Privacy Policy

 

Apricus Australia Pty Ltd, its subsidiaries and other related companies (“we”, “us”, and “our”, singularly or collectively as the context requires) recognises the importance of privacy issues. This Privacy Policy briefly tells you how we manage the personal information that we collect, use and disclose and how to contact us if you have any queries. This Privacy Policy does not cover personal information collected or held by us about our employees and is to be read subject to any overriding provisions of law or contract.

Background

Personal information is information or an opinion, in any form and whether true or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion.
There are further special provisions which apply to the collection of some personal information which is known as sensitive information. This includes health information and information about a persons' race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual preferences and criminal history.

Apricus Australia has no need to acquire such sensitive information from you for any reason.

Collection of personal information by us

The kinds of personal information we collect and store will depend on what products and services you request from us. However, it may include (amongst other things):

• Personal information you give us when you request a product or service from us. This information may include your household occupant(s) details, water usage, employment status, and environmental awareness;
• Personal information you give us when you make an enquiry or contact us. This information may include your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address;
• Communications between you and us;
• Transactional information about your use of our products and services (for example your feedback on whether you are enjoying your Apricus product);
• Information regarding any donation(s) you wish to make.

Where your personal information is stored

Where we store your personal information depends on what products and services you have requested from us. However, some areas may include (amongst other things):

• Our warranty database for use of processing warranty applications, and confirmation of ownership;
• Feedback databases for processing customer feedback
• Email databases for our communication with you.

For further information on how we use your information, check Use and disclosure of personal information by us (below).

How your personal information is stored

We take reasonable steps to preserve the security of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Accordingly, although we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our website and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we take reasonable steps to preserve the security of the information in our own systems.

How your personal information will be used

We collect your personal information so that we can use it for our functions and activities, which include, amongst other things:

• Processing your enquiry;
• Being aware of any special solar hot water requirements you may have;
• Confirming your identity;
• Addressing any feedback or complaints you may have;
• Answering any queries you may have; and
• Any purposes for which it was requested and directly related purposes, and developing, improving and marketing our products and services.
  

If you do not provide us with your personal information, we will be unable to do one or more of the above.
We will assume you consent to management of your personal information in the manner specified in this Privacy Policy (which may change from time to time) until you tell us to the contrary by contacting us using our contact details supplied.

Exchange of personal information with third parties

Personal information we collect from you may be disclosed:

• to any entity to which we are required or authorised by or under law to disclose such information (for instance, law enforcement agencies and investigative agencies, courts, various other government bodies);
• to others in the event of a medical emergency;
• to others that you have been informed of at the time any personal information is collected from you;
• to our business associates and others for purposes directly related to the purpose for which the personal information is collected;
• with your consent (express or implied), to others.

Such disclosure may include the transfer of your personal information between countries.
We may also obtain personal and other information from some or all of the above to enable us to provide our services or products to you. When we obtain personal and other information from third parties whom we are referred to by you, we will assume and you will ensure that you have made that third party aware of the referral of the persons and purposes involved in the collection, use and disclosure of the relevant personal or other information.

Use and disclosure of personal information by us

If we use or disclose your personal information for a purpose (the "secondary purpose") other the main reason for which it was originally collected (the "primary purpose"), to the extent required by law, we will ensure that:

• the secondary purpose is related to the primary purpose of collection (and directly related in the case of sensitive information), and you would reasonably expect that we would use or disclose your information in that way; or
• you have consented to the use or disclosure of your personal information for the secondary purpose; or
• the use or disclosure is required or authorised by or under law; or
• the use or disclosure is otherwise permitted by law (for example, as a necessary part of an investigation of suspected unlawful activity).
  

Collection of information other than personal information

If you visit our website, some of the information we and/or our contractors collect about your visit to our website is not personal information because it does not reveal your identity. Information of this nature can include:

• Site visit information
• When you visit our website, we and/or our contractors collect general information about your visit which may include your server address, the date and time of your visit, the pages you accessed, the information you downloaded and the type of Internet browser you used.
• We and/or our contractors may use this information in anonymous, aggregated form, for statistical purposes only, to assist us in improving the quality and usability of our website.
• Cookies
  A cookie is a small string of information that a website transfers to your browser for identification purposes. The cookies we and/or our contractors use may identify individual users.
  Cookies can either be "persistent" or "session" based. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer, contain an expiration date, and are mainly for the user's convenience. Session cookies are short-lived and are held on your browser's memory only for the duration of your session, they are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser.
  We and/or our contractors may use both session and persistent cookies. This information may be used to personalise your current visit to our and our contractors' websites. Upon closing your browser, the session cookie is destroyed.
  Most Internet browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can adjust your Internet browser to reject cookies or to notify you when they are being used. However, rejecting cookies may limit the functionality of our website.

Access and correction of your personal information

You can ask to obtain access to your personal information that we and/or our contractors hold, although under some circumstances permitted by law, we may not provide such information to you. Also, we may not be able to require our contractors to provide personal information to you. We may ask you to put your request in writing and pay a reasonable fee levied by us for this.

It is important to us that the personal information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date. If you are aware that this is not case and would like your personal information corrected, or simply desire access to your personal information, please contact us.
If we decide not to correct or provide you with access to your personal information, we will give you our reasons for our decision.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about the way we have dealt with your personal information, please contact us. We will make all reasonable attempts to respond to your complaints or requests.

Updates to Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. If we do so, we will post the amended Privacy Policy on our website (mentioned above) so that you will always be aware of how we manage your personal information.

Further information

Please contact us if you have any queries about the personal information that we hold about you or the way we handle that personal information

Contact Details

Apricus Australia Pty Ltd
A.C.N: 111 285 271
Phone: 1300 277 428
Fax: 02 9475 0092
Email: Australia@apricus.com
Website: www.apricus.com.au
Postal Address: PO Box 1288, Rozelle, New South Wales, 2039, Australia.