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The Australian Shareholders' Association ABN 40 000 625 669 (ASA) is committed to protecting your privacy.  
 
Collection, maintenance, use and disclosure of personal information is governed by the National Privacy Principles
as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000.

  

Collection and Use

The ASA collects personal information from you in order to provide you with membership to the Association, to
provide full access to the member’s only section of the ASA website and to provide information and support services.  
 
The type of information the ASA may collect includes your name, address, email address, phone numbers,
communication preferences, and in cases, your credit card details.  We may also receive information from web
browsers when you visit our website, such as your server address, domain name, date and time of your visit, the
pages visited, and selected information for statistical purposes only.
 
The personal information you provide enables the ASA to process your membership application, send you our
monthly journal Equity, our annual report, company related and general emails, advise you of education seminars
and meetings, offer you discounts and other membership benefits, respond to your enquiries, requests and
complaints and contact you regarding your membership, when required.  
 

Disclosure

The ASA may disclose your personal information on a confidential basis to our contracted mailing and print service
providers for the purpose of sending you the monthly journal Equity, the ASA annual report and other ASA related
communication such as conference invitations, research surveys and education offers. The ASA does not disclose
your information to any other third party except as may be required by law, or to the extent permitted by each
member.  
 

Accuracy and Security

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate,
complete, up-to-date and stored in a secure environment protected from unauthorised access, modification or
disclosure.  Where appropriate, our website provides a secure environment by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
This establishes a session, and encrypts all traffic, between our web server and your browser.  
 
You should be aware that there are potential security risks when transmitting information via the internet. You should
assess these potential risks when deciding whether to use our online services. If you do not wish to transmit
information via our website, there are other ways in which you can communicate and register with the ASA. Please
see our contact details below.  
 

Access and Correction

Upon your request, the ASA will take reasonable steps to let you know what personal information we hold, for what
purposes and how we collect, use and disclose that information.


Generally, the information which you have provided to the ASA while registering to use the ASA website may be
corrected by you online through the Members Centre. The information which you can correct includes your street
address and other contact details such as your telephone number, mobile number and email address). 
In the event that you wish to change other information which you have supplied to the ASA, you should contact us on
the details below. 
 
 

Terms of Use

Please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before using this site.


By using this site, you signify your agreement to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use please
do not use the site. The Australian Shareholders’ Association (ASA) reserves the right, at our discretion, to change,
modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your
continued use of the ASA website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those
changes.
 

Information and Content

The information and content contained in this site is for preliminary and general information only and does not
constitute legal, financial, taxation or other professional advice. You must not rely on any information or content
contained in, or omitted from, this site without obtaining independent advice.
 

No Warranties or Representations

Except to the extent that such warranties or representations are implied by law and cannot be excluded, the ASA
makes no warranty or representation regarding the quality, currency, accuracy, reliability, performance,
completeness or fitness for purpose of any part of the information and content on this site, or on any pages or sites
linked to this site.
 
In particular, the ASA does not represent or warrant that the information and content on this site, or the facilities that
make it available, will not cause damage, or are free from any computer virus or any other defects or errors, or that
your access to the site will be uninterrupted. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the ASA is not liable (whether
in contract, negligence or otherwise) for any loss or damage arising from the use of this content and information. 
 

Links

The ASA is not responsible for the information or content of any site accessed, or linked to, via this site. Links to
other sites are provided for convenience only and do not represent any endorsement, sponsorship or approval of the
products or services offered by the site owner or the information or content on such sites. 
 

Copyright

All subject matter on, and accessible from, the ASA website (www.asa.asn.au) is subject to copyright protection.
Except where necessary for viewing the information on your browser, or as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968
(Cth) or other applicable laws or these Terms and Conditions, no information on this website may be reproduced,
adapted, uploaded to a third party, linked to, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by
any process without the specific written consent of the ASA. If provided, permission will be subject to the requirement
that the copyright owner's name and interest in the material be acknowledged when the material is reproduced or
quoted, in whole or in part. 

 

Availability

Products and services referred to in this site are only available in Australia and in some cases may only be available
in a particular State, Territory or area of Australia. Unless otherwise stated, nothing in this site constitutes an offer for
the supply or goods or services, or a promise or representation that the ASA will supply any goods or services.
 

Cookies

A cookie is some textual information which a web server sends to your web browser. Your web browser usually
stores this information somewhere on your computer's hard disk. The web server may retrieve this information from
your web browser whenever a web page is sent to you.
 
Cookies cannot determine the identity of individual users. The only personal information a cookie can contain is
information you provide yourself. Your web browser must have cookies enabled for you to be able to use the ASA
web sites.
 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or complaints concerning our privacy policy, terms of use or any other matter, please
contact us by:

  •  Mail  Communications Officer, PO Box 519, Chatswood NSW 2057 
  •  Email   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  
  •  Telephone  1300 368 448 or (02) 9411 1505
  •  Fax   (02) 9411 6663 

 

 
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