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Buyblitz.com Pty Ltd (ACN 120 200 222) (“Buyblitz”, “we” or “us”) and its related entities are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy in accordance with this Privacy Policy and relevant laws. In particular, we will not sell your personal information to third parties, although in some circumstances we may share your information as described in Section 3 below. This Policy expresses our approach to complying with Australian privacy laws and applies to personal information collected by us via the BuyBlitz.com website or otherwise.
You must not register with us or sign up to any service available via our website if you do not accept this Privacy Policy and the applicable Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy is incorporated in and forms part of the Terms of Use.
PayPal, registered merchants and other third parties may require your personal information in order to supply goods or services advertised via the Buyblitz.com website and their privacy policies may also apply. We do not take any responsibility for personal information collected by any third party.
If you are under the age of 16 you are not eligible to use the Buyblitz.com website, so please do not submit any personal information via this site.
1. Information Buyblitz will collect
When registering with us you must provide us with personal information, such as your name, addresses, email address, current phone number(s), and usernames and passwords for accessing the Buyblitz.com website and offered services.
If you do not provide the personal information requested, we may not be able to provide access to the Buyblitz.com website or offer services to you.
We will also collect the IP address of your computer, to help us in detecting unauthorised transactions and to better manage website traffic. Our system uses “cookies” (small data files stored on your computer) to help manage your use of our site, including recognising you as a regular user avoiding the need to re-register each time you visit the Buyblitz.com website and from re-entering your password if you move between different pages on the site and storing your preferences.
From time to time competitions or surveys may be offered by us, merchants or authorised third parties. Participation in these is optional, and information collected will only be used in accordance with the relevant conditions of each competition or survey.
2. Purposes for which Buyblitz will use personal information
Where practicable, we will identify the purposes for which we collect personal information at or before the time the information is collected (including via this Privacy Policy). We will use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed at the time of collection or as otherwise set out in this Privacy Policy, unless we have your consent to other use or such other use is authorised or required by law.
Generally, we collect personal information from you for the following purposes:
(a) to provide services to you, to promote and market our services to you and to improve those services;
(b) to enable merchants registered with us to provide goods and services to you and to promote and market their goods and services to you via Buyblitz.com (end users only);
(c) to maintain commercial relations with you and to communicate with you (which may include: provision of services, billing, collection, advertising, promotions and account verification);
(d) to identify your needs and/or preferences;
(e) to meet legal and regulatory requirements;
(f) to administer, maintain, manage and improve our business operations; and
(g) as otherwise required or permitted by law.
3. Disclosure and retention of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to:
(a) merchants registered with us for the provision of goods or services ordered by you from such merchants and promotion to you of goods or services that such merchants believe may be of interest to you;
(b) our legal, financial and other professional advisers;
(c) any person or company involved in the provision, development, operation, promotion, marketing or enhancement of the Buyblitz.com website or other services;
(d) credit reporting and collections agencies;
(e) government authorities or other organisations;
(f) any person who, in our reasonable opinion, is your agent or legal representative;
(g) our third party contractors and affiliates for administrative purposes (for example, billing, marketing, telephone support etc.);
(h) any person or company involved in the protection against, monitoring of, investigation of or action against unauthorised or fraudulent transactions;
(i) our related entities; and
(j) other third parties upon receiving your consent, or as required by law.
We may also disclose your personal information in connection with a sale, transfer or reorganisation of one or more of our or our related entities’ businesses.
You acknowledge and agree that disclosures by us may in some cases be to recipients outside of Australia.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the fulfilment of these purposes or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
We operate servers secured using industry standard techniques to process and store personal information. However, to the extent permitted by law we do not accept responsibility for the security of personal information transmitted over the internet, or the unauthorised access to or use of personal information.
The security of your information also relies on password protection. Do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you to send your password or other sensitive information to us in an email or to enter it via any website other than one with an URL beginning with http://www.buyblitz.com.
We or our authorised third parties may track your usage of our websites. Our websites may provide hyperlinks to third party websites not controlled by us. We are not responsible for the collection, use, or disclosure of information collected through these third party web sites, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability related to such collection, use, or disclosure.
4. Contact with you
We may use your email address to contact you from time to time in relation to your Buyblitz.com registration, to send notices required by law, to provide information regarding the Buyblitz.com website or to investigate or resolve any complaint or suspicious transactions. We may also contact you by telephone for such purposes.
You will only receive promotional communications if you have elected to receive such communications. You can update your preferences at any time through the “Update My Details” link on Buyblitz.com.
5. Access to your personal information
You can update your personal information at any time through the “Update My Details” link on Buyblitz.com after login.
Also, on written request to our Privacy Officer at the address below we will provide you with the opportunity to access any personal information we hold about you. We may charge a reasonable fee to cover our costs in providing such access.
You may also ask us to update, amend or correct any personal information we hold about you, and we will take reasonable steps to comply with your request.
In certain cases, we may be entitled to refuse access to personal information we hold about you, or to refuse to update, amend or correct such information, in which case we will usually provide you with a reason for our decision.
6. Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns or would like further information in relation to this Privacy Policy or our use of your personal information, please contact Buyblitz’s Privacy Officer at:
Attention: Privacy Officer, Buyblitz.com Pty Ltd
PO Box 892, Bondi Junction NSW 1355
Telephone: (02) 9386 0690, 9am to 5pm Sydney time.
E-mail: privacyofficer@buyblitz.com or use the “Contact Us” form at www.buyblitz.com.
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time without notice. This policy was last updated on 20 October 2006.
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