PRIVACY AND CREDIT REPORTING POLICY

The Line II Pty Ltd and its successors and assigns (we, us or our) is covered by the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Act) (as amended from time to time). For the purpose of this Policy:

“Personal Information” means information, including financial information, or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable, whether the information or opinion is true or not, and whether the information or opinion is in a material form or not.

“Sensitive Information” means information or an opinion (that is also Personal Information) about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual practices, criminal record or health information.

We recognise the importance of protecting your Personal Information. We will take reasonable steps to ensure all Personal Information held by us is secure and all Personal Information collected, used or disclosed by us is accurate, complete and up to date. Our handling of Personal Information is regulated by the Act and the Credit Reporting Privacy Code (as amended from time to time) (Code).  

This Policy is published on our website and may be updated from time to time at our discretion.  By continuing to use our website, or otherwise continuing to deal with us, you accept this Policy as it applies from time to time. You may request a hard copy of this Policy.

TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Depending on the particular circumstances, we may collect and hold a range of different Personal Information about you. This may include, but is not limited to, your name, date of birth, contact details (including address, email address and telephone number), driver’s licence number, credit related information, internet protocol address, server address, domain name and payment, transaction and financial information (such as credit card or bank account numbers).

SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where possible, we will collect Personal Information directly from you.  In some instances, we may collect Personal Information from other sources such as third parties, publically available sources, press reports or other publications, in which case, we will endeavour to verify such details with you.

We acknowledge that there is no obligation for you to provide us with Personal Information except as required by law.  However, if you choose not to provide us with certain Personal Information, we may not be able to deal with you or provide you with our full range of products or services or employment.

We collect Personal Information in a number of ways, including but not limited to, directly from you when you engage us to provide you with products or services, set up an account with us, enter into a credit arrangement with us and when you browse our website. If you apply for employment with us, we may collect Personal Information about you from any third parties that you nominate as your referees and you consent to us obtaining Personal Information about you from third party sources such as social media sites.

PURPOSE FOR USE AND DISCLOSURE

The purpose for which we use and disclose Personal Information will depend on the circumstances in which it is collected. We will only hold your Personal Information for the particular purpose of for which we collected it (Primary Purpose).

We will not use or disclose your Personal Information (not being Sensitive Information) for another purpose (Secondary Purpose) unless:

• we first obtain your consent;
• you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose it for a Secondary Purpose that is related to the Primary Purpose or (in the case of Sensitive Information) directly related to the Primary Purpose;
• we are required to by law;
• a permitted general purpose exists;
• a permitted health situation exists;
• we reasonably believe it is reasonably necessary for one or more enforcement related activities conducted by, or on behalf of, an enforcement body (for example, to comply with occupational health and safety, industrial relations and taxation laws).

Specific purposes for which we may use or disclose Personal Information include the purposes of providing you with products or services, dealing with customer care related activities, marketing and developing our products or services, the operation and administration of accounts, carrying out certain checks (for example, in relation to credit), considering an individual for employment, interacting with companies or organisations with whom we have a business relationship, complying with our obligations under agreements with third parties and carrying out any activity in connection with a legal, governmental or regulatory requirement that we have to comply with, or in connection with legal proceedings, crime or fraud prevention, detection or prosecution. 

In the event we collect Sensitive Information about you, you consent to us collecting, using and disclosing the Sensitive Information for the purpose for which it was disclosed and as permitted by the Act and other relevant laws.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We work with a number of suppliers that provide us with services to fulfil your request or carry out specific functions on our behalf, including:

• contracted or approved third party service providers or contractors to provide you with products or services requested by you or may be of interest to you, to process your payment, to communicate offers and promotions to you, and for product development and product, service and market research;
• our loyalty program partners, suppliers and service providers;
• approved technology services including application and systems, cloud computing facilities, development and technical support, processing, storing, hosting, research and to analyse data;
• business advisors, including lawyers, accountants, insurance, recruitment advisors and agencies, auditors or other professional service providers to the extent reasonably required;
• regulatory, investigative or government bodies to comply with applicable laws or respond to valid legal process such as a search warrant, a court order or a subpoena;
• Some of our trusted service providers such as technology or data storage providers may be located outside of Australia including the United States of America and other countries or jurisdictions depending on the nature of the services those recipients provide to us. APP 8.1 will not apply to the disclosure of your Personal Information to any overseas recipients.

ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITY

You can deal with us anonymously (without identifying yourself) or under a pseudonym (fictitious name) unless you are applying for credit from us, applying for employment with us, dealing with us in relation to the provision of products or services or in any other situation where it is impractical or unlawful to deal with you anonymously or under a pseudonym.

STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

All Personal Information collected by us will be retained as part of our business records, which will be securely monitored and maintained. We hold Personal Information in a number of ways, including:

• as part of customer records and other electronic documents on which Personal Information is contained which are stored on our information technology systems and servers operated by third parties who provide services to us in connection with our business; and
• by securely storing hard copy documents on which Personal Information is contained, at our various premises and using third party document management and archiving services.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

If we receive Personal Information where we have not taken any steps to collect such information, then within a reasonable time we will decide whether we could, under the APPs, have solicited that Personal Information ourselves. If we determine that we would not, under the APPs, have been permitted to solicit the Personal Information, we will as soon as practical (where lawful and reasonable to do so) destroy or de-identify that unsolicited Personal Information. If we could, under the APPs, have solicited the Personal Information then we may use and disclose the Personal Information for the purpose for which it was disclosed and as permitted by the Act and other relevant laws.

Where Personal Information held by us is no longer required to be held, and its retention is not required by law, then we will destroy such Personal Information by a secure means.

CREDIT REPORTING

If you apply for credit from us, we will need to collect Personal Information from you so we can assess your Credit Application. In order to assess your Credit Application, you consent to your Personal Information being disclosed to, and us obtaining your Personal Information from, third parties. Such third parties may include credit reporting bodies (CRB), companies who provide commercial credit references, people you authorise us to contact in connection with your Credit Application or any approved Business Credit Account, mercantile agencies and other companies who provide outsourced services to us. For contact details and information on how a CRB manages credit related Personal Information, please see their privacy policies available at the websites set out above.

CRBs may include your Personal Information in reports that they provide to credit providers to assist those providers in assessing your credit worthiness. If you fail to meet your payment obligations in relation to consumer credit or commit a serious credit infringement, we may be entitled to disclose this to a CRB.

CRBs offer a service to credit providers wanting to send direct marketing material about credit services to individuals (credit pre-screening). You have the right to request that CRBs do not use your Personal Information for credit pre-screening. To opt-out of credit pre-screening, contact the CRB, using the contact details on their websites set out above. You can also ask a CRB not to use or disclose your Personal Information for a period if you believe on reasonable grounds that you have been or are likely to be a victim of fraud.

ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

You can gain access to your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions contained in the Act.  To request access to your Personal Information, or to update or correct that Personal Information, please send a written request to either 134 Gilbert Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia, or enquiries@acler.com.au (Contact Address). We will check the identity of individuals making requests to determine within 14 days whether the request will be met.

DIRECT MARKETING

We may send you marketing communications in line with your previously expressed marketing preferences or as otherwise permitted under the Act and other relevant laws. If you do not wish to receive such communications, please contact us via the Contact Address or follow the opt-out instructions contained in each marketing communication.

COMPLIANCE

If you are concerned that the way in which we collect, hold, use or disclose your Personal Information may be in breach of the APPs or the Code, please send written details of your complaint to the Contact Address.

After receiving a complaint, we will conduct internal discussions and evaluate whether we believe that such collection, holding, use or disclosure of your Personal Information was in breach of the APPs and/or the Code. We will endeavour to notify you of the results of our investigation of your complaint within 30 days of receiving your complaint. However, if your complaint involves complex issues or requires extensive investigation, it may not be possible to respond within this timeframe. If the conclusion of our investigation is that our collection, holding, use or disclosure of your Personal Information was in breach of the APPs and/or the Code, we will take steps to remedy the breach as soon as reasonably practicable. If after dealing with us you are still not satisfied, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (www.oaic.gov.au) or the Financial Ombudsman Service (www.fos.org.au).

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a privacy and data protection regulation in the European Union (EU). Imposes new obligations on organisations that control or process relevant personal data and introduces new rights and protections for EU data subjects. The GDPR applies to data processing carried out by organisations operating within the EU and to organisations outside the EU that offer goods or services to individuals of the EU. To the extent that the GDPR may apply to you, in addition to the above:

• We will process all personal data fairly and lawfully.
• We will only process personal data for specified and lawful purposes.
• We will endeavour to hold relevant and accurate personal data, and where practical, we will keep this up to date.
• We will not retain personal data for longer than is necessary.
• We will comply with requests to remove data or the right to be forgotten.
• We will comply with requests to pause data usage.
• We will keep all personal data secure.
• We will endeavour to ensure that if personal data is transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) they must be compliant with GDPR and contain adequate protection.

If you have any enquiries about any of these matter please contact us as noted above.

SECURITY

When purchasing from Acler e-boutique your financial details are passed through a secure server using the latest 128-bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology.128-bit SSL encryption is approximated to take at least one trillion years to break, and is the industry standard. We do not record your credit card details.

COMPETITION TERMS & CONDITIONS

Competition prize is at the discretion of the winner and can be made up of any available products from shopacler.com which have a combined total of no more than $1500 (AUD). Competition prize will be awarded in the form of a discount code to be used on shopacler.com. Free shipping included. Competition entries close 11.30pm (ACST) 09 February 2024. To enter, Eligible Entrants must join our mailing list via Facebook or Instagram.

Winner will be drawn at random at 9am on 10 February 2024 in Queensland, notified by email within two (2) business days of the draw and published on shopacler.com. If the prize is not claimed within seven (7) days, a redraw will take place at 9am on 19 February 2024 in Queensland and notified by email within two (2) business days of the redraw and published on shopacler.com. Competition open to Australian residents only and is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook or Instagram. Entry to this competition adds your contact details to our mailing list. You may unsubscribe at any time.

Current Winner: Shannon S.

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