This privacy statement discloses what information we gather from users of the Lowestquote website: www.lowestquote.com.au and how we use it. We ensure that you personal information is protected until you such time as you choose to disclose it to suppliers or other third parties. This privacy policy was last updated on 26th March 2007.

Collection and use of your information
The types of information we collect about you:
1	Private information.
	(a) When requesting a quote using the Lowestquote website you are required to disclose your first name, your email address and basic information about the service you are seeking so that we submit the information about the service you are requesting to suppliers and so we can email to you quotes requested by you from suppliers of that service. Your name and email address is not made available to the suppliers and will never be disclosed, rented, exchanged or sold to any third party, or disclosed on the Lowestquote website and will only be accessed by the persons referred to in subparagraph (b) hereof. (b) You acknowledge and consent that the only other persons who may have access to your first name and email address are: (i) our staff, for the purposes of notifying you of quotes requested by you; (ii) our web designer for the purposes of maintenance services for our website; and (iii) other third parties as required by law.
2	Messages to Lowestquote Support Staff
	Messages you send to our support staff via our Contact Us facility are private and are only viewed by our support staff.
3.	Usage tracking
	We may track user traffic patterns throughout our website. However we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us to continue to build a better service for you. We use your IP address (the series of numbers associated with your individual computer) to help us maintain the Lowestquote website and identify problems with our server. Your IP address does not disclose any personally revealing information about you. See the section on “Cookies” below. We do not: rent, sell, exchange or in any way provide personally identifiable information to any third party; share information about individual users with any third party except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process collect information for commercial marketing.

Control of your Personal Information

If you choose to respond to a supplier who has provided a quote your email address and any other information you provide in your email will be disclosed to the supplier and you are responsible for all actions taken with this information. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any supplier to whom you provide an email address or other personal information.

Cookies

We use “cookies” to provide customised and personalised services to users of our site, the use of which is a very common practice on the Internet.

Cookies are small amounts of data that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Cookies allow us to track users of the Lowestquote website including tracking information about pages visited. Cookies can also be used to alert users to new areas that we think may be of interest to them when they return to our site.

Your browser software can be set to disable all cookies, or to ask you if you would like to accept or decline a cookie from a particular site before it is set. Your use of our website won’t be affected if you have set your browser to disable/reject cookies.

Advertisers

We may from time to time promote advertisers on the Lowestquote website. Clicking advertisements may redirect you to websites where the privacy policy is beyond our control. We will never disclose personally identifying information about you to advertisers even when you click on an advertisement.

We recommend that if redirected to another site that you locate and read their privacy policy.

Polls & Contests

From time to time our website may request information from users via polls or contests. Participation in these polls or contests is voluntary and the user can decide whether or not to disclose the information (such as postcode, age, opinion about the site etc). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes (if applicable). Poll information will be used for the purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of our website. Responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any user’s details. We may use a system to “tag” users after they have voted to ensure they only vote once on each question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users and only exists for the life of the poll.

Other Links

The Lowestquote web site may at times offer links and banners to other websites. We are not responsible for the data policies, content, or security of these linked web sites. We do not have any control over the use to which third parties may put or use your data where you choose to purchase products or services or otherwise to contact them via this website and you should always read the third parties’ privacy policy before disclosing any personal information.

Security

We operate a secure data network protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. We have appropriate security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that you have submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Although Lowestquote makes use of up to date technology in order to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We keep the information you have given us until such time as you request us to delete it or for as long as we are required to by law, which ever is the longer period.

Contact Us

If you have any feedback or queries in connection with our privacy policy or wish to access or delete personal information that we hold about you, please use our Contact Us facility and select “Privacy Policy” as the request type.

Amendments to Privacy Policy

Lowestquote may, from time to time, review and update this privacy policy statement to take account of new laws, technology and changes to Lowestquote’s operations. If our information practices change at some time in the future:

• We will notify users at the next time of their visit to our site.

All personal information held by Lowestquote will be governed by its most recent policy, posted on our website.