WEBSITE
PRIVACY POLICY
Noshmell Pty Ltd trading as Smart Lid Systems and Smart Lid is the entity
who is collecting data on this website and in control of the data. Noshmell
Pty Ltd and its related bodies corporate ("Noshmell") are committed
to protecting the privacy of individuals' personal information. Noshmell
is bound by the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act
1988 (Commonwealth) ("the Act"). Noshmell will only collect,
use or disclose personal information in accordance with the Act and this
privacy policy.
We are
extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We
understand that all users of our site are quite rightly concerned to
know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by
them, and will not fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy
is both specific and strict. If you think our policy falls short of
your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do
please tell us.
We are
constantly vigilant for credit card or other fraud. We report all charge
backs to a credit reference agency. If you have any reason to seek the
return of money paid, please contact us rather than your credit card
issuer.
Information
may be unlawfully available to hackers and snoopers. We take no responsibility
for this. The risk is no different from a similar risk in a bricks and
mortar establishment. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell,
or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information
collected at this site. If this policy should change in the future (most
unlikely), then we shall provide notification in advance, and the opportunity
for all users to indicate whether or not they would prefer that we do
not provide the information to third parties as proposed.
Data Collection
Noshmell,
in general collects personal information in order to conduct our normal
business, to provide and market our goods and services and to meet our
legal and regulatory obligations. A list of the information we collect,
(but is not limited to), and why it is necessary to collect it:
1 Basic identification and contact information, such as your name and
contact details.
This information is used:
1.1 to
provide you with the services which you request;
1.2 to
personalize and customize your experiences;
1.3 to
maintain our accounts;
1.4 for
billing;
1.5 to
enable us to answer your enquiries;
1.6 for
verifying your identity for security purposes;
1.7 for
marketing our services and products;
1.8 to
communicate with you my any means necessary;
1.9 to
help make our web site as useful to you as possible;
1.10 to
report statistics, analyse trends, administer our services and diagnose
problems;
1.11 information
which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way
by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating
to demographics or usage of a particular page or service;
1.12 As
required or permitted by law.
2 Personal information may be collected from a variety of sources.
This information may come from:
2.1 you
or the company you work for;
2.2 advertisers;
2.3 mailing
lists;
2.4 recruitment
agencies;
2.5 contractors
/ business partners;
2.6 when
you acquire a product or service from us;
2.7 register
as a subscriber or member;
2.8 provide
a product or service to us;
2.9 complete
a survey or questionnaire
2.10 enter
a competition or event;
2.11 participate
in our services;
2.12 when
you communicate with us by email, telephone or in writing.
3 Your domain name and e mail address
are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. Most web browsers
are set by default to accept cookies. If you reject cookies you will
be unable to take advantage of some of the features of our website(s).
This information is used:
3.1 in
a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the
purpose of quality control and improvement of our site;
3.2 to
send you news about the services to which you have signed up;
3.3 to
tell you about other of our services.
4 Financial information, including credit card details
This information is used to obtain payment for goods and services you
have ordered from us. This information is taken through a page certified
as secure by Paypal. You will note that this page has a web address
starting “https”, not “http”. The additional
“s” denotes its secure status. Such information is automatically
encrypted as soon as you confirm it and passes in encrypted form to
our contracted merchant service provider, who automatically arranges
the transfer from your bank account to ours. We store the encrypted
version on our servers, to save you having to re-enter it when you buy
from us again, after when it is automatically deleted. The encrypted
information is retained for a period of 24 months, when it is automatically
deleted.
Note: your
Internet browser may produce a warning message. This is automatic and
does not reflect on the high level of security built into our system.
5 Information
volunteered by you
for a particular
purpose, for example a personal profile, survey, job application form,
or contest. This information will be used exclusively for the purpose
for which you have provided it. Information is disclosed to third parties
only where the third party concerned qualifies in whatever way the web
site page requires. We will make absolutely clear on the face of the
page, any intention to publicise the name of a winner. If you do not
provide us with the information that we request, we may not be able
to provide you with our products or services. For example, if you do
not register as a member of a website, you will not be able to access
features or services that are reserved for members or subscribers only.
6
Affiliate information This
is information given to us in the course of your business and ours as
you have applied to join our affiliate scheme. Such information is retained
for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality
of the information and of the terms of our relationship. This information
is used:
6.1 to
maintain our accounts and affiliate records;
6.2 for
billing;
6.3 to
enable us to answer your enquiries;
6.4 for
verifying your identity for security purposes;
6.5 to
send you news about the services to which you have signed up;
6.6 to
tell you about other of our services.
7 Business
information
This is
information given to us in the course of your business and ours such
as in relation to your application to partner with us or advertise with
us. We will generally collect personal information by way of forms filled
out by people, face-to-face meetings, interviews, business cards, electronic
attachments, telephone conversations and from third parties (representatives,
agents or credit reporting agencies).Such information is retained for
business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the
information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for
any other purpose. We expect you and any partner to reciprocate this
policy.
8 Security
We will
take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information that we
hold from misuse, loss, or unauthorised access, including by means of
firewalls, password access, secure servers and encryption of credit
card transactions.
Despite this, Noshmell cannot guarantee the safety of online transactions,
electronic communications or those sent by post. You provide information
to us via the internet or by post at your own risk. We cannot accept
responsibility for misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your
personal information where the security of information is not within
our control.
You acknowledge
that we are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of
any third party (including third parties that we are permitted to disclose
your personal information to in accordance with this policy or any applicable
laws). The collection and use of your information by such third party/ies
may be subject to separate privacy and security policies.
If you
suspect any misuse or loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal
information, or any other privacy breach please let us know immediately.
9 Disclosure
to Government
and their
agencies. We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required
to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they
have the proper authorization such as a search warrant or court order.
10
Information request
At any
time you may review or update the personally identifiable information
that we hold about you, by contacting us at the address below. To better
safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify
your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.
We will require you to verify your identity and to specify what information
you require. A fee may be charged for providing access however we will
advise you of the likely cost in advance.
This confidentiality
policy has been compiled so as to comply with current Australian, UK,
US and EU legislation, so far as we are aware. If you have any question
regarding the confidentiality policy, please contact us at:
Smart Lid
Systems, PO Box 1836, Bondi Junction, 1355, NSW, Australia.
11 Your
Feedback
To help us improve our privacy policy and practice, please give us your
feedback. You may email us or write to us at Smart Lid Systems, PO Box
1836, Bondi Junction, 1355, NSW, Australia. |