Tipping Comp's Privacy Policy

General Statement of Principles

As described in detail below, any information we gather at this web site is strictly for our use and is not shared with any other entity, public or private, for any reason. We will not sell or give away any lists or other data that we may retain and we do not purchase such information from other sources.

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

Processing information

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent

In order to use tipping-comp.com.au you are required to provide us with a certain amount of information. The information is used to create your tipping-comp.com.au tipping account. When creating a tipping account you are also asked for information such as your favourite team. We use this extra information to provide more tipping features.

tipping-comp.com.au logs all activity and maintains audit trails of usage of this site. We use this information in the detection and prevention of fraud and other malicious activities.

Email

The email address you provide, will only be used to send you tip reminders, 3rd Party deals and updates if you have authorised us to do so.

If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, you will receive emails that may include news, updates, related product or service information, etc. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

We may also contact you to ask for your opinion on our website features, or if we have specific questions relating to your account or usage of the site.

We provide a tell a friend and invite a friend service which allows members to send email invites to their friends. If you are receiving unwanted invite emails please contact us and we'll have your email blocked from this services.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology into a database that is only accessible by those authorized with special access rights, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Do we use cookies?

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

Technically, Yes. But, unlike many sites we only use session cookies, Sessions are a transient cookie. This means that the cookie files that are stored on your computer when you login become invalidated and are erased once you logout or close your Web browser.

We use these to store various 'hash variables' that get transmitted when you submit information to the server. These hash variables do not store your details directly. They do not represent your password or your name and or email. We use them to match up the data you are posting and your account to the server so we know who is tipping and / or submitting data.