Your personal information

The owners, managers, employees, contractors and agents of MiningNews.net (a division of Aspermont Limited) recognise that your privacy is very important to you. MiningNews.net is committed to protecting your personal information and will comply with any laws introduced to strengthen protection of consumer privacy.

Collection of personal information

MiningNews.net collects both personal information and anonymous information.

The only personal information MiningNews.net collects is what you tell MiningNews.net about yourself.

From time to time, MiningNews.net will invite you to participate in surveys. Your participation in these surveys will be anonymous to us. Your answers will not be linked to you in any way.

Your web browser automatically provides us with the type of browser you are using, when you visited MiningNews.net, your top level domain name (for example .com, .gov, .au, .uk etc.), the address of the website that directed you here, your server’s IP address and which pages you viewed. We only use this information for statistical and internal purposes including improving the functionality of the MiningNews.net website. 

Use of personal information

Unless required by law, MiningNews.net will not use or disclose any specific information about you without your prior consent.

We may use your personal information to get a better understanding of your needs. Unless you tell us otherwise, we may use this information to bring you products and services which we believe will benefit you and your business. If you are receiving promotional information from MiningNews.net and do not wish to receive this information any longer, you may e-mail MiningNews.net on contact@MiningNews.net

Anonymous information

We may use anonymous information collected from you for internal purposes including improving MiningNews.net.

Some anonymous demographic information, including but not restricted to, age, location, gender, occupation and total net worth and assets may be provided to advertisers for the sole purpose of their designing advertisements for the website. All information disclosed in these circumstances will be stripped of personal information. Your personal information will not be disclosed.

MiningNews.net's use of "cookies"

MiningNews.net uses cookies to manage user access and subscriptions. A cookie is a small text file that a server places on your hard drive to identify that subsequent requests to a site have come from the same user. MiningNews.net uses cookies to 'remember' your browser between page visits.

The cookie records only your member identification number. After your initial subscription, MiningNews.net recognises you as a member and, if your subscription is current, facilitates direct access to news stories. If the 'cookie' is not present, members will be asked to provide their email address and MiningNews.net password.

Members who choose not to accept 'cookies' from MiningNews.net can use the service by entering their email address and password at the beginning of each visit.

To view the content of your cookie click here.

Storage and security of your details

MiningNews.net will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information that it possesses about you. MiningNews.net encourages you to play an important role in keeping your personal information secure, by maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords and account details used on the website. It is your sole responsibility to maintain such confidentiality and MiningNews.net will not be liable for any damage, loss or expense suffered due to such disclosure.

Acts in the course of journalism

To the extent the MiningNews.net website carries on activities in the course of journalism (including investigating, preparing and publishing news, articles, reviews and current events), then its acts will be exempt from the requirements of the Privacy Act. However MiningNews.net will deal with personal information in accordance with the privacy standards as set out by the Australian Press Council.