Residential Property Investments Australia (RPIA) has developed this Privacy Statement to inform you about how we deal with privacy issues in relation to this website.

Collection of information…RPIA may collect information through this website in the following ways: - When you visit the RPIA website, we can record certain information, for statistical and website development purposes, in relation to your visit such as:

• Your IP or proxy server IP and basic domain information
• Your ISP may be captured depending upon their connection configuration
• Type and version of the browser and operating system which your computer uses
• Time and date of your visit and length of your session
• Size of files you look at and pages which you have accessed
• Number of times you access our site within any month
• Website which referred you to our website

Various pages in this site invite you to email us your name and contact details, for example to join our VIP Club or for receiving newsletters, press releases and other information relating to our property investing or migrating to Australia and our services.

If you use our site's Contact Forms, you are asked to provide your name, address, email address and contact numbers. Unless you knowingly provide it to us, RPIA will not otherwise collect information from you through this website.

All session cookies used only during a browsing session, expire when you quit your browser and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our web site at a later date.

Use of Information…RPIA will only use the information we collect through this website for the following purposes:

• To make contact with you in response to your feedback or query to discuss our services
• Forwarding important information relating to RPIA activities and other requested information, or other purposes that are in accordance with your instructions
• Monitoring web site performance and improving our website and services to you and internal administration

RPIA will not give, sell, trade or otherwise disclose any personal information about you to a third party unless you have provided us with your consent or we are required to do so by law.

Access and updating…You can ask us for access to your personal information and you can ask us to correct or update your personal information

Un-subscribe…To protect you from unwanted email communications, RPIA adopt a un-subscribe facility for marketing communication. You are invited to opt-out when you receive communications from us. Other than in the course of our regular communication with members and others with whom we deal, if you opt-out, you will not be emailed by us unsolicited. If you later decide you would like to receive, communications from us, please advise us via Contact Us

Links to other websites…from the RPIA site are provided for your convenience and RPIA is not responsible for the information contained on those websites. RPIA will not pass on your private information to these sites unless requested, by you to do so.

Dispute resolution…RPIA has a dispute resolution Policy. If you feel your issue has not being dealt with by the administrator of this website, you are invited to contact the Officer in effective control via Contact Us and he will take on the issue for you. Should you still be unsatisfied, you can make a complaint via Consumer Affairs at www.consumer.vic.gov.au

Site security…This site has security measures in place to protect the misuse, loss, unauthorised access or alteration to information under RPIA control. However if you send us information from this site, it will not be encrypted unless we expressly tell you that it is.