This Website is operated by The Australian Wine Community (ABN 13 685 767 106) ("We", "Us").
We want you to feel confident using our Website, and providing us with personal information in relation to our Australian Wine Community Forum.
At various times when you visit our Website, we may ask you to provide us with personal information about you, in order to facilitate our supply of services regarding the Australian Wine Community Forum.
This Privacy Statement applies to our Website and how we collect and use personal information about you.
Security Measures
We take reasonable steps to protect the security of personal information (including cookie information) in accordance with this Privacy Statement and our Website Terms of Use. Unfortunately, no one can guarantee that data passing over the Internet will not be intercepted or used by unauthorised third parties. Accordingly, although we work hard to protect that information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us. Once we receive information that you have transmitted to us, we will take reasonable steps to preserve the security of that information in our own systems. However you should regularly check your computer equipment for Malware such as Spyware, Trojans or key loggers.
Purpose of the Data Collected
If you choose to submit personal information about yourself to us, you authorise us to collect, use, store and disclose that information in the manner and for the purposes contemplated by this Privacy Statement. If you choose not to provide all of the personal information we request from you, we may not be able to make some of the information on this Website available to you. Further, you also acknowledge that by providing all of the personal information we request from you does not guarantee you that any products and/or services listed on this Website will actually be available at the time you submit the information to us.
We will use personal information that you submit to us for the following purposes:
- to contact you for market research purposes;
- to monitor who is accessing the web site or using services offered on the web site;
- to send you information about us, our website, our products or services or products or services of our partners or advertisers that may be of interest to you;
- to send you information about special offers that may interest you;
- to personalise our website, products or services;
- for market research purposes or statistical analysis; and
- for security purposes.
The collection, storage, use and disclosure of personal information that we collect about you is governed by the terms of the Privacy Act 1988 (Australia).
Cookies
We use "cookies" to enable our Website to interact with your browser so as to provide you with better service and a more effective Website. "Cookies" are small text files that our web server places on your computer while you browse our Website. Our web server can later retrieve these cookies if you visit again.
Our web server allocates a "cookie" to each Internet browser that visits our Website. This cookie does not allow us to collect personally identifiable information about you. Our web server uses this cookie:
- to allocate an unique identification number to your Internet browser;
- to identify pages you have accessed on our Website;
- to determine if you have previously visited the Australian Wine Community Website; and
- to assist us to personalise our website for you.
If you wish to make full use of our Website, you should configure your browser to accept cookies.
Respecting Your Privacy
Your privacy is important to us.
If you complete an online form on our Website, the information you enter into the form will only be collected if you actually submit the form to us. If at any stage you choose not to submit the form, the information you have entered up to that point will not be collected by our web server.
Third Parties
We may disclose personal information that we collect from you to third parties, but only for the purposes identified on our Website, or to which you have consented, or if required to do so by law. If we provide any of your contact details to our contracted participants in our Australian Wine Community Forum who are responsible for providing products or services to you, we require those parties to agree to use that information only to fulfil that purpose.
Third party websites should contain their own privacy statements and the operators of those third party websites are responsible for their own privacy practices.
How We Handle Email
We may save any e-mail or other information that you send us, if we believe we have a legal requirement to do so. We may monitor e-mail message content for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected.
Your Rights and Disclosure
Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Australia), you have certain rights to access and request correction of personal information that we hold about you. Any such request, or any inquiry about our Privacy Statement, should be sent to us the following address: enquiries@winecommunity.com.au.
We may disclose your personal information including your name and contact details to any relevant authorities, parties and/or applicable intellectual property right holders (or their representatives) if we consider that you are in breach of our Website Terms of Use or any agreement that we have with you, and that disclosure is required for those parties to enforce our or their rights.
By becoming a member of the online forums that is hosted by us, or if you subscribe to a mailing list that we maintain (including an e-mail subscription list), you consent to our sending you commercial electronic messages. You can ask us to remove your name from an e-mail subscription list at any time by using the "unsubscribe" facility referred to in our message to you, or by sending us an e-mail with your details to enquiries@winecommunity.com.au. We will try to comply with that request as soon as we reasonably can. However you understand that sometimes we may have begun distributing a message before we can process that request, and in those circumstances you might still receive that message. Please note that if you unsubscribe, this may mean that you will also cease to be a member of the online forums that are hosted by us.
If you have accessed third party websites through our Website and if the operators of those third party websites collect information about you, we may also collect or have access to that information as part of our arrangements with those third parties.
Where you access a third party website from this Website, cookie information, information about your preferences or other information that you have provided about yourself may be shared between us and the third party. You usually cannot be identified from the information that is shared. If you can be identified from this information, we will seek your consent before sharing the information.
Third party websites should contain their own privacy statements and the operators of those third party websites are responsible for their own privacy practices.
Acceptance and Amendments to Privacy Policy
You acknowledge and accept that any use you make of our Website indicates your acceptance of our Website Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
This is our current Privacy Policy and replaces any Privacy Policy we have previously published on our Website. We may at any time and for any reason vary or replace our Privacy Policy by publishing the varied or replacement Privacy Policy on our Website. You accept that by doing this, we will have provided you with sufficient notice of the variation or replacement.
If you would like more information about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at enquiries@winecommunity.com.au.
If you are interested to know more about privacy issues and legislation in Australia we encourage you to visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner's website here.