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Privacy Policy

HAIRY THOUGHT-BUSTER PTY LTD respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (as amended from time to time). This document sets out our policy (the Privacy Policy) on how Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will manage your personal information.

User Consent

By accessing or otherwise using our Services or Deliverables, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. You expressly consent to the processing of your personal information according to this Privacy Policy.

What is personal information?

Personal information is information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database) from which it is possible to determine your identity

The personal information collected and held about you includes:

  • your name, address, email address, age, gender, occupation, contact information;
  • transaction details relating to any Services or Deliverables that you have purchased from us or that have been made on your behalf;
  • payment card details; and
  • other information provided voluntarily by you, for example in response to surveys or competitions.

How does Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd collect your personal information?

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd collects personal information about you in a number of ways, including:

  • Directly from you, for example, when you visit our website (including without limitation hairythoughtbuster.com) supply or buy Services or Deliverables, request information about us or our products or services, provide feedback, respond to a survey or competitions, contract with us, submit information through our website, or contact us by telephone, email, post or in person.
  • From third parties, such as customers, employees, contractors, suppliers and other users of the Website.

How does Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd use your personal information?

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd here discloses your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may use your personal information for the primary purpose for which it was collected and secondary purposes related to the primary purpose. Such primary and secondary purposes may include, without limitation use of your personal information to:

  • verify your identity;
  • to provide you with information, products or services you have requested;
  • to promote and market our products, Services and Deliverables to you;
  • to personalise and customise your experiences on our website;
  • to help Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd research the needs of its customers;
  • to conduct research for the purposes of improving existing products or services or creating new products or services;
  • to provide you with ongoing information about Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd and its activities;
  • to allow us to provide third party information and offers which Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd believe you may be interested;
  • to comply with regulatory or other legal requirements; and
  • for any other purpose communicated to you at the time that the personal information was collected or for which you provided your consent.

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may use your personal information to provide you with direct marketing materials if you would reasonably expect us to or if you consent to receive direct marketing materials. Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will seek your consent to provide you with direct marketing materials if Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd have obtained your personal information from a third party. Direct marketing material may include promotional material about Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd, competitions run by Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd for promotional purposes or the products or services offered by Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd. You may opt out of receiving direct marketing material by contacting us in any of the ways specified in the direct marketing materials or by contacting us (our contact details are set out below).

When does Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd disclose your personal information?

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may disclose your personal information to:

  • service providers that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd have engaged to carry out functions and activities on our behalf;
  • shareholders, officers and employees of Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd and other businesses within the Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd group of companies for the purpose of performing our business operations,
  • our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
  • our insurers;
  • website host or service providers in certain limited circumstances, for example when our website experiences a technical problem or to ensure that it operates in an effective and secure manner; or
  • otherwise as required or authorised by law.

To the extent that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd do share your personal information with a service provider and professional advisers, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd would only do so if that party has agreed to comply with Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd’s privacy standards as described in this Privacy Policy.

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may also share non-personal, de-identified and aggregated information for research or promotional purposes. Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will not sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.

The Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd Website

When you visit our website, our systems may record certain information about your use of our website (such as which web pages you visit and the time and date of your visit). Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd use this information to help analyse and improve the performance of our website.

In addition, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may use “cookies” on our website.  Cookies are small text files that help a web site to remember your preferences and improve your experience of using that website. Using cookies is standard practice for most large websites. In some cases, the cookies that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd use may collect some personal information about you.  Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will treat this information in the same way as other personal information Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd collect about you. If you prefer, you may be able to disable cookies on your internet browser. However, if you do so, you will not be able to enjoy the enhanced user experience that our cookies offer.

Web beacons are images that originate from a third party site to track visitor activities.  Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd use web beacons to track the visiting patterns and browsing habits of individuals accessing our website. This information is not intended to and will generally not include any personal information, and Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will not use the information to identify any individual.

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may also collect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses relating to you when you access and use the website.  IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network of computers which makes up the internet.  Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may collect and manage IP addresses for internet session management and security purposes.

Third Party Sites and Advertising

Our website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd encourage its users to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through our website, Services and Deliverables and does not apply to these third-party websites. The ability to access information of third-parties from our website, or links to other websites or locations, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-parties, their products, their services, other websites, locations or their content.

Accuracy of your personal information

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd collects, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date.  However, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd rely on the accuracy of personal information as provided to us both directly and indirectly. If you find that the personal information Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd holds about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us immediately (our contact details are set out below) and Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.

How can you access the personal information Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd holds about you?

Subject to some exceptions provided by law, you have the right to access your personal information.   For security purposes, if you would like to access personal information that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd holds about you, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd require you to put your request in writing.   If Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd does not allow you access to any part of the personal information Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd holds about you, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will tell you why.  Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd will not charge you for lodging a request to access your personal information, but Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may charge you for our reasonable costs in supplying you with access to this information.

How to contact us

If you would like to access the personal information that Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd holds about you, have any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy or have a complaint, you can email to hello@hairythoughtbuster.com. 

Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd takes all privacy complaints seriously will investigate your complaint in a confidential manner and you will be informed of the outcome of the investigation within a reasonable period of time.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd may need to change this Privacy Policy to reflect our changing business practices. Hairy Thought-Buster PtyLtd will notify you of any amendments by posting an updated version of this Privacy Policy on the Hairy Thought-Buster Pty Ltd website.

More Information

You can find out more information about the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. The Australian Information Commissioner may be contacted at www.oaic.gov.au (email – enquiries@oaic.gov.au).

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