Privacy policy

WorkDay Media aims to give our subscribers and potential subscribers the service we would want ourselves. When it comes to privacy, that means that we:

Tell you plainly what we do and don't do with your personal information.
Protect your personal information from being disclosed to people who you don't intend to see it.
Keep you in control of your ionformation.
Take special care to ensure your credit card information stays private and secure.
Have reputations at stake as trustworthy professionals.

These guidelines apply to both Banking Day and The Bank Investor.

The information we gather

We use subscription forms to gather names, email addresses, phone numbers and details of users' employment.

We place cookies on users' computers. The cookies that our websites place on your PC help us to recognise you when you access bankingday.com. We do not use them to monitor any other activity.

We collect credit card information at our websites and over the phone when users pay for subscriptions. This credit card information is not stored by us or our payments partner. It is passed directly to our bank and stored in their secure facility.

What we do with your information

We will only use the individual personal information you give us for the purpose of contacting subscribers and trial subscribers about our publication and any related news products.

The information you provide to us can be aggregated in way that do not identify individuals or their information. In this form it may be provided to organisations that advertise in WorkDay Media emails or on WorkDay Media websites. For instance, we may tell potential advertisers how many of our subscribers are employed by banks. But we use this information in aggregated form only. We will not share your individual personal information with third parties, including advertisers, or use your information for any other purpose without your consent (unless legally required to provide it to government bodies).

You stay in control

You can contact us at any time and request to go on our do-not-contact list. You can have all your other information removed from our system on request. (You can also have your email address removed -but bear in mind we will then not know that we should not contact you again.)

You can end your trial or subscription or remove users at any time by emailing service@bankingday.com.

You are under no obligation to become a paid user after the conclusion of a trial subscription

How we protect your information

WorkDay Media uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personally identifiable information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorised use, disclosure or modification.

Information gathered through website subscription forms is securely stored in a WorkDay Media database to which only designated WorkDay Media personnel have access.

We don't store credit card data

WorkDay Media websites have been enabled for secure credit card payments processing using DirectOne Payment Solutions. DirectOne is owned by Australia Post.

DirectOne has provided secure online payments for many years to hundreds of merchants across Australia. The pages served by DirectOne as part of its payments service are secured by 128-bit SSL security. Your credit card details are passed directly to Banking Day's bank without ever being stored on either the Banking Day system or the DirectOne system. DirectOne at no time handles your money because the transaction is between you and Banking Day's bank. You can find out more about DirectOne's payment solutions here.

Who we are and why you can trust us

WorkDay Media was founded and is owned by former Australian Financial Review banking and finance editor Ian Rogers, who oversees all our publishing projects. WorkDay Media's chief operating officer is David Walker, a former Business Council of Australia executive who also served as head of privacy for several years at online mortgage firm eChoice. You can read more about WorkDay Media's management here.

Our payments proviider, DirectOne, is owned by Australia Post.

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