At Shell Essences we are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. We understand that privacy of your personal information is important. As part of our commitment to good privacy practice we have adopted the National Privacy Principles prescribed by the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988. This Privacy Policy tells you how we collect, use, distribute and protect your personal information. We encourage you to read this policy carefully so that you understand our information handling practices.

	Information we collect

The type of information we collect and handle normally includes:

• Your identity and contact details.
• Credit card details, billing information. We do not keep credit card information unless you request us to do so.
• Information about workshops and seminars in which you may be interested.
• Testimonials you may choose to give us.

Please note that in order to operate the website or deliver a service, we may sometimes share your personal information with our service providers.

We will not disclose information about you to anyone else unless the disclosure:

• is required by law; or
• is authorised by law (for example, to protect our interest or where we have a duty to the public to disclose that information); or
• has been consented to by you.

We only ask for your personal infiormation when it required to respond to an enquiry you have submiited on our website or to subscribe you to our email newsletter.

This information is only used to filful your request and is not passed on to any third party apart another Shell Essence Distributor to fill your order. You may contact us at any time to find out what personal information we have recorded and to request the information be changed, updated or deleted.

We only record you email address if you have given it to us to subscribe to our newsletter. If you have given us your email address in the past but no longer want to receive the newsletter, please email us at the email address mentioned above.

When you visit our website, our web host automatically records general information about your visit but does not record any personal information about you. This informatin is recorded and used for statistical perposes only and includes : your server address: the date and time; pages you have accessed and documents you have downloaded while on our site; the previous site you have visited; and the type of browser used.