Privacy Policy
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Wild Kandy (ABN: 87 724 134 643) is committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website.
This privacy policy provides you with details of how Wild Kandy collects and processes your personal data through your use of our site.
As an online business, we aim to comply with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to ensure that your information is protected.
We use the information we collect about you to maximise the services and products we provide to you via our website and through our business.
By providing us with your data, you warrant that you are over the age of 16 years.
This Privacy Policy, together with our Website Terms of Use (including any relevant disclaimers), form the entire agreement between you and Wild Kandy.
Wild Kandy is the controller of the personal information collected via this website; therefore, we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our” in this Privacy Policy).
1. Contact Details
1.1 Our full contact details are:
2. Personal Information – Type, purpose and legal grounds
2.2.1 Communication Information
a) Communicating with you;
2.2.2 Customer Information
2.2.2.1 Customer information or data includes any information you provide relating to any purchases of goods and/or services, such as your name, title, billing address, delivery email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details, and card details.
2.2.3 User Information/Data
2.2.4 Technical Data
2.2.4.1 Technical data is information about your use of our website and online services, such as information about your visits to and use of this website, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths.
2.2.4.2 The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.
2.2.4.3 We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, administer and protect our business and website, deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and understand the effectiveness of our advertising.
2.2.4.4 Our legal ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which are to enable us to administer our website and our business properly, grow our business, and decide our marketing strategy.
2.2.5 Financial Transactions
2.2.5.1 All our website financial transactions are currently handled through our payment services provider. However, this may change from time to time.
2.2.6 Marketing Information/Data
2.2.7 Sensitive Data
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that 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. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
2.2.8 Contract Obligations
2.2.9 Use of Personal Information
3. How your personal information is collected
3.1 Cookies
3.1.1 We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies.
3.1.2 A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
3.1.3 Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
3.1.4 If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. By not blocking cookies and continuing to browse, you are authorising the use of cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site.
3.2 How do we use cookies?
3.2.1 We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the Site and track any patterns regarding how you are using our website. This helps us develop and improve our website and products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.
3.3 Types of Cookies:
3.3.1 Session cookies: these are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page, but they do not collect any personal data from your computer; or
3.3.2 Persistent cookies: a persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer, and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. For example, we use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.
3.4 Cookies categories:
3.4.1 Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and/or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
3.4.2 Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the Site are most popular.
3.4.3 Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember the choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested, such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
3.4.4 Please note that third parties who advertise on our website (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
4. Marketing Communications
4.1 Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests, namely to grow our business.
4.2 We may send you marketing communications if:
4.2.1 You made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services; or
4.2.2 You agreed to receive marketing communication, and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving such communications since.
4.2.3 You are a company; we may send you marketing emails without your consent. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
4.3 Express consent
4.3.1 It is unlikely that Wild Kandy will share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes; however, we will obtain your express consent in such circumstances.
4.4 Stopping marketing messages
4.4.1 You can ask third parties or us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:
4.4.1.1 following the opt-out links on any marketing messages sent to you, or
4.4.1.2 emailing us at support@wildkandy.com at any time.
4.4.2 If you opt-out of receiving marketing communications, this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations, returns, replacements etc.
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
5.1 We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
5.1.1 Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
5.2 We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and treat it according to the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
(for example, to our preferred email marketing platform or CRM)
6.1 Whenever we transfer your personal data, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is in place:
6.1.1 If you are a resident of the European Union, we will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or
7.1 We strive to ensure the security, integrity, and privacy of personal information submitted to our website, and we periodically update our security measures in light of current technologies.
7.2 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.3 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
7.4. We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
8. Data Retention
8.1 We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
8.2. For tax purposes, the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for five years after they stop being customers.
8.3. In some circumstances, we may delete identifying components of your data for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9.1 Under data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, object to processing, portability of data, and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
9.3.1 your name and address; and
9.3.2 your contact telephone numbers
9.4 There is no fee chargeable to access your personal data; however, we may charge a fee if your request is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or refuse to comply with our request in these circumstances.
9.5 As a security measure to ensure your data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it, we may request further information from you.
9.6 We try to respond to all legitimate requests within 30 days unless the request is complex or where there are multiple requests. If our response is likely to exceed 30 days, you will be notified.
9.7 If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, please contact us first to attempt to resolve your issue immediately. You also have the right to complain to the Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner (https://www.oaic.gov.au), the Australian supervisory authority for data protection issues.
10. Change in Privacy Policy