PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy provides information on how we manage personal information collected, including personal information collected through this website.

We take our customers’ privacy very seriously and we are committed to ensuring that all personal information is only collected, disclosed, used and stored in accordance with the Privacy Act 1974 and the industry’s best practices.

‘Personal Information’ is information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database) whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.

We collect information from you when create an account on our site, place an order, communicate with us directly (by email, social media, telephone or any other means) or subscribe to our newsletter, including, but not limited to e-mail address, mailing address, gender, phone number and credit card information.

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect your personal information is used for the following ways:

To process transactions and provide you with products and services
To communicate with you, including about products and services, special offers, and promotions, and events which might interest you;
To respond to your inquiries, request or questions and provide you with information or advice
Provide your personal information to third parties that assist us in providing products and services you have requested, such as delivery service providers, fulfilment employees and IT service providers who assist in managing our servers and networks in order to maintain the servers and networks
Carry out administration, marketing, fraud and loss prevention activities, quality control and research to improve our service to you and better inform you of our products and services.

Where personal information is disclosed to an external party, we will take steps to ensure that the external party treats such information confidentially and in accordance with the federal Privacy Act 1974. We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

EMAIL COMMUNICATION

If you have registered through our website to receive email communications from us, we may use your contact details to send you newsletters, marketing emails, special offers and promotions or invitations to our events, which may be of interest to you.

PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURITY

We are committed to keeping secure the data you provide to us and we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

PAYMENT

Your payment is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

COOKIES

We use cookies to help us remember and process in your shopping carts. You can set your browser to warn you each time a cookie is used or turn off cookies altogether by changing your browser settings. However, turning off cookies will cause some of the website functions to not function properly.

COLLECTION OF COMPUTER DATA

When you visit our website, our servers will automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit any website, which may include:

Your computer’s IP address
Your browser type
The webpage you were visiting before you came to our site
The pages within our website that you visit
The time spent on those pages, items and information searched for on our site, access times and dates, and other statistics.

This information is collected for analysis and evaluation in order to help us improve our site and the services and products we provide.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY COOKIES

From time to time it may be necessary for us to revise our privacy policy. We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time without prior notice. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.