Terms & Conditions - Online Payments

Terms and Conditions: Online Payments

Transaction Policy
All transactions are processed in Australian Dollars (AUD $).

Refund Policy
Request for refunds are determined by the respective terms and conditions for the particular purchase (i.e. event registration, subscriptions etc). The lodgment of refund requests must follow the terms and conditions. Assistance with lodging requests may be obtained by sending an email to nickdanes@usanz.org.au and a staff member will assist you with the correct lodgment process.

Privacy Policy
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons is dedicated to keeping your details private. Any information, we collect in relation to you, is kept strictly secured. We do not pass on/sell/swap any of your personal payment details with anyone. We use this information to identify your online payments and to personalise your transaction. The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons uses cookies to allow you to login to your account, maintain a 'shopping cart' and to purchase items in your shopping cart. Cookies sent to your computer from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons only last while you're browsing our website. We do not store persistent cookies on your computer. Cookies also allow us to give you a more personalised transaction.
Whenever you use our web site, or any other web site, the computer on which the web pages are stored (the Web server) needs to know the network address of your computer so that it can send the requested web pages to your Internet browser. The unique network address of your computer is called its "IP address," and is sent automatically each time you access any Internet site. From a computer's IP address, it is possible to determine the general geographic location of that computer, but otherwise it is anonymous.
We do not keep a record of the IP addresses from which users access our site except where you have specifically provided us with information about yourself, in which case we also record your IP address for security purposes. An example of this would be when proceeding to a checkout to finalise an order you may wish to make. After completing the form provided, your IP address will be stored along with a transaction number that allows us to track your order.

Security Policy
All credit card transactions are secured using 128 Bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Encryption. When purchasing from The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons , your financial details are passed through a secure server using the latest 128-bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology.128-bit SSL encryption is approximated to take at least one trillion years to break, and is the industry standard. If you have any questions regarding our security policy, please contact The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons .