Privacy Policy
Information Collection and Use
Vet Products Direct Pty Ltd or Vet Direct International Ltd (for sales outside Australia)
are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or
rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement. Vet Products Direct Pty Ltd or Vet Direct International Ltd. collect
information from our users at several different points on our websites.
Registration and Orders
In order to purchase from this website, a user must first complete the
registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact
information (such as name and email address, delivery address etc.). This information is
used to contact the user about details regarding their order, and for the mailing out of
our catalogue within Australia.We do not collect or store any Credit Card numbers at our
website. All Credit Card Orders are externally processed by the National Australia Bank
for Australian orders, Worldpay for overseas orders.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the users hard drive containing information
about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log
in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the
cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be
limited in some areas of our site.
Sharing
We use an outside credit card processing company (Verisign or Worldpay) to bill users for
goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any secondary purposes. We partner with another party to
provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names,
or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these
services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except
for the purpose of providing these services.
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 registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information
(such as Name and Postal Addresses), 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. While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of our users information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are
granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use
password-protected software which tracks who has logged on or off. Furthermore, ALL
employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as
well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about
the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers
information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable
information on are kept in a secure monitored environment. If you have any questions
about the security at our website, you can send an email to help@vetproductsdirect.com
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a users personally identifiable information changes (such as your post code
code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavour to provide a way to
correct, update or remove that users personal data provided to us. This can be done
by emailing our Customer Support or phoning our call centre.
Notification of Changes
The most up to date version of our privacy policy can always be found at
www.vetproductsdirect.com so our users are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide
to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice
as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use
information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.