techandme.com

Privacy Policy
techandme.com creates interactive experiences that combines user-generated content with original content. This privacy policy applies to our Australian operations, and covers techandme.com and other products and services within the techandme.com family.

All About Privacy

We're serious about your privacy. As part of the deeper experience across techandme.com services, we do collect information about you. As part of this Privacy Statement, it is important that we help you understand what iformation we gather, how it uise used, and how you can access and control your own information as part of this process. This statement applies to techandme.com and all sites that are owned and/or operated by techandme.com.

1. What does techandme.com collect?

We collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, postal address, phone numberand mobile number when you provide it to us. From time to time, we may also collect other sensitive information such as your profession, gender, username and password. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

2. Cookies

You do not need to have cookies turned on to visit most of our sites, although active participation in certain areas of our sites may require cookies. Cookies alone tell us nothing about who you are unless you specifically give us personally identifiable information, in which case we use the information to enhance your services in the ways described below.

We also use technologies, including electronic images known as Web bugs-sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or beacons-that allow us to track general user-traffic patterns. We also automatically receive and record information from our servers and from your browser, including your IP address, the time of your visit to pages on our site, and information about pages you visited. Unless you have registered for one of our products or services, the information we gather through the use of tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

3. How your information is used by the techandme.com network?

We use the information we gather for four general purposes:

To customize the advertising and the content you see;
To enhance the user experience in our network of sites;
To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling you to participate in paid services, polls, contests, and message boards;
To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

4. Do we share the information?

Personally identifiable information

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:

You have elected to allow us to share that information at the time that you registered with us or provided us the information, or through a subsequent affirmative election through our website.

5. Business transfers

We may buy or sell a company, or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

6. Changes to the Privacy Policy

techandme.com shall have the right at any time to change or modify the this Privacy Policy, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on a techandme.com site, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail.

8. Privacy of children

We operate our network of sites in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and do not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13 years of age.

Questions, Comments

Questions regarding this privacy statement or any other aspects of our network of Web sites should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one.

Effective date: September 1st, 2009