General statement of our information handling policies
We recognise the trust you are placing in us through your dealings with us and we do everything we can to maintain that trust. Our staff are employed on the basis that they will protect information about you. This is our personal standard. Under law your rights to privacy are also protected. The National Privacy Principles, the Privacy Act and general law place strict requirements on us to treat certain information you give us as confidential.

Collection
What information we collect
We may collect the following information from you:
• your name and contact details
• some personal details
• other information that you will supply to us

Why do we collect information?
We collect information about you to provide you with the products and services you request and that may be of interest to you.

Where do we collect information from?
We collect the following information that you may be unaware of:
• the name of the domain from which you access the internet
• the date and time you access our site
• the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site

Disclosures
To whom do we regularly disclose personal information?
We may disclose information that we hold to related companies within our corporate group for marketing purposes.

You may “opt-out” of receiving direct marketing material
We also ask you for some personal details so that we can keep in touch with you and so that we can tell you about our other products and services that could be very useful to you. Please contact our privacy officer (listed above) if you do not wish your details to be used for marketing purposes.

Retention policies
Any information that we no longer require is destroyed. An exception to this may be retention of the information for data analysis. However, if this occurs then the information will be retained in a form that does not allow you to be identified from that information.

Access and correction
The security of your information is important to us. When we have collected information about you it cannot be seen or modified by anyone else. We make all reasonable efforts to ensure that information is stored securely both in electronic and physical form. However, you may access your information at any time. If you would like to know what information we hold about you please contact our privacy officer. If you discover that there is an error or information is missing, please notify our privacy officer and we will try to correct or add the information as soon as possible. We will try to ensure that all information we collect, use or disclose about you is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you would like to speak to our privacy officer about this please contact the above mentioned person.

Disputes
If you believe that our organisation has breached your privacy rights in any way, or you would like to discuss any issues about our privacy policy please contact us.

We will try to satisfy any questions that you have and correct any errors on our part.

Copyright
Design Furniture has taken all reasonable care to ensure that pages published by Design Furniture were accurate on the stated date of publication or last modification. Other pages which may be linked to the Design Furniture home page or to other Design Furniture pages, or which have a Design Furniture address, may have been published by departments of Design Furniture or by staff or suppliers acting entirely in a personal capacity. Design Furniture takes no responsibility for the consequences of error or for any loss or damage suffered by users of any of the information published on any of these pages, and such information does not form any basis of a contract with readers or users of it.

It is in the nature of Web sites, many of which are experimental or constantly changing, that information published may be for test purposes only, may be out of date, or may be the personal opinion of the author. Readers should verify information gained from the Web with the appropriate Design Furniture authorities before relying on it.

Material published by Design Furniture central offices is copyright Design Furniture and may not be reproduced without permission. Copyright exists in all other original material published on the Web by staff or suppliers of Design Furniture and may belong to the author or to Design Furniture depending on the circumstances of publication. The Design Furniture logo and the letters ‘Design Furniture’ are the registered trade marks of Design Furniture and may not be used without permission.