Terms of Use

GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation – designed for the EU and anyone from EU using a website anywhere in the world.

Applies to PII – Personally Identifying Information: name, email, address, IP, information.

laurenceshaw.au Data Privacy Approach

The website (https://shawlw.au) is considered in reasonable knowledge to be GDPR compliant.
The only method of providing information through the website is via the Contact page’s Contact Form or Contact links.
The website has no user account creation/logins for clients or members of the public as it is an “information-only” site.
The website makes no provision for user comments.

E-mails

(1) No e-mail submission records PII data to external sources. We receive what you provide in the Contact Form.
(2) No e-mail IP addresses are collected, however, an E-mail’s source code may show an e-mail server IP address.
(3) E-mail source code may be viewed should content be in question, such as Spam.
(4) How e-mails are used or stored outside the website is as per standard business practice, separate to the website practices.
(5) No e-mail should ever contain information that is either actual or potentially legally criminal or abusive. Such content may forfeit legal rights to privacy.
(6) No e-mail should ever contain PII details of other persons or entities without their permission.
(7) No e-mail should ever contain financial details – e.g. DR or CR card details.
(8) It is best practice to understand any e-mail may be viewed by another person during the history of the existence of that e-mail.
(9) No other information is obtained by the website, and is therefore not capable of downloading or deleting information stored about a person. (There is no such information kept.) The website e-mail plugin does not use a database storage facility for e-mail history.
(10) No PII data obtained through the website Contact Form shall ever be used to forward to 3rd party providers unless a specific request is made to do so – for example, referring someone to a service who requests such information you agree to.
(11) E-mails from the website are used to engage a client with specific requests made by the received e-mail. E-mails are not subsequently used to forward unsolicited e-mails, such as providing newsletters or marketing materials without direct positive opt-in and clarification.
(12) E-mails sent via the website domain name are processed in secured and private Amazon AWS services and cloud storage assigned only to laurenceshaw.au. These “raw” format e-mails are automatically deleted by the service after 1 year. All e-mails processed through Amazon are then forwarded to laurenceshaw.au’s day-to-day Gmail client service. E-mails from the website Contact Form need to use the domain name laurenceshaw.au first, for industry security and technical standards, before being forwarded.
(13) As data is not stored on the website, there are no requirements for data breach reporting concerns. As e-mail data is secured using best practice on Amazon, in conjunction with SSL and DKIM facilities, and non-public access to Amazon S3 storage, there is no known risk for data breach.

Hosting Infrastructure

This website is stored on a shared infrastructure platform using an SSL certificate and other security constructs. The country/city location of the server may vary over time and while on Amazon AWS is located in Sydney.