We recognise the importance of protecting your personal information (“Personal Information”). We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

The Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of Personal Information you may supply to us through your conduct on the Site.

By using the Site, you consent and agree to the Privacy Policy of Windowline as follows.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure you are updated on any changes to the policy.

In the course of your using of the Site, we may collect your Personal Information such as your name, address, email address, sex, marital status, contact details, occupation, preferences, personal interests, financial information and credit payment details for any services you purchase from us. We may also collect the following information for marketing purposes and to improve the functionality of the Site:

• some basic information about you (e.g. your profession, your employer, your involvement in strata title matters, your experience in strata title-related work);
• your server address;
• domain name;
• the date and time of your visit to the Site;
• the pages viewed and information downloaded;
• the previous sites visited; and
• the type of browser used.

We may collect your Personal Information using various means such as:

• directly from you e.g. through the Site, contact forms, application forms;
• from public domain e.g. your business website;
• from social media networks where we have a connection e.g. facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter; from your business partners/associates;
• by your usage of the Site e.g. the pages that you visit, what links you click.

We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

• to provide products and services to you
• to send information updates, marketing materials and newsletters to you
• to conduct credit checks (if necessary)
• to improve our products and services, our website and any Windowline offerings.

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information that we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If at any time you discover that the information held is incorrect you may contact us to correct the information.

We strive to ensure the security of your Personal Information and we take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from:

1. from misuse, interference and loss; and
2. from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

We will continue to review and update our physical and data security measures in light of current and relevant technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over mobile data and communication services can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

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

We will do everything reasonably within our power and control to prevent unauthorised use or disclosure of your Personal Information. However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from any unauthorised use or access to your Personal Information.

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information that we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of the information held by us largely depends on the accuracy of the information that you supplied to us. If at any time you discover that any information concerning you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us to correct the information.

From time to time, we may send emails containing marketing materials or promotions of our products and services to you. By your use of the Site, you consent to us doing so. However, you may unsubscribe from these marketing materials at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe option or by sending an email to us. We will remove you from the mailing list.

Your privacy is very important to us and we take the matter very seriously. If you have any concerns about your privacy or how your Personal Information is being handled, please contact us at the email address at the bottom of this policy. We will take steps to address your concerns and we aim to provide you with a written response within 21 days (and in any event within 30 days). If you have a genuine reason to access your Personal Information held by us, we will give access to the information in the manner you requested, if it is reasonable and practicable to do so.

When you visit the Site or use any of our services, the Site may send one or more Cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Our servers may also record anonymous information such as the time, date and URL relating to your use of the Site. Cookies, which are industry standard and are used by most web sites, including the Site, can facilitate a user’s ongoing access to and use of a website. The use of Cookies will allow us to customise the Site to your needs, remember your preferences and also assists us in improving the performance of the Site. We may engage third parties to analyse the information collected by cookies or perform statistics about usage of the Site.

Sometimes, cookies may collect and store your Personal Information. We treat such information in the same manner as other Personal Information that you provide to us.
You can deactivate the cookies by resetting your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, the Site and our services may not function properly if you disable the cookies.

From time to time we may provide links to third party websites (“Linked Sites”). These Linked Sites are not under our control and we do not accept responsibility or liability for the conduct of the Linked Sites or their businesses and the information available on the Linked Sites. We recommend that you refer to the privacy policy of the Linked Sites before disclosing your Personal Information to the Linked Sites.

If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy or you have any comments or feedback, please contact us at the following:

Contact Person: Gary Stevenson
Email: [email protected]

For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Government, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner website