Privacy Statement

Independent Investment Research, "IIR", (ABN 90 111 536 700), AFSL No. 293655, recognises the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided by our clients and users. Our commitment to enhance our relationship with our clients and users of our website necessitates the collection of personal information that is vital to this effort.

Our Privacy Policy has been created with a fundamental respect for our clients and users right to privacy. The following information describes the policies and procedures for the collection, use and dissemination of personally identifiable information about our clients and users.

The Website presents information and content that is owned, licensed, or provided by Independent Investment Research. (together with its affiliates, "IIR"). The Site may also include services and information provided by third parties and distributed through the Site by virtue of a license, grant or some other form of agreement between the third party and IIR. When used in these Terms and Conditions, "we" and "our" means IIR.

You can browse our Website without providing any personal or individually identifiable information (collectively, “personal information”). You also may be able to set your browser to reject cookies. If you do that, the Website may be less functional for you.

There are times when you may choose to give us personal information about you. For example, you may wish to register, subscribe, post entries on the Website, receive e-mails from the Website, IIR, and their affiliates, receive invitations to participate in surveys, or to purchase goods and services available through the Website. We need certain information from you to register you, authenticate you, and process your entries and payments.

We collect information that you voluntarily give us, as well as Site Visitorship Data, on the Website.

In order to utilize certain features of the Website, you may be asked to provide personal information such as your e-mail address, name, mailing address, telephone number, credit card number or persistent identifier (such as a customer number held in a cookie) which is associated with personal information, as well as other information, which you may provide voluntarily. We may collect such personal information that you give us in order to: * provide information about the Website and IIR; * notify you about new features available on the Site; * tell you about products and services, and provide information from us and our third party marketing partners; * respond to your requests for information; * process survey results and contest entries; * process online purchases and payments you request; * filter the products and services we provide; * authenticate registered customers; and * post your comments. By providing any personal information to the Website, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to the collection and processing of such information in Australia.

Site Visitorship Data is information about the way a website is used that is not associated with an individual’s identity. We may use aggregate anonymous data regarding online behavior to better understand how people use our Website. To that end, we may use aggregated, anonymous online traffic behavior to track usage trends and thereby improve our Website. We may also use this aggregated, anonymous information to develop reports that we may share with third-party marketing partners and customers. The kind of information we collect includes: * the pages visited on our Site; * the features used; * how long a visitor stays; and * the domain name of the Site from which visitors connect to our Website and the site to which visitors connect through our service. Most Site Visitorship Data is collected using cookies or pixel tags. We may use Site Visitorship Data to develop, manage, and improve the Website. Sometimes we may aggregate Site Visitorship Data with personal information from registered customers. We may use that information to: * manage the Website * help resolve problems * analyze use of the Site * tell you about products or services we and our third party market partners and customers offer.

We may require the use of encryption technologies for certain types of communications conducted through the Website. While we may provide those technologies and use other reasonable precautions to protect confidential information and provide suitable security, we do not guarantee that information transmitted through the Internet is secure, or that such transmissions will be free from delay, interruption, interception or error.

Independent Investment Research obtains personally identifiable information only if we believe the information is relevant service our client base. We obtain personally identifiable information about clients or users, directly from that client or user whenever possible, primarily in the course of providing them with products, information and services. Independent Investment Research also obtains personally identifiable information regarding your use of the website. When Independent Investment Research, obtains personally identifiable information from third-party sources, we use only reputable sources.

Part of our collection of personally identifiable information is conducted through the use of cookies (small pieces of information that a web site places on your computer hard drive), in order to track usage patterns and to compile data that will help Independent Investment Research, to improve its web site and/or services (Data).

We use personally identifiable information only in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Personally identifiable information is available only to our employees, agents and contractors who have a business reason to have access to such information and who are contracted to keep the information confidential. Independent Investment Research uses personally identifiable information to respond to our clients or users and to make decisions about the products and services that we or our business partners provide or hope to provide to our clients or users. This includes contacting you regarding our available products and services.

Independent Investment Research may be required to disclose personally identifiable information by law or compulsory legal process.

Under no circumstances will we sell your individual personal information to any third party, however in some circumstances, Data which DOES NOT identify any individual user, may be given or sold in aggregate, to one of our clients.

If you do not wish to receive any information from us regarding our products or services you may contact Independent Investment Research, Privacy Officer at client.services@independentresearch.com.au and Independent Investment Research, will arrange for you to cease receiving direct marketing material. Please note that if you opt out whilst registered to use the free content of this website, your registration to that content will be terminated.

Independent Investment Research uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures to safeguard personally identifiable information in its possession against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification.

Any information that we store about you is protected from unauthorised access through the use of multiple firewalls, secure passwords and sign in processes.

Whenever possible, Independent Investment Research, shall permit clients and users, the right to see the personally identifiable information that Independent Investment Research, has collected from them, in order for them to correct any information that may be incorrect and / or to instruct it to delete the information from its files

Independent Investment Research shall take all appropriate steps to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy. If for whatever reason, you feel that we have not lived up to our Privacy Policy or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this web site or your dealings with Independent Investment Research, please email us at: client.services@independentresearch.com.au. We shall endeavour to respond to your email within 14 business days.

Independent Investment Research is not responsible for the content or the privacy polices of websites to which it may provide links or the websites of its advertisers.

We reserve the right, at any time, to modify this Privacy Policy, in order to reflect changes in the law, self-regulatory initiatives and technology.

If you require further information as to privacy in Australia and your rights to privacy, please go www.privacy.gov.au.