toswap.com.au (“we”) are committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the data we collect from users of our web site (located at things.toswap.com.au) and related services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and considered a part of, the toswap.com.au Terms of Service, currently located at: http://things.toswap.com.au/tos.

Types of Data We Collect

We collect Personal Information and Anonymous Information from you when you visit our site and when you send us information or communications. “Personal Information” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, email address and postal address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. “Anonymous Information” means data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Information and Anonymous Information, as described below.

Registered Users

Information We Collect from Registered Users

1. When registering your account on the web site, we collect the following Personal Information from you:
   • your first name;
   • your last name;
   • your password; and
   • your email address.
2. When completing swaps, we collect any negative feedback you supply regarding the swap. (This feedback will be visible to other users.)

How We Identify You to Other Users

1. We will not disclose any Personal Information to unregistered users of the web site.
2. We disclose limited Personal Information to registered users of the web site in relation to the items you list. Except in relation to a swap you have agreed to, we limit this Personal Information to:
   • your first name;
   • the number of swaps you have previously completed; and
   • your feedback profile, being negative comments (if any) made by other users against you, and by you against others, in relation to swaps you have undertaken.
3. We enable registered users of the web site to send questions to you regarding items you list. These enquiries are by way of an email sent via the web site, and we will not disclose your email address to the enquiring user. (If you choose to reply to the user, you will of course reveal your email address.)
4. Additionally, in relation to a swap you have agreed to with another user, we will disclose the following Personal Information to the other user in order to facilitate completion of the swap:
   • your full name;
   • your email address; and
   • your postal address.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your Personal Data in the following ways:

• to facilitate the creation of and secure your account on our network;
• to identify you as a user in our system;
• to send you a welcome email to verify ownership of the email address provided when your account was created;
• to send you email notifications regarding swaps and newly listed items;
• to enable users with which you have agreed to swap items to ship their items to you;
• to send you administrative email notifications, such as support and maintenance advisories;
• to send promotional communications related to our web site and related services and for other marketing purposes of toswap.com.au, should you elect to receive such communications from us;

You can control the frequency with which you receive email notifications, and opt out of most of such communications, by changing your account preferences.

Security of Your Data

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Data. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. We also require you to enter a password to access your account information. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorised people. Despite these measures, you should know that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Data and mistakes may happen.

Information Collected from All Users

Google Analytics

Visitors to this web site who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects the following types of Personal and Anonymous Information from users:

• type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number;
• type of operating system;
• screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen);
• javascript support;
• Flash version;
• screen resolution;
• network location and IP address, including:
  • country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data;
  • hostname;
  • internet connection speed;
• time of visit;
• pages visited;
• time spent on each page of the web site;
• referring site statistics:
  • the web site (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this web site;
  • the search engine query used;

This data is primarily used to optimize our web site for our visitors, however we may also use this data for marketing purposes. An example of how this data could be used for marketing purposes would be to tell potential advertisers how many visitors we get to the web site, where our visitors come from, and how they arrive at our web site.

Google Analytics data is shared with Google. For more information on Google’s privacy policies, visit: www.google.com/intl//privacypolicy.html

This data does not include any Personal Information such as:

• your name;
• your email address;
• your postal addresses.

Cookies

We also use Cookies (as defined below) and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. Like most Internet services, we automatically gather this Personal Data and store it in log files each time you visit our web site or access your account on our network.

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a web site. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our web site. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable Cookies, our web site may not work properly.

Questions about the Privacy Policy should be sent to .

last updated 21 January, 2009