Who we are

We are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information. This policy outlines how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information following the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

Collection of personal information

We only collect personal information that is necessary for us to provide our products and services to you. This may include your name, address, phone number, email address, and other information you provide us.

Disclosure of personal information

  • We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:
  • To our service providers who assist us in providing our products and services to you;
  • To comply with legal obligations.
  • We will take reasonable steps to ensure that our service providers are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

Use of personal information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with our products and services;
  • To communicate with you about our products and services;
  • To improve our products and services;
  • To comply with legal obligations.

Security of personal information

We take the security of your personal information seriously and take reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.

Access and correction of personal information

You have the right to access and correct the personal information that we hold about you. If you would like to access or correct your personal information, please contact us using the contact details below.

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.

An anonymized 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who do we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where is your data sent?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us using the following contact details: sales@autoownit.com.au

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated Privacy Policy will be posted on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.