Privacy policy

NEWWAVE BIOTECH

PRIVACY AND CREDIT INFORMATION POLICY

New Wave Agriculture Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 78 641 968 569) (we, us or our), understands that protecting your personal information is important. This Privacy and Credit Information Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal and credit information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us through our website or when supplying our products to you (Services) or when otherwise interacting with you.

The information we collect

Personal information: is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.

The types of personal information we may collect about you include:

your name and job title;
your contact details, including email address, street address and/or telephone number;
your credit card or other payment details (through our third party payment processor);
your preferences and/or opinions;
information you provide to us, including through feedback, customer surveys or otherwise;
details of products and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you;
support requests submitted to us and our response to you;
information about your access and use of our Services, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our online Services, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Services and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information; and
any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.

Credit information is a term used throughout this Credit Information Policy and refers to “credit information” and “credit eligibility information” as these terms are defined in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

We may collect and hold credit information about you if you are a purchaser of our products, which may include:

Credit information, including:

your name, address, contact number and email address;
the fact that you applied for credit from us;
the amount of credit applied for by you;
the amount of credit provided to you by us (if any);
the terms of payment of credit provided to you by us, including any credit term;
details of your payment history, including details of any default of payment by you;
information regarding credit that was provided to you that has otherwise been discharged;
information retrieved from any credit referees;
information regarding your personal insolvency;
information about your involvement in any court proceedings; and

Credit eligibility information, including:

a credit report; and
a credit assessment score.

Sensitive information: is a sub-set of personal information that is given a higher level of protection. Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information.

We do not actively request sensitive information about you. If at any time we need to collect sensitive information about you, unless otherwise permitted by law, we will first obtain your consent and we will only use it as required or authorised by law.

How we collect personal information

We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:

Directly: We collect personal information which you directly provide to us, including when you register for an account, through the ‘contact us’ form on our website or when you request our assistance via email, or over the telephone.
Indirectly: We may collect personal information which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you use our website, in emails, over the telephone and in your online enquiries.
From third parties: We collect personal information from third parties, such as details of your use of our website from our analytics and cookie providers and marketing providers. See the “Cookies” section below for more detail on the use of cookies.

We collect credit information in a variety of ways, including:

Directly: We collect credit information which you directly provide to us, including through your completion of any credit application form provided by us or you entering an agreement with us for the supply of Services.
Indirectly: We may collect credit information which you indirectly provide to us while interacting with us, such as when you make payment of any amount of credit provided by us or from publicly available resources.
From third parties: We may collect credit information from third parties, such as credit reporting bodies or from other credit providers, including any credit referees provided by you.

Why we collect, hold, use and disclose personal information

Personal information: We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:

to provide our website to you, including to provide you with a login;
to provide our Services to you including to provide you with a login on our website and dispatch and deliver our products to you;
to enable you to access and use our associated applications;
to contact and communicate with you about our Services, including in response to any support requests you lodge with us or other enquiries you make with us;
for internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes;
for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Services, associated applications;
for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and other information that we consider may be of interest to you;
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have; and
if otherwise required or authorised by law.

Why we collect, hold, use and disclose credit information

Credit information: We may collect, hold, use and disclose credit information for the following purposes:

verifying your identity;
obtaining credit information from credit reporting bodies;
assessing your application for credit (or assessing your application to be a guarantor in relation to such credit);
assessing your credit worthiness, including collecting your payment history in relation to any credit provided by us to you;
enforcing our rights against you or your guarantors for repayment of any amount owed by you to us;
providing our goods and/or services to you;
administering your account, including for internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes;
dealing with complaints or issues you may have in relation to our goods and/or services;
complying with our legal obligations and resolving any disputes that we may have; and/or
if otherwise required or authorised by law.

Our disclosures of personal information to third parties

We may disclose personal information to:

third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, to us, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, email marketing providers, debt collectors, couriers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors and payment systems operators;
our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
our existing or potential agents or business partners;
anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics (To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or any other URL Google may use from time to time); and
any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a subpoena.

Google Analytics: We have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features including Remarketing Features, Advertising Reporting Features, Demographics and Interest Reports, Store Visits, Google Display Network Impression reporting etc. We and third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features including using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on found here. To opt-out of personalised ad delivery on the Google content network, please visit Google’s Ads Preferences Manager here or if you wish to opt-out permanently even when all cookies are deleted from your browser you can install their plugin here. To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device: On android open the Google Settings app on your device and select “ads” to control the settings. On iOS devices with iOS 6 and above use Apple’s advertising identifier. To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings menu on your device.

Our disclosures of credit information to third parties

We may disclose credit information to:

other credit providers to allow them to determine your financial arrangements with us;
potential guarantors to allow them to consider whether to offer to act as a guarantor in relation to a credit or to offer property as security for credit;
guarantors, to exercise our rights against guarantors;
third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, to us, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, payment systems operators, debt collectors or other service providers who may assist us in securing a debt and professional advisors;
our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
our existing or potential agents or business partners;
anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required or authorised by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
any other third parties where you have consented; and
as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a subpoena.

We are not likely to disclose credit information to individuals or entities that do not have an Australian link. If we do disclose credit information to individuals or entities that do not have an Australian link, we will update this Privacy and Credit Information Policy to provide details of the countries in which these entities are located.

Overseas disclosure

While we store personal information in Australia, where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia, including but not limited to, New Zealand, the United States of America, the Uniting Kingdom and Canada,.

Unless we seek and receive your consent to an overseas disclosure of your personal information, we will only disclose your personal information to countries with laws which protect your personal information in a way which is substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles and/or we will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to require that overseas recipients protect your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Your rights and controlling your personal information

Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Anonymity: Where practicable we will give you the option of not identifying yourself or using a pseudonym in your dealings with us.

Restrict and unsubscribe: To object to processing for direct marketing/unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.

Access: You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to withhold access to your personal information. If we cannot provide access to your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal. If we can provide access to your information in another form that still meets your needs, then we will take reasonable steps to give you such access.

Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.

Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take in response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you also have the right to contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Storage and security

We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect 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 personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Cookies

We may use cookies on our website from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. If and when you choose to provide our online website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other party’s websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Use of geo-localisation data

We may collect your precise or approximate location via our website for the following purposes:

to enable us to deliver our products to you;
to allow our clients to access order location in real time;
for security and safety;
to prevent and detect fraud; and
as permitted by law.

We collect this information when our website is open (whether on-screen or not). If you do not want us to use your location for the purposes above, you should turn off the location services in your account settings in the platform settings, in your mobile phone settings or in your browser settings. If you do not provide location information to us, we may not be able to provide our Services to you.

Amendments

We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our website. We recommend you check our website regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

For any questions or notices, please contact us at:

New Wave Agriculture Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 78 641 968 569)

Email: support@newwavebio.au

Last update: 14 April 2022