Effective Date: May 20, 2011
Thank you for your interest in this website located at http://www.stellarbiotech.com (the “Site”) that is owned, operated and controlled by Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. (collectively “Stellar,” “we,” “our”, or “us”). The terms “you”, “your”, and “yours” refer to anyone accessing, viewing, browsing, visiting or using the Site.
Stellar recognizes the sensitive nature of Your personal information. We have therefore prepared this privacy policy to explain how we gather, protect and utilize the information You provide us. Please read carefully to understand when do we collect your information, what type of information do we collect, how we collect, how we use, with whom do we share and what steps do we take to protect your information. By accessing or using the Site, you consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in the Privacy Policy.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Stellar may automatically collect non-personally identifiable data. Such information may include Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, web browser types, length of users’ visits, Site pages viewed, length of time spent on particular Site pages. No automatically collected information will be used to personally identify a specific user.
The information collected may be used for a number of business purposes, such as helping us administer the Site, diagnosing problems with the Site, tracking popular pages, reviewing usage trends or providing aggregated traffic statistics to third parties.
Cookies
The Site may utilize Cookies to monitor traffic, advertising and other similar information. “Cookies” are small files left on Your computer’s hard drive which allow us to recognize You when You return to the Site. We may use Cookies to inform us when pages in the Site are visited, and by how many individuals. We do not use Cookies to record information that will enable any third party to contact You.
Web browsers often contain a feature which will allow You to disable Cookies so that they cannot be left on Your computer. Disabling Cookies, however, may prevent You from enjoying some of the functionality offered on the Site.
How Personal Information May be Collected
Users may be invited to voluntarily supply personal information. Personal information is information collected through the Site that can be used to specifically identify You. Such information may include Your name, phone number and mailing address. Information may be collected via a registration form, a survey, or an e-mail form.
How Personal Information May be Used
Personal information which we collect for a particular purpose will only be saved and used for that purpose, unless you have agreed to allow us to use it for some other purpose, as described in this Privacy Policy. Generally, we use Your personal information for verification and contact purposes, research, and to improve the content of the Site. For example, we may use Your personal information to verify Your authenticity, to update You on a new product, to ask for Your participation in a survey, or to supply You information on a product for which You indicated interest. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not trade, share, rent, sell or give away information concerning you to third parties without your prior express consent.
We maintain offline security measures in our physical facilities to protect the privacy of Your personal information. These databases may be accessed by third parties who are under contract to provide Stellar services necessary to maintain the Site or provide You with information or products. Access to Your personal information by third parties is limited to the extent necessary to perform those services.
We may transfer Your personal information in conjunction with a significant corporate occurrence, such as a merger, sale, or acquisition, in which customer information is one of the business assets transferred.
We may also transfer Your personal information if required to comply with a legal regulation, procedure or process.
A Special Note about Minors
The Site is not directed towards minors nor do we encourage minors to use the Site. Minors are not eligible to use the Site and should not submit any personal information to us.
Links to Other Websites
The Site may contain links to other websites. We provide the links for Your convenience, but do not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of websites operated by others. This privacy policy does not apply to any other websites. We therefore recommend that You review each website’s privacy practices.
Security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of, users’ information. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our products, services and the Site. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for mutual authentication, data encryption and data integrity. While no computer is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personal information drastically reduce the likelihood security problems to a level appropriate to the type of information involved. If you have any questions regarding which measures and techniques we use, feel free to contact us.
Integrity
You have the right to request and receive an annual statement detailing Your personal information that Stellar has stored. Based on such statement, You have the right to have Your personal information deleted or corrected.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may change our policy at any time by posting a new version of it on the Site. We encourage You to check the Site regularly for information about revisions to this Privacy Policy. In the event that we change our Privacy Policy, such changes will affect all of the information we collect after any such change. If You object to the change to our Privacy Policy, You must contact us in writing regarding your objection.
Contact us
If You have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please email us at doakes@stellarbiotech.com or write to “General Office” at Stellar Biotechnologies’ mailing address which can be found at: http://www.stellarbiotechnologies.com/contact/.









