Website Privacy Policy

Welcome to MAPIN.com.au

Welcome to MAPIN.com.au, owned and operated by MAPIN.com.au (and legal entities) in Victoria, Australia. The following privacy policy governs your use of the MAPIN.com.au Website and use of your private information. This Privacy Policy creates a binding legal agreement between you and MAPIN.com.au (and legal entities) and your access to the Website is subject to this Privacy Policy. MAPIN.com.au (and legal entities) reserves the right to update and change the Privacy Policy by posting updates and changes to the Website. You are advised to check the Privacy Policy from time to time for any updates or changes that may impact you.

Data Collected by MAPIN.com.au

When you utilize the Website, MAPIN.com.au may collect personally identifiable information that you provide to MAPIN.com.au, such as your name, address, phone number, email addresses, photo, or nickname. MAPIN.com.au will ask you to create a password for your user account. With your permission, MAPIN.com.au may also access other profile and personal information from third-party Websites. Such information may include passwords, usernames, profile pictures, and other such data that you have posted on third-party sites and Websites.

The contents of any entry that you post directly to the Websites, including any text, images, photos, videos, and audio, are stored, and maintained on MAPIN.com.au servers in order to publish these items and provide the Websites. Your submitted content will be associated with your account. MAPIN.com.au systems may also associate personal information with your activities while providing Websites to you (such as pages you view or things you buy). When you send email or other communication to MAPIN.com.au, MAPIN.com.au may retain those communications to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve MAPIN.com.au Websites. MAPIN.com.au uses certain user information to better understand how visitors use MAPIN.com.au website. This information is commonly made available by web browsers and servers, and may include data about browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

MAPIN.com.au Use of Data

MAPIN.com.au maintains and processes your personal information to provide your account and access. MAPIN.com.au uses your name and email address to notify you of updates that you have agreed to as part of the Terms of Agreement as well as other information. Personal information will be used to allow you to share posts through a share button, but will not be saved or stored by MAPIN.com.au

MAPIN.com.au stores passwords for third-party websites if it is required by that website to display the information on MAPIN.com.au Website. MAPIN.com.au (and its legal entities) does this to provide MAPIN.com.au Website to you. MAPIN.com.au does not store passwords for third-party sites when you provide them as part of contact information retrieval. MAPIN.com.au may also process personal information for:

  1. Fulfilling purchases,
  2. Sending you information related to your account or other websites,
  3. Auditing, research and analysis to maintain, protect and improve MAPIN.com.au Website,
  4. Ensuring the technical functioning of MAPIN.com.au network,
  5. Developing new websites.

To Operate the Website

MAPIN.com.au may make identifiable and anonymous information available to third parties in these limited circumstances:

  • With your express consent,
  • When MAPIN.com.au has a good faith belief it is required by law,
  • When MAPIN.com.au has a good faith belief it is necessary to protect MAPIN.com.au rights or property,
  • To any successor or purchaser in a merger, acquisition, liquidation, dissolution, or sale of assets. Your consent will not be required for disclosure in these cases, but MAPIN.com.au will attempt to notify you, to the extent permitted by law to do so.

Sharing of Data with Trusted Partners

Unless you indicate otherwise in your user account/s “Settings”, the information MAPIN.com.au collects, as described above, may be shared with trusted partners to provide you with relevant advertising, offers, or Websites. You can control whether MAPIN.com.au shares personal data with partners in your user account/s and Settings. Should you desire such information, please contact us at mapinaustralia@gmail.com.

Unaffiliated Third Parties

Despite MAPIN.com.au policy against the sale or use of personal information without user consent, users should be aware that what they share on the Website may be discovered by third parties without the involvement of MAPIN.com.au, including, without limitation, search engine crawlers and bots. Users should always take that into consideration whenever they share anything.

Unauthorised Minors

MAPIN.com.au does not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. If you believe MAPIN.com.au has inadvertently collected such information, please contact us at mapinaustralia@gmail.com, so MAPIN.com.au can promptly obtain parental consent or remove the information.

Security

Information collected by MAPIN.com.au may be stored or processed on computers located in any country where MAPIN.com.au does business. MAPIN.com.au takes reasonable steps to secure your personally identifiable information against the unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. MAPIN.com.au encrypts transmission of data on pages where you provide payment information. However, no security or encryption method can be guaranteed to protect information from hackers or human error.

Access to Data; Account Deletion

MAPIN.com.au will remove personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, email, or phone number) and other preferences associated with your account promptly after you delete your account. MAPIN.com.au may retain other data indefinitely. MAPIN.com.au takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information MAPIN.com.au processes is accurate, complete, and current, but also depends on MAPIN.com.au users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Miscellaneous

This Privacy Policy constitutes the entire agreement between you and MAPIN.com.au with respect to the specific subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements or understandings of any kind with respect to the specific subject matter hereof. If any provision or part of this Privacy Policy shall be deemed void or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions or parts shall be and remain in full force and effect.

MAPIN.com.au reserves the right, in MAPIN.com.au (and its legal entities) reasonable discretion, to make modifications to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such modifications will be made by updating and posting a new version on the Website and notifying you of the revised Privacy Policy. If MAPIN.com.au makes changes to this Privacy Policy, MAPIN.com.au will provide you with the opportunity to review and approve the terms prior to your continued use of the Website. Should any modification be unacceptable to you, your sole recourse is to discontinue use of the Website.

The provisions of this Privacy Policy are solely for the benefit of the parties hereto and not for the benefit of any third parties, except that MAPIN.com.au shall have the right to assign this Privacy Policy and/or any of the rights herein and this Privacy Policy shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the MAPIN.com.au assignee(s) hereto and their respective successors, assigns and legal representatives.

No failure by either party to pursue any remedy resulting from a breach of any provision of this Privacy Policy by the other party shall be construed as a waiver of that breach or as a waiver of any subsequent or other breach unless such waiver is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the non-breaching party.

Any notice, demand or other communication which may or is required to be given under this Privacy Policy must be in writing and must be:

i. Personally delivered; ii. Transmitted by Australian postage prepaid mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested; iii. Transmitted by reputable overnight courier, such as Federal Express or UPS; iv. Transmitted by legible facsimile, with confirmation of receipt; or v. Transmitted by electronic mail, with confirmation of receipt.

This Privacy Policy shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Victoria, Country of Australia, applicable to agreements to be wholly performed therein, without giving effect to its laws governing conflict of laws, with jurisdiction and venue exclusive to the federal and state courts located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.