Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD (ABN 31 645 441 952) the Website Owner (“we”, “us” or “IFD”) is committed to privacy protection.
At https://www.intuitivefooddesign.com (“this site”), we understand the importance of keeping personal information private and secure. We will treat all personal information in accordance with any and all obligations that are binding upon us under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“ Act”) and the Australian Privacy Principles (the ‘APPs’) set out in schedule 1 of the Act.
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes generally how we manage your personal information and safeguard privacy. If you would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact us. By submitting personal information to us, you agree that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy forms part of, and is subject to the provisions of, our Website Terms of Use (https://www.intuitivefooddesign.com).
What is “personal information”?
When used in this Privacy Policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Act. In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. Personal information held by Intuitive Food Design may include your:
● name and date of birth;
● residential and business postal addresses, telephone/mobile/fax numbers and email addresses;
● bank account and/or credit card details for agreed billing purposes;
● your computer and connection information; and
● any information that you otherwise share with us.
Sensitive Information. Sensitive information is a specific category of personal information. Such information includes information related to racial or ethnic origin, religion or other beliefs, membership of a trade union or a profession or trade association, health information, criminal record and the like (Sensitive Information). We ask that you do not send us, and you do not disclose, any sensitive personal information on or through our Services, or otherwise, unless expressly requested.
How we may collect your personal information
At this site, we only collect personal information that is necessary for us to conduct our business as a certified organic farm dedicated to regenerating land and providing healthy, affordable produce for the community and providing education and training in that regard.
Information that you provide to us
We may collect personal information that you provide to us about yourself when you:
● use this site, including (without limitation) when you:
− purchase any goods and/or services through this site;
− add reviews, forum or chat room messages or comments in any elements of this site that permit user-generated content;
− register for access to content, to attend workshops or request certain features; or
− complete an online contact form to contact us;
● provide information to us by telephone;
● purchase our products;
● seek employment, volunteer work or an internship with us ,or
● send us an email or other communication.
IP addresses
This site may also collect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD collects and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes. Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD may also collect and use web log, computer and connection information for security purposes and to help prevent and detect any misuse of, or fraudulent activities involving, this site.
Cookies
This site uses “cookies” to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file or a packet of information that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server to identify and interact more effectively with your computer. There are two types of cookies that may be used at this site: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie is entered by your web browser into the “Cookies” folder on your computer and remains in that folder after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to this site. A session cookie is held temporarily in your computer’s memory and disappears after you close your browser or shut down your computer. Cookies cannot be used to run programs. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources.
You can configure your internet browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. Please refer to your internet browser’s instructions to learn more about these functions and how you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of this site.
Why we use cookies
This site uses cookies in order to:
● remember your preferences for using this site;
● facilitate e-commerce transactions, to ensure that your order is remembered between pages during the checkout process;
● show relevant notifications to you (e.g., notifications that are relevant only to users who have, or have not, subscribed to newsletters or email or other subscription services); and
● remember details of data that you choose to submit to us (e.g., through online contact forms or by way of comments, forum posts, chat room messages, reviews, ratings, etc).
Many of these cookies are removed or cleared when you log out but some may remain so that your preferences are remembered for future sessions.
Third party cookies
In some cases, third parties may place cookies through this site. For example:
● Google Analytics, one of the most widespread and trusted website analytics solutions, may use cookies de-identified data about how long users spend on this site and the pages that they visit;
● Google AdSense, one of the most widespread and trusted website advertising solutions, may use cookies to serve more relevant advertisements across the web and limit the number of times that a particular advertisement is shown to you; and
● Third party social media applications (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram, etc) may use cookies in order to facilitate various social media buttons and/or plugins in this site.
How we may use your personal information
Your personal information may be used in order to:
● verify your identity;
● assist you to place orders through this site;
● process any purchases of goods and/or services that you may make through this site or directly, including charging, billing and collecting debts and delivery of goods to you;
● promote the foundation and provide educational materials and courses;
● respond to any queries or feedback that you may have;
● conduct appropriate checks for credit-worthiness and for fraud;
● prevent and detect any misuse of, or fraudulent activities involving, this site;
● conduct research and development in respect of our goods and/or services;
● gain an understanding of your information and communication needs or obtain your feedback or views about our goods and/or services in order for us to improve them; and/or
● maintain and develop our business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems,
and for any other purpose reasonably considered necessary or desirable by Intuitive Food Design PTY LTDin relation to the operation of our business.
From time to time we may email you with news, information and offers relating to our own products/services. Your personal information may also be collected so that Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD can promote and market goods and services to you. This is to keep you informed of our goods, services, and special offers we believe you will find valuable and may continue after you cease acquiring goods and services from us. If you would prefer not to receive promotional or other material from us, please let us know and we will respect your request. You can unsubscribe from such communications at any time if you choose.
When we may disclose your personal information
In order to deliver the products/services you require or for the purposes set out above, Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD may disclose your personal information to organisations outside ntuitive Food Design PTY LTD. Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information. These organisations may carry out or provide:
● customer enquiries;
● mailing systems;
● billing and debt-recovery functions;
● information technology services;
● marketing, telemarketing and sales services;
● market research; and
● website usage analysis.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information to:
● your authorised representatives or legal advisers (when requested by you to do so);
● credit-reporting and fraud-checking agencies;
● credit providers (for credit-related purposes such as creditworthiness, credit rating, credit provision and financing);
● our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
● government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law;
● organisations who manage our business strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale of all or part of our assets or business (including accounts and trade receivables) and those involved in managing our business risk and funding functions; and
● the police or other appropriate persons where your communication suggests possible illegal activity or harm to others.
Contacting us about privacy
If you would like more information about the way we manage personal information that we hold about you or are concerned that we may have breached your privacy, please contact us by email (info@intuitivefooddesign.com) or by post to PO BOX 137 Mullumbimby NSW 2482.
Access to your personal information
In most cases, you may have access to personal information that we hold about you. We will handle requests for access to your personal information in accordance with the APPs. All requests for access to your personal information must be directed to the Privacy Officer by email (info@intuitivefooddesign.com) or by writing to us at our postal address. We will deal with all requests for access to personal information as quickly as possible. Requests for a large amount of information, or information that is not currently in use, may require further time before a response can be given. We may charge you a fee for access if a cost is incurred by us in order to retrieve your information, but in no case will we charge you a fee for your application for access.
In some cases, we may refuse to give you access to personal information that we hold about you. This may include circumstances where giving you access would:
● be unlawful (e.g., where a record that contains personal information about you is subject to a claim for legal professional privilege by one of our contractual counterparties);
● have an unreasonable impact on another person’s privacy; or
● prejudice an investigation of unlawful activity.
We may also refuse access where the personal information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, and the information would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings.
If we refuse to give you access, we will provide you with reasons for our refusal.
Correcting your personal information
We will amend any personal information about you that is held by us and that is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date if you request us to do so. If we disagree with your view about the accuracy, completeness or currency of a record of your personal information that is held by us, and you ask us to associate with that record a statement that you have a contrary view, we will take reasonable steps to do so.
Storage and security of your personal information
We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the information that you provide us and we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from unauthorised use or alteration. In our business, personal information may be stored both electronically (on our computer systems and with our website hosting provider) and in hard-copy form. Firewalls, anti-virus software and email filters, as well as passwords, protect all of our electronic information. Likewise, we take all reasonable measures to ensure the security of hard-copy information.
Third party websites
You may click-through to third party websites from this site, in which case we recommend that you refer to the privacy statement of the websites you visit. This Privacy Policy applies to this site only and Intuitive Food Design PTY LTD assumes no responsibility for the content of any third party websites.
Re-marketing
We may use the Google AdWords and/or Facebook re-marketing services to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to this site based upon their activity on this site. This allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and to only display advertisements that are relevant to you. Such advertising may be displayed on a Google search results page or a website in the Google Display Network or inside Facebook. Google and Facebook may use cookies and/or pixel tags to achieve this. Any data so collected by Google and/or Facebook will be used in accordance with their own respective privacy policies. None of your personal Google and/or Facebook information is reported to us.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ads Settings page (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). Facebook has enabled an AdChoices link that enables you to opt out of targeted advertising.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to revise this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be in accordance with any applicable requirements under the Act and the APPs. We may notify you about changes to this Privacy Policy by posting an updated version on this site.
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More information about privacy
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy you can visit the Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website (see www.privacy.gov.au).
