Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy tells you how we collect and use information.

 

1. We respect your privacy

1.1 DMA Partners Pty Ltd respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our clients, business partners and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).  This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.

1.2 “Personal information” is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you.

2. Collection of personal information

2.1 DMA Partners Pty Ltd, will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you enter onto our website, provided to us directly or given to us in other forms.

2.2 You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send information and provide updates. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, change your content or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide information or communicate with our team members.

2.3 Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.

3. How we collect your personal information

3.1 DMA Partners Pty Ltd collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically or in person, when you access our website and when we provide our services to you. Way may receive personal information from third parties.  If we do, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.

4. Use of your personal information

4.1 DMA Partners Pty Ltd may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services. We may also make you aware of new and additional services and opportunities available to you.  We may use your personal information to improve our services and better understand your needs.

4.2 DMA Partners Pty Ltd may contact you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to telephone, email, sms, mail or social media.

5. Disclosure of your personal information

5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services.

5.2 We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.

5.3 We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of DMA Partners Pty Ltd, dmapartners.com.au, its clients, business partners or third parties.

5.4 If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extend permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality.  We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.

5.5 By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding the handling of your personal information.

6. Security of your personal information

6.1 DMA Partners Pty Ltd is committed to ensuring that the personal information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

6.2 The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. We cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us.  Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosure of information, we cannot assure you that personal information that we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

7. Access to your personal information

7.1 You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). A small administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information.  If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at [email protected].

7.2 We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.

8. Complaints about privacy

8.1 If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to Level 1, 88 Creek Street, Brisbane, Queensland 4000. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving written notice of your complaint.

9. Changes to Privacy Policy

9.1 Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. 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 our website.  Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.

10. Website

10.1 When you visit our website

When you come to our website (www.dmapartners.com.au) we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site etc.  This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.

10.2 Cookies

We may from time to time use cookies on our website.  Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site.  Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings.  However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.  Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us to provide a better website visitor experience.  In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords.  These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.

10.3 Third party sites

Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us.  These links are meant for your convenience only.  Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites.  Please be aware that DMA Partners Pty Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites.  We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.

10.4 Embedded videos on our website

Embedded videos on our website use YouTube.  You can view YouTube (A Google Company) privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

10.5 Email lists, registration, sign-up forms and feedback

We will collect information you provide to use when signing up to mailing lists or when submitted an enquiry on our website.  We use (Mailchimp) to manage our mailing lists.  Analytics are performed when you click on links in the email, or when you download the images in the email.  This includes which emails you open, which links you click, if your action occurred on ‘mobile’ or ‘desktop’ and the country geolocation of your IP address (the IP address itself is not stored). Mailchimp privacy policy link here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

10.6 Social networking services

We use social networking services such as LinkedIn and YouTube to communicate.  When you communicate with us using these services we may collect your personal information, but we only use it to help us to communicate with you.  The social networking service will also handle your personal information for its own purposes.  These services have their own privacy policies.  You can access the privacy policies for LinkedIn and YouTube (a Google Company) on their websites.

11. Google Analytics and remarketing

Our website uses Google analytics and Google’s re-marketing technology.  This technology enables users who have already visited us online and shown interest in our services to see targeted advertising on Google partner network websites.  Likewise users that are similar to the visitors of our websites can be addressed.  The advertising will be displayed through the use of web cookies.  Using cookies, the user behaviour on a website can be analysed and subsequently utilised to provide targeted service recommendations and advertising based on the user’s interests.

If you would prefer not to receive any targeted advertising, you can deactivate the use of cookies for these purposes through Google.  Please note that Google has its own data protection policy, which is independent of our own.  We assume no responsibility or liability for their policies and procedures.  Please read Google’s privacy policy before using our website.  How Google uses data 
12. LinkedIn insights tag

Our website utilises the “Insight Tag” conversion tracking services of LinkedIn Corp.  This allows us to re-target users on LinkedIn after they have visited the DMA Partners website.  This is also an analytics tool that allows us to record the effectiveness of LinkedIn advertisements.  The collected data remains anonymous.  This means we cannot see the personal data of any individual user.  The collected data is saved and processed by LinkedIn.  LinkedIn is able to connect the data with your LinkedIn account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with LinkedIn’s data use policy.
13. Contact us

DMA Partners Pty Ltd
Level 1, 88 Creek Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
(07) 3234 4300
[email protected]

10th December 2019