Effective: February 27, 2024
WHO WE ARE
Our website address is: https://ifwehavetoeat.com. It is operated by Great Products Consulting (“We”).
We are committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we use and protect your Personal Information.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
We have adopted the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information.
A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au.
WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include: names and email addresses. We may also collect information such as your preferences and interests and other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.
This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including interviews, surveys, correspondence, by telephone, by email, via our website ifwehavetoeat.com, from your website, from media and publications, from other publicly available sources, from cookies and from third parties.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHY DO WE COLLECT IT?
We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our services to you and our marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. Examples include:
- To operate and maintain this website
- For internal record keeping.
- To improve our services.
- To periodically send promotional emails about new special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts.
- To contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email or phone.
- To customise the website according to your interests.
- To respond to your comments or inquiries.
- To provide you with user support.
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
When we collect Personal Information we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.
Where you provide information to us in different ways, or we hold information about you, we may connect information provided to us for one purpose, with other information for use the purposes described above.
You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing or clicking on the unsubscribe link on newsletters and marketing emails.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.
Sensitive information will be used by us only:
- For the primary purpose for which it was obtained
- For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
- With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.
THIRD PARTIES
Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.
We also allow third parties to serve ads and in doing so, they may collect certain information when you visit the website.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:
- Third Parties who may need to have the information for purpose or purposes for which the information was collected. These other parties include, but are not limited to banks, financial institutions, credit card companies for the processing of any money transaction, vendors and service providers engaged by the company.
- Directors, officers and staff of the company; and
- Where required or authorised by law.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files, which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Ignoring the email confirming your subscription to our email marketing list which means your details will not be added to our list
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@ifwehavetoeat.com or by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the marketing emails that we send to you.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing at info@ifwehavetoeat.com.
We will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.
In order to protect your Personal Information we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
It is important to us that your Personal Information is up-to-date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
If you find that the information we have is not up-to-date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which allows web applications to respond to you as an individual and which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive (depending on your browser settings).
Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies help us provide you with a better website and in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Cookies help us customise and control your experience on our website.
A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioural advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimise advertising.
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) Authentication: to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website.
(b) Advertising: to display advertisements that will be relevant to you. We use Google adsense (https://adsense.google.com/) which allows it and its partners to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to our website and other websites. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/; and
(c) Analysis: to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services. We use Google Analytics (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/) to analyze the use of our website. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/).
(d) Affiliate Marketing: to track visits made to referral sites for the purposes of assigning commission on sales.
Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features.
ADVERTISING:
We are affiliated with Google adsense (https://adsense.google.com/) for the purposes of placing advertising on our website. Google may collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
AFFILIATE LINKS
We may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties (see Terms of Use).
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Content on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
SALE OF BUSINESS OR ASSETS
In the event that the website or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.
POLICY UPDATES
This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.
CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones.
If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change.
If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information.
By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.
COMPLAINTS AND INQUIRIES
If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy please contact us at: info@ifwehavetoeat.com