Privacy Policy - Booknotic

Privacy Policy

Booknotic Pty Ltd (“Booknotic”, “we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your Personal Information is collected, used, and disclosed by Booknotic.

This Privacy Policy applies to the Booknotic website at booknotic.com (Website), its associated subdomains and Booknotic iOS and Android applications (Apps) (together referred to as our “Service”). By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Definitions and key terms

To help explain things as clearly as possible in this Privacy Policy, every time any of these terms are referenced, are strictly defined as:

Cookie: small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics and remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.
Customer: refers to the person or organisation that signs up to use our Service.
Device: any internet connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer or any other device that can be used to visit Booknotic and use our Service.
IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by Booknotic or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
Personal Information: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Third-Party Services: is defined in the section titled “Third-Party Services” and without limiting the generality of that section, refers to advertisers, promotional and marketing partners and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
You: a person or entity that is registered with Booknotic to use our Service.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you visit our Website or Apps or use our Service. This may include the following Personal Information:

Name / username
Email address
Payment details

Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, promotional and marketing partners, and others whose products or services we think may interest you. We may also share it with our current and future affiliated companies and business partners, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale or other business reorganisation, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-Personal Information to our successors-in-interest.

We may engage trusted third party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the Website/Apps, database storage and management, email management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service and fulfilling orders for our Service. Booknotic fully vets all third party vendors that it engages to process or store Personal Information.

We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks.

We may also disclose personal and non-Personal Information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules and regulations.

Where and when is information collected?

Booknotic will collect Personal Information that you submit to us when you visit our Website, use our Apps or otherwise use our Service. We may also receive Personal Information about you from third parties as described above.

How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalise your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs);
To improve our Website/Apps (we continually strive to improve our Website/Apps offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you);
To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs);
To process transactions; and
To send periodic emails, subject to your rights to unsubscribe from promotional emails referred to below.

How Do We Use Your Email Address?

By submitting your email address on our Website/Apps, you agree to receive emails from us. You can unsubscribe from promotional emails from us at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorised us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do.

By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your information only so long as we need it to provide Booknotic to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone that we share your information with and who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll either remove it from our systems or depersonalise it so that we can’t identify you.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your Personal Information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your Personal Information. [All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorised with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.]

We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Booknotic or guarantee that your information on our Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Could my information be transferred to other countries?

Booknotic is incorporated in Australia. Information collected via our Website or Apps, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our Service may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

Is the information collected through Booknotic secure?

We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorised access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your Personal Information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standards used to measure our compliance with that duty.

Can I update or correct my information?

The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Booknotic collects depend on your relationship with Booknotic.

Customers have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of Personal Information as follows. You can contact us in order to: (1) update or correct your Personal Information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the Personal Information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph), by cancelling your account. Such updates, corrections, changes and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change or deletion.

To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all Personal Information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Booknotic or that portion of Booknotic to which our Service relates, or in the event that we discontinue our business or enter into administration, receivership, reorganisation or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to our Service. Our Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Booknotic. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.

Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our platform, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Such third parties may use their own cookies or other methods to collect information about you.

Cookies

Booknotic uses “Cookies” to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website/Apps but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit our Website/Apps as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our Website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies

Wherever you’re located you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our Website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilise all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

Payment Details

In respect to any credit card or other payment processing details you have provided us, we commit that this confidential information will be stored in the most secure manner possible.

Kids’ Privacy

We do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us.

If we become aware that We have collected Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Third-Party Services

We may display, include or make available third-party content (including data, information, applications and other products services) or provide links to third-party websites or services (“Third-Party Services“).

You acknowledge and agree that Booknotic shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect thereof. Booknotic does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.

Third-Party Services and links thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties’ terms and conditions.

Information about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in this section of our Privacy Policy we are going to explain exactly how and why this data is collected, and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.

What is GDPR?

GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents’ data is protected by companies and enhances the control the EU residents have, over their personal data. The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company and not just the EU-based businesses and EU residents. Our customers’ data is important irrespective of where they are located, which is why we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.

“Personal Data” as defined in the GDPR means any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual and extends beyond the scope of Personal Information defined in the Australian Privacy Act. The GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own, or in combination with other pieces of information, to identify a person. Personal Data extends beyond a person’s name or email address. Some examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical address, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

The GDPR’s Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:

Personal Data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.
Personal Data should only be collected to fulfil a specific purpose and it should only be used for that purpose. Organisations must specify why they need the personal data when they collect it.
Personal Data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfil its purpose.
People covered by the GDPR have the right to access their own personal data. They can also request a copy of their data, and that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organisation.

California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Online Privacy Protection Act require us to disclose to California resident users the categories of Personal Information we collect from them and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.

We are also required to communicate information about rights California residents have under California law. California resident users may exercise the following rights:

Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to this Privacy Policy so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use our Service, you will be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to this or any updated Privacy Policy, you can delete your account.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy.

The laws of Victoria, Australia, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Agreement and your use of our Service. Your use of our Service may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

By using Booknotic or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our Website, or use our Service. Continued use of our Service, direct engagement with us, or following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your Personal Information will mean that you accept those changes.

Contact Us

Don’t hesitate to contact us at support@booknotic.com if you have any questions.