Privacy Policy.
Overview
Verlata Technologies Pty Ltd ACN 627 057 998, Verlata Consulting ABN 51 169 315 995, Verlata Accounting Services ABN 31 622 043 449, Verlata Consulting Pte Ltd UEN 201824836N (collectively, Verlata, we, us, our) is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding personal information we collect from users of our services, including the Telescope and Thimble applications (Applications) and website, and all accounting, consulting or other services provided by Verlata (Services).
The processing of Personal Data shall always be in line with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1998 (Privacy Act), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with country-specific data protection regulations applicable to Verlata.
We have implemented a number of technical and organisational measures to ensure the most complete protection of Personal Data processed through the Services.
User Consent
Where we rely on your consent as the lawful basis to process your data under the GDPR we will always ask for you to positively affirm your acceptance. By clicking to accept this Privacy Policy you acknowledge and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
We note that all contact or other data forms where consent is required to be given by you, include no pre-checked checkboxes so that you are able to freely affirmatively opt-in. We will also provide you with notice on the Services specifically detailing what it is that you are consenting to in clear and plain language as well ensuring that each matter that requires consent is clearly distinguishable.
For all areas of the Services where consent is given it is just as easily able to be withdrawn through the appropriate account settings on the Services.
If you believe that consent has not been given freely or in breach of the terms of this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
What personal data we collect
We will only collect personal information from you if it is reasonably necessary for one or more of our functions or activities.
Personal Data means any information that allows someone to identify you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data.
Information you provide to us
Account and User Content
You need to create an account with us to use some of our Services.
During your account registration and use of the Services, you may enter your details on the different forms or provide us with additional content.
We may collect this Personal Data from you, such as your name, e-mail, phone number, identification number and mailing addresses, phone number, password and other relevant details when you register to use the Services. This data is used to enable us to identify and verify you and provide you with support, services, mailings, sales and marketing actions, and billings. Certain functionality of the Verlata Services requires your personal data to function properly.
When you create or share content, or upload content such as photos, videos, comments, meta data (geographic tags) we may also collect this data.
The legal basis for this processing is based on:
Your consent through your voluntary submission of the form and agreeing to these terms;
The Personal Data being necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party;
For carrying out pre-contractual measures; and/or
Any other legitimate interests as detailed below.
Payment Data
When you make a purchase, we (or our third party service provider) will collect all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, debit card information, billing information and/or PayPal information.
The Personal Data we collect will be the data that you input in any payment area on the Services.
The legal basis for this processing is based on:
- your consent through your voluntary submission of the form and agreeing to these terms;
- the Personal Data being necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party including the payment of goods or services; and/or
- any other legitimate interests as detailed below.
This Personal Data is needed to enable us to process your payment for the goods or services.
Contact and Messaging Data
If you provide us feedback or contact us via e-mail, or other means including by phone call or by contracting with us, we will collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail or conversation, in order to send you a reply. If you contact or message another user through the Applications or our website we will also collect this data. We will store and process your communications and information as needed. We may also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device.
The legal basis for this processing is based on:
Either through your consent through your voluntary submission of the form and agreeing to these terms or by your voluntary submission of data to us in other means;
The Personal Data being necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party;
For carrying out pre-contractual measures; and/or
Any other legitimate interests as detailed below.
By submitting a form or making contact with us such Personal Data is transmitted on a voluntary basis and you consent to its collection.
Subscription Data
Subscription Data
When you use the Services you may have the ability to subscribe to various newsletters or other forms. We may collect the data when you input your details for subscription purposes.
The Personal Data is processed for the purpose of informing you regularly by means of a newsletter or other offer form. The personal information collected during the subscription will only be used for marketing materials or for reasons made known on the form.
The legal basis for this processing is based on:
Your consent through your voluntary submission of the form and agreeing to these terms; and/or
Any other legitimate interests as detailed below.
By submitting the form and voluntarily providing us with your data, you are providing consent to the use of such data by us. For the purpose of revocation of consent there is a corresponding unsubscribe link found in each subscription email. Please review the consent section above in this Privacy Policy for how we deal with consent. Where we use your data for direct marketing we will ensure that it is in compliance with relevant laws. Where you are a customer of ours we may be required to send you emails for legitimate reasons including but not limited to billing, reminders and account verification.
We retain information on your behalf, such as domain names, URLs, time zone preferences, Service invoices, transactional history, messages and any other information that you store using your Account.
We may also collect Personal Data at other points on our Services that state that Personal Data is being collected. In some circumstances, Personal Data is provided to us by third parties such as our related entities, service providers or other organisations conducting activities on your behalf. With your expressed consent, your Personal Data may be used and disclosed to us this way. The purposes as outlined above may include the processing of such Personal Data to the extent necessary for us to comply with a law, regulation or legal request or to protect the safety of any person or to prevent fraud. In certain jurisdictions, we may ask for a government issued ID in limited circumstances including when setting up a wireless account and activating your device, for the purpose of extending commercial credit, managing reservations, or as required by law.
Information we collect as you use our services
Meta Data including Location Data
Some of our Services (including the Applications) may allow you to add or may have metadata added to your content including hashtags (to mark keywords), geotags (to mark your location on a photo), comments or other data. This helps our Services and your content to be more searchable.
We use location data to help target and tailor the Services to your particular location and jurisdiction. With your consent we may also collect information about your precise location using methods including GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, WI-Fi access points and other sensors.
Log Data
To make our Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third-party service provider) gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit websites and applications, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information to understand and analyse trends, to administer the Services, to learn about user behaviour regarding the Services, to improve our product and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Verlata may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on our Services. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.
Analytics
We use third party analytics tools to collect information anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual visitors. These tools collect information sent by your device or our Services, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Services.
Information we collect from others
Data and content other people upload
We may also collect information and communications that other people provide when they use our Services. This can include information about you such as when others send messages, documents and information to you. We may also collect your information if you are invited to participate in our Services this may include information such as your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences and is used for the purpose of enabling us to provide our Services to you.
We will only collect information about you directly from you, except where it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so.
How we use your Personal Data
Use of personal information
We will only use or disclose your personal information from the purposes for which we advised you we were collecting it for as noted in this Privacy Policy and includes to:
Maintain your account and contact details;
Remember information so you don’t have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service;
Provide personalised content and information to you and others;
Send marketing communication to you;
Conduct our business, generate content and provide customer support and payment options (including updates and improvements);
Administer contracts including to negotiate, execute and/or manage a contract with you;
Communicate with you;
Provide you with access to protected areas of the website or other Services;
Conduct surveys to determine use and satisfaction;
Detect, investigate and prevent potentially unlawful acts or omissions or acts or omissions with the potential to breach our Terms and Conditions, this Privacy Policy or any other policy;
Enforce our Terms and Conditions, this Privacy Policy or any other policy;
Verify information for accuracy or completeness;
Comply with our legal obligations;
Monitor metrics;
Combine or aggregate your personal information with information we collect from third parties and use it for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy;
Protect a person’s rights, property or safety;
Process transactions to which you are a party;
Resolve disputes and to identify, test and resolve problems;
Improve our Services; and
Any other purpose made known in this Privacy Policy or other policy.
We agree to not use or disclose this information for a secondary purpose unless you consent to us doing so, or another exception applies under applicable laws.
For the purposes of the law, some information we hold about you may be considered 'sensitive' and therefore subject to greater protection. In the event that we hold sensitive information about you, we will only disclose or use that information with your consent or if another exception applies under applicable laws.
We will also use or disclose your personal information or sensitive information if we are required to do so by law or a court / tribunal order; or if we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary for an enforcement related activity or on behalf of an enforcement body, in which case we will make a written note of the use or disclosure or another exception applies under relevant laws.
Creation of anonymous data
We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose.
We may collect information regarding customer activities on our Services including the website. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products, and Services are of most interest. Aggregated data is considered non-personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of your Personal Data
We may disclose your Personal Data to third parties for the purposes contained in this Privacy Policy, including without limitation to:
Service Providers
We may share your Personal Data with services providers to:
Provide you with the Services that we offer you including the website;
To conduct quality assurance testing;
To facilitate creation of accounts;
To provide technical support;
And/or to provide other services to Verlata.
The service providers (and if necessary data processors) include:
Information technology service providers such as web host providers and analytical providers;
Mailing houses;
Advertising partners;
Market research organisations to enable them to measure the effectiveness of our advertising; and
Specialist consultants.
These third party service providers are required not to use your Personal Data other than to provide the services requested by Verlata.
Affiliates and Acquisitions
We may share some or all of your Personal Data with our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (Affiliates), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. In the event we are involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets we may disclose Personal Data collected by us to such entities that we propose to merge with or be acquired by and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes the disclosure of information to our clients where we act as a data processor.
Third parties including those you choose to share your data with
We may disclose your Personal Data to third parties to whom you expressly ask to us to send the Personal Data to or to third parties you choose to send your personal data to.
We may also, with your consent or at your direction, disclose your personal information to your authorised representatives.
Other disclosures
Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Data (as described below), Verlata may disclose Personal Data if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary:
In connection with any legal investigation;
To comply with relevant laws, regulations, enforceable governmental requests or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on Verlata;
To protect or defend the rights or property of Verlata or users of the Services;
To investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or our Terms and Conditions;
To protect the safety of any person or to protect the safety or integrity of our platform including for security reasons;
Detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
We may share your Personal Data with such third parties subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your Personal Data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions.
We will take reasonable steps to ensure that anyone to whom we disclose your personal information respects the confidentiality of the information and abides by the APPs the GDPR or equivalent privacy laws.
We will not share, sell, rent or disclose your personal information in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Where we act as a data processor the client may also provide us with instructions with regards to disclosure.
If we can't collect your data
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 requested products or services to you, either to the same standard or at all;
We may not be able to run the competitions and promotions in a way that benefits you;
We may not be able to provide you with information about products and services that you may want; or
We may be unable to tailor the content of our Services to your preferences and your experience of our Services may not be as enjoyable or useful.
Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website that you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
Use of cookies
Verlata’s Services including websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behaviour, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches.
We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Verlata and our partners also use cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our Services. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with Verlata more convenient and personal. For example, knowing your first name lets us welcome you the next time you visit the Verlata platform. Knowing someone using your computer or device has shopped for a certain product or used a particular service helps us make our advertising and email communications more relevant to your interests. And knowing your contact information, hardware identifiers, and information about your computer or device helps us personalize your operating system and provide you with better customer service.
Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.
How to manage cookies
Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you. If you want to disable cookies and you’re using the Safari web browser, go to Safari preferences and then to the privacy pane to manage your preferences. For other browsers, check with your provider to find out how to disable cookies. Please note that certain features of the Verlata Services will not be available once cookies are disabled.
Third party websites
When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our website and go to another site and another entity may collect Personal Data or Anonymous Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of data after you click on links to such outside websites.
Managing your Personal Data
Subject to the Privacy Act and the GDPR you may request to access the personal information we hold about you by contacting us. All requests for access will be processed within a reasonable time.
Accessing or rectifying your Personal Data
We may, if required, provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the Personal Data you provided to us. You can find out more about how to do this by contacting us. In the event that you are unable to access your account to access or rectify your Personal Data, you may submit a request to us to correct, delete or modify your Personal Data and download the data for you.
Deletion
We keep data for as long as it is needed for our operations. If you deactivate and delete your account your data will no longer be visible on your account. Please keep in mind that third parties may still retain copies of information you have made public through our Services.
If you wish to have us delete your data please contact us.
Object, restrict or withdraw consent
If you have an account on the Services, including the website, you will be able to view and manage your privacy settings. Alternatively, if you do not have an account, you may manually submit a request to us if you object to any Personal Data being stored, or if you wish to restrict or withdraw any consent given for the collection of your Personal Data.
You may withdraw your consent to the processing of all your Personal Data at any time. If you wish to exercise this right you may do so by contacting us.
You may withdraw your consent or manage your opt-ins by either viewing your account on the Services or clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing materials we send you.
Portability
We may, if required and possible, provide you with the means to download the information you have shared through our services. Please contact us for further information on how this can be arranged.
In certain instances we may not be required or able to provide you with access to your personal information. If this occurs we will give you reasons for our decision not to provide you with such access to your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act and the GDPR.
There is no application fee for making a request to access your personal information. However, we may charge an administrative fee for the provision of information in certain circumstances such as if you make repeated requests for information or where the information is held by a third party provider.
Where we act as a data processor, we do so on behalf of our client and in accordance with their instructions. This means that should you wish to access, review, correct, transfer, modify or delete any Personal Data we process on behalf of a client you should contact the client with your request.
Anonymity and Pseudonymity
We will allow our customers to transact with us anonymously or by using a pseudonym, wherever that is reasonable and practicable.
However, this will not be possible if we are required or authorised by law or other instrument to deal with customers who have been appropriately identified; or where it is impracticable for us to deal with individuals who have not identified themselves or who would prefer to use a pseudonym.
Direct marketing materials
We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our products and services that we consider may be of interest to you. These communications may be send 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, we will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so. In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us (see the details below) or by using opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications and we will then ensure that your name is removed from our mailing list.
Storage and Security of Your Personal Data
Verlata stores personal data in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.
Verlata takes the security of your personal information very seriously. We will take all steps reasonable under the circumstances to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss; and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We will process Personal Data securely and apply and maintain appropriate technical and organisational measure to protect Personal Data.
The transmission and exchange of information is carried out 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 assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
International Transfer and Disclosure of Personal Data
Where we are required to use suppliers outside of Australia, we ensure that all our suppliers are required to commit to adherence with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Where we transfer Personal Data from within to outside of the European Union or EFTA States, we ensure an adequate level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of the receiving country’s data protection laws.
We may disclose personal information to our related bodies corporate and third party suppliers and service providers located overseas for some of the purposes listed above. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
We may disclose your personal information to entities located outside of Australia, including the following:
Our related bodies corporate;
Our data hosting and other IT service providers, located in various countries; and
Other third parties located in various foreign countries.
We may disclose your personal information to entities within Australia who may store or process your data overseas.
Notifiable Data Breaches
We take data breaches very seriously. Depending on where you reside our policy is:
If you reside in Australia
In the event that there is a data breach and we are required to comply with the notification of eligible data breaches provisions in Part IIIC of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) or any other subsequent sections or legislation which supersede this Part IIIC, we will take all reasonable steps to contain the suspected or known breach where possible and follow the following process set out in this clause.
We will take immediate steps to limit any further access or distribution where possible. If we have reasonable grounds to suspect that the data breach is likely to result in serious harm to any individuals involved, then we will take all reasonable steps to ensure an assessment is completed within 30 days of the breach or sooner if possible. We will follow the guide published by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (if any) in making this assessment.
If we reasonably determine that the data breach is not likely to result in serious harm to any individuals involved or any remedial action we take is successful in making serious harm no longer likely, then no notification or statement will be made.
Where, following an assessment and undertaking remedial action (if any), we still have reasonable grounds to believe serious harm is likely, as soon as practicable, we will provide a statement to each of the individuals whose data was breached or who are at risk. The statement will contain details of the breach and recommendations of the steps each individual should take. We will also provide a copy of the statement to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
If you reside in the European Union of EFTA States:
We will endeavour to meet the 72-hour deadline as imposed by the GDPR, to report any data breach to the supervisory authority where a data breach occurs that will likely be a risk to you.
Further, where there is likely to be a high risk to your rights we will endeavour to contact you without undue delay.
We will review every incident and take action to prevent future breaches.
Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
If you reside in the European Union or EFTA States, you shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you, or similarly significantly affects you, as long as the decision is not necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between us, or is not authorized by Union or Member State law to which we are subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or is not based on your explicit consent. If you wish to exercise your rights please contact us.
Integrity and Retention of Data
We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect about you is accurate, up to date and complete. Where we collect that information from you directly, we rely on you to supply accurate information. Verlata makes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date. Where we use or disclose your personal information we will also ensure that your personal information is relevant. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
We may retain your information for fraud prevention or similar purposes.
Contact Information
Verlata welcomes your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy.
If you have a question regarding this Privacy Policy or you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email by using our contact details on the Services or below.
If you reside in Australia
You can confidentially contact our Privacy Officer at:
Privacy Officer Jason Mills
Entity Verlata Technologies Pty Ltd ACN 627 057 998
Telephone 1300 215 108
Email jason.mills@verlata.com
Office Address Level 24, 324 Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000
Postal Address As above
Website http://www.verlata.com
If we do not resolve your enquiry, concern or complaint to your satisfaction or you require further information in relation to any privacy matters, please contact the Office of the Australian Information Commission at:
Telephone: 1300 363 992
Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
Office Address: Level 3, 175 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Postal Address: GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001
website: www.oaic.gov.au
If you reside in the European Union of EFTA States:
The data controller that is responsible for your Personal Data is:
Verlata Technologies Pty Ltd ACN 627 057 998
Level 24, 324 Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000
If you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision and Verlata reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Continued use of our Services including the website shall indicate your acknowledgement of that it is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any modifications. We may amend this policy from time to time. Not all changes to our privacy policy will require your consent, for example where office security procedures are changed. We will notify you of any change to our information handling policy that requires your consent before being implemented.