Privacy Policy

Overview

This Policy applies to the activities of Guardian Health & Fitness Pty Ltd (ABN 41856752551) trading as Guardian Defence.

This web site is owned and operated by Guardian Defence and will be referred to as “we”, “our”, and “us” in this Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information you may supply to us through your conduct on our web site.

Guardian Defence understands the importance of protecting individual privacy and the privacy of information collected about visitors to our web site, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”). This policy describes how and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we protect your personal information.

Guardian Defence is committed to complying with Commonwealth legislation and Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”) governing privacy of personal information by businesses and to protecting and safeguarding your privacy.

Unless we obtain your written consent, we will not sell, disclose, licence or rent your personal information to a third party for that third party’s marketing purposes.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal information collect by Guardian Defence that is exempted under the Privacy Act, for example employee records.

Definitions

“Personal Information” means information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person and includes your Information. Information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it cannot be used, whether in combination with other information or otherwise, to identify a specific user is not personal information.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:

when you interact with us by phone, electronically or in person;
when you access our web site;
from third parties such our service providers, operators of linked websites, applications and advertising on the website; and
when we provide our services to you.

What Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following types of personal information in order to provide you with access to and use of the Website and for the purposes provided for in this Privacy Policy:

Your name, phone number, email address, physical address and other contact information;
Financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers;
Records and content of communications with us or any other person including when using Website communication tools;
Personal and family health information and history based on your activities on the Website;
Referrals to health service providers;
Information about the goods or services you have ordered;
Information from enquiries you have made;
To the extent permitted by law, other personal information provided by or obtained from third parties (such as a credit bureau) including navigation and demographic data and credit check information;
additional personal information we ask you to provide to verify your identity or when we suspect that you are in breach of our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy or other Website policies (including your personal ID and your answers to any questions we pose to you); and
personal information from your interaction with the Website and its content and advertising, including device identifiers, device type, geo-location information, connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the Website, mobile network information, time, date, referring URL, the type of operating system and browser, ad data, IP address and standard web log data.

How personal information is used

Our principal purpose in collecting, using and storing your personal information is to provide you with access to and use of the Website in a personalised, safe and efficient manner. You consent to us collecting, using, storing and sharing your personal information to:

To provide our service to you;
administration of our services;
notification to you about changes to our services;
supply you with generalised, targeted or personalised marketing, advertising and promotional notices, offers and communications based on your preferences;
to research, develop and improve our services; and
technical maintenance.

In addition we are permitted to use or disclose personal information held about you:

To enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy and other policies;
To comply with any applicable law, request by a governmental agency or regulatory authority or legally binding court order;
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious, immediate threat to someone's health or safety or the public's health or safety;
Where we reasonably believe that the use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for prevention, investigation, prosecution and punishment of crimes or wrongdoings or the preparation for, conduct of, proceedings before any court or tribunal or the implementation of the orders of a court or tribunal by or on behalf of an enforcement body.
To our directors, staff, contractors, professional advisers and related entities;
To third parties to whom you expressly ask us to send, or consent to us sending, your personal information;
To credit agencies (including regarding missed and late payments or other defaults or breaches on your account); or
To such entities that we propose to merge with or be acquired by and in such case, we will require that the new entity following the merger or acquisition adhere to this Privacy Policy.

Links

Our web site may contains links to other web sites such as Facebook and those third party web sites may collect personal information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other businesses or the content of web sites that are linked to our web site.

Guardian Defence encourages users to be aware when they leave the site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Storage and security

We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services. Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

Information stored within our computer systems can only be accessed by those entrusted with authority in our staff.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect user’s personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to it or from its online products or services, and users do so at their own risk.

Use of Cookies

As is very common for companies, we use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. We use cookies to improve the experience of people using our website.

Cookies may collect and store your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected via cookies. You may adjust your internet browser to disable cookies. If Cookies are disabled, we may not be able to provide you with the full range of our services.

You also may encounter Cookies used by third parties and placed on certain pages of the Website that we do not control and have not authorised (such as webpages created by another user). We are not responsible nor liable for the use of such Cookies.

The Website may also include links to third party websites (including links created by users or members) and applications and advertising delivered to the Website by third parties (Linked Sites). Organisations who operate Linked Sites may collect personal information including through the use of Cookies. We are not responsible nor liable for Linked Sites and recommends that you read the privacy policies of such Linked Sites before disclosing your personal information.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the Website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by means of a notice on our announcements board and/or other means so that you access and review the changes. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.

Accessing and amending your personal information

We are committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information about our customers and web site users.

If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you may contact us at enquiries@guardiandefence.com to have the information corrected.

In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

Opting out

You may opt out of receiving our marketing, advertising and promotional notices, offers and communications by communicating this to us in writing at the email address below.

If you wish to have your personal information deleted, please email us at enquiries@guardiandefence.com. Unless prohibited by law, we will take all reasonable steps to delete it (e.g. to avoid breaching the Public Records Act 1973).

Children

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. It is our policy to never knowingly without parents’ consent, collect or maintain information about children, except as part of a specific engagement to provide professional services which necessitates such personal information be collected.

We generally do not sell products for purchase by children, as we require credit card details, or an account. If you are under 18, you may use our site but we reserve the right not to accept your order if we believe that to sell to you is against the law, you do not have legitimate authority to authorise a purchase, you do not have the means to purchase or pay, that our products may be used inappropriately, or our products could cause harm.

Complaints

If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please feel free to send in details of your complaints to enquiries@guardiandefence.com. We take complaints very seriously and will investigate your complaint and attempt to resolve any breach that might have occurred in relation to the collection, use or destruction of personal information held by us about you in accordance with the Commonwealth Privacy Legislation.

Contact Us

If you require further information regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at

Email: enquiries@guardiandefence.com

Address: 8-10 Peveril St, Brunswick, VIC 3056

Acceptance

You accept that your use of this site includes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website or sign up for membership. If for any reason you do not agree with any of the changes whole in part, you must stop using our website and terminate your membership.