By visiting our websites and entering into business or other dealings with us, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.
What is your personal information?
When used in this Privacy Policy, the term ‘personal information’ has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act. In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address and profession or occupation. If the information BENS RACING TIPS collects personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.
What personal information does BENS RACING TIPS collect and hold?
BENS RACING TIPS collects personal information for the purpose of its provision of services to you and the operation and administration of the organisation. This information typically includes:
your name, address, phone and facsimile numbers and email addresses (contact information);
your age, birth date, gender, occupation, profession or job title;
your fitness and nutrition statistics
your BENS RACING TIPS websites’ usernames and passwords and your interactions with BENS RACING TIPS -related websites;
details of the products and services you have purchased from BENS RACING TIPS or which you have enquired about, together with any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and to respond to your enquiries;
any additional information relating to you that you provide to BENS RACING TIPS directly through our websites or indirectly through use of BENS RACING TIPS ’s websites or online presence, through our representatives or otherwise; and
information you provide to BENS RACING TIPS through customer surveys or visits by our representatives from time to time.
BENS RACING TIPS may also collect some information that is not personal information because it does not identify you or anyone else. For example, BENS RACING TIPS may collect anonymous answers to surveys, competitions or aggregated information about how users use our websites
How do we collect your personal information?
BENS RACING TIPS collects your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so. BENS RACING TIPS collects personal information that you provide us:
over the phone, in correspondence, in person, via our websites and related social media platforms;
during conversations between you and our representatives;
during any written communications between you and our representatives;
when you complete a credit application or goods/services order with us;
when we engage you to provide us with any goods/services;
when you apply for a position with us or send us an expression of interest, directly or via a third party or third party service;
when you register to enter any competitions on our websites or social media sites;
when you register your details at any of our promotional sampling events;
when you register for any of our services, including WiFi networks, alerts, blogs, or other subscription services; and
when conducting due diligence on entities you are affiliated with.
BENS RACING TIPS may also collect personal information from third parties including from third party companies such as recruitment agencies, credit reporting agencies, law enforcement agencies and other government entities.
Cookies
In some cases BENS RACING TIPS may also collect your personal information through the use of cookies. When you access our websites, we may send a ‘cookie’ (which is a small unit of data temporarily stored on the hard disk of your computer by your browser) to your computer. The information contained in the cookies may assist us with functions such as improved navigation and a high level of user friendliness. It also enables us to keep track of products or services you view so that, if you consent, BENS RACING TIPS can send you news about those products or services. BENS RACING TIPS also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, to determine which areas of our websites have been visited and to measure transaction patterns in the aggregate. BENS RACING TIPS uses this to research its users’ habits to improve its online products and services.
Our cookies do not collect personal information. The majority of web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can adjust your browser to disable cookies but this may restrict your ability to access certain areas of our websites.
We may log IP addresses (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the internet) to analyse trends, administer the websites, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information.
What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?
If you do not provide us with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:
we may not be able to provide the products or services you requested, either to the same standard or at all, or assess any application you have made to us;
we may not be able to provide you with information about products or services that you may want, including information about discounts, sales, special promotions or competitions; or
we may be unable to tailor the content of our websites to your preferences and your experience of our websites may not be as enjoyable or useful.
For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
BENS RACING TIPS collects personal information about you for the purpose of its provision of services to you and the operation and administration of the organisation. In addition, BENS RACING TIPS may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following related purposes:
providing products, services, deals and competitions offered by us and/or our commercial associates, partners and sponsors to you and sending communications requested by you;
answering enquiries and providing information or advice about our business, existing and new products, assets, services and in relation to technical matters;
providing you with access to protected areas of our websites;
assessing the performance of our websites and improving the operation of those websites;
tailoring and personalising website content and deals offered by us and/or our commercial associates, partners and sponsors, depending on your location and interests;
conducting business processing functions including providing personal information to our related bodies corporate, contractors, service providers or other third parties;
conducting research from time to time based on the information BENS RACING TIPS collects from you;
administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), recruitment, planning, product or service development, quality control and research purposes of BENS RACING TIPS and its contractors, service providers or other third parties;
updating our records and keeping your contact details up to date;
providing your updated personal information to our related bodies corporate, contractors or service providers;
processing and responding to any complaint made by you; and
complying with any law, rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country).
Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
To whom may BENS RACING TIPS disclose your information?
BENS RACING TIPS may disclose and transfer your personal information for the purposes outlined above and related purposes:
to our employees, related bodies corporate, members of our online community, contractors, or service providers located in AUSTRALIA and overseas including without limitation, web hosting providers, IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, electronic network administrators, debt collectors, and professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors, business advisors and consultants, for the purposes of providing services in connection with the operation of our websites or our business, fulfilling your requests or enquiries, and to otherwise provide products and services to you;
to our agents, affiliates and related bodies corporate located in AUSTRALIA and overseas;
to suppliers and other third parties with whom we have commercial relationships, for business, marketing and related purposes where you have consented; and
as required or authorised by law including to law enforcement, government or other organisations or where permitted under the Privacy Act.
BENS RACING TIPS may combine or share any information that BENS RACING TIPS collects from you with information collected by any of our related bodies corporate (within AUSTRALIA).
Do we disclose your personal information to anyone outside AUSTRALIA?
BENS RACING TIPS may disclose personal information to our services providers, related bodies corporate and their service providers located overseas, including New Zealand, for some of the purposes listed above.
BENS RACING TIPS will take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
Direct marketing materials
BENS RACING TIPS may send you direct marketing communications and information about our products and services and those of our sponsors and commercial partners that BENS RACING TIPS considers may be of interest to you. These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, SMS, fax and email, in accordance with applicable marketing laws, such as the Spam Act 2003 (Cth). If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, BENS RACING TIPS will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so. At any time, you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us using the contact details below or by using the opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications and BENS RACING TIPS will then ensure that your name is removed from our mailing list.
BENS RACING TIPS may provide your personal information to other affiliated organisations for the purposes of direct marketing.
How can you access and correct your personal information?
You have certain rights to access personal information held by BENS RACING TIPS To request access or to find out what information we have about you, please contact our Privacy Officer (see details below). Where BENS RACING TIPS holds information that you are entitled to access, BENS RACING TIPS will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you). BENS RACING TIPS may charge you a reasonable fee to cover our administrative and other reasonable costs in providing you the information. BENS RACING TIPS will not charge you for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information.
There may be instances where BENS RACING TIPS cannot grant you access to the personal information it holds. For example, BENS RACING TIPS may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If that happens, BENS RACING TIPS will give you written reasons for any refusal.
If we provide you with access to personal information BENS RACING TIPS holds about you and you believe that personal information is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, then you may request that we amend it. BENS RACING TIPS will consider if the information requires amendment. If BENS RACING TIPS does not agree that there are grounds for amendment, BENS RACING TIPS will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.
What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?
If you believe that your privacy has been breached, please email us with a full description of the issue. BENS RACING TIPS will treat your requests or complaints confidentially. BENS RACING TIPS ’s Privacy Officer will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved. BENS RACING TIPS aims to ensure that your complaint is resolved in timely and appropriate manner.
Security
BENS RACING TIPS takes reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. BENS RACING TIPS may hold your information in either hard copy or electronic form on our servers and secured third party servers. Personal information is destroyed or de-identified when no longer needed.
As our websites are linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, BENS RACING TIPS cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. BENS RACING TIPS also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
Links
Our websites may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. BENS RACING TIPS makes no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third-party websites and BENS RACING TIPS is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party websites. Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Information Collection and Use
For a better experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to Email, First Name, Last Name, Device UDID. The information that we request will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.
The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.
Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the app
Google Play Services
Log Data
We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device’s internal memory.
This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact [email protected].
BENS RACING TIPS may modify its Privacy Policy from time to time and if it does so, it will post any updated Privacy Policy on its website. We encourage you to check the BENS RACING TIPS websites periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.