General
Reckitt Benckiser Australia Pty Limited ("Reckitt
Benckiser") respects the privacy of every individual who visits our sites
or responds to our interactive advertisements. Reckitt Benckiser is bound by
the National Privacy Principles of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in
In this statement, “personally identifiable information” includes both
“personally identifiable information” (as defined in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
and “personal information” as defined in the Privacy Act 1993.
Personally Identifiable Information
Reckitt Benckiser will not collect any
personally identifiable information about you (that is, your name, address,
telephone number, or email address) unless you provide it to us voluntarily.
When you provide personally identifiable information to us, we may ask if you
want to receive future communication from us, (such as newsletters, email or
other information). You can choose not to receive this communication, if you
wish. If you do not want your personally identifiable information collected,
please do not submit to us. If you have already submitted this information and
would like for us to remove it from our records, please contact us on 1800 022 046 (
In addition to providing you with the service or information you request
on our site, your personally identifiable information may also be used to help
us track the way you use our site and our products. We may also combine the
information you provide with information that we collect separately, including
information you have provided to other organisations (with consent that it can
be shared) as well as public information. All of this information will help us,
for example, better design our products, web sites and advertisements. In order
to do this, we may also share your information with companies who carry out
work for us. These companies have agreed to only use your information in the
way we tell them and to have procedures in place to protect the information.
If we intend to share your information with a company, other than as set
out above, we will contact you first and give you the opportunity remove your
information from our database.
Children
Reckitt Benckiser has no intention of collecting any personally identifiable
information (that is, name, address, telephone number, or email address) from
individuals under the age of eighteen years. Where appropriate, Reckitt
Benckiser will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on
our sites or advertisements. If a child has provided us with personally
identifiable information, a parent or guardian of that child should contact us
on 1800 022 046 if they would like this information deleted from our records.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected Automatically
In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not
personally identifiable information. Examples of this type of information
include the type of Internet Browser you are using, the type of computer
operating system you are using, and the domain name of the site from which you
linked to our site or advertisement. We use this information for the purposes
of better understanding our customer's interests and to help improve our
business and sites.
Information We May Place Automatically On Your Computer's Hard Drive
When you view one of our sites or advertisements, we may store some
information on your computer. For example, this information may be in the form
of a "Cookie" or similar file that will allow us to tailor a site or
advertisement to better match your interests and preferences. With most
Internet Browsers, you can erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block
all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored. Please refer to
your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
Please note that removing or blocking Cookies may interfere with your full use
of our site.
Who to Contact
If you have submitted personally identifiable information through a
Reckitt Benckiser site or interactive advertisement, and would like to access
that information or have it deleted from our records, please contact us on 1800
022 046 (Australia), 0508 731 234 (New Zealand).
This Privacy Statement is effective as of October 2008.