What Information is WestPest Pest Control gathering about its visitors?
Every computer connected to the Internet is provided with a domain name (e.g. earthlink.net) and an IP Address (e.g. 192.164.13.145). When a visitor requests a page from within the WestPest.com.au website, our Web Servers automatically identify and log the HTTP request that is made to our Web Server. This information reveals nothing personal about you.
When you request an inspection on WestPest.com.au, we ask for your name, phone number, email address and other personal information necessary to fulfill your request.
Occasionally we conduct surveys and contests on WestPest.com.au. If you choose to participate in an online contest, we may request information from you that will permit us to administer the contest and notify the winner(s). In addition, we may ask for other personally identifiable information including but not limited to name, address, email, and phone number.
How is it being used?
Information collected on WestPest.com.au may be used in the following ways:
- Schedule appointments
- Respond to your customer service inquiries
- Provide promotional communication and other information to you, if you choose to receive them
- Offer the products you want
- Customize your WestPest experience
- Improve our website design
- Internal analysis
- Employee training
What about Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser from our Web Server. A cookie cannot read data from your hard disk or read cookie files that may have been created from other sites. The WestPest.com.au website may utilize cookies as a means of providing personalization features to our visitors. For example, we may choose to utilize cookies to remember settings (post codes, form filled information, etc.) that you may have made at our website.
The information stored in a cookie cannot be used to identify you personally unless combined with information that you have provided in connection with scheduling an appointment or registering for promotional emails, contests or surveys.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. Typically, by accessing the browser’s help feature you can obtain information on how to prevent your browser from accepting all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be diminished, and some features may not work as intended.
How does WestPest.com.au protect my personal data?
WestPest Pest Control uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure or unauthorized modification. We also advise all WestPest Pest Control employees about their responsibility to protect customer data, and we provide them with appropriate guidelines for adhering to our company’s business ethics standards and confidentiality policies.
What other information does WestPest.com.au request?
We may also request your e-mail address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey, adding you to our mailing list or contacting you for or with additional information you requested. Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is requested. We maintain a strict “No Spam” policy that means we do not intend to sell, rent or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third party, without your consent.
In addition, WestPest Pest Control will not send you e-mail that you have not agreed to receive. If you are a member of our Mailing List, you will be contacted with announcements, news and new products or services. You have the option of “Unsubscribing” from our Mailing List at any time, thereby disabling any further such email communication from being sent to you. If you wish to have specific communications with a member of the WestPest Pest Control staff, you will be required to provide specific information that will be routed to the appropriate contact within WestPest Pest Control.
How does WestPest Pest Control support childrens’ online privacy?
WestPest.com.au does not actively market to children, and we never knowingly ask a child to divulge personal information. If a child has provided us with personal information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian may email us, and we will remove the information and unsubscribe the child from any promotional contact opportunities.
Will WestPest Pest Control disclose the information collected to Third Parties?
WestPest Pest Control will disclose your personal information or any of its log file information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such actions are necessary to:
- Conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on WestPest Pest Control
- Protect and defend the rights or property of WestPest Pest Control, or visitors of WestPest Pest Control
- Identify persons who may be violating the law, the legal notice or the rights of third parties.
- Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities.
Additionally, WestPest Pest Control may disclose your information to certain selected third-party vendors who assist us in the permitted uses of the information collected.
WestPest Pest Control uses reasonable precautions to keep the information disclosed to us secure. WestPest Pest Control reserves the right to transfer information in connection with the sale of all or part of WestPest Pest Control capital stock or assets to any third party. Furthermore, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. WestPest Pest Control may provide “links” to a wide variety of other websites on the Internet. We are not responsible for their Privacy Policies or how those websites manage information about their users. We strongly urge you to check with those websites to determine their individual privacy policy.
We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page, so that you are always aware of the information that we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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