Privacy Policy

To use the Montessori Australia website, we may require information from you to provide the best service possible. We may also collect and store all correspondence, including email, particularly regarding sales, support, and accounts. Montessori Australia collects any information via correspondence from you or your company, which may be via telephone, email, mail, fax, or our website.

Any details collected from Montessori Australia customers are required to provide you with our products and/or services and a high level of customer service. Correspondence is recorded to provide service references and assist in our staff development.

We value the security of your personal information. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt it using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When credit card details are collected, we simply pass them on to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete Credit Card details. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at info@montessori.org.au.

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at info@montessori.org.au.

If you purchase an event, product or service from us, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number and expiration date).

We use this information to bill you and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will contact you using this information.

Montessori Australia uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as emails, account information, and critical service details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing us here.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Montessori Australia may, at its discretion, use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. Montessori Australia does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

This policy does not cover links on the Montessori Australia site to external entities. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only apply to the domain names montessoriaustralia.org.au and montessori.org.au.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Intellectual Property includes but is not limited to:

• all present and future rights to intellectual property, including inventions and improvements, trade marks (whether registered or common law trade marks), patents, designs, copyrights, and any corresponding property rights under the laws of any jurisdiction;
• all rights in respect of an invention, discovery, trade secret, secret process, know-how, concept, idea, information, process, data, formula or work product; and
• all work products developed in whole or in part by Montessori Australia.

Montessori Australia owns all intellectual property rights in the products and company branding, which is between us and you.