PRIVACY POLICY
ADS Business takes privacy very seriously. We are also bound by and comply with the Australian Privacy Principles derived from the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
This privacy policy is dated May 2020.
ADS Business respects the privacy of your personal information. Broadly, personal information means information that identifies you or information that allows us to reasonably ascertain your identity.
This policy outlines the kinds of personal information we collect and why, how we collect and hold your personal information and why, and how we use your information.
Our website address is: https://adsbusiness.com.au/
What personal information do we collect and why?
We collect information from you directly when you use our site or communicate with us (e.g. via email, over the phone or by submitting an enquiry via our contact form) so that we can provide a customer service, shopping, and delivery service.
To browse our site, you are not required to enter any personal details. However, if you make an enquiry via our contact form, you will be prompted to complete a number of mandatory fields. Information we collect:
your name;
your email;
your contact number (not mandatory);
your message to us;
your IP address.
How do we collect and hold your personal information?
We collect your personal information by keeping a record of your transactions and interactions with us.
We hold your information in electronic and hard copy form at our premises. We have implemented measures to ensure the privacy of your information is protected.
How do we use your personal information?
We use your personal information in connection with you for eg . processing payments, filling orders, providing refunds, responding to enquiries from you, and communicating with you, including for marketing purposes).
For each visitor to reach the site, we expressly collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the site, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used solely internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalised content to you while you are at this site.
Cookies:
Cookies are small files containing information downloaded to your computer or other device when you visit a website and allows the website to recognize your device. By continuing to use and access this website, you consent to the placement of cookies and other similar technology on your device, including mobile device. Examples of information that may be collected include your IP address, browser information and operating system.
Purpose: Cookies allow visitors to navigate between pages efficiently by remembering your preferences and improving your user experience. By analysing cookies, we can also determine what is effective about our website, improve it and personalise the content of our website to better suit our visitors.
Blocking cookies: If you do not wish to receive cookies from our website, you can change your browser options to block cookies or alternatively, notify you when you receive a cookie so that you may accept or refuse it upon notice. Visitors should note that deleting and blocking cookies will have an impact on your user experience as certain features of the site may no longer work.
Third parties:
We do not and will not sell or deal in personal or customer information. We will never disclose your personal details to a third party except the necessary information required by providers of services you have paid for or to protect the rights, property or safety of ADS Business, our clients or third parties or if required by law.
We may, however, use in a general sense without any reference to your name, your information to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and to assist it in meeting customer needs generally. In addition, we may use the information that you provide to improve our website and services but not for any other use.
Analytics:
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
ADS Business uses Google Analytics Dashboard for WP plugin by ExactMetrics. ExactMetrics is the second most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. ExactMetrics Google Analytics application uses the Google Analytics Reporting API to gather analytics about our website and present them in an actionable way via charts, graphs and tables inside your WordPress dashboard to any user with administrator level privileges on your website.
ExactMetrics discloses client Google Analytics information with prior user consent only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on ExactMetrics behalf or to provide the services available at ExactMetrics websites (ii) and to provide necessary technical support for our services.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
litespeed-cache:
This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Visitors should note that third-party websites may have different Privacy Policies to us and upon following any links to third-party websites, visitors should refer to the Privacy Policy of the respective website.
Security:
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our website, and we periodically update our security measures in light of current technologies.
Visitors must, however, note that due to the open nature of the Internet, information may flow over networks connecting you to our systems without security measures. ADS Business cannot be responsible for the security of transmissions of Personal Information over the Internet.
Change in privacy policy:
As we plan to ensure our privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. We may modify this policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review our privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns at any time about our privacy policy or the use of your personal information, please email: allan.smallie@adsbusiness.com.au and we will respond within 48 hours.