Privacy Policy
This document sets out the Privacy Policy for Hunter Signs. Please note that during the relationship we have with you, we may provide further information as to how we handle your information. Please visit our website regularly, as our privacy policy may be updated from time to time. Hunter Signs is committed to safeguarding your privacy online and ensuring you receive the best customer service. Hunter Signs is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), upon which the following information is based.
This Privacy Policy explains Hunter Signs privacy practices in relation to its website huntersigns.com.au. In some cases, Hunter Signs website may link or refer you to other websites or organisations, which have their own privacy policy and practices. Please read the following statement to learn more about how Hunter Signs manages your personal Information.
1. Collection and Gathering of Information
We may collect information about you and your interactions with us (e.g. when you request or use our products and/or services, phone us, visit our website, fill in an online form or visit any of our social media sites). When you use our website, we may collect information about your activity including IP address, location, telephone number and whether you’ve accessed third party sites. Some of this website information we collect using Cookies.
A “cookie” is a packet of information stored on your computer that allows our server to identify and interact more effectively with your computer. The personal information we collect from you may include your identity and contact details, as well as other personal details such as gender.
We may collect information about you from others, such as service providers. We may collect information about you that is publicly available, for example from public registers, social media, or made available by third parties.
2. Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or Affiliated Parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, the site, the users of the site, and/or our Affiliated Parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the site, us, or third parties.
3. Sharing of Your Information
We may on occasion hire other companies to provide services on our behalf, including but not limited to:
- processing transactions
- customer logistical and freight requirements
Companies carrying out a service on behalf of Hunter Signs will be permitted to only obtain the personal information that is required to deliver the service. Hunter Signs takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations, to assist in protecting your personal information.
4. Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain websites write to your computer’s hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited.
5. Browser Level Information
Hunter Signs web-servers automatically collect information about a site user’s IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user’s browser (information provided by every user’s browser). This information is automatically logged by most websites.
6. Use of Information
The information collected via online forms or by browser type will only be used by Hunter Signs.
For each visitor to our website, we collect non-personal identifiable information, which includes, but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed whilst browsing the site, page access times and referring website address.
The information collected is used solely for internal purposes and is used to gauge visitor traffic, trends, as well as delivering personalised content to you while you are navigating the site. On occasions, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change for some reason in the future, our privacy policy will reflect these changes on our website and any data collected from the time of the policy change forward, will adhere to our updated practices.
The reason we collect information, is so that we may:
- Establish your identity and provide you with a high level of customer service
- Manage our relationship with you
- Conduct business and respond to enquiries
- Identify and tell you of other products and/or services that may be relevant to you
- Improve our business and customer experience
- Comply with any legal obligations
We may also collect, use and exchange your information in other ways where permitted by law.
- Direct Marketing
If you do not wish to receive direct marketing, you can ask us not to contact you by contacting us using one of the methods in section 10 of our privacy policy.
7. Keeping your Personal Information Secure
All information sent to the Hunter Signs website is held on secure database.
8. Accessing Your Information
You have the right to access your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be asked to put your request in writing for security reasons.
There is no fee for making the initial request, but in some cases, there may be an access charge to cover the time spent locating, compiling and explaining the information you ask for. The fees will be outlined to you prior to Hunter Signs starting.
We will try to make your information available within 30 days of your request but note that we will need to confirm your identity before releasing the information.
It is important that Hunter Signs have the correct details on hand, which include such things as your address and telephone number. You can update your details by phoning us. Please see section 10 for contact details. From time to time, you may receive communication (e.g. phone call, email or letter) asking you to confirm your information. This ensures that our systems are up to date and reduces the risk of inaccurate information on our systems.
9. Your Consent
By using our website, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
10. Privacy Complaints
If you have any queries and/or complaints regarding your privacy, you have the right to make a complaint, which will be handled by Hunter Signs.
- How to make a complaint
In the first instance in which you would like to make a complaint, please get in touch with Hunter Signs. Details of your complaint will be recorded, and we will endeavour to remedy it straight away.
- Contact Details
Phone: (02) 4964 1200
Fax: (02) 4966 0290
Online: www.huntersigns.com.au
Email: reception@huntersigns.com.au
Mail: Hunter Signs, 7/13 Hartley Drive, Thornton NSW 2322
- How complaints are handled
Generally, it will only take a few days to resolve a complaint. However, as a guide we aim to resolve complaints within a period of 30 days. In the instance where more time is required, we will contact you to explain why and discuss a timeframe to resolve the complaint.
11. Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy will be amended and updated from time to time. The date on the bottom of this page indicates when this Policy was last updated.
Updated: 15 February 2019