PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy applies to Homeopathic Books. The Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 was passed by the federal government to extend the operation of the Privacy Act 1988 to the private sector and introduced a set of National Privacy Principles that govern how private sector organizations should collect, use, store and disclose personal information.
In the process of running our business we handle, collect, process, record, store and disclose personal and sensitive information relating to our clients. This Privacy Policy explains how Homeopathic Books complies with the National Privacy Principles.

What information does Homeopathic Books collect?

Homeopathic Books collects personal and sensitive information from several sources. Mostly, the personal and sensitive information we collect comes directly from clients when they enquire about books or catalogues from Homeopathic Books. We also collect information on employees and contractors.
Our records about clients will generally include contact details and general information.

How we handle personal information

In handling personal and sensitive information with respect to client, we only process this information for the purpose of providing the services that the client has requested. This is often spelt out in our agreements or communications with our clients. We do not use or retain personal and sensitive information for any purpose other than the delivery of the service and for auditing or legal reasons.

Using and disclosing personal information

We process personal and sensitive information relating to our clients to better understand their needs and to provide them with information about our services. Your personal and sensitive information is protected so that only those employees with a business requirement to have access to this personal or sensitive information will be granted access.
Homeopathic Books generally explains how it will use or disclose personal and sensitive information at the time it collects the information. In addition, personal and sensitive information may be disclosed when:

  • Required by law
  • We believe it necessary to provide a client with a service that they have requested
  • It is necessary to implement our terms of service
  • It is necessary to protect the rights, property or personal safety of another Homeopathic Books client, any member of the public or Homeopathic Books
  • The assets and operations of Homeopathic Books business are transferred to another party as a going concern.

Service Providers

Like most organisations, we use a range of service providers to help us maximise the quality and efficiency of our services and our business operations. This means that individuals and organisations outside of Homeopathic Books, such as mail houses, will sometimes have access to personal information held by Homeopathic Books and may use it on behalf of Homeopathic Books. We require our service providers to adhere to strict privacy guidelines that require them not to keep this information or use it for any unauthorised purposes.

Marketing Communications

Like most businesses, marketing is important to Homeopathic Books continued success. We believe we have a unique range of services that we provide to clients at a high standard. We therefore like to stay in touch with clients and let them know about new properties and services. When you provide your personal information to Homeopathic Books, we ask you to choose whether or not you wish to receive further information about new properties, services and promotions. If you are receiving promotional material and/or communications from us and you decide you no longer wish to receive them, you may remove your name from our marketing list by contacting us via email remove@homeopathic-books.net or mail:

Homeopathic Books
6 Mugara Street
Chermside QLD 4032
Australia

 Please allow 28 days for this request to be processed.

Access to information

The Privacy Act sets out the rights that you have as a client to see any personal or sensitive information that Homeopathic Books may have concerning you. If you would like to:
  • See your personal and/or sensitive information
  • Change any inaccurate or out of date personal and/or sensitive information
  • Have your personal and/or sensitive information deleted
please contact:

Homeopathic Books
6 Mugara Street
Chermside QLD 4032
Australia

 Our file of your information will be made available to you within 28 days. In some cases we may need to impose a charge for providing access to personal or sensitive information. This charge reflects the administrative cost of finding this information and providing it to you.

Deleting the information

If you request that your personal or sensitive information be deleted, in the manner described above, we will take all reasonable steps to delete it unless we need to keep it for legal reasons. Personal and sensitive information may also be retained in certain files in order to resolve disputes or for auditing purposes. In addition, personal or sensitive information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored "back up" systems. Therefore, clients should not expect that all of their personal and sensitive information will be completely removed from our databases in response to their request.

Storage and security

Homeopathic Books understands the importance of personal and sensitive information security. We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any personal and/or sensitive information which we hold about you, and to keep this personal and/or sensitive information accurate and up to date. We require our employees and service providers to respect the confidentiality of any personal and sensitive information held by Homeopathic Books.

Website

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed secure. As a result, while we endeavour to protect your personal and sensitive information, we cannot guarantee the security of any personal and sensitive information you transmit to us when you access our website.
Please note that Homeopathic Books does not control and will not be responsible for the privacy policies of third party websites, or websites not controlled or authorized by Homeopathic Books. Third party websites that are accessed through links on our websites have separate privacy and data collection practices, and security measures. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices, policies and security measures implemented by third parties on their websites. We encourage you to contact them to ask questions about their privacy practices, policies and security measures before disclosing personal information.

Changes

Our business will continue to evolve as we introduce new services for our clients. As a result, our Privacy Policy may be reviewed from time to time. Homeopathic Books reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy and insert an updated version of the policy on its website. The amended Privacy Policy will apply between us whether or not we have given you specific notice of any change.