Privacy Policy
MyDeal.com.au (“Site”) is owned and operated by MyDeal.com.au Pty Ltd (ABN 60 150 104 715)(“MyDeal”).
This statement sets out MyDeal’s policies relating to the collection and use
of your personal information. It applies to your conduct on the MYDEAL website
(“Site”). This policy is in addition to the Terms of Use governing the Site and
should be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use.
For more information on privacy in Australia, please see the Federal Privacy Commissioner’s Website.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact
us via the details on our Contact Page.
When you visit the Site, MyDeal.com.au will operate the Site according to the following:
Personal Information
There are two main ways we collect information about you:
If you are not or do not login as a MyDeal Member
Whenever you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information about your usage of the Site, such as the time of your visit, its duration and the pages you visit. This is to help us understand what parts of the Site our users enjoy the most and to help us ensure that advertisements on the Site are most directly relevant to your interests. If you have not identified yourself on the Site, such as by registering for Membership or logging in as a Member, the information we collect about you remains anonymous.
If you login as a MyDeal Member
When you first register for membership, we collect
information from you such as your email, name, suburb, and will continue to add
to your member profile as you interact more on the Site, for example, if you
enter a competition.
Once you have become a registered member, we collect personal information about
you in order to provide you with the full benefits of Membership. It will also
enable MYDEAL to bill you and contact you, where necessary, concerning your use
of the MYDEAL Site. MYDEAL will also use and analyse the information it
collects so that it can administer, support, improve and develop our business.
In particular, MYDEAL may contact you for your views on the Site and also
to notify you about changes or developments to the Site and services. If you
have consented, we may also use your information in order to advise you about
other products and services which we offer.
How we preserve your privacy
MYDEAL will maintain any information in strict confidence
and only use this information in connection with the operation of the Site and
in compliance with the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 (as amended by the Privacy
Amendment (Private Sector) 2000 (Cth)) or other statutory provision or
direction of law or at the direction of a law enforcement agency or other
authorised government authority.
MYDEAL does not collect sensitive information beyond information outlined above
about users.
Security of Your Information
MYDEAL takes all reasonable steps to ensure that sensitive
information that MYDEAL collects is only accessible by authorised persons. We
will retain your information for a reasonable time or as long as the law
requires.
No transmission over the Internet can be 100% secure and although MYDEAL will
take reasonable steps to protect information storage, MYDEAL cannot guarantee
the integrity of transmission over the internet and has no liability for such.
Third Parties
Your personal sensitive information and data is only shared
with third parties at your direction or in connection with your use of the Site
or as is required or permitted by law. This may include instances where we are
required to transmit personal information according to instructions received
from a law enforcement agency or other authorised body.
Where MYDEAL does make information or data available to certain authorised
agents of MYDEAL, it will do so only in connection with the operation of the Site
and MYDEAL will ensure that they apply the MYDEAL Pricacy Policy or in
applicable statutory or common law requirement. MYDEAL will not pass your
information on to advertisers except with your permission.
Please note that in using the Site you may be communicating with individuals
and organisations outside of Australia. In that case, their use of your
personal information may not be covered by Australian law or an applicable
privacy protection scheme.
Secure Online Transactions
If you purchase a Coupon through
our website, we process your credit card details securely over the Internet
using eWAY’s bank-grade data centre (eWAY is an accredited Internet payment
security system authorised as a third party processor for all major Australian
banks). With the combination of transaction performed under 256 Bit SSL
Certificate on our website and a secure browser at your end, we take all
measures to ensure that your credit card and anonymity are protected when you
purchase online.
Non-customer information
Sometimes, MYDEAL needs to collect personal information about individuals who are not Account holders or customers. This will usually arise where we collect the name and business contact details of a person who is the contact in a government agency or company with whom we deal. MYDEAL’s policy is to only use personal information collected from non-customers for the main business purpose for which it was collected.
Changing Your Information
If you are a MyDeal Member, you are able to view and amend your Personal Information stored by MYDEAL at all times. MYDEAL will not amend your personal information except at your direction.
Terms of Use
A breach of this Privacy Policy is a breach of the Terms of Use.
18 Years of Age
Unless special agreement has been made with MYDEAL, Members must be at least 18 years of age.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which is placed on the user’s hard drive following a visit to the Site. This file subsequently allows the user to move quickly and easily around the Site by keeping a record of your previous visit(s). It is used to identify users and tracks a user’s sessions providing information that the system used to efficiently manage your use of the site. We do not link this information to user’s personal details. Cookies can be deleted from a user’s hard drive at any time by the user.
Changes to This Policy
MYDEAL may amend this Privacy Policy as our business requirements or the law changes.
How to contact MyDeal
If you would like to make an access request or wish to provide feedback about this policy, please contact MYDEAL by emailing support@mydeal.com.au
