PRIVACY POLICY

 

This Privacy Policy outlines the policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit through the website www.blackwoodbiz.com.au ( hereafter referred to as “this site”) owned and operated by the Blackwood Business Network ('Us', 'We'),. This includes "Personal Information," which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, e-mail address, user ID number, and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing, as well as "Anonymous Information," which is information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information and does not permit the identification of individual persons.

 

User Consent

By accessing or otherwise using this site, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information and Anonymous Information according to this Privacy Policy.

Your Personal Information may be processed and stored in other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Your Personal Information will not, however, be used or disclosed for purposes for which you have not given consent or which are not permitted under applicable law.

 

Regarding Children

Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use this site and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. (Refer to The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act  1998). Thus, if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user's Personal Information permanently from our databases. We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent’s permission before submitting information over the internet. By using this site, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years old and have a parent’s or guardian’s permission to use this site.

 

Collection of Information

Personal Information That You Provide

In general, we collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through this site. We also collect information that you submit in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on this site. For example, our registration and login process requires you to provide us with your name, valid email address and password of your choice. When you personalize your profile and use the features of this site, we will collect any information you voluntarily provide, and we may also request optional information to support your use of this site, such as your year of birth, gender and other demographic information. We collect information in the form of the content that you submit during your use of this site, such as photos, reviews, ratings and other information you choose to submit. We may also collect information about you and your friends who use this site, from any social network you may have connected from, in order to provide you with a more personalized experience. For instance, we may collect your user ID or profile information that you have permitted to be displayed through this site in order to display you as a friend or in association with your profile and collections. When you make any type of purchase, you will need to submit your credit card or other payment information so that our service providers can process your payment. When you sign up for, or win, any contests, sweepstakes, or other activities that may be made available on this site, we will collect the information designated along with such activity, which may include your contact information such as your address and phone number. If you choose to sign up to receive information about products or services that may be of interest to you, we will collect your email address and other related information. Additionally, we collect any information that you voluntarily enter, including Personal Information, into any postings, comments, or forums within the site community.

 

Personal Information From Other Sources

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with (collectively, "Partners") or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other Personal Information we have collected about you.

 

E-Mail and E-Mail Addresses

If you send an e-mail to us, or fill out our "Feedback" form through this site, we will collect your e-mail address and the full content of your e-mail, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use and display your full name and email address when you send an email notification to a friend through this site or the social network from which you have connected to this site (such as in an invitation, or when sharing your content). Additionally, we use your email address to contact you on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends you a personal message) or notifications from a social network or other website with whom you have registered to receive such notifications. We may use this e-mail address to contact you, for things such as notifications of updates to information held on our website, membership or events related information. You may indicate your preference to stop receiving further communications as further detailed below.

 

Information Collected Via Technology

As you use this site, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our or our service providers’ server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed, or on any advertisements that may be displayed on this site you clicked. This type of information is collected to make this site and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the experience with this site to meet your special interests and needs.

 

We engage in remarketing to market our sites across the web. When a user visits our site, a cookie is registered to that user. Users with this cookie may be targeted across advertising networks to receive relevant advertisements. You may opt out of this ad serving using sites that let you control what information is collected about you. These include Your Online Choices, Evidon Privacy Choice and Google’s Ads Preferences Manager. More information about how this process works can be found at the Australian Government’s Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at this link https://www.oaic.gov.au/individuals/privacy-fact-sheets/general/privacy-fact-sheet-4-online-behavioural-advertising-know-your-options.

 

An "Internet protocol address" or "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. For example, we, or our service providers, may track your IP Address when you access this site to assist with ad targeting.

 

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with this site. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through this site, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of this site may not work properly, and you may not be able to receive our services.

 

We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on this site. These advertisers and ad servers may use Cookies and/or "Web Beacons" (which are usually small, transparent graphic images) in order to monitor information related to served advertisements. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.

Use and Disclosure of Information

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share for marketing purposes the Personal Information that we collect with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

 

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us to provide you access to this site, to improve this site, to better tailor the features, performance, and support of this site and to offer you additional information, opportunities, promotions and functionality from us, our partners or our advertisers at your request. Additionally, we do share your content preferences and other information with the social network with which you have connected to this site, along with those companies and persons you have asked us to share your information with.

 

We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of this site and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service. We require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manner identified in this Privacy Policy, you may not use this site.

 

Additionally, we may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that would otherwise make the Anonymous Information personally identifiable to you. Generally, we aggregate this information and use it in statistical analysis to help us analyse patterns in the use of this site. This Privacy Policy does not limit our use or disclosure of any Anonymous Information in any way, and we reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties in our discretion.

 

We may share some or all of your Personal Information with this site affiliated and group companies that are under a common control, so that they may send daily deal e-mails to you, in which case we will require them to honour this Privacy Policy. Some of those companies may be located in countries that do not require an equivalent or greater level of protection of Personal Information.

 

In the event of a business transition such as a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that acquirer’s assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

 

We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with relevant laws or to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties. You hereby consent to us sharing your Personal Information under the circumstances described herein.

 

The Ability of Others to View Your Information

It is your responsibility to make sure you are comfortable with the information you choose to provide us and the information you choose to publish. You understand that when you use this site, certain information you post or provide through this site, such as your name, profile, comments, collections and reviews, may be shared with other users and posted on publicly available portions of this site, including without limitation, social media applications and other public fora in which you choose to participate. Please keep in mind that if you choose to disclose Personal Information when posting comments or other information or content through this site, this information may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others, including people outside of this site community. We will not have any obligations with respect to any information that you post to parts of this site available to others, and recommend that you use caution when giving out personal information to others through social media networks or otherwise.

Third Party Sites and Advertising

This site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage users to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through this site and does not apply to these third-party websites. The ability to access information of third-parties from this site, or links to other websites or locations, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-parties, their products, their services, other websites, locations or their content.

Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information

At any time you have the right to cease receiving promotional communications from us. When you receive promotional communications, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you will have the opportunity to "opt-out" by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly at enquire@blackwoodbiz.com.au.

We may, however, send you administrative emails regarding this site, including, for example, administrative and transactional confirmations, and notices of updates to our Privacy Policy if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.

You have the right to request a copy of the Personal Information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your Personal Information, please contact us at enquire@blackwoodbiz.com.au. We may charge a reasonable fee for this service. We want to make sure that your information is accurate and up-to-date. You may ask us to correct or remove information which you think is inaccurate. You may change any of your profile information by editing it in the profile settings page.

 

Feedback

Any feedback you provide via our site, may be used and disclosed by us for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property. We may use feedback for marketing purposes or to add to or modify our services without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.

 

Security

We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken significant steps to protect your Personal Information, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

 

Contact and Revisions

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: enquire@blackwoodbiz.com.au, This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision at our discretion which will become immediately effective, and if we make any substantial changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will post an alert on this page. If you object to any such changes, you must stop using this site. Continued use of this site following such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by them.

 

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