Minitab's Firm Commitment to Protecting Your Privacy

Australian Privacy Policy

Minitab Inc. and its subsidiary, Minitab Pty Ltd., are committed to the online privacy of all of our visitors and users and have instituted appropriate Privacy Policies. This page describes Minitab's Privacy Policy for Australia. Minitab is bound by the Privacy Act, 1988 (Cth) and the National Privacy Principles (NPPs).

All questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, and requests for more information about our personal information handling procedures, should be addressed to Minitab Inc. by sending an email to legal@minitab.com or calling +1-814-238-3280.

Minitab is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. All of the information you provide is kept confidential on secured servers and will not be shared, sold or rented to third parties; however, we may share some information with our authorized international representatives, partners and authorized agents, but only for purposes related to Minitab business and to provide you with information and updates concerning our products and services. All sharing of personal information overseas is carried out in accordance with NPP 9 relating to Transborder Data Flows.

We collect personal information from you when you request a trial of our products and/or when you purchase or request further information about our products and services. Collected information generally includes your name and contact details. We collect this information so we can provide you with our products and services and information about them. If you do not provide us with this information we may not be able to provide you with the products and services you have requested.

Depending on the circumstances we may hold your information in hard copy and/or electronic form. We may contact you using personal data you have voluntarily provided in order to notify you of changes in information and updates concerning our products and services. Occasionally, we may contact you to participate in a business-related survey and may request information from you; however, participation is entirely voluntary and you have the choice of whether or not to disclose any information that may be requested.

We track general, non-personalized information in order to know how many people visit specific pages of our web site so that we may improve those pages. We may use your IP address to gather broad demographic information. We use cookies in a very limited sense in order to deliver information specific to your interests. To help manage our online advertising, our ad management partner, icrossing, may use pixels or transparent GIF files. These files can recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. The cookie was placed by us, or by another advertiser who works with our ad management partners. The information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address. For more information about icrossing, refer to the icrossing Privacy Statement.

www.minitab.com contains some links to other sites. Minitab Inc. and its subsidiary are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.

Unless you have specifically asked us not to, we may contact you via email, postal mail or telephone about Minitab products and services that may be of interest to you, including our newsletter.

Email communications you receive from Minitab will generally provide a link allowing you to opt-out of future email or to change your contact preferences. In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving future communications from us and change your contact preferences as follows:

1. You may change your account's contact preferences through the Minitab Customer Center.
2. You may send postal mail to: Minitab Inc., Quality Plaza, 1829 Pine Hall Road, State College, Pennsylvania 16801-3008 USA.
3. You may telephone Minitab at +1-814-238-3280.
4. You may fax Minitab at +1-814-238-4383.

You may lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal information with our Privacy Officer by sending an email to legal@minitab.com or calling +1-814-238-3280. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you may then lodge a complaint with the Federal Privacy Commissioner (FPC). You may obtain information about privacy and lodging a complaint with the FPC at www.privacy.gov.au

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy, as may be necessary. If we do, we will publish the changes on our Web site at www.minitab.com/privacy/