North Coast Information Technology may collect personal information in the process of conducting business. That personal information may be obtained directly from you, via another contact in your organization or through a third party who we believe has informed you that your details may be provided to us. We will only store your personal details if they are relevant to your organization conducting business with us. We do not normally obtain or store information that under the Privacy Act is deemed to be "Sensitive Information".

We store personal information to ensure that we can maintain contact with the organizations with which we do business. This contact may be verbal, electronic or written. The reason for the contact may be to inform, request assistance or to maintain a relationship. The information we collect will only be that is necessary for the conduct of our business and our relationship with your organization.

Information gathered by us in one instance may be used in another instance unless you expressly request that we do not. We will only use the information we receive about you for the purpose of doing business with your organization or for related purposes.

Where practical, we will only collect information directly from you. If we collect it from another source, we will do what is reasonably possible to inform you that we have collected the information. Your information is either held in paper-based records or in electronic form in our databases. We take proper precautions to ensure the security of that information. If your information is no longer needed, we will either delete it from our systems or de-identify it, so that it cannot be attributed to you personally. Normally, we do not disclose your personal information to anyone. If we intend to do so, we will contact you beforehand. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we hold is accurate, and we will put into effect any changes that you ask for.

If you wish to view the personal information that we have stored please e-mail, fax or write to us. We will disclose your personal information ONLY to be extracted and made available for viewing by you at the NCIT offices (Note: This will not include any passwords or security relevant information). We will not mail or e-mail your personal information document to you but we will notify you in a timely manner when it is available for viewing at your our offices.

If, through a channel of contact, you are forwarded to another site or organization, NCIT is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of that site or organization. Our web site may use cookies, which are small amounts of information sent from a web server to your computer. These cookies are typically used to retain login and state information only but not written to attempt to extract any information about of the systems you connect to us from. We do not use cookies to track your internet activity before or after you leave the NCIT environment. Any activity while you are at our web site may be monitored and / or recorded. No other company has access to our cookies.