Privacy policy

We respect your privacy!

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information and who we share it with so that you can decide whether and how you wish to provide information to Valor Organics.

In adopting this Privacy Policy, we wish to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using information obtained through this website (or at any of our trade and market outlets) with your reasonable expectations of privacy.

In addition to this policy, each of our staff members sign robust confidentiality agreements when they join us. We take your rights seriously, and so this is your assurance that we never take your privacy for granted and always take the utmost care to protect your personal information.

In this Policy, “Valor Organics” refers to Issada Int. Pty Ltd ACN 640 583 320.

Information that we collect

We collect personally identifiable information when users voluntarily provide information to our website – www.valororganics.com or on any of our social media platforms. Examples include:

• Registering for e-mail communications
• Making purchases online
• Completing quizzes or competitions
• Information shared with us at any outlet market or trade fair in which we may participate

Types of information we may request from you may include information such as your name, e-mail address, residence address, phone number, date of birth, and credit card number (when purchasing products or services). If you are a stockist of Valor products, we may request the following additional information: Your business name, address, and ABN/ACN. We may also ask you for other information at other times.

Why do we collect personal information?

We collect personal information so that we can:

• Understand your requirements and provide you with the appropriate product for your needs;
• Gather and aggregate information for statistical, reporting and research purposes;
• Perform tasks in connection with purchasing products provided to customers;
• Manage, train and develop our employees and representatives;
• Delivering service and company updates and newsletters to you to inform you about new services or information about us;
• For administrative, marketing (including direct marketing), promotional, planning and quality control purposes;
• Compiling and maintaining mailing lists derived from our website, for from markets, trade fairs and other events, competitions and polls;
• Manage complaints and dispute;
• Responding to inquiries;
• As required or permitted by any law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth);
• Get a better understanding or you, your needs, your behaviours and how you interact with us, so we can engage in product and service research, development and manage the delivery of our services and products via the way we communicate with you; and you can choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some or all of the features of our products and services. It may also not enable us to personalise your products and services to suit your individual needs.

How we handle your personal information?

We collect your personal information directly from you and, in some cases, from other people or organisations.

We also provide your personal information to other entities in the Group, and they may disclose or use your personal information for the purposes described in “Why do we collect personal information?” about products and services that they may provide to you.

We will use and disclose your personal information for the purposes we collected it as well as for related purposes, where you would reasonably expect us to. We may disclose your personal information to and/or collect your personal information from:

• Other entities;
• Any of our group joint ventures where authorised or required;
• Any entity where disclosure to, or collection from, such entity is required or authorised by law;
• Customer, product, business or strategic research and development organisations;
• Data warehouse, strategic learning organisations and data partners;
• Social media and other virtual communities and networks where people create, share or exchange information;
• Publicly available sources of information;
• Member loyalty or rewards programs and other industry-relevant organisations;
• Any third party that we may have contracted to provide business, administration or consultancy services – for example, information technology providers, consultancy firms, auditors and business management consultants, sales agents, marketing agencies and other marketing service providers and print/mail/digital service/imaging/document management providers;
• Your and our advisers, agents, representatives or consultants;
• Government, statutory or regulatory bodies and enforcement bodies;
• Any external dispute resolution body;
• Investors, advisers, trustees or any other organisation that performs tasks in connection with the franchising of this business;
• Any organisation that assists us in gathering or aggregate information for statistical, reporting or research purposes;
• Any organisation or person in connection with the sale of our company, its assets in whole or part;
• Any other organisation or person, where you’ve asked them to provide your personal information to us or asked us to obtain personal information from them; or
• As required or permitted by any law (including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)).
  We may disclose personal information where we reasonably believe that a failure to disclose such information places a patient or another person at risk to health or safety. We’ll use a variety of methods to collect your personal information from and disclose your personal information to these persons or organisations, including written forms, telephone calls, and via electronic delivery. We may collect and disclose your personal information to these persons and organisations regularly or on an ad hoc basis, depending on the purpose of collection. We may disclose:
  - user information in connection with law enforcement, governmental investigations or inquiries;
  - to enforce compliance with the policies governing medical practices and applicable laws; and
  - to protect and enforce the intellectual property and other legal rights of the Group.

What choices do I have about Valor Organics collecting, using and sharing my information?

It is possible for you to use much of this website without providing any personally identifiable information. When you do register with our website or provide personally identifiable information, you will have an opportunity at the time we collect your information to limit e-mail communications. You can request at any time that we not send future e-mails to you either by unsubscribing from the communication or by contacting us.

Your personal information and our marketing practices

Now and then, any entities in the Group and any entities that use the Valor Organics brand might let you know – including via mail, SMS, email, telephone, or online – about news, special offers, products, or services that you might be interested in. When you provide your personal information to us, you consent to any entities in the Group using your personal information to direct market. We will engage in marketing unless you tell us otherwise. You can contact us to update your marketing preferences at any time. Where we use or disclose your personal information for direct marketing, we will allow you to request not to receive direct marketing communications from us and will comply with such a request within a reasonable time frame. You may request to be removed from our marketing lists at any time by directly contacting us. If you do not wish to receive new information and marketing material from us, please email us directly at info@shavewithvalor.com.au

To carry out our direct marketing, we ,collect your personal information from and disclosure it to others that provide us with specialised data matching, trending, or analytical services as well as general marketing services. We may use online targeted marketing, data, and audience matching, and market segmentation to improve our advertising relevance to you.

We may also collect your personal information for marketing through competitions.

We and other people who provide us with services may combine the personal information collected from you or others, with the information we, or entities in the Group, or our services providers already hold about you.

Where is my personal information stored?

Valor Organics takes all reasonable steps to keep secure personal information recorded and to keep this information accurate and up-to-date. The personal information is stored on secure servers if in digital format, or if in hard copy format, under the strict control of the staff member treating the customer so as to not reveal the identity of the customer to anyone else. Our employees and data processors are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal and/or sensitive information held by us. We destroy or de-identify personal information we no longer need, wherever possible.

How to access your personal information

You have the right to access and seek correction of your personal information held by us.

How to make a complaint

If you believe that we have breached your privacy rights in any way, or would like to discuss any issued about our privacy policy, please contact our head office on our contact form.

All such enquiries or complaints will be taken seriously and handled with impartiality and discretion. If you wish to submit a complaint, please provide us with all relevant details such as the date and time of the incident or communication, the circumstances surrounding the event, and your concerns about what was said or done. Once you have submitted your complaint, we will assess it to determine whether or not you have complained about a privacy issue that is covered by the Privacy Laws. If your complaint is covered by the Privacy Laws, we will thoroughly investigate all aspects of your complaint, inc,luding the relevant facts and hat your expectations for resolution. During our investigation, we may need to seek further information from you as to the nature of or factual circumstances surrounding your complaint.

We will endeavour to respond to you at all times promptly and to offer a practical solution that is consistent with our legal obligations.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the security of the information transmitted between browsers and our web server, including using firewalls, SSL encryption technology, and other security technologies where deemed appropriate by the Group. To protect your privacy, however, please do not use e-mail to communicate information you wish to be kept strictly confidential. You acknowledge that any transmission of data may be illegally intercepted and used by third parties. The Group shall not be responsible for any interception of data transmitted to or from our web server.

Links

Our website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties with the privacy practices of any third party website, and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website.

Changes

Due to recent amendments to the Privacy Act laws, we are required to notify you about changes to our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time.