This site uses “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file or a packet of information that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server to identify and interact more effectively with your computer. There are two types of cookies that may be used at this site: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie is entered by your web browser into the “Cookies” folder on your computer and remains in that folder after you close your browser, and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to this site. A session cookie is held temporarily in your computer’s memory and disappears after you close your browser or shut down your computer. Cookies cannot be used to run programs. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. The Company extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources.
You can configure your internet browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. Please refer to your internet browser’s instructions to learn more about these functions. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this site.
Web Beacons (also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or Clear GIFs) are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the visitor’s behaviour and collect data about the visitor’s viewing of a web page. For example, Web Beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.
We may disclose personal information outside of Australia to third party suppliers and cloud providers. This may include parties such us Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook which are located, or that store data, outside of Australia, such us the North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
We will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient will deal with such personal information in a way that is consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles.
If you would like more information about the way we manage personal information that we hold about you or are concerned that we may have breached your privacy, please contact us by our contact form or by post (PO Box 333, Heidelberg, VIC 3084).
In most cases, you may have access to personal information that we hold about you. We will handle requests for access to your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles. All requests for access to your personal information must be directed to the Privacy Officer by email using the email address provided above or by writing to us at our postal address. We will deal with all requests for access to personal information as quickly as possible. Requests for a large amount of information, or information that is not currently in use, may require further time before a response can be given. We may charge you a fee for access if a cost is incurred by us in order to retrieve your information, but in no case will we charge you a fee for your application for access.
In some cases, we may refuse to give you access to personal information that we hold about you. This may include circumstances where giving you access would:
We may also refuse access where the personal information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, and the information would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings.
If we refuse to give you access, we will provide you with reasons for our refusal.
Where possible, we will allow you to interact with us anonymously or using a pseudonym. For example, if you contact us for a quote or for a general enquiry, we may not ask for your name unless we need it to adequately handle your question. However, for most of our functions and activities we usually need your name and contact information and enough information about the matter to enable us to fairly and efficiently handle your inquiry, request, complaint or application.
In particular, when you submit an order to us, you may be automatically redirected to PayPal or Stripe in order to complete the required payment. The payment page that is provided by PayPal or Stripe is not part of this site. As noted above, we are not privy to any of the bank account, credit card or other personal information that you may provide to PayPal or Stripe, other than information that is required in order to process your order and deliver your purchased items to you (e.g., your name, email address and billing/postal address). We recommend that you refer to PayPal’s privacy statement if you would like more information about how PayPal collects and handles your personal information.
We may use the Google Ads, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter and/or Facebook re-marketing services (“remarketing platforms”) to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to this site based upon their activity on this site. This allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and to only display advertisements that are relevant to you. Such advertising may be displayed on a Google search results page or a website in the Google Display Network, Microsoft services, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest or inside Facebook. These remarketing platforms may use cookies and/or pixel tags to achieve this. Any data so collected by these marketing platforms will be used in accordance with their own respective privacy policies. None of your personal Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and/or Facebook information is reported to us.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ads Settings page. Facebook has enabled an AdChoices link that enables you to opt out of targeted advertising.
The requirements of the GDRP are broadly similar to those set out in the Privacy Act and include the following rights:
If you object to the processing of your personal information, or if you have provided your consent to processing and you later choose to withdraw it, we will respect that choice in accordance with our legal obligations. However, please be aware that:
Data that we collect about you may be stored or otherwise processed by third party services with data centres based outside the EU, such as Google Analytics, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web services, Apple, etc and online relationship management tools. We consider that the collection and such processing of this information is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in a way that might reasonably be expected (eg, to analyse how our customers/clients use our services, develop our services and grow our business) and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests.
The Company requires that all third parties that act as “data processors” for us provide sufficient guarantees and implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your data, only process personal data for specified purposes and have committed themselves to confidentiality.
To ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date, please promptly advise us of any changes to your information by contacting our data protection officer via our contact form in our site or by post (PO Box 333, Heidelberg, VIC 3084).
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to revise this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be in accordance with any applicable requirements under the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles. We may notify you about changes to this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version on this site.
If you require any further information about the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles, you can visit the Australian Information Commissioner’s website.