Wood Brown & Company has developed this Privacy Statement as part of its commitment to the protection of the privacy of its clients, subscribers and visitors to its web site. Wood Brown & Company understands that your personal or business contact details and financial information are intrinsically important and that such information is disclosed to us on trust. To this end, Wood Brown & Company wishes those individuals who visit this web site to feel comfortable with providing us with any information we may require in order to provide our services to you.

Information Collection and Dissemination Policy

What follows is the Information Collection and Dissemination Policy (the “Policy”) pertaining to the Wood Brown & Company web site (the “Site”): http://www/wbco.com.au.

Your access and use of this Site is conditional upon your acceptance of this Privacy Statement and Policy. Your use of this site constitutes your consent to the collection and use by Wood Brown & Company of any personal information you provide while using the Site in the manner set out below.

Wood Brown & Company reserves the right to modify this Privacy Statement and Policy at any time. Any changes that may be made to this Privacy Statement and Policy will be clearly posted on the Site to ensure you are aware of such changes and how those changes may affect the Wood Brown & Company Policy pertaining to this Site.

This Site contains links to third party web sites. Please note that Wood Brown & Company has no control over the privacy policies or content of such sites.

If, at any time, Wood Brown & Company is compelled by law to disclose any personal or company information it may hold about you, we will co-operate fully with the relevant governmental and law enforcement agencies.

It is not the policy of Wood Brown & Company to collect the personal information of individuals under the age of 16 years, or to offer any promotional materials or information to individuals who may be in this category.

Protecting your own privacy

Any personal or financial information you may disclose in a public forum on this Site such as, but not limited to, bulletin boards, mail lists, chat rooms, hosted public events, is not covered by this Privacy Statement and Policy.

Please remember that the protection of your own personal and organisational information such as passwords begins with you. You should always exercise reasonable caution when disclosing information online and satisfy yourself that such information will be collected and used responsibly.

The type of information Wood Brown & Company collects

Wood Brown & Company collects information from you through the Site (the “Information”) through:

• the E-zine subscription form on this Site. When you subscribe to our quarterly E-zine, we collect the following Information from you:

first name, last name, organisation name, contact E-mail address and, if you include it, telephone number.

• optional surveys and questionnaires. If you choose to complete one of Wood Brown & Company’s optional surveys or questionnaires, we will collect the Information you make available to us in your responses to the optional survey or questionnaire.

Wood Brown & Company does NOT use any of the following means of collecting Information about users of this Site:

• IP addresses. Wood Brown & Company does not currently monitor or use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An individual IP address is assigned to each computer. IP addresses allow sites to harvest broad demographic information such as geographic location and postcode about each individual who accesses such sites.

• cookies. Wood Brown & Company does not currently use persistent or session cookies to monitor traffic to the Site.

How Wood Brown & Company secures the Information it collects

Your Information is located on a remote secure server and is stored in a secure data base. Access to this Information is strictly regulated.

How Wood Brown & Company uses the Information it collects

Wood Brown & Company will not use the Information it collects for marketing purposes without your express consent to the use of your Information for such purposes.

Wood Brown & Company will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise make available to third parties any Information obtained from you which is not incidental to your use of this Site without your express consent.

Wood Brown & Company will not send E-mails soliciting personal information from individuals who access this Site.

Access to Information about you stored on our servers

You may gain access to the Information we have obtained about you from your use of this Site by using the contact details provided below. Wood Brown & Company will not make any charge to you for accessing this information unless we incur costs in making that Information available to you.

Should you have any questions about this Privacy Statement and Policy, the practices of this Site, or you dealings with this Site, please contact: Wood Brown & Company.