Our Commitment to Protecting Personal Information
Discount Shopping Guide understands that your personal information is important to you.
We adhere to national privacy principles governing the protection of personal information, set out in the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988. The following is an overview of the way we manage
your personal information.
Personal Information
Personal information means any information (or an opinion about you) from which your
identity is apparent or can reasonably be determined.
The Kind of Information We Collect
Purposes of Personal Information
The personal information we collect is used for:
Undertaking transactions (based on instructions from you)
Informing you of upcoming events
Providing you with articles or information on areas of shopping of interest to you
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small data file downloaded from our website and stored on a text file on your hard drive. The information contained in the cookie uniquely identifies your computer and any user name / password you have registered on our website.
The information collected is used to authenticate or identify whether you are registered on our website, without requiring you to re-enter details each time you log-on.
If, at any time, you don’t want to accept cookies or want to delete existing cookies, you may manually configure your browser to refuse cookies or manually delete existing cookies from your hard drive. However, by deleting or refusing to accept cookies you may impede access to, or use of, areas of our website.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We will only use your personal information for the purpose for which it was collected. We will not disclose your personal information to anyone without your consent, unless required to by law.
Access to and Changing Personal Information
You may want access to the personal information we’ve collected from you. To obtain a detailed explanation about how we manage your personal information, you can email us at info@discountshoppingguide.com.au.
If you wish to change your personal information or have it deleted, please notify us as above.
Easily accessible personal information will be made available to you free of charge.
However, where such information is not easily accessible, we may charge a fee for the cost of accessing or retrieving the information.
Safety of Your Personal Information
We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Once your personal information is no longer required, we destroy or permanently de-identify it.
Email and the Internet may not always be completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of information sent to us by email or over the Internet.
If your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you can refer the matter to the Federal Privacy Commissioner at:
Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner
Level 8, Piccadilly Tower
133 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
www.privacy.gov.au