At BVSthinkers Pty Ltd (ABN 38 006 955 406) which operates the School of Thinking websites we are committed to respecting your right to privacy and protecting your personal information. We are bound by the Information Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth) as well as with other applicable laws and codes affecting your personal information.

As we collect your personal information for the purpose of letting you know about products or services that might better serve you, the information collected may include your name, postal or email address, and phone number.

We only collect your personal information from you. This may happen when you login to our website and enrol in our training.

In certain cases we collect your personal information from third parties. For example, we may need to collect this information from your employer as part of our corporate program.

Protecting your personal information

We store information in different ways, including in paper and electronic form. The security of your personal information is important to us and we take reasonable steps to protect it from misuse and loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

Some of the ways we do this are:

• confidentiality requirements for our employees
• document storage security policies
• security measures for systems access
• providing a discrete environment for confidential discussions
• only allowing access to personal information where the individual seeking access has satisfied our identification requirements
• access control for our buildings

We take care to ensure that the personal information you give us on our websites is protected.

For example, our websites have electronic security systems in place, including the use of firewalls and data encryption, user identifiers, passwords or other access codes may also be used to control access to your personal information.

Links to Other Sites

You may be able to access external websites by clicking on links we have provided. Those other websites are not subject to our privacy standards, policies and procedures. You will need to contact or review those websites directly to ascertain their privacy standards, policies and procedures.

Without your consent we will not collect information about you that reveals your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or affiliations, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, details of health, disability, sexual orientation, or criminal record.

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