The Free Software Store

Privacy Policy

This statement sets out The Free Software Store's policies relating to the privacy of your personal information.

Briefly, The Free Software Store's web site is operated in compliance with the Australian Government's Information Privacy Principles which are outlined at http://www.privacy.gov.au

Our web site collects the following information from users:

A record of each visit that logs the following information for statistical purposes: a visitor's IP address, the date and time of their visit, pages accessed and/or documents downloaded and the type of browser used. No attempt is or will be made to identify users or their browsing activities except in the unlikely event of an investigation where a law enforcement agency may exercise a warrant to inspect our service provider's logs. The information collected by our web server is analysed at the end of each month purely to determine our web site's usage statistics.
The Free Software Store retains the e-mail addresses of people who send emails to us through our web site for the purpose of sending them a response. These email addresses are stored in a secure area of our internal network and will not be used for any other purpose nor disclosed to any third party without consent.
People who submit email addresses, web sites or other information for registration on our web site are agreeing to have them published on our web site by doing so. We will, however, remove or modify any submitted email address, web site URL or other supplied information on request.

Please note that The Free Software Store's site contains links to a number of other web sites that are included on the basis of containing content related to the Free Software Store's operations and/or as a service to our online visitors. When a visitor clicks on a link to another site, they leave our own web site and are no longer protected by our Privacy Policy.

This privacy statement is periodically reviewed in line with the ongoing development of our web site and/or changes to Australian privacy laws.

Cookies and Adsense: Third parties, such as Google AdSense, may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons to collect information, while serving ads on The Free Software Store.

Here's how Google explains cookies: "A 'cookie' is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or services may not function properly without cookies."

Anti-Spam Policy: This statement sets out The Free Software Store's policies relating to spam (ie unsolicited commercial email).

The Free Software Store's web site is operated in compliance with the Australian Spam Act 2003, which may be viewed online at a variety of locations (just search Google for the Act's name).

In a nutshell, we don't send out any spam emails. Nor do we do business with any individual or company which does. And we'd encourage all our visitors to do likewise.
The Free Software Store also uses anti-spam filtering on our emails and we report any Australian who spams us to the proper authorities on receipt of their spam.
Again, we encourage our visitors to do likewise in countries which have equivalent legislation to Australia; and to request that their legislators to enact similar legislation to Australia's in countries which don't yet have anti-spam laws (or to toughen existing laws up to Australian anti-spam standards where existing anti-spam laws are weak).

Disclaimer: The information presented in The Free Software Store is the result of personal research carried out by us and is - to the best of our knowledge - fair and true at the time of original publication.
In addition, any comments or other observations we might make about individual items of software that are reviewed on our site are our own personal observations and are made for the purpose of fair criticism as part of the overall critique that we apply to all the software and/or software-related resources listed on our site.
Nonetheless, we recognise that the Internet and software development are dynamic mediums and that what may be true, fair and accurate one day may not be so at a future time. This might be due to the evolution of particular product; to an oversight or error on our part; or to any other number of factors.
This being so, if you feel that we've listed any software product inaccurately and/or unfairly or that our link(s) to that product are wrong or broken, we invite you to email us to discuss the matter. We're happy to amend any listing where we're appraised that some or all of the information we carry about it may be incorrect.
All editorial content on our site is re-reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that it remains up to date and accurate. The date of these reviews is shown on each page's footer (see immediately below).

Last updated: 10-Feb-2008