Our Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected by us at For Mae Collective. This policy covers how and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and what controls you have over our use of it. We are committed to complying with our obligations under the Australian Privacy laws and to protecting and safeguarding your privacy when you deal with us.
Personal Information Collected
To carry on our business and provide our services, we may need to collect personal information from customers, contractors and other third parties, and we will only collect such information if it is necessary for one of our business functions or activities. The personal information we collect includes names and contact details, however no financial information will ever be collected by us. Specific circumstances in which we collect such personal information is outlined below:You may deal with us anonymously only if it is reasonably practicable for us to deal with you acting anonymously, or using a pseudonym.
Direct Marketing
From time to time, we may use information collected from you for the purposes of direct marketing, which forms part of our function and business activity and which promotes the products and services we provide to you. Direct marketing includes, but is not limited to, sending to you and/or contacting you in relation to discounts, promotions and information about our products and services. You may opt out anytime by clicking on the relevant opt out link in our direct marketing correspondence to you, or by contacting us.
Our website may contain links to third party websites, which may collect personal information from you. We encourage users of our website to be aware especially when they are leaving our website, and to read the privacy statements and policies of third party websites linked to our website. We are not responsible for collection of personal information from third party websites.
Security and Storage of Personal Information
We place great importance on the security and storage of your personal information. The personal information we collect from you is stored securely on our servers in controlled facilities to protect against misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. When personal information collected from you is no longer required by us, it is de-identified or destroyed securely. If we have collected your contact details, we will retain the same for verifying your identity and any transactions, as well as legal and accounting purposes. If we have stored your personal information in our computer systems, then this can only be accessed by those entrusted with authority, and computer network password sanctions. As no transmission of data online can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot warrant the security of transmission of any data, therefore users of our website do so at their own risk. Upon transmission, we make every reasonable effort to ensure security and storage of your personal information on our systems. It is your responsibility to keep account information and passwords secret. You should act responsibly when using our website.
We commit and take reasonable steps to maintain complete, accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about our clients, customers and website users. You can gain access to or correct the information collected by us by putting in a request and submitting proof of identity to us via the contact form. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time up to thirty (30) days. Upon receiving your request and valid proof of identity, we will provide you with access to or correct the information collected from you as requested. If we reach a decision to not provide you with access to or correct the information collected from you, we will provide you with reasons.
Complaints Process
If you wish to contact us to make a complaint about our Privacy Policy or our collection, use, storage or retention of your personal information, you should first contact us. We will promptly investigate your complaint and find ways to help you address your concerns. Should you not be satisfied with the outcome of this, or we have not responded to you with a determination within thirty (30) days of contacting us, then you may wish to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
We do not usually transfer personal information from you collected overseas, however if we ever need to, we will do so insofar as it is permitted by law.
How Personal Information is Collected
When you visit our website, we collect information about you using internet files. Our system will document your IP address, date and time you visit our website, pages you view and information you download. This information will only be used for site analysis and to help us provide you with improved online services.
To ensure that our website can carry out the functions that you expect when you visit, we manage our website by using technology commonly referred to as “cookies”. Cookies are small pieces of data that our website sends and stores in your web browser that we can refer to later. They are either necessary for the functioning of our services, helping us improve our performance, giving you extra functionalities, or helping us to serve you relevant and targeted ads. We use cookies and similar technologies that only remain on your device for as long as you keep your browser active (session) and cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device for a longer period (persistent). You are free to block, delete, or disable these technologies if your device permits so. You can manage your cookies and your cookie preferences in your browser or device settings.