Privacy Policy
AUTO ACTION MEDIA PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how Auto Action Magazine and www.autoaction.com.au (the “Site” or “we”) collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information when you visit, interact with, or make a purchase from us.
Contact
After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:
AUTO ACTION MEDIA
Publishers of Auto Action Magazine and www.autoaction.com.au
5 Kirkpatrick Drive
DELACOMBE VIC 3356
ABN 89 674 370 542
PH 03 9563 2107
[email protected]
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Auto Action website or purchase a magazine print or digital subscription, newsletter subscription, reader’s survey, etc., we collect certain information about you and your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases.
We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support.
This Privacy Policy refers to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
We do not knowingly share personal information other than that required to distribute subscriptions. For example, to our mailing house and Australia Post, etc.
Action Media Partners does not sell personal information to third parties.
Device information
The purpose of this collection is to load the Site accurately for you and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor, Shopify
- Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
Order information
The purpose of collection is to provide products or services to fulfil our contract, process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations. We also communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and, when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify
- Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.
Customer support information - Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify, and the purpose of the collection is to provide customer support.
Minors
We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
Online purchases
We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to protect our rights otherwise.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We share information about our broad readership’s use of the Site and their interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We do not collect and share this information directly with our advertising partners; however, in some cases, through the use of cookies or other similar technologies, your information may be acquired (which you may consent to, depending on your location)
For more information about targeted advertising, visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
You can also opt out of some of these services using ‘Ad Blockers’.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal information to provide our services, which include offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilling your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
Lawful basis
- Your consent.
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site.
- Compliance with our legal obligations.
- To protect your vital interests.
- To perform a task carried out in the public interest.
This is for our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
You have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
Our processor, Shopify, uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that has no legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.
Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.
Your rights
You have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you want to exercise these rights, please contact us using the information above.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use several different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies improve your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). You don’t have to re-enter this information when you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance, whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitors.
More information can be found here regarding the Cookies used by this site: https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing, and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience, and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. More information on how to modify your browser settings or block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through sites such as www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties, such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that there is no consistent industry understanding of responding to “Do Not Track” signals, so we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Complaints
As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please use the details provided under “Contact” above to contact us by e-mail or by mail.
If you are dissatisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority or our supervisory authority here: www.oaic.gov.au
Last updated: 01/04/2024