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GSDCA
Website Copyright and Policy
© Copyright 2002-2008.
© Copyright German
Shepherd Dog Council of Australia Inc (GSDCA) 2002-2008. Please note the
Copyright Notice, Disclaimer, Acknowledgements and Privacy Policy relating
to the use of the information on this website. Users of this website and
webpages contained therein are deemed to have read and accepted the conditions
described in the Copyright Notice, Disclaimer, Acknowledgements and Privacy
Policy.
Copyright
Notice.
German Shepherd Dog
Council of Australia Inc (GSDCA) materials, including pages, documents
and online graphics, are protected by copyright law. Copyright of GSDCA
materials resides with the Executive Committee of the GSDCA. Apart from
any fair dealing for purposes of study, research, criticism and review,
as permitted under copyright legislation, no part of these services may
be reproduced, re-used or redistributed for any commercial purpose whatsoever,
or distributed to a third party for such purpose, without written permission
from the Executive Committee of the GSDCA. Where permission is granted,
you will be offered the option of an access agreement.
Disclaimer.
The GSDCA Website contains
a range of data, loaded from many voluntary sources, which have only limited
quality control. The GSDCA does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations
regarding the currency, correctness, accuracy, reliability, or any other
aspect regarding characteristics or use of the information presented in
the service. The user accepts sole responsibility and risk associated with
the use and results of GSDCA material on this service, irrespective of
the purpose to which such use or results are applied. In no event shall
the GSDCA be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages
or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits,
whether in an action contract, negligence or tort, rising out of or in
connection with the use or performance of GSDCA materials on this service.
Acknowledgements.
The GSDCA Website endeavours
to acknowledge all authors contributions to its content and in anticipation
of that process occasionally not occurring, we unreservedly apologize for
any such omission. All contributions are gratefully received and sincere
thanks goes to those authors.
Privacy
Policy.
The GSDCA has a firm
commitment to privacy in accordance with the general intent of guidelines
for world wide websites issued by National Authorities, including the Australian
Privacy Commissioner (http://www.privacy.gov.au/). This statement
discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this
website as follows :
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Information Logged
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Electronic Mail Addresses
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Online, Application, Subscription
and Feedback Forms
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Cookies
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Searches
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Links to other Websites
If you are submitting
personal information over the internet which you wish to remain private,
please note that, while all attempts are made to secure information transmitted
to this website, there is a possibility that information you submit could
be observed by a third party while in transit.
Information
Logged.
When you visit this
website, our server logs information which is provided by your browser.
This information is used to create summary statistics which allow us to
assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our website,
discover what information is most and least used, determine technical design
specifications, and help us make our website more useful to visitors. The
information is logged as follows :
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the type of browser you
are using;
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the date and time of your
visit;
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your top level domain
name (for example .com, .org, .net, .gov, .au, .de, .uk, etc);
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the address of the referring
site;
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your server's IP address
(a number which is unique to the machine through which you are connected
to the Internet: usually one of your service provider's machines),
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the address of the pages
accessed and any documents downloaded,
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any information that you
may volunteer to record on our website services.
No attempt will be made
to identify users or their browsing activities, unless disclosure is required
by law or due to a mandatory requirement of a Court, Governmental Agency
or Regulatory Authority. We use the information only for statistical analysis
or systems administration purposes.
Electronic
Mail Addresses.
We will only record
your E-mail address if you send us an E-mail message. It will only be used
for the purpose for which you provide it, and will not be added to a mailing
list unless you request that this be done. We will not disclose it without
your consent.
Online,
Application, Subscription and Feedback Forms.
Some pages of this
website may provide the facility for users to fill out an online form for
the purpose of subscribing to a special service or to provide us with feedback
about our website. We will ask you to provide only enough personal information
to fulfil that purpose. We will record it to facilitate follow up and for
statistical analysis. Only authorized GSDCA officers will have access to
this information.
Cookies.
A cookie is an electronic
token that is passed to your browser and your browser passes it back to
the server whenever a page is sent to you. We do not use cookies to collect
personal information or to track your activities.
Searches.
Search terms that you
enter when using our search engine are collected, but are not associated
with any other information that we collect. We use these search terms to
ascertain what people are looking for at our website, and to improve the
services that we provide.
Links
to other Websites.
This website contains
links to other websites. The GSDCA is not responsible for the privacy practices
of these websites and has no knowledge of whether cookies or other tracking
devices are used on linked websites.
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