Who we are

Australian Warehouses Pty Limited

Australianwarehouses.com.au

ACN 654 833 806 

Email: sales@australianwarehouses.au

Telephone: +61 (0)272 265 002

Thank you for visiting our web site. This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at this site. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be posted and changes will only apply to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

Note: the privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for this web site only. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Our site uses technologies of  third-party partners [such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft or others] to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our site so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements about these products and services that are likely to be of more interest to you. Specifically, these partners collect information about your activity on our site to enable us to:

measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our site;

  • show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party sites;
  • measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns;

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed

Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping

Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

Contact forms

We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes and for marketing purposes

Cookies

The Site may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookie and tracking technology are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the Site, and understanding how visitors use the Site. Cookies can also help customize the Site for visitors. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. Aggregate cookie and tracking information may be shared with third parties.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process Select Payment method and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Analytics

Users can opt out of analytics tracking, please contact us through our contacts above.

Who we share your data with

We may share data, such as hashed email derived from emails or other online identifiers collected on our site  with our advertising partners [such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft or others]. This allows our partners to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by our partners [such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft or others] and their cross device capabilities

We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.

We accept Select Payment method through PayPal, Stripe and others. When processing Select Payment method, some of your data will be passed to these payment processors, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

We may share information with our partner Stripe account access; Amazon Web Services (AWS); Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking; Google Analytics with anonymized IP; Google Analytics Advertising Reporting Features; Google Analytics Demographics and Interests reports; Google Ad Manager; HubSpot Email; Google Ad Manager Audience Extension; Google Optimize ; Google Optimize 360; ; Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel); Google Optimize ; Google Optimize 360.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Our partners [such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc] may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. For this reason you can use the following third party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest based advertising:

The NAI’s opt-out platform: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

The EDAA’s opt-out platform https://www.youronlinechoices.com/

The DAA’s opt-out platform: https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

How we protect your data

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

What third parties we receive data from

Our CRM and retargeting mechanisms pull information from social media such as Facebook and search engines such as Facebook and Bing.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Embedded content from other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Distribution of Information
We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.

Commitment to Data Security
Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

Privacy Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may contact us using the information below:

By e-mail: sales@australianwarehouses.au
By Phone:0272 265 002
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted.