Privacy Policy
How we protect your personal data
About this policy
This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information that we collect through reneeotmar.com (the “website”) or directly from you, being the person, organisation or entity using our website (which we refer to as “you” or “your”).
We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles, which are set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). These principles govern how we collect, use, store, secure and/or dispose of your personal information.
Please read this policy carefully. By using this website, you indicate that you have had sufficient opportunity to access this Privacy Policy and that you have read and accepted it.
Amendments to this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended, including with changes, additions and deletions, from time to time at our sole discretion. Your continued use of our website following any amendments indicates that you accept the amendments.
You should check this Privacy Policy regularly, prior to providing personal information, to ensure you are aware of any changes, and only proceed to provide personal information if you accept the new Privacy Policy.
Collection and use of personal information
The type of information we collect may include your name, your contact details (including address, email address and mobile phone number), your preferences and opinions and any other information provided by you.
We collect and use such information for purposes including to:
- contact and communicate with you
- verify your identity
- respond to queries or feedback from you.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Comments may be checked through an automatic spam detection service.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We retain contact form entries and analytics records for 5 years.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Cookies are files stored in your computer’s browser to record your preferences. Cookies by themselves do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, once you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We may use web beacons on this website from time to time. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on a webpage to monitor visitors’ behaviours and to collect data about the visitors viewing that page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the number of users who visit a webpage, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.
Data analytics
We use Google Analytics and similar software and services to collect and process your data from time to time. Information about how Google uses your data is located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners or any other URL which Google may provide from time to time.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We do not and will not sell or deal in personal or customer information exchange.
We will never disclose your personal details to a third party except the necessary information required by providers of products or services you have purchased, or to protect the rights, property or safety of this website or that of third parties, or as required by applicable laws.
We may disclose personal information to:
- your authorised personal representatives or legal advisers, upon request by you to do so
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights
- third parties to collect and process data including but not limited to Google Analytics, which may include parties that store data outside of Australia.
Where we disclose your personal information to third parties for these purposes, we will request that the third party follow this Privacy Policy regarding the handling of your personal information.
Links and references to other websites
This website may contain links and references to other websites. We do not have any control over those websites. We are not responsible for, or liable for, the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such websites, and such websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Your rights and controlling your personal information
You may request details of personal information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. We may refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us by email. We will endeavour to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. Please note that we may require verification of your identity before releasing the requested information.
You have a right to request to be forgotten. If you wish to do this, you may click the unsubscribe link in our emails or request it by email, using the form on this page. However, this does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Privacy complaints
If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint about that breach, please contact us by email, setting out details of the breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing about the outcome of our investigation, the steps we propose to take to remedy the breach and any other action we will take to deal with your complaint.