Privacy Policy

ShadeSailsAustralia.com recognises that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use ShadeSailsAustralia.com applications ("Applications") and www.ShadeSailsAustralia.com or other social network ShadeSails-Australia profiles, pages, or web sites ("Sites") operated by ShadeSailsAustralia.com value their privacy, and ShadeSailsAustralia.com is committed to respecting your online privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, and disclosed by ShadeSailsAustralia.com. Your use of the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Applications and Sites and any User Information you choose to provide on the Sites or used in Applications remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service which is incorporated herein by reference. This Privacy Policy will inform you of how we may use that information and the care and respect with which we intend to treat User Information.

User Provided Information: ShadeSailsAustralia.com collects information from you in several ways when you use our Sites and Applications. We may collect and archive information you directly provide on our Sites or provide as a user of our Applications. "User Information" means any information that may be used to identify an individual including but not limited to, name, email address, physical address, contact information, demographic information, preferences, interests, and any other information provided by you or automatically collected by ShadeSailsAustralia.com as set forth below. ShadeSailsAustralia.com may supplement this information with data collected from other companies.

Automatically Collected User Information: When you visit our Sites or use our Applications some information may be automatically collected. For example, it is standard for your Web browser to automatically send information to every Web site you visit including ours. That information includes your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language, and referring Web site addresses. We may also automatically collect information about your computer's operating system and information about your usage and activity on our Sites or use of our Applications.

We may also automatically collect certain information through the use of "cookies." Cookies are small data files that are stored on your hard drive by a Web site. Among other things, the use of cookies helps us to improve our Sites and your experience. We use cookies to see which areas and features are most popular, to count the number of computers accessing our Sites, to personalize your experience, and to remember your preferences. If your browser is set not to accept cookies or if you reject a cookie, you may not be able to access certain features or services of our Sites.

Web beacons, also known as gifs, are electronic images that may be used on our Sites or in our emails. A Web beacon may be used on our Web pages to collect information, deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness, or in our emails to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.

We do not sell or rent User Information to third-parties. We may disclose aggregated information about the use of our website, which does not contain User Information. However, we may share User Information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, host, or increase the functionality of the Sites and Applications. We may also share User Information with companies which control, are controlled by, or are under common control with, ShadeSailsAustralia.com. In the case of criminal investigations, civil action, subpoena or other court order, including but not limited to fraud or alleged illegal activity, we may be obligated to share User Information with law enforcement, government, credit card issuers, or other third-parties. When you sign up for our Sites or Applications, we may share aggregate data as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your User Information for any other purpose. We may share User Information to protect the rights and property of ShadeSailsAustralia.com, our agents, members, and others including to enforce our agreements, policies and Terms of Use, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is needed to respond to an emergency or protect the personal safety of any person. User information may be shared if ShadeSailsAustralia.com is involved in a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company; in any such event, we will attempt to provide notice to you if your data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. We also may use third parties to provide analytics on our site and applications and we share User Information for this analysis to be completed by the third party.

We do not use User Information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. Some of our Sites and Applications contain promotional features that are presented jointly with other companies. If you choose to participate in those promotions, your User Information may be collected and used by ShadeSailsAustralia.com and those other companies. Use of your information by those other companies for their own purposes is not controlled by ShadeSailsAustralia.com and is subject to their own terms and privacy policies. Please review each sponsor's promotion rules and privacy policies for details.

We use User Information to provide you with services, to operate and improve our Sites and Applications, to send messages, and for other purposes described in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you on our Sites or in connection with our services. For example, we may use the information we collect from you on our Sites and Applications to improve user experience on our Sites and with our Applications, to respond to comments and questions and provide customer service, to send information related to accounts and services, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages, and to send information about new products, and services offered.

There may be links on the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites that let you leave the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites. The linked sites are not under the control of ShadeSailsAustralia.com and ShadeSailsAustralia.com is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. ShadeSailsAustralia.com is not responsible and assumes no legal liability for the accuracy of the contents or any other aspect of any external Web site to which a link or other reference has been provided in the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites.

If you chose to comment on any blog postings on the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites you provide ShadeSailsAustralia.com with express consent to post your comment and should be aware that any information you disclose can be seen or collected by other visitors to the site. We are not responsible for any information that you disclose on any of our Sites. You should take care to ensure your comments do not contain offensive, unlawful, defamatory, libellous, threatening, obscene, pornographic, copyrighted information, or information that would otherwise violate any law or rights of any third parties. We reserve the right to delete any postings at our sole discretion. ShadeSailsAustralia.com will not post any user's testimonials or other information without their written consent.

ShadeSailsAustralia.com takes reasonable security measures to protect User Information to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are impenetrable. You provide User Information to ShadeSailsAustralia.com at your own risk. If you use a password on our Site, you are responsible for keeping it confidential. Do not share it with any other person. If you believe your password has been misused, please advise us immediately.

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, ShadeSailsAustralia.com does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information or non-personally-identifiable information on the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to persons under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites at any time or in any manner. If ShadeSailsAustralia.com learns that personally identifiable information of persons under 13 years of age has been collected on the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites without verified parental consent, then ShadeSailsAustralia.com will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.

You may "opt-out" of receiving promotional emails from ShadeSailsAustralia.com by following the instructions in those emails. You may also send requests relating to promotional messages and your permission for sharing information with third parties for their marketing purposes by emailing Opt-out requests will not apply to service messages, including messages about your current ShadeSailsAustralia.com account and services.

The ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites are hosted in Queensland. If you access the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites from any other country, state, or region with laws or regulations governing the retention, collection, or disclosure of information that differ from the laws of Queensland, please be advised that you are consenting to transfer and transferring your information to Queensland through your use of the ShadeSailsAustralia.com Sites or Applications.

ShadeSailsAustralia.com may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the "Last Updated" date above. If there are material changes to this policy, we will attempt to notify you more directly. We encourage you to review this Policy whenever you visit our Sites or use our Applications to understand how User Information is used. Your continued use of our Sites or Applications constitutes your consent to any future revisions of this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at