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PRIVACY POLICY

Smink Works respects your privacy and therefore is strongly committed to protecting your privacy while you interact with our content, products and services.

This document outlines Smink Works' privacy policy. This policy covers sminkworks.com and kids.sminkworks.com.

This policy may change from time to time to cover developments at sminkworks.com and to meet any new legislative requirements. This privacy policy should be read in conjunction with this site's Terms of Use and Licenses.


Collection of Personal Information


Smink Works will collect information generated by its webservers for the purpose of assessing the technical performance of its systems, to enhance service levels and to track visitor details such as number of visitors to the site and pages visited.
The information collected is anonymous, thus no personal information is logged in this process.

We may collect personal information from you as a result of the following:

* you have provided us with your details at our request to assist us in the delivery of your Smink Works product or help and support with installation or use of that product
* you have emailed Smink Works through Smink Works email addresses provided on Sminkworks.com and elsewhere on the Internet.
* you have subscribed to a Smink Works mailing list
(Our email subscription service is an 'opt-in' system.You may unsubscribe at any time.)
* you have filled in an optional online survey (This is also anonymous)

However, you can be assured we will make every effort to ensure your privacy is intact.

We also declare that we will not collect sensitive information about you from anyone else without your consent.


Sales of Smink Works products are currently handled by Paypal (http://www.paypal.com). Paypal is a non-affiliated business and its policies with regards to personal information should be reviewed in addition to the Smink Works policy.

Use and Disclosure of Information

We will use personal information you provide to us for the purpose of providing you with the service or product that you have requested.

We will not sell, rent, trade, share, reveal or disclose any of your personal information, unless: you have specifically requested that we do so; we deem it necessary to provide you with services you have requested; we are required to do so by a Court of competent jurisdiction or by a governmental order, decree, regulation or rule of any regulatory agency; our terms and conditions state that we will; we reasonably believe that use of disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to an individual's life, health or safety or a serious threat to public health or safety; or we have reason to suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in and the use or disclosure of your personal information is a necessary part of our investigation of the matter or in reporting our concerns to relevant persons or authorities.

We may provide general information and statistics about Smink Works's customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to third parties, but these statistics will not include individual personal information. In the same way, any details or information gleaned from optional surveys and used for other purposes will not include personal details.

Data Security

Smink Works takes your privacy and the privacy of all its customers very seriously. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The information is not stored on the internet. The information is not stored on any publically accessible computer. Backups of information are performed on a regular basis and safeguarded by Smink Works.
If you have any concerns about your privacy and the use of the Website or any of Smink Works' services or products, please contact privacy @ sminkworks.com.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Smink Works will never introduce policies that compromise your privacy. However, if we decide to change this privacy policy in any way, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

TERMS OF USE

Access and use of sminkworks.com and kids.sminkworks.com are subject to the sminkworks.com and kids.sminkworks.com Privacy Policy (above), copyright legislation, and the terms and conditions set out below. The sminkworks.com and kids.sminkworks.com Websites are owned an operated by Smink Works (ABN: 899 620 379 11).

Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the Terms of Use and any licences, thus use of the Smink Works websites are subject to your agreement to the following conditions:

1. No liability is accepted to any person for loss or damages incurred as a result of reliance upon material contained at these websites.

2. Smink Works accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of information or material accessed through the sites. Prices in the book store section of the site are subject to change without prior notice.

3. By logging on, you will have deemed to have released and discharged Smink Works from all liability that might arise.

4. By logging on, you will be assuming all risks associated with use of the sites, including risk of your computer, software or data being damaged by any virus which might be transmitted or activated via the Smink Works sites or your access to them.

The Websites are hosted from a server located in the United States. All Website information is stored on the server.

Smink Works has not reviewed any of the websites that link to these Websites or to which these Websites link. Smink Works is not responsible for the content of any other website or pages linked to or linking to the Websites. Smink Works does not endorse or otherwise sponsor such links. Such links are provided solely for your convenience and information. Following links to any other websites or pages shall be at your own risk.

Books purchased via links to Amazon.com will result in Amazon.com paying a commission to Smink Works.

COPYRIGHT

This site and the name Smink Works are Copyright © 2002-2009 Smink Works ABN 97 079 960 679.

The books published and bought from Smink Works Books are the copyright of the authors. The articles, design and other creative work on this site are also the copyright of the authors and designers.

The material on this Website is protected by Australian Copyright legislation. The international Berne Convention also means that this same copyright is afforded to Smink Works in all the other countries who have signed the Convention.

Permissions:
You may view this Internet site and its contents using a Web browser. You may also make copies of portions of this Website for your own personal use (information, research or study) or for media reviews and articles, provided that you do not modify or misrepresent the copy from how it appears on the Website and that you include the copyright notice appearing above, and any other copyright notice which appears with the material you are copying, on the copy that you make. Other than these things, you must not reproduce, transmit, make available, adapt, modify, frame (by whatever means), or do any other act of copyright or otherwise use any of the material on the site without first obtaining the written permission of Smink Works (publisher @ sminkworks.com), or unless specifically permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or similar copyright legislation.


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