Privacy Policy
Aussie Habitat Homes respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we collect, use, store, and disclose your personal data when you use our site, visit our office, or interact with us in other ways, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This service is operated by Aussie Habitat Homes, located at 215 Swanston Street, Level 5, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia.
1. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address (though we will not use this for direct contact according to these instructions), and telephone numbers (though we will not use these for direct contact according to these instructions).
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this service.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our site, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences (though we will adhere to restrictions on contact methods as per these instructions).
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
2. How is Your Personal Data Collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
- Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone (though we will not use these for communication as per these instructions) or in person. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- request information about our services;
- apply for our services;
- enter into a contract for services;
- give us feedback.
- Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our site, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
We use your data to:
- Register you as a new customer.
- Provide the services you have requested.
- Manage our relationship with you, including processing payments and communicating about the services.
- Administer and protect our business and this service (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).
- Use data analytics to improve our site, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences.
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with external third parties such as:
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
- Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
5. International Transfers
We do not transfer your personal data outside of Australia.
6. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
8. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
You can exercise these rights by writing to us at the address provided below. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
9. Cookies
Our site may use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
10. Third-Party Links
This service may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
11. Children's Privacy
This service is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
12. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 25 June 2024.
13. Contact Details
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, you can contact us by writing to:
Aussie Habitat Homes215 Swanston Street
Level 5
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia