Privacy Policy
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information. Personal information (or personal data) is any information about an identifiable individual. Processing is how we refer to the handling, collecting, protecting or storing of personal information.
We collect, hold and process personal information from actual and prospective customers, suppliers, employees, job applicants, contractors and other individuals. We collect and hold this information for our necessary business purposes.
The type of personal information we collect, hold and process includes:
– Contact details (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address and job title).
– Professional details (e.g. job and career history, education background and professional memberships, published articles, social media details).
– Financial information (e.g. tax, payroll, superannuation, bank details).
– Identification documents (e.g. tax file number or other government-issued identification numbers)
– General user information and location-based data such as internet protocol addresses, browser type and internet service provider details and other technical information when you visit our associated websites.
Reasons for processing Personal Information
We collect and use personal information to operate our business and provide our products and services for reasons such as: delivering products and services to our clients; employment; marketing as permitted by law, marketing through emails, newsletters or promotional materials, and to analyse our marketing activities and conduct surveys.
Why we need Personal Information
We collect, hold and process personal information for business purposes:
– Promoting our services, products and capabilities to existing and prospective customers
– Sending invitations and providing access to guests attending our events and webinars or our sponsored events
– Personalising online landing pages and communications we think would be of interest
– In relation to the employment of our staff, providing internal services, seeking qualified candidates, and assessing candidate applications
– Processing online requests, including responding to requests for proposals and quotations
– Complying with any requirements of law or regulation
– Compiling health and safety data (directly or indirectly) following an incident or accident. Indirect data can take many forms including an incident report, first aider report, and witness statements.
– Collecting health data to assess, monitor and control spread of infectious diseases and to provide a safe environment for our staff, customers and suppliers.
– For other purposes related to our business
Your personal information will not be used for other purposes unless we obtain your consent to the secondary use, or the secondary use is required or permitted by law.
We may collect, hold and use personal information about individuals to market our services, including by email. If you opt-in for particular services or communications, such as an e-newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in each communication.
How we collect Personal Information
Directly – We obtain Personal Information directly in a number of ways, including from individuals who provide us with their business cards, complete our online forms, subscribe to our newsletters, register for webinars, attend meetings or events we host, attend meetings we attend but do not host (such as trade shows), visit our offices or for recruitment purposes.
Indirectly – we may obtain your Personal Information indirectly from a number of sources, including publicly available sources, our clients, recruitment, third-parties or suppliers
From public sources – Personal information may be obtained from public registers, government agency publications, news articles, internet searches and social media sites.
Cookies
Like many sites, we use cookies. Where cookies are used, a statement will be sent to your browser explaining the use of cookies. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.
Sharing Personal Information with third-parties
The information you provide to us will only be shared with third-parties to the extent necessary to carry out our business or where we are required to disclose that information by law or for safety reasons, or with your consent or as otherwise stated in this privacy statement.
Security and retention of Personal Information
We have security policies and procedures in place to protect our information, customer information and Personal Information from loss, unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure or misuse. Despite our best efforts, security cannot be guaranteed against all threats. To the best of our ability, access to your personal information is limited to those who need to know. Those individuals who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information.
We retain Personal Information for as long as is necessary for the processing purposes for which the information was collected, and any other permissible, related purpose.
Links to other Sites
Our website and social media pages may contain links to other sites that are not governed by this privacy statement. We encourage users to review the privacy statement of each site or page before disclosing any personal information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@wire8digital.com