PRIVACY POLICY
The Flaming Beacon Pty Ltd Australian Company Number 006 558 890 (Hereafter, ‘The Flaming Beacon’)
1. Your Privacy
a) The Flaming Beacon respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information and serves to notify you of those policies, practices and procedures.
b) The Australian Privacy Principles may be found at:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_act/pa1988108/sch1.html
c) ‘Personal information’ is information which is identifiable as being about you.
2. Collection of personal information
a) The Flaming Beacon does not collect, glean, receive and store personal information from you when you hit upon or visit our website.
b) You may, of your own volition, choose to provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates and process your product or service order, but this will never occur by your mere presence hitting, visiting or perusing our website. We may collect information only when you take positive steps to provide us with such information by contacting us by other means, such as email, telephone or social media.
c) Where you hit upon or access our website via a link found on a third-party’s website, we take no responsibility for the presence of any such link, or any personal information which may be collected or gleaned by the referring website, over which we have no control or dominion, and we disclaim all responsibility of the referring website with respect to collection, use and retention of personal information (if any).
d) Despite the foregoing, our website uses fonts provided by the company MyFonts Inc, 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801, USA. When you hit upon our website, data is also retrieved from a server of the company MyFonts, whereby MyFonts gains knowledge of your IP address. In the process, MyFonts also learns, among other things, that you have called up the font via our website, as well as some technical information about your browser, since almost every web browser automatically sends this data to the server every time it is called up. Some browsers allow you to limit or modify the data sent to the server, depending on the browser manufacturer. You should consult the browser manufacturer for further information in this regard. It is beyond The Flaming Beacon’s knowledge and control whether and to what extent MyFonts also statistically evaluates or stores this information. Further information on data protection at MyFonts can be found at the following link: https://www.myfonts.com/info/terms-and-conditions.
3. Use or disclosure of your personal information
a) The Flaming Beacon may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services that was collected for the primary purpose of your communication with us. We will not use such information for any
other purpose without seeking and obtaining your permission first unless required to do so by law or a court of competent jurisdiction.
b) We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, servants and agents, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services;
c) The Flaming Beacon may contact you by a variety of means including, but not limited to telephone, email, sms or social media.
d) We may also use your personal information where necessary to protect the intellectual property, legal rights or safety of The Flaming Beacon, our websites, customers or third parties, employees, officers, servants and agents.
4. Storage and consent of your personal information
a) Information that is collected as a result of you hitting our website may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside Australia. These may include but are not limited to European Union and USA.
b) When you provide us with personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy.
5. Security of your personal information
a) The Flaming Beacon is committed to ensuring that the information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
b) Where information received from you is no longer needed by us or required to be retained by us for legal or other reasons, we will take steps in a reasonable manner and at a reasonable time to destroy, erase or otherwise de-identify that information.
c) The transmission of information by you to us is undertaken at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us or receive from us. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee that personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
6. Access to your personal information
a) You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), unless one or more exceptions to access applies, in accordance with paragraph 12.3 of the Australian Privacy Principles..
b) We reserve the right to charge a small administrative fee to retrieve and supply you with such personal information.
7. Accuracy of personal information
If you believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at tfb@tfb.com.au.
8. Complaints about privacy
If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please provide details of your complaint to tfb@tfb.com.au. We undertake to respond within a reasonable time after receiving written notice of your complaint.
9. Cookies
We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyses website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience.
10. Third party sites
Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that The Flaming Beacon is not responsible for the privacy practices of other such websites.