This Privacy Policy applies to the collection, use, disclosure and handling of personal information by MarleySpoon Pty Ltd ACN 603 969 571 (MarleySpoon, we or us), including personal information collected through its website www.marleyspoon.com.au (Website)
This Privacy Policy outlines how we will collect, use, disclose and otherwise handle personal information, in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act).
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect the following data about you:
information that you provide by filling in forms on the Website, including
information provided in the process of registering to use the Website;
subscribing to our services;
posting material or requesting further services; and
information you provide when you report a problem with the Website;
records of our correspondence with you, if you contact us;
your responses to any surveys that we ask you to complete for research purposes;
details of transactions you carry out through the Website and of the fulfilment of your orders;
details of your visits to the Website including,
traffic data;
location data;
weblogs; and
other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
We may also collect sensitive information from you, including health information, if it is relevant to our provision of goods or services to you.
We may collect information about your computer, including when available:
your IP address;
operating system; and
browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
We may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised service, by enabling us:
to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise the Website according to your individual interests;
to speed up your searches; and
to recognise you when you return to the Website.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to the Website, where we store your personal data.
Overseas disclosures
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside Australia.
It may also be processed by staff operating outside the Australia who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
Uses made of the information
Information you enter into our registration forms may be collected and stored briefly by us so that we may contact you in relation to the nature of your attempted transaction, even if you don’t confirm the transaction. This may be used to send operational emails to enquire as to why the purchase was not completed. We will not use this data for any other purpose, we won’t store it for longer than necessary and we certainly won’t share it with any other company. Our aim is simply to provide you with the highest level of service that we can.
We use information held about you in the following ways:
to ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you;
to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
to notify you about changes to our service;
to respond to any enquiries you may have and to provide you with the products and services you may have requested;
to contact you (including via electronic messaging such as SMS and email, by mail, by phone or in any other lawful manner) in relation to your enquiry or order;
to respond to your feedback or complaint;
to administer, investigate and resolve any other claims that you are involved in;
to carry out our business functions and activities, including meeting our legal and regulatory obligations; and
to improve the service we provide.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e.g. e-mail, SMS or WhatsApp) with information about goods and services similar or complementary to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under thirty have clicked on their advertisement on any given day).
We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in urban areas).
We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics also uses “Cookies”, text files that are saved on the hard drive of your computer and enable the analysis of your use of the Website. The information gathered by the cookie about the use of the Website will generally be transmitted to Google servers in the US and saved there. Should IP anonymisation be activated for the Website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. As licensed by the owners of the Website, Google will use this information in order to analyse your use of the Website, in order to compile reports regarding the Website activity, and in order to render further services associated with Website activity and Internet usage to the owner of the Website. The IP address of your browser as detected by Google Analytics will not be conflated with other data from Google. You can choose to prevent the saving of cookie files through the relevant setting in your browser software; we would however like to inform you that you will in this case not be able to use all the functions of the Website to their full extent. You can choose to prevent Google’s collection and usage of the data gathered by cookie files to provide information regarding your usage of the Website (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here. By using the Website, you are consenting to the appropriation of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes laid out above.
The Website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to the Website. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on the Website, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use advertising cookies (from DoubleClick) to associate your browser with interest and demographic categories, and serve ads based on your past visits to the Website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with this privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you here and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
The Website uses retargeting services from the social network Facebook. Facebook collects certain information via cookies to determine which web pages are visited. This data is then used to associate your browser with interest and demographic categories, and serve Facebook ads based on your past visits to the Website. Please note that any information collected by Facebook via cookies is not linked to any customer’s personal information collected by us. Integrated on our webpages are plugins from the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. These Facebook-plugins are indicated by the Facebook-logo or the “Like-Button” on the Website. You can find an overview of the Facebook-plugins here. When you visit the Website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Facebook server through the plugin. Through this connection, Facebook is informed that you have visited the Website using your IP address. Should you click the Facebook “Like-Button” while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of the Website to your Facebook profile. In this way Facebook can link your visit to the Website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the proprietors of the pages, we have no influence on the contents of the transmitted data or its use by Facebook. You can find further information regarding this in the Facebook Privacy Policy here In order to avoid your user account being linked to the data passed on to Facebook, you must be logged out of your Facebook account.
Integrated on our webpages are functions of the social service Twitter. These functions are provided by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter and the “Re-Tweet” function, the websites you have visited are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other Twitter users. In this process data is also entrusted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the proprietors of the pages, we have no influence on the contents of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter. You can find further information regarding this in the Twitter Privacy Policy here.You can change your Twitter privacy settings under your account settings here.
Storage and security of your personal information
We generally host and store data (including customer data and personal information) electronically in our IT systems. We may also hold some personal information in hard copy paper files.
We take steps to protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We do this by limiting who can access your personal information. We have security systems in place for the Website. However, because of the nature of the internet, we are unable to guarantee the security of your personal information.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
if our shares or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets;
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property or safety of MarleySpoon, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
to help us analyse our business practices and improve our products and services and obtain feedback; and
if they are service providers that we use to help us conduct the business, subject to confidentiality provisions as we deem appropriate.
If we need to use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose, we will obtain your consent first, unless it is required or authorised by law to do so (including under the Act).
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at contact@marleyspoon.com.au
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You have a right to request access to or correction of your personal information held by us. If you wish to do so, please contact us at contact@marleyspoon.com.au
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Complaints process
If you have any questions or concerns about the collection, use or disclosure of personal information by us, or if you believe that we have not complied with this privacy policy or the Act, please contact us at contact@marleyspoon.com.au
Contact
Questions, comments and concerns regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to contact@marleyspoon.com.au
