PRIVACY

Perrie Designs respects your privacy and is committed protecting the information about you that we collect, store and use when you provide it to us on our website (the Site) www.perriedesigns.com

We manage your information in accordance with the requirements of The Australian Privacy Principles (APP’s) and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

By accèssing 'the Site', registering for our services, or entering your details via ‘Contact Us’, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This privacy policy sets out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information. We may modify this policy from time to time by publishing a revised version on our website.

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED AND USED

The main way Perrie Designs collects personal information about you is when you give it to us. For example, we may collect personal information from you when:

you enquire about our products or services, whether over the phone, in person, or via our website at www.perriedesigns.com
you fill in a contact form from our site
you subscribe to one of our online services, newsletters or mailings lists;
you interact with our social media accounts;
you make an appointment to meet with us;
you order products or services from us;
you apply for a job with us;
we interact with you as part of doing business - for example as a supplier to us, in relation to a transaction or as a tradesperson on one of our projects.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The types of information we may collect from you include:

general personal or business details such as your name, job title, contact number, address and email address;
your financial or billing information (such as billing address, bank account and payment information);
if you apply for a job with us, information about your employment history, and relevant records or checks from any recruitment consultant or from your previous employers, universities and others who may be able to assist us in our decision as to whether to make you an offer of employment; and
if you have a job with us, relevant information to manage our payroll (including your taxation and superannuation details).

WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information in the following way

Assist us in providing a service to you
Communicate with you
Tailor your experience to the site and our communications to you
To advertise our services and the Site
Send you marketing emails, event details and new product or service offerings - but if you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can always unsubscribe;
For Internal administrative, marketing and planning requirements
To compile and report statistics, we will remove the relevant and proprietary information prior to the completion of such statistics; and
For the purposes that are expressly permitted under agreement with you.
Process and respond to your requests, enquiries or complaints
protect, exercise or defend our legal rights; and
Comply with applicable laws;

TO WHOM PERRIE DESIGNS WILL DISCLOSE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We do not disclose personal information about you publicly or to third parties unless it is authorised or required by law, or as otherwise outlined in this Privacy Policy.

From time to time we may disclose your personal information (on a confidential basis) to agents and others that we use in the ordinary operation of our business, marketing and promotion, user experience research and surveys, Site hosting and support and maintenance. We will only disclose your information to the extent required for the purpose of the third party providing services contracted to us so that we may service you.

Examples include

to tradespeople involved in your projects;
to our service providers, agents and contractors from time to time that provide services to us and/or help us to provide and market our services to you;
to specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us;
to other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies; as otherwise required or authorised by law

Your personal information will never be sold to any third parties.

USING OUR WEBSITE

Analytics

We may use analytic tools to collect data about your interaction with our website. These tools may be hosted by us or third parties. The sole purpose of collecting your data in this way is to improve your experience when using our site. The types of data we may collect with these tools include:

your device's IP address;
device screen size;
device type, operating system and browser information;
geographic location;
referring domain and out link if applicable;
search terms and pages visited; and
date and time when website pages were accessed.

We may make use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies on our website. Cookies are small data files transferred onto computers or devices by websites for record-keeping purposes and to enhance functionality on the website.

Most browsers allow you to choose whether to accept cookies or not. If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer, please set your browser preferences to reject all cookies before accessing our website.

HOW DO WE STORE AND KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SECURE?

We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form. We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures to keep your personal information secure from misuse, interference, loss or unauthorised use or disclosure. For example, we restrict physical access to our office, employ firewalls and secure databases, password protect our IT systems and frequently update our anti-virus software.

However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. The internet is not a secure environment. If you do use the Internet to send us any information, including your email address, bank or credit card details, please be aware that it will be sent at your own risk.

Our websites and electronic newsletters includes social media features, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest buttons. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are hosted by third parties and your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

may also contain links to other websites operated by third parties (including payment processers). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites.

ACCESSING OR CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have rights under the Privacy Act to:

request access to your personal information;
ask us to update or correct any information that is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated; and
opt-out of receiving direct marketing communications from us.

You can do any of these things by contacting us using the details set out below.

MAKING A COMPLAINT

If you think we have breached the Privacy Act, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information, you can contact us using the details set out below. We will respond to your complaint within 30 days.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at enquiries@oaic.gov.au or on 1300 363 992.

Site User Experience Tracking

The Site includes social media features, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest buttons. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are hosted by third parties and your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

Protecting and maintaining your personal information

We will take all reasonable steps to protect the information we hold about you from unauthorised access, use and disclosure, however we cannot guarantee that our systems and stored data will be free from third party interception or are free from corruption.

Some parts of the Site are not protected by any form of encryption to provide information you send from your computer to us over the internet. Further, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. In light of this, we cannot ensure and do not warrant, the security or privacy of your personal information, including payment and account details. You transmit this information at your own risk. If you use the Site to Lin to another side we encourage you to view their Terms and Conditions of use, privacy policies and security statements before disclosing any of your personal information on those sites.

Accessing Personal Information

It is your responsibility to advise us of any changes to your personal information to ensure we can keep our records accurate and up to date. If you wish to access information we have about you, or make a request to have your details changed please email perrie@perriedesigns.com

If you don’t want us to use your perusal information in a particular manner, or at all, let us know. We will do our best to observe it subject to our obligations by law.

IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS

If you have any concerns about how we handle your personal information, or require further information, please contact us at perrie@perriedesigns.com

This document represents our Privacy Policy as at January, 2023. We may change the document from time to time to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a prominent notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to regularly review this statement to inform yourself yourself of any amendments.