Privacy & Security Policy

Residents 3000 Inc. Privacy Policy (ABN 97 622 580 759)

Introduction
Residents 3000 Inc. regards privacy as an important part of our relationship with our members. The following privacy policy applies to all Residents 3000 Inc. web users/subscribers and members. The policy conforms to Internet privacy standards.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact secretary@residents3000.org.au.

Collection of Information
In order to use the Residents 3000 Inc. website and to record membership details, we may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible.
All correspondence including email may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to your membership, events and your account. Information may be collected directly via our membership database system at any of our events.
Any information collected by Residents 3000 Inc. is collected via interaction with you via the telephone, email, mail, fax or directly through our website or database system.

Use of Collection Information
Any details collected from Residents 3000 Inc. members, associates and sponsors is required in order to provide you with our Association’s Purpose to inform, support and connect residents of Melbourne’s CBD.

Storage of Collected Information
The security of your personal information is important to us. Residents 3000 uses PayPal to process sensitive information relating to your payment of membership.  We do not store any credit card or PayPal information on our web site.  Such information is stored securely within the PayPal system.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can email to secretary@residents3000.org.au.

Access to Collected Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to be a member, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing to secretary@residents3000.org.au.

Membership Requests/Renewals or Sponsorship Offers/Renewals
If you become a member by paying the current membership fee, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, email, and postal address).
We use this information for renewal reminder purposes and to accept your joining or membership renewal fee. If we have trouble processing a payment, we will use the information you supplied to contact you.

Communications
Residents 3000 Inc. uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as
emails, account information and updating details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some event promotional emails. If at any time a member wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing to secretary@residents3000.org.au or simply use the unsubscribe button supplied at the bottom of all promotional emails.
Our policy is not to allow personal information to be collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider (PayPal).

Third Parties
Residents 3000 Inc. may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our administrative processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
Residents 3000 Inc. does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.

Legal
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.

Links
Links on the Residents 3000 Inc. site to external entities are not covered within this policy. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of residents3000.org.au, residents3000.com.au, or residents3000.net.au.

Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Residents 3000 Inc. Security Policy
Residents 3000 Inc. uses the PayPal Payment Gateway for its online credit card transactions. PayPal processes online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet. All online credit card transactions performed on this site using the PayPal gateway are secured payments.
– Payments are fully automated with an immediate response.
– Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by Residents 3000 Inc. or any outside party.
– All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate.
– All transaction data is encrypted for storage within PayPal’s bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.
– PayPal at no time touches your funds; all monies are directly transferred from your credit card to the trading account held by Residents 3000 Inc..