Privacy Policy

Welcome to our Privacy Policy, your privacy is critically important to us.

It is ATEC Australia-International Pty Ltd's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies tohereinafter, "us", "we", "ATEC" or "https://www.atecglobal.io"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect through the Website

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website and products. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website or purchase our products, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.


Statement of Policy

ATEC collects and administers a range of personal information for the purposes of conducting its business. ATEC is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information it collects, holds and administers.

ATEC recognises the essential right of individuals to have their information administered in ways which they would reasonably expect – protected on one hand, and made accessible to them on the other.  These privacy values are reflected in and supported by our core values and philosophies, ATEC will also abide by Privacy Laws in countries in which it operates.

ATEC is bound by laws which impose specific obligations when it comes to handling information. The organisation has adopted the following principles contained as minimum standards in relation to handling personal information.

ATEC collects and administers a range of information for a variety of purposes. Some of this information is restricted in its circulation for commercial, privacy, or ethical reasons.
ATEC will place the minimum of restrictions on the information it holds, but will ensure that such restrictions as are considered necessary are observed by its staff and volunteers.

Collection of Information

ATEC will:
-Only collect information that is necessary for the performance function of ATEC
-Ensure that customers are informed on collection of information
-Use and disclose personal information only for our primary functions or a directly related purpose, or for another purpose with the person’s consent
-Store personal information securely, protecting it from unauthorised access
-Provide stakeholders with access to their own information, and the right to seek its correction
-Collect personal information from the person themselves wherever possible
-If collecting personal information from a third party, be able to advise the person whom the information concerns, from whom their personal information has been collected
-Collect Sensitive information only with the person’s consent or if required by law. (Sensitive information includes health information and information about religious beliefs, race, gender and others)

Use and Disclosure

ATEC will:
-Only use or disclose information for the primary purpose for which it was collected or a directly related secondary purpose
-In relation to personal information which has been collected use the personal information for direct marketing, where that person would reasonably expect it to be used for this purpose and has given their consent
-In each direct marketing communication with the individual, ATEC draws to the individual’s attention, or prominently displays a notice, that he or she may express a wish not to receive any further direct marketing communications
-State in ATEC’s Privacy Policy that when information is sent overseas, that any overseas providers of services are as compliant with privacy as ATEC is required to be. Such disclosures will only be made if:
->the overseas recipient of the information is subject to a law, binding scheme or contract which effectively upholds principles for fair handling of the information that are substantially similar to the National Privacy Principles
->the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between the individual and the organisation, or for the implementation of pre contractual measures taken in response to the individual’s request
->the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in the interest of the individual between the organisation and a third party
->the organisation has taken reasonable steps to ensure that the information which it has transferred will not be held, used or disclosed by the recipient of the information inconsistently with the National Privacy Principles
- In relation to the overseas transfer of personal information, if it is impractical for ATEC to receive the person’s consent to that transfer, ATEC must have sufficient reasons to believe that the person would likely give consent could they be contacted
- Where for a legal or other reason we are not required to provide a person with access to the information, consider whether a mutually agreed intermediary would allow sufficient access to meet the needs of both parties
- Make no charge for making a request for personal information, correcting the information or associating a statement regarding accuracy with the personal information
- Each written direct marketing communication with the individual must set out ATEC’s business address and telephone number and, if the communication with the individual is made by fax, telex or other electronic means, a number or address at which the organisation can be directly contacted electronically.
- If ATEC has sufficient reasons to believe that an unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in, and the disclosure of personal information becomes a necessary part of its investigation of the matter or in reporting its concerns to relevant persons or authorities, the organisation  may make such disclosures
- ATEC may further disclose personal information if its disclosure is mandated by an enforcement body or is required for the following:

->the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or punishment of criminal offences, breaches of a law imposing a penalty or sanction or breaches of a prescribed law
->the enforcement of laws relating to the confiscation of the proceeds of crime
->the protection of the public revenue
->the prevention, detection, investigation or remedying of seriously improper conduct or prescribed conduct
->the preparation for, or conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal, or implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal

For the purpose of the above Clause, ATEC must make a written note of the use or disclosure.

Destruction and de-identification

ATEC will

- Destroy personal information once is not required to be kept for the purpose for which it was collected, including from decommissioned laptops and mobile phones
- Change information to a pseudonym or treat it anonymously if required by the person whose information ATEC holds and will not use any government related identifiers unless they are reasonably necessary for our functions

Data Quality

ATEC will:

- Take reasonable steps to ensure the information it collects is accurate, complete, up to date, and relevant to the functions we perform

Openness

ATEC will:

- Ensure stakeholders are aware of ATEC’s Privacy Policy and its purposes
- Make this information freely available in relevant publications and on the organisation’s website
- On request by a person, ATEC must take reasonable steps to let the person know, generally, what sort of personal information it holds, for what purposes, and how it collects, holds, uses and discloses that information

Access and Correction

ATEC will:

- Ensure individuals have a right to seek access to information held about them and to correct it if it is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or not up to date
- If the individual and ATEC disagree about whether the information is accurate, complete and up to date, and the individual asks - - ATEC to associate with the information a statement claiming that the information is not accurate, complete or up to date, then - -- ATEC will take reasonable steps to do so
- ATEC will provide to the individual its reasons for denial of access or a refusal to correct personal information
- ATEC can withhold the access of an individual to his/her information if:
->providing access would pose a serious and imminent threat to the life or health of any individual
->providing access would have an unreasonable impact upon the privacy of other individuals
->the request for access is frivolous or vexatious
->the information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between the organisation and the individual, and the
->information would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings
->providing access would reveal the intentions of the organisation in relation to negotiations with the individual in such a way as to ->prejudice those negotiations
->providing access would be unlawful
->providing access would be likely to prejudice an investigation of possible unlawful activity
->an enforcement body performing a lawful security function asks ATEC not to provide access to the information on the basis that ->providing access would be likely to cause damage to the security of Australia or countries in which ATEC  operates
- Where providing access would reveal evaluative information generated within the organisation in connection with a commercially sensitive decision making process, ATEC may give the individual an explanation for the commercially sensitive decision rather than direct access to the information
- If ATEC decides not to provide the individual with access to the information on the basis of the above mentioned reasons, ATEC will consider whether the use of mutually agreed intermediaries would allow sufficient access to meet the needs of both parties
- ATEC may charge for providing access to personal information. However, the charges will be nominal and will not apply to lodging a request for access

Identifiers

- ATEC will not adopt as its own identifier of an individual an identifier that has been assigned by any third party. It may however adopt a prescribed identifier by a prescribed organisation in prescribed circumstances
- ATEC will not use or disclose the identifier assigned to an individual by a third party unless:

->the use or disclosure is necessary for the organisation to fulfil its obligations to the agency; or
->the use or disclosure is by a prescribed organisation of a prescribed identifier in prescribed circumstances.

Anonymity

ATEC will allow people from whom the personal information is being collected to not identify themselves or use a pseudonym unless it is impracticable to deal with them on this basis.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, ATEC Biodigesters International collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. ATEC Biodigesters International's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how ATEC Biodigesters International's visitors use its website. From time to time, ATEC Biodigesters International may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

ATEC Biodigesters International also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.atecbio.com blog posts. ATEC Biodigesters International only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to ATEC Biodigesters International's websites choose to interact with ATEC Biodigesters International in ways that require ATEC Biodigesters International to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that ATEC Biodigesters International gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://www.atecbio.com to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by ATEC Biodigesters International and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

https://www.atecglobal.io uses Google AdWords for remarketing

Https://www.atecbio.com uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven't completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

ATEC Biodigesters International discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on ATEC Biodigesters International's behalf or to provide services available at ATEC Biodigesters International's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using ATEC Biodigesters International's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. ATEC Biodigesters International will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, ATEC Biodigesters International discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when ATEC Biodigesters International believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of ATEC Biodigesters International, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://www.atecbio.com and have supplied your email address, ATEC Biodigesters International may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with ATEC Biodigesters International and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. ATEC Biodigesters International takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

ATEC Biodigesters International may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. ATEC Biodigesters International may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, ATEC Biodigesters International does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, ATEC Biodigesters International uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. ATEC Biodigesters International uses cookies to help ATEC Biodigesters International identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.atecbio.com, and their website access preferences. ATEC Biodigesters International visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using ATEC Biodigesters International's websites, with the drawback that certain features of ATEC Biodigesters International's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to ATEC Biodigesters International's use of cookies.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with ATEC Biodigesters International – by purchasing ATEC Biodigesters International's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, ATEC Biodigesters International collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with ATEC Biodigesters International. ATEC Biodigesters International does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Business Transfers

If ATEC Biodigesters International, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that ATEC Biodigesters International goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of ATEC Biodigesters International may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, ATEC Biodigesters International may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in ATEC Biodigesters International's sole discretion. ATEC Biodigesters International encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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