1. Introduction

Your privacy is important to us, Boating & Fishing Online / Manning River Marine & Tackle. This Privacy Policy (Privacy Policy or Policy) outlines how your information is collected, used and disclosed when you access or use our services. This information is collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).
You agree to comply with all Terms when accessing or using our Services, including this Privacy Policy.

2. What information do we collect and how is it collected?

We collect Personal Information, as defined in the Privacy Act (including Sensitive Information as defined in the Privacy Act), when you access or use our services.

2.1 Information provided by you

We collect information that you provide to us via use of our Services as well as through any other means used to contact us.

The kinds of Personal Information we collect include your contact information such as your name, email address, organisation, address and phone or mobile number.
We reserve the right to maintain, store and use any information or data where we reasonably believe that such action is required to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations, to prevent criminal or other unlawful activity whether immediate or in the future, or where we have a legitimate business reason to do so, including collection of amounts owed, resolving disputes, enforcing our Terms or for record keeping integrity.

You expressly consent to the use of your Personal Information for the provision of Services in accordance with our Terms.

2.2 Automatically collected Personal Information

We automatically record information from your device and its software when you access our services, including your IP address, operating system, web browser and device type, internet service provider, mobile phone carrier, platform type, the Website from which you came and the Website to which you are going when you leave our services, the pages you visit and features you use on our Website, date and time stamp and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or account.
When accessing our services using a mobile device, we may also receive and collect identification numbers associated with your device, mobile carrier, device type and manufacturer, and, if enabled, geographical location data (including GPS). Please note that some of the information we collect, for example an IP address, can sometimes be used to approximate a device's location.

2.3 Personal Information collected via cookies

Our services may use small pieces of data called cookies to identify a user who engages with our services and to compile records of a user’s history of engaging with our services. Cookies are stored by a users’ browser while the user browses a Website. Cookies do not usually contain information that personally identifies a person, but each time the user visits the Website, the browser sends the cookie data back to the server to notify the system of the user's previous activity. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your browser settings, however please be aware that if you choose to do this, some functionality of our Website will not be available to you.
We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

2.4 Google Analytics

Boating & Fishing Online uses Google Analytics, which allows us to anonymously track the use of our Services by recording the number of users who have visited, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what systems users have and the date and time of visits through cookies. This information is collected for statistical purposes only and cannot be used to identify you.
Boating & Fishing Online may use a range of services and functions offered by Google Analytics, including but not limited to Google Optimize, Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, DoubleClick Campaign Manager Integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Boating & Fishing Online also uses Google Analytics to partner with third parties and advertise online. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies and third party Tracking Technologies to gather information about your activities on our Website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.

3. For what purposes do we collect and use Personal Information?

We collect your Personal Information as outlined in this Privacy Policy for the purposes described below:
  1. for provision of the services;
  2. register your user account and to verify your identity or age;
  3. facilitate payment and processing via third party gateways and alternative payment methods (such as Paypal);
  4. or communication with you in association with the functions and features of the services;
  5. for communicating to you any announcements and updates, updated terms, conditions and policies, security alerts, technical notices, support and administrative messages;
  6. for analysis, monitoring, development and improvement of our services, including other products or services;
  7. for security purposes, including to protect the services and our property from abuse, fraud, malicious, unauthorised access or potentially illegal activities, and to protect our rights, safety and property and that of our other users;
  8. for sending marketing communications to you, including notifying you of promotional or advertising offers, contests and rewards, upcoming events and other news about products and services offered by us and use of our services;
  9. to comply with relevant laws and regulations where applicable; and
  10. for the performance of other functions described at the time of collection or as consented to in relation to our services.

4. How do we store and protect your information?

4.1 Storage of Personal Information

We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The Personal Information we collect from you is transferred and stored electronically via a secured SSL connection, in secured, password-protected servers located in the USA and Australia. You agree and consent to Showpo storing your Personal Information on such servers.

4.2 Who can access your Personal Information?

Your Personal Information is accessible to our employees, contractors and our third-party service providers such as our Website host and technical support providers. We may also store your Personal Information in password-protected email databases for the purpose of sending out communications and marketing emails in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Please note that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information. Transmission of Personal Information over the Internet is at your own risk and you should only enter, or instruct the entering of, Personal Information to the Services within a secure environment. It is your responsibility to ensure that you keep your Personal Information safe, including keeping your software up to date to prevent security breaches.

We reserve the right to maintain and store any information or data where, we reasonably believe, in our sole discretion, that such action is required to comply with any legal or regulatory obligations, to prevent criminal or other unlawful activity whether immediate or in the future, or where we have a legitimate business reason to do so, including collection of amounts owed, resolving disputes, enforcing our Terms or for record keeping integrity.

We destroy or de-identify your Personal Information after 2 years where it is no longer needed for the purposes outlined in this Policy. However, we may also be required to keep some of your personal information for specified periods of time, for example under certain laws relating to corporations, money laundering, and financial reporting legislation.

5. Third party Websites and social media

Our services may, from time to time, contain links to and from Websites which are owned or operated by other parties or use services of third parties, including Google, Facebook and Adyen. You acknowledge and agree that Boating & Fishing Online has no control over, and shall not be liable for, the privacy practices or content of these third party Websites and Boating & Fishing Online does not make any representation about the privacy practices of, any third-party Websites, whether or not linked from or transferred from our Services. You are responsible for checking the Privacy Policy of any such Websites and applications so that you can be informed of how they will handle Personal Information.
We run pages on a number of social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. By accessing, interacting with and using our social media pages, you agree to the terms and Privacy Policy of those Social Media Platforms. You acknowledge and agree that these Social Media Platforms may collect your information and that the privacy practices of those Social Media Platforms are not controlled by us and that we hold no responsibility for such privacy practices.
Social Media Platforms also allow public access to your public social media profile, which may include your username, age range, country/language, list of friends or other information that you make publicly available and you understand that such information may therefore be accessible by us if you interact with its social media pages.
We may from time to time, have access to statistics regarding the number of views, navigation patterns, posts that you like, comment on or share and any user interactions with our social media pages and may use such information for the purpose of its marketing and promotion strategies.

6. Amendments

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time as we see fit. While we endeavour to notify you as soon as reasonably possible of any changes to our Policies by email or by a notice on our Services, it is your responsibility to keep up to date with any changes or amendments by checking this page prior to using our Services. This page contains our most accurate and up to date version of our Privacy Policy.

7. Contact us

All requests for access or corrections to your Personal Information and complaints should be directed to us:
  1. by email at info@boatingandfishingonline.com.au
If you are not satisfied with our handling of your complaint or we have not replied to you within a reasonable period of time, then you are entitled to make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.