ELECTROSMART PRIVACY POLICY
PLEASE NOTE:
This Site is not directed at children. Visitors
and Authorized Customers are required to be eighteen years or older.
1. Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. so we are providing this notice
to describe and explain our online information practices and the
choices you can make about the way you share information with us
and how information is collected and used.
This statement governs our privacy policies of both users of the
Sites ("Visitors") and those who register, subscribe or transaction
with us in regard to the various products and services offered by
this Site (collectively, "Services") ("Authorized Customers").
This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with
respect to the personal data your provide, where we determine the
purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
2. "Personally Identifiable Information"
In general, you can visit this website without telling us who you
are or revealing any personal information about yourself. There
are times, however, when we may need information from you.
Personally Identifiable Information [Personal Data] refers to any information that
identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the individual
to whom the information pertains, including, but not limited to,
name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial
profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally
Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected
anonymously (without identification of the individual user) or demographic
information not connected to an identified individual.
What personal data is collected?
We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors.
Personal information like your name, postal address and e-mail address
is obtained only when you voluntarily submit it. We collect the
following additional information from our Authorized Customers:
the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, the nature
and size of the business, and information needed to personalize
the the product or service that the Authorized Customer intends
to purchase.
What organizations are collecting the information?
In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party
service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and
banks, affiliate vendors) may collect this information from you
during their transaction service process. We use both Paypal and
Stripe as our payment gateways.
We do not control how these third parties use such information, soif you have any concerns,
please check their terms of service on their own websites. Some
of our third parties are intermediaries that act solely as links
in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the
information given to them.
In general we collect infromation through
visits, registration, surveys and other online forms as part of:
- Registration to receive newsletters, access free samples, whitepapers,
or access to protected content on the site
- An ongoing sales process
- While providing technical support, consultation, live chat,
or product information
- Through the process of maintaining and upgrading our products
- Through automated means such as communications protocols, e-mail
communications and cookies
Types of personal data we collect.
There are various types of personal data we
collect and process: Account data and Usage Data.
Account data includes data you opted to
include when signing up for access, subscription or membership to any
product or service we provide. This includes your name and email
address, and any other data relevant for the specific purpose. The
processing of this data is required for the proper administration of
our website and business, and in performing any contract between you
and us, such as ensuring you have access to site content and specific
purchased content.
Profile data may include your name,
address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender,
date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational
details and employment details. Profile data may be processed to
enable and monitor your use of our website and services for the
purpose[s] for which you provided it.
Program Data includes any personal data
you provide as part of engagement with any of our paid products and
services. This might include your answers to questions, quizzes,
polls, group discussions or other program submissions.
Usage data is data collected about your
use of our website and services]. This may include your IP address,
geographical location, browser type and version, operating system,
referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation
paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern
of your use of our website or service. We access this usage data via
our analytics tracking systems, including Google Analytics. No
personally identifiable information is used.
Service data may be processed [for the
purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring
the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our
databases and communicating with you.
Publication data includes information
you post for publication on our website or through our free services.
Communication & Support data - is
contained in any communication you submit to us for any purpose. This
information may be processed for the purpose to responding to your
communication, resolving any requests for service or support, or for
the purpose of offering, marketing, selling and supporting relevant
goods and/or services to you.
This may include the communication content and
metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate
the metadata associated with communications made using the website
contact forms. Correspondence data may be processed for the purposes
of communicating with you and record-keeping; ensuring the proper
administration of our website and business and communications with
uses.
Transaction data – we process data
relevant to completing a transaction to provide you with paid products
and services. We do not have access to any data that forms the payment
part of the transaction. This is performed by secure third parties to
ensure maximum protection of your payment data. The transaction data
we process includes only that for the purpose of supplying the
requested product or service. This may include your contact details,
transaction details and delivery details.
Subscription Data – we process data you
provide when subscribing to our notifications and newsletters.
We may process any of your personal data
identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment,
exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or
in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for
this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and
assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights
of others.
We may process any of your personal data
identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of
obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or
obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is
our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business
against risks.
In addition to the specific purposes for which we
may process your personal data set out above, we may also process any
of your personal data where such processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in
order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of
another natural person.
Please do not supply any other person's personal
data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
We do not collect the following types of
sensitive data:
- Race or ethnic origin
- Political opinions
- Religious or philosophical beliefs
- Trade union memberships
- Genetic or biometric data
- Health or mortality
- Sex life or sexual orientation
However, if you submit such information as part
of a post or comment in any format on our Site, it will be retained in
full context of data your provided, and only for the purpose that you
provided it. You have full control as to whether you use your real
personal identity information or an avatar name to sign your
submissions.
3. Usage of Personal Data
How does the Site use personal data?
We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site,
to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and
selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Authorized
Customers about opportunities or information related to the subject
matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information
to contact Visitors and Authorized Customers in response to specific
inquiries, or to provide requested information.
Providing
your personal data to others
We may disclose your personal data to any member
of our group of companies (including our holding company and its
subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the
legal bases, set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal data to our
insurers and/or professional advisers only insofar as reasonably
necessary for the purposes of [obtaining or maintaining insurance
coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the
establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court
proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
We may disclose specific data to our suppliers
and subcontractors only as reasonably necessary for delivering our
products and services to you.
We will share transaction data with our payment
services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of
processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with
complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
Where you have elected for us to do so, we may
disclose your data to selected third party suppliers of goods and
services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to
contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant
goods and/or services. In each instance, the third party will act as a
data controller in relation to the data that we supply to it; and upon
contacting you, each third party will supply to you a copy of its own
privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your
personal data.
Information shared with third party advertising companies
We use Google Adsense to serve ads when you
visit our Sites. These companies may use cookies, which are designed
to improve your online experience. Google may use information
(but NOT your name, address, email address, or telephone number)
about your visits to our Sites to allow them to serve advertisements
about goods and services that will be more relevant to you. Google
Adsense uses the DoubleClick DART cookie. You can opt
out of using this cookie, click
here.
Who else do you share my personal data with?
Personal data about Authorized Customers may
be shared with other Authorized Customers who wish to evaluate potential
transactions with other Authorized Customers. We may share aggregated
information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our
Visitors and Authorized Customers, with our affiliated agencies
and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to "opt out"
of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency
acting on our behalf.
What partners or service providers have access to personal data from Visitors and/or Authorized Customers
on the Site?
Electrosmart has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships
and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may
have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a
need to know basis for evaluating Authorized Customers for service
eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover their collection
or use of this information. Disclosure of Personally Identifiable
Information to comply with law. We will disclose Personally Identifiable
Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or
a request from a law enforcement agency to release information.
We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably
necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorized Customers.
4. Storage & Transfer of Data
How is personal data stored?
Personal data collected by Electrosmart is
securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees
of Electrosmart except for use as indicated above.
How is other information used?
We may use other technologies to capture specific data, such as
the pages you view, the items you download, the links you click,
your access times, and your Internet Protocol (IP) address, domain
name, and system configurations and settings, to help us understand
how you use our site, serve you relevant content, and to assist
you with questions you may have regarding our products and services.
International transfers of your personal data
Our group companies have offices in Australia and
New Zealand. Our websites are hosted in, and data collected by our
websites and online services is held and processed in the United
States of America. Data for analytical purposes may also be processed
in either Australia or New Zealand, or at the location of any
third-party analytical service we engage.
Transfers between these countries will be
protected by appropriate safeguards, namely [the use of standard data
protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a
copy of which can be obtained from [source].
You acknowledge that personal data that you
submit for publication through our website or services may be
available, via the Internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the
use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
5. Links
This web site contains links to other web sites. Please note that when you click
on one of these links, you are moving to another web site. We have
not reviewed these third-party sites and do not control them. We
encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites
as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
Links to
third-party websites from this website are provided solely as a
convenience to you. Electrosmart does not assume responsibility
for any of these sites, their content, or their privacy policies.
This Site does not endorse or make any representations about them
or any information, software or other products or materials found
there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you
decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this site, you
do so at your own risk.
Commercial Links
Some links are to commercial products, which
we at Electrosmart may gain an affiliate commission. In addition,
some pages may display advertisements from Google or Amazon.com.
We may, or may not gain advertising revenue, or product revenue
from users clicking on these links. Electrosmart has no liability
and makes no warranty as to the suitability or quality of these
products, unless expressely stated by us.
6. Cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a
string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web
browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back
to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or
"session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser
and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the
user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will
expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information
that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we
store about you may be linked to the information stored in and
obtained from cookies.
Are cookies used on the site?
Cookies are used on this Site for a number of reasons - to obtain
information about your preferences and the services you select.
We also use Cookies for security purposes to protect you; for example,
if an Authorized Customer is logged on and the site is unused for
more than 10 minutes, we will automatically log the Authorized Customer
off.
Cookies that we use
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication - to identify you when you visit
our website and as you navigate our website.
- status - to help us to determine if you are
logged into our website.
- personalization - to store information about your
preferences and to personalize the website for you
- security - as part of security measures used to
protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login
credentials, and to protect our website and services generally
- advertising - we use cookies to help us to
display advertisements that will be relevant to you
- analysis - to help us to analyze the use and
performance of our website and services; and
- consent - to store your preferences in relation
to the use of cookies more generally
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those
cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our
website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by
means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is
used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy
policy is available at:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
We publish Google AdSense interest-based
advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect
your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your
behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using
cookies.] OR [We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website.
To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our
website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This
behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you
see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish
interest-based advertisements on our website).] You can view, delete
or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting:
https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the
AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the
Network Advertising Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out
mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from
your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an
opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish
to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at:
https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept
cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from
browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however
obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via
these links:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
(Chrome);
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(Firefox);
http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(Internet Explorer);
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
(Edge).
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact
upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will
not be able to use all the features on our website.
How does Electrosmart use login information?
Electrosmart uses login information, including, but not limited
to, IP addresses, ISPs, and browser types, to analyze trends, administer
the Site, track a user's movement and use, and gather broad demographic
information. Occasionally, we may create a unique web URL link for
certain visitors. If you visit one of these sites, you may find
forms that are already filled out with your name, or other types
of information you have previously indicated an interest in, based
on information you have given us before. We may also personalize
the content of newsletters, e-mail offers, invitations.
7. Maintenance of Personal Data
How does the site keep personal data secure?
All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices
and agree to be bound by them as part of their employement contract.
The Personally Identifiable Information of our Visitors and Authorized
Customers is only accessible to a limited number of qualified employees
who are given a password in order to gain access to the information.
We audit our security systems and processes on a regular basis.
Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or social security
numbers, is protected by specialized third parties using encryption
protocols to protect information sent over the Internet. While we
take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site,
electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering
and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events
will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorized
Customers for any such occurrences.
Retaining
and deleting personal data
Sets out our data retention policies and
procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our
legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of
personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or
purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that
purpose or those purposes. Personal data may be stored for longer
periods solely for archiving purposes in the public interest,
scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
In some cases, it is not possible for us to
specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be
retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention
based on the type of data, as defined in Section 3 above, and the
potential need for future use.
We may retain your personal data where such
retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which
we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the
vital interests of another natural person.
How can Visitors correct any inaccuracies in personal data?
Visitors and Authorized Customers may contact us to update Personally
Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies
by logging into the site or their account, or by emailing our
Data Security Officer.
Can a Visitor delete or deactivate personal data collected by the Site?
We provide Visitors and Authorized Customers with a mechanism to
delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from the Site's
database by unsubscribing links. However, because of backups and
records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor's
entry without retaining some residual information. An individual
who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated
will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not
sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifiable Information relating
to that individual in any way moving forward.
Data location
Electrosmart operates internationally. Personal information collected
on our site may be transferred across state and country borders
and stored or processed in the United States or any other country
in which Electrosmart, its subsidiaries, affiliates or business
units maintain facilities for the purposes of data consolidation,
storage, and simplified customer information management. By using
this website, you consent to any such transfer of information outside
of your country of residence. We make every effort to ensure that
our website hosting services abide by the Safe Harbor Principles,
please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's website at
http://export.gov/safeharbor/.
8. Your Rights
Your principal rights under data protection law
relate to:
- access to personal data held about you
- the right to rectify or erase personal data
held in our system;
- the right to object to and/or restrict
processing of your personal data, including portability;
- the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
- the right to withdraw consent for use of your personal data.
Providing the rights and freedoms of others are
not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The
first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may
be subject to a reasonable fee.
Access - you can access your personal account and
profile data when logged into our website or online products and
services as appropriate.
Rectify - you have the right to have any
inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account
the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data
about you completed.
Erasure - in some circumstances you have the
right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. This
includes: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the
purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you
withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the
processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the
processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data
have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the
right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is
necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and
information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the
establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Restrict Processing - In some circumstances you
have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those
circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data;
processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the
personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require
personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal
claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification
of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis,
we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only
otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment,
exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights
of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public
interest.
Objection to Processing - You have the right to
object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to
your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis
for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the
performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the
exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of
the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you
make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal
information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds
for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms,
or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of
legal claims.
You have the right to object to our processing of
your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling
for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will
cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
You have the right to object to our processing of
your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or
statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation,
unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task
carried out for reasons of public interest.
To the extent that the legal basis for our
processing of your personal data is either (a consent; or (b) that the
processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you
are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering
into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated
means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a
structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this
right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and
freedoms of others.
Complaints - if you consider that our processing
of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have
a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state
of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the
alleged infringement.
Withdrawal of Consent - where the legal basis for
our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the
right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect
the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation
to your personal data by written notice to us.
9. Amendments
What happens if the privacy policy changes?
If there are updates to the terms of
service' online Privacy Statement,
we will post those changes here and update the revision date in
this document. If we change our policy in any way that might cause
disclosure of Personal Data that a Visitor
or Authorized Customer has previously disclosed, we will display
this on our site for a one month period following the change.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure
you are happy with any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of any significant changes to
this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our
website, should we hold that contact information.
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This privacy policy includes some sections based on a template provided by SEQLegal(https://seqlegal.com).
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This policy was last updated 22 May 2018
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