Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by Sharp Web Services via the website located at sharpwebservices.com.au (our website). It may change at any time without notice and we encourage you to check this site frequently during your usage.
How to contact us about privacy
Your privacy is very important to us. For that reason, please read the following details carefully and get in contact with us if you have any questions. You can contact us at sharpwebservices.com.au/contact.
Collection and Purpose
We may collect personal information from you in the course of your website experience if you input any personal information into the website. In addition, we also collect cookies from your computer, which enables us to tell when you use the website and also to help customise your website experience.
The purpose for which we collect personal information is to provide you with the best service experience possible on the website. Some provision of personal information is optional. However, if you do not provide us with certain types of personal information, you may be unable to enjoy the full functionality of the website.
This Privacy Policy applies to our collection and use of your personal information (i.e. information about an identified or reasonably identifiable individual, such as full name or name and postal address). We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) in relation to the handling of personal information. Where appropriate we will handle personal information relying on the media exemption (and complying with the Australian Press Council Privacy Standards), related bodies corporate exemption and the employee records exemption in the Act. This Privacy Policy will not address issues around personal information and its collection and use in the course of journalism and for details on this, you should refer to the Australian Press Council Privacy Standards at https://www.presscouncil.org.au/privacy-principles.
Disclosure
We customarily disclose personal information only to our service providers who assist us in operating the website. We will only disclose personal information to an unrelated third party with your consent.
Opt Out
If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, our emails will have the option to do so, if this does not work, or is not included, please contact us on the details above.
Access and correction
National Privacy Principle 6 of the Australian Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) allows you to get access to, and correct, the personal information we hold about you in certain circumstances. If you would like to obtain such access, please contact us on the details set out above.
Security
We have processes in place to ensure the security of your personal information, including encryption of all data when it is transferred to our service providers and limitations on access to personal information within our organisation.
Transfer out of Australia
The website, or data on or entered into it, may not now, or in the future be hosted in Australia. For that reason, we reserve the right, and you specifically agree that all data on the website (including all personal information) may be transferred to and held in any other country in our absolute discretion acting reasonably. You hereby consent to this transfer.
What information do we collect?
We collect the personal information we consider reasonably necessary to perform the services and facilities on our website and for our business operations. If you choose not to provide certain personal information to us, we may not be able to provide you with the services you require. The following are the main types of personal information collected by our website and the main purposes for which they are collected. Registration Information is the information you provide to our website in the course of registering for or acquiring a service offered on our website, for example, to create an account, become a subscriber, become an advertiser, post comments, receive a newsletter, or enter a competition. Registration Information may include, for example, name, delivery or postal address, email address, phone number, gender and birthday. It includes additional information which you provide to our website in the course of that relationship. Where possible you may have the option of interacting with us anonymously.
Information you post on our website that is not specifically referred to as being confidential will be marked as Public Information. We urge you to consider what information you may post as Public Information and protect your privacy as you see fit.
Information from third party Social Media. If you access or log-in to our website through a third party social media service, the information we collect may also include your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, any information or content you have permitted the third party social media service to share with us, such as your profile picture, email address, followers or friends lists, and any information you have disclosed in connection with that social media service. We do not collect your passwords other than in relation to our own services. When you access our website through third party social media services, you are authorising us to collect, store, use and disclose such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Activity Information – cookies and other technologies. When you access and interact with our website, we may collect certain information about those visits. For example, in order to permit your connection to our website, our servers (or those of third party providers selected by us) receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser, including potentially your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access our website from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geolocation data, or other transactional information from that device.
Third parties that support our website by serving advertisements or providing services, such as allowing you to share content or tracking aggregate our website usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect similar information. Our website does not control these third-parties and their use is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties using such technologies. Please consult your internet service provider and/or browser for more information.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Even after you cancel your account, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security or other policies. We do not always completely remove or delete all of your information for a number of reasons including due to technical and systems constraints, contractual, financial or legal requirements.
Personal Information
We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (such as information related to racial or ethnic origin, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through our website or otherwise. If, contrary to this request, you do provide any sensitive information, in doing so you consent to us collecting and handling that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.