible with this Policy. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you could first contact PCDepot.com.au using this online form.

Personal Information Collected From You

At PCDepot.com.au we only collect personal information that is necessary for us to conduct our business as an online provider of goods.

The personal information we collect will include information you give us when you place an order for the purchase of a good we supply. We may also collect personal information about individuals who are not customers of our business, but whose personal information is given to us by those individuals or other people in the course of a transaction. This personal information will include your name, address, email address, contact number, as well as other information about you that was provided during the process of completing the transaction.

We may also collect some information from you when you use our website www.pcdepot.com.au. Your use of the information and services available through our website will determine the type of information that we collect about you.

The only personal information that we collect about you when you use our website is what you tell us about yourself, for example, when you complete an online form when placing an order, or information you provide to us when you send us an email. Please note we will record your email address if you send us an email. We reserve the right to include your email address as part of our email communications for which you can unsubscribe to if you choose.

The credit card details are encrypted during the transfer and only decrypted when they reach the bank processing facility. The process is completed automatically and the card details are not collected or stored in anywhere on our system.

Using and Disclosing Your Personal Information

We respect your privacy. Any personal information that we collect about you will be used and disclosed by us so that we can provide you with the services that you have requested, or otherwise to enable us to carry out our business as suppliers of goods.

Please be assured we will not disclose information about you unless the disclosure is required or authorised by law, you have consented to our disclosing the information about you, or for another purpose (related to the primary purpose of collecting that information) that you would reasonably expect.

We may use or disclose your personal information to organisations outside PCDepot.com.au and its related companies and any related entities of PCDepot.com.au for purposes relating to the management of your account with us. Such organisations include:
- mailing and delivery systems which organise delivery of the products you have purchased;
- service providers who manage the services provided to you;
- maintenance and repair services;
- marketing activities conducted by PCDepot.com.au or any of our related companies;
- our professional advisers, accountants, lawyers, auditors.

We require these organisations to adhere to strict confidentiality about your personal information and also seek to ensure that they adhere to the National Privacy Principles.

Securing and Storing Your Personal Information

We employ the best practices to protect the personal information provided by you; best practices including security measures and procedure considering the physical location, the electronic location, and the limitation of access and modification to your personal information. We store your personal data in a secured physical location with limited access to users that need to access it only. We employ firewalls, VPNs, anti-virus software and email filters to protect your personal data electronically. We limit the access levels of users within PCDepot.com.au to the extent that the information provided by you is accessible only by the relevant person with the right to access. We also constantly review our procedures to consider in area of improvement to ensure your personal information kept with us is always secure.

How your personal information may be shared

Except for the purposes outlined in the Privacy Policy, we do not sell or disclose your personal information. However, we may release personal information strictly under the following circumstances:

- when requested by courts or by virtue of laws (for example, a Subpoena) or regulations or as required by a government agency;
- where we deem a customer may be engaged in fraudulent activity or other deceptive practices that a government agency should be made aware of;
- to appropriate persons, where your communication suggests possible harm to others.

Cookies and Third Party Tracking

When you visit PCDepot.com.au, your PC will store a piece of information called “cookies” about our website into your hard drive. Cookies cannot be used to run programs and their sole purpose is to improve your shopping experience to a website you visited before, by making your website load faster and more efficiently without having to retrieve some information that recorded by the cookies. The information recorded in cookie is only accessible by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie.

If you chose not to accept cookies from PCDepot.com.au, you need to configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. Most web browsers accept cookies by default.

PCDepot.com.au uses third party tracking services for market analysis and survey. This third party tracking service will use web beacons (a string of code placed in the web page) to track and collect non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our website.

Notification of Changes

We will review our privacy policy from time to time. If and when we make any changes to any part of this Privacy Policy we will amend the effective date displayed at the top of this page.