INTRODUCTION
We, at B4TheWedding.com, respect your privacy and thus, employ best practices to secure, protect and ensure safety of your data stored with us or our affiliates under our control. We have drafted and published this Privacy Policy to inform you of how we protect the Personal Information that we Collect, Use, Disclose and how we try our best to keep it secure. It also covers how B4TheWeddingmakes the Personal Information it holds available for access to and correction by you. Please take a few minutes to review this Privacy Policy. It is your duty to keep yourself updated with our privacy policy. By using the B4TheWedding Website, you are consenting to the Collection, Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information by us as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
B4TheWeddingmay, in its sole discretion, update this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. Any changes will be effective when posted on the Website. Your continued use of the Website will indicate your acceptance of any changes to the Privacy Policy. All Personal Information, Collected both before and after any changes take effect, will be subject to the terms of the revised policy (for which you will be taken to have provided consent) unless you indicate otherwise by contacting B4TheWedding’s Chief Operating Officer. We urge you to refer back to this page regularly and especially prior to providing us with any Personal Information.
NO RESERVATIONS
We do not accept any reservation or any type of limited acceptance of our privacy policy. You expressly agree to each and every term and condition as stipulated in this policy without any exception whatsoever.
NO CONFLICT
The policy constitutes a part of the user terms. We have taken utmost care to avoid any inconsistency or conflict of this policy with any other terms, agreements or guidelines available on our website. In case there exists a conflict, we request you to kindly contact us for the final provision and interpretation.
DEFINITION
"Collect" means gather, acquire or obtain by a lawful and fair means, information in circumstances where the individual is identifiable or identified.
"DirectMarketing" involves the Use and/ or Disclosure of Personal Information to communicate directly with an individual to promote goods or services through written, verbal or electronic means of communication. The goods or services which are marketed may be those of B4TheWeddingor a Related Body Corporate or those of an independent third party organization.
"Disclosure" generally means the release of information outside B4TheWedding, including under a contract to carry out an "outsourced function."
"ExpressConsentConsequences" includes the fact that that we will not be accountable under the Privacy Act and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act in the event that you provide consent to the disclosure of your Personal Information by us to an overseas recipient and the overseas recipient handles your Personal information in breach of the Privacy Act.
"ExpresslyInformed" means the circumstance where we have provided you with a clear statement (either verbal or in writing) of the Express Consent Consequences.
"OptOut" means an individuals expressed request not to receive further Direct Marketing communications.
"PersonalInformation" means information that is not Sensitive Information, including information or an opinion (whether information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion. This includes, but is not limited to, an individual’s name, address, telephone number and email address.
"PrimaryPurpose" is the main reason for the Collection of any Personal Information.
"ReasonableExpectation" means a reasonable individual's expectation that their personal information might be Used or Disclosed for the relevant purpose.
"SecondaryPurpose" means a purpose of Use or Disclosure other than a Primary Purpose.
“Using” includes but is not limited to visiting, registering, buying, selling, listing, posting. Communicating through us, using vouchers and accessing the contents of website.
“Website" means the website of B4TheWedding, mobile application and related webpages.
Our Practices
1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information given by you
1.1 B4TheWedding collects Personal Information about customers, prospective customers and Website users which is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, one or more its functions or activities. We collect your Personal Information in several ways, including but not limited to:
a) The registration process on our Website;
During registration, we require the user to provide us with following information.
b) Other instances in which you provide Personal Information via our Website;
c) Over the phone.
1.2 Apart from registration, the Personal Information that we collect includes (but is not necessarily limited to): your first name, your last name and your email address.
1.3 If you wish to 'refer a friend' to B4TheWeddingthat friend must register themselves - we will not enter their Personal Information on their behalf.
1.4 At or before the time, or, if that is not practicable, as soon as practicable after, we Collect your Personal Information, we will notify you, by providing you with this Privacy Policy, or by notifying you of how you may access this Privacy Policy.
1.5 B4TheWeddingwill not Collect Personal Information secretly or in an underhanded way and will not sell your Personal Information to any third party.
Information Collected by Third Parties
1.6. Our website may contain certain third party links or advertisements. These third party links do not belong to B4TheWeddingand thus, we do not assume any liability for any loss or dispute arising out of the information entrusted to them by you.
1.7. We also reserve the right to promote our website and related content through other websites and blogs. These websites may or may not collect anonymous information about you. We shall not be held liable for any breach of loss of data arising out of the same. We do not share any personally identifiable data with these third party websites.
Information Shared During Transaction
1.9. You agree that you will enter into transactions with third parties through our website and will share your personally identifiable information with them for easy completion of the transaction. You hereby expressly agree that we shall not be involved or held liable for any breach of the privacy or security of that data. The said breach, if any, shall be a matter of dispute between you and the third party and we shall not be held liable or be issued a notice for the same.
1.10. We STRONGLY recommend that you should be careful and vigilant while disclosing your personally identifiable details with your transaction partner. Please do not disclose your bank and account details to anyone through our website or to any individual whom you have met through our website. Additionally, we request you not to disclose your wedding plans and venue to any of the freelancer unless you wish to engage the services of the said professional.
Automatic Collection of Information through Cookies
1.11. We accept that we collect certain information about the user through cookies and other related mechanisms. The information is purely technical in nature. The collection of the information is necessary for
1.12. We assure you that none of the information collected under this category are personally identifiable in nature. The data does not identify you personally through your name, contact, address or any other related information.
1.13. We maintain the right to use such information for market strategies, business research and internal surveys. We may use the information for advertising and related revenue purposes without any prior information.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION AND WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE IT
2.1B4TheWedding holds Personal Information which it has collected to Use and/or Disclose for its Primary Purposes, including but not limited to:
a) Promoting daily deals to you;
b) Answering your inquiry;
c) Sending you additional materials relating to B4TheWeddingand products and services that may be of interest to you; and
d) Providing you with effective customer service.
2.2 B4TheWeddingalso holds Personal Information which it uses and/or Discloses for purposes other than its Primary Purposes (Secondary Purposes). You provide your consent to us using and/or Disclosing your Personal Information for the following Secondary Purposes:
a) Billing and account management;
b) Business planning and product development;
c) Enabling us to better understand your needs and interests;
d) Improving the content, functionality and usability of our Website; e) improving our marketing and promotional efforts;
f) Displaying personalized advertising when you visit our Website;
g) For any other purpose identified in any other agreement between B4TheWeddingand you;
h) Issues, news or other information relevant to your dealings with B4TheWedding, or about B4TheWeddinggenerally, or the industries in which you or B4TheWeddingoperates; and
i) As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
2.3 B4TheWeddingmay Use and/or Disclose your Personal Information for any Secondary Purposes not included in this Privacy Policy if:
a) The Secondary Purpose is related to a Primary Purpose; and
b) You would have a Reasonable Expectation that we would Use the information for that Secondary Purpose.
2.4 From time to time we may disclose your Personal Information to organizations outside of B4TheWeddingin order to deliver the services you require. Your Personal Information is disclosed to these organizations only in relation to us providing our services to you. These organizations carry out, amongst other services, our:
a) Billing and debt- recovery functions;
b) Customer inquiries;
c) Information technology services;
d) Marketing services (including market research); e) website usage analysis; and
f) To support or facilitate any of those activities described in this Privacy Policy
2.4. We will take reasonable practicable steps to ensure that these organizations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your Personal Information.
2.6. If you post an offer, contest or bid, we will disclose your name, address and other information necessary to complete the order to the Seller on whose behalf the deal is advertised (the Seller). We will use reasonable endeavors to make sure that the Personal Information that we disclose to the Seller on your behalf is the minimum necessary to complete the order.
2.7 The Website uses social plugins (hereinafter "Plugins") of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (hereinafter "Facebook"). The plugins are marked by a Facebook logo or the words "Social Plug-in by Facebook" or "Facebook Social Plugin". Find an overview of the Facebook plugins and their appearance on http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. If you request a page of our website which contains a plugin, your browser will build up a direct connection to the servers of Facebook. Facebook directly transmits the content of the plugin to your browser and from there it is incorporated in the website. By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or if you are not logged into Facebook at the time. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to a Facebook server in the U.S. and stored there. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, by pressing the "Like" button or by leaving a comment, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and is stored there. The information is also posted on Facebook and can be seen by your Facebook friends. Facebook may use this information for purposes of advertising, market research and personalized design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates profiles regarding usage, interests and relationships, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide further related services with the use of Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to allocate the collected data via our website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before you visit our website. To find out more about the purpose and extent to which Facebook collects, processes and uses these data, your rights and the settings available to protect your privacy, please read the Facebook privacy policy.
3.DIRECT MARKETING
3.1 You consent to B4TheWedding Using and/or Disclosing any Personal Information Collected from you for Direct Marketing purposes, whether Collected via telephone, the Website, or otherwise, but subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
3.2 Unless otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the Privacy Act and the Spam Act, B4TheWeddingretains the right to Use and Disclose your Personal Information for Direct Marketing purposes:
a) That has been Collected from you in circumstances where:
i. You have provided consent to do so; or
ii. It is within your Reasonable Expectations; or
iii. Where it is impracticable to obtain your consent;
b) That has been Collected from any third party in circumstanceswhere:
i. you have provided consent to do so; or
ii. It is impracticable to obtain your consent.
3.3 In each Direct Marketing communication, we will include a:
a) Prominent statement appearing on the relevant piece of marketing material notifying you of your right to Opt Out from further Direct Marketing; and
b) Simple means for you to Opt Out of receiving further Direct Marketing communications of that kind.
3.4 Should you Opt Out, we will stop Using and/or Disclosing your Personal Information for Direct Marketing purposes.
3.5B4TheWeddingwill not Use your Sensitive Information for Direct Marketing purposes.
4. ENSURING INFORMATION IS ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE
We take reasonable precautions to ensure that the Personal Information we Collect, Use and Disclose is complete, relevant and up-to-date.
However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why we recommend that you:
a) Let us know if there are any errors in your Personal Information; and
b) Keep us up-to-date with changes to your Personal Information such as your name or address.
You may change your personal details by using the relevant facility on our Website or by contacting TheGourmet.com.au care of the contact details described in Point 12.
5.PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
5.1 B4TheWeddingwill take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Information from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorized access or disclosure. This may include taking reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify Personal Information once it is no longer needed for any purpose for which it may be used or Disclosed in accordance with Australian Privacy Principal 11.2, subject to the exceptions contained therein.
5.2 B4TheWeddingwill not attempt to match de-identified or anonymous data Collected through surveys or such online devices as "cookies", with information identifying an individual, without the consent of the relevant individual.
5.3 B4TheWeddingrequires employees and contractors to perform their duties in a manner that is consistent with B4TheWedding’s legal responsibilities in relation to privacy, including those in this Privacy Policy.
5.4 B4TheWedding will take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information is only accessible by people who have a genuine "need to know" as well as "right to know."
6. HOW YOU CAN ACCESS OR CORRECT YOUR INFORMATION
6.1 B4TheWeddingwill permit its records containing your Personal Information to be accessed by you when required by the Privacy Act. We may, however, refuse to provide you with access to your Personal Information if one or more of those matters contained in Australian Privacy Principle 12.3 -Access to Personal Information – applies, including but not limited to instances in which:
a) We reasonably believe that giving you access to your Personal Information would pose a serious threat to the life or to the health and safety of any individual (including you);
b)Giving access to the information would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of any other individual;
c) Your request for access is frivolous or vexatious or giving such access will be unlawful
6.2 If B4TheWeddingis satisfied that:
a) Having regard to the purpose for which the information is held, the information is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or irrelevant or misleading; or
b) You (as the person to whom the Personal Information relates) request that we correct the information;
c) We will take reasonable steps to correct our records containing your Personal Information as soon as practically possible in accordance with the Privacy Act.
6.3 If we have refused to grant you access to your Personal Information in accordance with Point 6.1 above, we will still take all reasonable steps to provide you with access to your Personal Information in a way that meets both your needs and our needs.6.4 If you:
a) Wish to lodge a request to access and/or correct your Personal Information; or
b) Have been refused access to your Personal Information by us for any reason described in this Policy and you wish to challenge that refusal; you may do so by contacting B4TheWedding’s Chief Operating Officer as per the details in in Point 12.
6.5 B4TheWeddingwill not normally charge a fee for processing an access request unless the request is complex or is resource intensive. B4TheWedding does, however, reserve the right to charge an administration fee if an individual requests access to their Personal Information more than once in a three month period.
6.6 Where B4TheWeddingoffers online account management facilities, customers can use this capability to control aspects of their account, including amending or updating certain Personal Information.
7. OPENNESS
7.1 B4TheWedding's Chief Operating Officer will be the first point of contact for inquiries about privacy issues. If you wish to make an inquiry or complaint regarding privacy you should do so by contacting this office as per the details in Section 13.
7.2 You will find that B4TheWeddingWebsite contains a prominently displayed privacy statement and will include a copy of this Privacy Policy.
8. STAYING ANONYMOUS
8.1 B4TheWeddingwill not make it mandatory for visitors to its Website to provide Personal Information unless such Personal Information is required to answer an inquiry or provide a service.B4TheWeddingmay however request visitors to provide Personal Information voluntarily to B4TheWedding(for example, as part of a competition or questionnaire).
9. TRANSFERRING INFORMATION OVERSEAS
9.1 If we send Personal Information overseas, B4TheWeddingwill take steps which are both reasonable and practicable to ensure that the overseas recipient handles such information inaccordance with the Privacy Act.
9.2 B4TheWeddingmay disclose Personal Information to an overseas recipient without complying with 9.1 if:
a) You are Expressly Informed of the intended disclosure of your Personal Information to the overseas recipient, and you provide consent accordingly; or
b) We reasonably believe that the overseas recipient is subject to a law or a binding scheme that has the effect of protecting the information in a way that, overall, is at least substantially similar to the way in which the Privacy Act seeks to protect same and you can access mechanisms to enforce the protection of your Personal Information under that law or that scheme; or
c) The Disclosure is required or authorized by an Australian court or tribunal or under Australian law.
10. SECURITY POLICY
We maintain that security and safety of your data and personal information is of utmost importance to us. We have employed highest possible standard of security measures for the same. We also assure you that all the payment procedures and gateways supported and employed by our website are certified by concerned authorities as secure and safe.
Though we assure you that we have employed adequate physical and highly sophisticated technological methods to secure your data, we cannot guarantee you of absolute data safety. While we will take every reasonable step in protection of your data, we shall not be held liable for unauthorized and unlawful act of third parties that are alien to our control. We shall not be responsible for any unavoidable technical or physical glitch and for acts that are beyond human control.
11. INVITATION SERVICES
We may offer you the opportunity to use our invitation services and application so that you can tell your friends about B4TheWedding. The service will enable you to import at your direction your contact list from certain email services that you may be using and to send an email on your behalf from your email address, inviting your friend to try our website. The information you provide will be used solely to facilitate your sending of the invitation and will not be stored or used by us for any other purpose. If you are a recipient of an invitation and have elected to opt out from receiving any further invitations from us, we will retain your email address solely for the purposes of honoring your opt-out further invitations.
12. BREACH OF PRIVACY POLICY
B4TheWeddingreserves the right to terminate or suspend any account or delete certain contents from any profile or public domain within the ambit of this website if the said account or content is found to be in violation of our privacy policy. We sincerely request you to respect privacy and secrecy concerns of others. The jurisdiction of any breach or dispute shall be determined in accordance with user/Seller terms.
13. CONTACTING B4TheWedding
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any privacy related dealings with us or a possible breach of your privacy or would like further information about our information management practices, you can contact B4TheWedding, care of the following details:
Email: policies@B4TheWedding.com
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