PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy sets out my commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information that I collect through my website www.christineaharris.com.au (Site) or directly from you, in accordance with the Australian National Privacy Principles.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. Please contact me if you have any questions – my contact details are at the end of this Privacy Policy.
By providing me with personal information you indicate that you have had sufficient opportunity to access this Privacy Policy and that you have read and accepted it.
If you do not wish to provide personal information to me, then you do not have to do so, however it may affect your use of this Site or any products and services offered on it.
Collection of Personal Information
Your personal information may be collected when:
- You browse this site
- You interact with this site (e.g., by leaving a comment on a blog post)
- You sign-up for a free product or service
- You purchase a product or service
- You contact me via contact details on this site
- You voluntarily provide me with your personal information (e.g., on social media accounts linked to this site)
The type of information I collect may include:
- Your name;
- Your contact details including email address, address and telephone number;
- Your demographic information such as occupation and postcode;
- Your preferences and opinions; and
- Any other information requested on this Site or otherwise requested by me or provided by you.
When you purchase individual one-on-one services, Christine Harris may gather additional personal information about your health and well-being as part of your consultation and for the purposes of providing you with the service. The use, handling, storage, and privacy of this information is outlined in the Mentoring agreement you agree to prior to attending your first session.
As with most online businesses, I may log information about your access and use of my Site, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with my Site, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your Internet service provider.
If you have provided me with your e-mail address, I may contact you to voluntarily respond to questionnaires, surveys or market research to seek your opinion and feedback. Providing this information is optional to you.
If I receive your personal information from third parties, I will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Purpose of Collection of Personal Information
Your personal information is collected for the purpose of:
- Providing you with the product or service you signed-up for or purchased
- Monitoring the performance of this website
- Conducting market research
- Evaluating and improving my products and services
- Developing new products and services
Use of Personal Information
I collect and use the information for purposes including:
- to contact and communicate with you;
- for internal record keeping;
- for market research and business development including website development;
- marketing including direct marketing;
- to run competitions or offer additional benefits to you; and
- to send you promotional information about third parties that I think may be of interest to you.
Disclosure of personal information
I may disclose personal information:
- for the purpose of providing information, products, services or marketing to customers;
- to credit reporting agencies and courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities where customers fail to pay for goods or services provided by me to them;
- to courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend my legal rights; and
- to third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist me in providing information, products, services or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of Australia.
I may be required to disclose certain information, which may include your Personal Data, 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. Also, I may use your Personal Data where required, to protect the rights, property or safety of christineaharris.com.au, its employees, customers, or third parties.
I would only disclose your information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.
Where I disclose your personal information to third parties for these purposes, I will request that the third party follow this Privacy Policy regarding handling of your personal information.
If there is a change of control of my business or a sale or transfer of business assets, I reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law my user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases.
This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser. I would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where I would seek to maintain confidentiality.
Third Parties
I do not and will not sell or deal in Personal Data or customer information. I will never disclose your personal details to a third party except the necessary information required by providers of products or services you have purchased.
I may however use your information in a general sense, without any reference to your name, to create marketing statistics, identify user demands and to assist it in meeting customer needs generally. In addition, I may use the information that you provide to improve my website and services but not for any other use.
Your rights and controlling your personal information.
Choice and Consent: Providing me with your personal information is optional to you. You can choose not to provide personal information. When you provide me with your personal information, you consent to the terms in this Privacy Policy, and to me disclosing or receiving your personal information for these purposes.
Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to me using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting me at the email address listed in this Privacy Policy.
Access: You may request details of personal information that I hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of information. I may refuse to provide you with information that I hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.
Correction: If you believe that any information I hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact me by email. I rely in part upon customers advising me when their personal information changes. I will respond to any request within a reasonable time. I will endeavour to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
Complaints: If you believe that I have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint about that breach, please contact me by email setting out details of the breach. I will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing setting out the outcome of my investigation, what steps I propose to take to remedy the breach and any other action I will take to deal with your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from my e-mail database, or opt out of communications, please contact me at the details below.
Storage and Security
I receive and store Personal Data and any personal information you enter on my website, provide physically or give me in any other way in a secure manner. I am committed to the protection of Personal Data and use all reasonable measures to ensure all Personal Data is kept secure at all times.
I am committed to ensuring that the information you provide is secure.
I ensure all physical and electronically held Personal Data is kept in a secure manner that is only accessible to persons who are authorized and who have agreed to the same or similar duty as prescribed by the Australian National Privacy Principles.
In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, I have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
I will use all reasonable means to protect the confidentiality of your personal information while in my possession or control. I will not knowingly share any of your personal information with any third party other than my service providers who assist me in providing the information and/or services I am providing to you. To the extent that I do share your personal information with a service provider, I would only do so if that party is under a similar obligation to comply with privacy standards as described in this privacy policy.
However, no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be secure. I cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to me, or receive from me. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although I take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, I cannot assure you that personal information that I collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Destruction of all personal information is done in a secure manner to ensure deletion and de-identification of information. I regularly review and delete or destroy personal information that is no longer required, out of date or as otherwise required by law or regulation.
Any non-personal information, communications and material you send to this website, to me by email, provide physically or which I obtain from third parties without promises of confidentiality, may be kept, used and disclosed by me on a non-confidential basis. I am free to use and reproduce any such information freely and for any purpose whatsoever. Specifically, I will be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information for any purpose, including developing, manufacturing, marketing products or to improve my services.
Cookies & Web Beacons
My website uses cookies to analyse website traffic and help me provide a better website visitor experience. A cookie is small text file placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences and collect information about your web browsing behaviour. Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any personal information (e.g. name, address, email address or telephone number). However, once you choose to furnish the Site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. 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 my website.
I may use web beacons on this Site from time to time. Web beacons or clear gifs are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the behaviour and collect data about the visitors viewing a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.
Links to other websites
My Site may contain links to other websites of interest. These links are meant for your convenience only and I do not have any control over those websites. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that I am not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. I encourage my users to be aware, when they leave my website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information, as such websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Amendments
As I plan to ensure my privacy policy remains current, this policy is subject to change. I may modify this policy at any time, in my sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon my posting of the modifications on this website. Please return periodically to review my privacy policy.
For questions and notices, please contact me at:
Christine Harris ABN: 87 262 361 278
hello@groundedlifepsychology.com
Last updated: 16 October 2023