Every Ounce Counts Pty Ltd

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of all information provided to us and to our clients through the use of our services and related webSite. We created the following policy guidelines with a fundamental respect for your right to guide our relationship with our users and consumers who use any of the webSite, services or applications owned or provided by us.

1. Collected Information

Consumer Provided Information: When you visit the Site, you may provide to us what is generally called “personally identifiable” information (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address and home/mobile telephone number etc.) if you print a voucher from or otherwise participate in activities offered on the Site. In addition, you may have the option of providing us with certain demographic information about yourself or your household (such as your age, gender, household compensation, interests, post code and state).

Client Provided Information: When you open and use a business account on our Site, you will be required to provide us with information on your business (including name, email address, postal mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number) as well as uploading intellectual property to our website (including trademarks and material subject to copyright) as part of the use of the services of our Site.

“Cookies” Information: When you visit the Site, we may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. These persistent cookies can be removed, but each web browser is a little different. So please review your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies setup. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on the Site.

“Automatically Collected” Information: When you use the Site or open one of our HTML emails, we automatically record certain data using technology, including clear gifs or web beacons; cookies (discussed above); IP addresses; unique “device IDs” (similar to IP addresses) and log files. Automatically collected data includes voucher printing and redemption activity; web browser type’ the website that referred you to us; the web pages you viewed on the Site and the dates and times that you visited the Site.

“Email-A-Friend” Information: If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our Site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting his or her to visit the Site and we do not store this information.

2. When we Disclose Information

We may disclose Consumer information if required to do so by law or in the bona fides belief that such action is necessary to comply with local, state or federal laws or to respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant.

We also reserve the right to disclose Consumer information that we believe in good faith is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect Clients from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful uses, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of the Site and to protect against fraudulent uses, the rights, property or safety of Every Ounce Counts, our Consumers, our Clients or others.

3. Your Choices

If you no longer wish to receive our weekly newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each email or communication.

4. Third Party Advertisers, Links to Other Site

Third party ad servers or ad networks may serve advertisements within the Site. These third party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Site. These ad servers automatically receive your IP address when this happens and they may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalise their advertising content.

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or webSite.

5. Our Commitment to Data Security

We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, ENSURE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT TO US, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. Once we receive your transmission of information, we make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical or managerial safeguards.

6. Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or maintain information from persons under 18 years of age and no part of our Site is structured to attract anyone under 18. If you are under 18 years of age, then please do not use or access the Site at any time or in any manner. If we learn that personally identifiable information of persons under 18 years of age has been collected on the Site without verified parental consent, then we will take appropriate steps to delete this information.

7. In the Event of Merger or Sale

In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Consumers as part of such merger, acquisition, sale or other change of control.

8. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and at any time without notice, and this will be reflected by the “last modified” notice below. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage and/or other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you here, by email or by means of a notice on our homepage. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we received that personal information. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND ANY FUTURE REVISIONS.

9. Effective Date, Date Last Modified

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 8 September 2009.

This Privacy Policy was last modified on 8 September 2009.

10. Our Contact Information

For questions regarding this Privacy Policy, your personal information, our third party disclosure practices or your consent choices, please contact privacy@everyouncecounts.com.au, or by mail at:

Every Ounce Counts Pty Ltd
PO Box 480
Ormeau Qld 4208