Drop Privacy Policy | Drop.com.au

		PRIVACY STATEMENT

Introduction		This statement includes: our collection statement, explaining aspects of our collection and use of personal information our privacy policy, further explaining how we manage personal information.


		COLLECTION STATEMENT

Who we are		Fabulous.com.au Pty Ltd ABN 34 139 626 994 Drop.com.au Pty Ltd ABN 79 135 424 878 Yexa.com.au Pty Ltd ABN 84 137 606 172 Domain Shield Pty Ltd ABN 74 153 994 506

Our contact details		support@drop.com.au

Collection from third party sources		We may collect personal information from someone other than you, and you may not be aware of the collection, when it is not reasonable or practicable to collect it from you, and it is available from: publicly available sources like phone books other companies in our group that you may have dealt with third parties like our business partners, your authorised representative/s information brokers fraud checking agencies our affiliates, resellers, contractors and other representatives that you may deal with our websites and how you use them (through the use of cookies) various parties listed under Disclosing personal information in our Privacy Policy.

Collection under law		We may be required to collect personal information in order to comply with the law.

Why we collect and hold personal information		We collect and hold personal information because: we may need to use it to operate our business we may need to provide it to other parties in connection with our business. The uses and disclosures we may make of personal information are detailed in our Privacy Policy.

Unavailability of personal information		If we cannot collect the information we need about you, we may not be able to supply the products or service you want.

Disclosing personal information		We may disclose personal information as reasonably required to contractors and suppliers whose goods and services that we use to operate our business and provide products and support to you, to comply with our contractual obligations with regulatory authorities including publishing personal information in Whois records for domain names, and to other parties detailed in our Privacy Policy. Some of these parties may be based overseas eg America.

Access and correction		Our privacy policy contains information about how the you can access and seek correction of the personal information about you that we hold.

Complaints		Our privacy policy explains how you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, and how we will deal with such a complaint.


		PRIVACY POLICY


Personal information		This refers to information or an opinion about a living person who is identified or reasonably identifiable, whether or not true and whether or not recorded in material form.

Kinds of personal information we collect and hold		Broadly, we may collect and hold: personal details like name, date of birth, gender, and occupation contact details like physical, postal, work and email addresses and phone numbers financial details like credit card numbers and your billing and payment history with us service-related details like your user name, encrypted password and service usage history, support incidents, data from cookies, enquiries and complaints other details relating to special situations. In any case, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to support our functions and activities. If we cannot collect the information we need about you, we may not be able to supply the products or service you want.

Collecting personal information		Unless it is not reasonable or practicable to do so, and in other cases allowed by law, we will collect personal information about you directly from you (eg when you contact us by phone or online, or apply for domain names or services on our website). In other cases, we may collect personal information about you from: publicly available sources like phone books other companies in our group that you may have dealt with third parties like our business partners, your authorised representative/s information brokers fraud checking agencies our affiliates, resellers, contractors and other representatives that you may deal with our websites and how you use them (through the use of cookies) various parties listed under Disclosing personal information below.

Holding personal information		We hold personal information in hard and/or soft copy at our offices and in other facilities that we own or license from third parties, like data centres. We take reasonable steps to keep it secure and to protect it from unauthorised access, use or alteration.

Why we collect and hold personal information		We collect and hold personal information because: we may need to use it to operate our business we may need to provide it to other parties in connection with our business.

Using personal information		We may use personal information: to identify you for credit checks to prevent fraud to supply products (including goods and/or services) to you to give you information about us and our products, and product offers for direct marketing – see Direct marketing for details to improve our products, our marketing and our website to answer your enquiries to give you customer support and service to better understand your needs and respond to them to manage and plan our products and business to charge and bill you for products you use to collect payment from you or make payment to you to monitor, manage, test and improve our network and facilities to comply with various laws or contractual obligations that apply to us for other purposes related to the operation of our business.

Disclosing personal information		We may disclose personal information as reasonably required: to contractors and suppliers who supply or support us in: market research, sales and marketing direct marketing – see Direct marketing for details identity and fraud checking credit management service provisioning installation, maintenance and repairs helpdesk and enquiries support and complaint management communications and mailing billing, debt recovery and credit management network and product design and maintenance corporate strategy legal and regulatory advice and compliance accounting and financial planning risk management otherwise providing goods and services that we use to operate our business and provide products and support to you to your authorised representative/s to identify you as a registrant of a domain name in publicly available Whois record if you ask us to do so to our agents, resellers, affiliates and members of our corporate group to our business partners and wholesale suppliers to organisations that provide credit or finance to us to persons who invest in or acquire all or part of our business or company, or are considering doing so. Some of these parties may be based overseas eg America.

Direct marketing		We may use and disclose personal information to direct market to you products offered by us, our agents, resellers, affiliates and members of our corporate group (including each member of the DBS Group), and our business partners, where we think the offers will be of interest to you, using: post email electronic messaging social media targeted web content other direct marketing channels. Direct marketing may continue until you opt-out by calling the number in Contacting us even if you are no longer our customer.

Accessing and correcting personal information		Please contact us for these purposes using the details in Contacting us below. We shall process and respond to your request in accordance with Australian Privacy Principle 12. There is no charge for making a request but a reasonable administrative charge, on a cost recovery basis, may be payable before we agree to provide access.

Complaints		If you wish to complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, please contact us using the details in Contacting us below. We shall: acknowledge your complaint within a reasonable time give you an estimated first response time allocate your complaint to a suitably senior staff member process and respond to your complaint as soon as we reasonably can.

Contacting us		Questions, requests and complaints regarding our Privacy Statement or our compliance with privacy laws should be directed to us by email to support@drop.com.au