Privacy Policy

Who we are  – Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store

Our website address is: https://www.natureschild.com.au

We have written our privacy policy  in two sections. The first section in green is a easy to read summary. We encourage you to read the full privacy policy with all details and legalities below as well. Our intention as a company is to deliver you a seamless, happy experience where we only collect your data to serve you, make it easy to stay in touch with us if that is your choice and easy to access our site anytime with your choice to auto fill forms for your easy next visit. Your order history and invoices can only be accessed when we retain your data so once this is removed, we can no longer provide them and it is your responsiblity to keep a copy. Once you no longer need our service or emails we understand you may choose to unsubscribe and request all data to be removed. We respect your choice at every stage of your parenting journey. Thank you for joining us at Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store in Australia.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day

You have the option to save your payment details for your own convenience if you are a regular shopper

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service

PRIVACY POLICY in full

Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store Byron Bay NSW

PRIVACY STATEMENT – Our commitment to Your Privacy

Nature’s Child is committed to protecting your privacy. We understand your information is personal and we value your membership with our website. This Privacy Policy covers how Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store treats collected and received information.

Introduction

  1. Nature’s Child Wholesale Pty Ltd (also trading as Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store (ACN 50 112 928 186 ) is committed to protecting the information about you that we collect, store and use when you provide it to us on our website: https://www.natureschild.com.au (Site)
  2. We respect your rights to privacy under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and so in accordance with this Act, we are compliant with its requirements in respect of the collection, management and disclosure of your personal information.
  3. We also uphold your rights to privacy if you are based in the European Union, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU).  Your rights under the GDPR are listed below.
  4. If you do not wish to provide personal information to us, then you do not have to do so.  However, this may affect your use of this Site or any products and services offered on it.

What is your personal information?

  1. When used in this privacy policy, the term “personal information” has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act and GDPR.  In general terms, it is any information that can be used to personally identify you. This may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, birthday, postcode and profession or occupation.  If the information we collect personally identifies you, or you are reasonably identifiable from it, the information will be considered personal information.
  2. We may also collect some information that is not personal information because it does not identify you or anyone else.  For example, we may collect anonymous answers to surveys or aggregated information about how users use our website.
  3. Your personal information will not be shared, sold, rented or disclosed other than as described in this privacy policy.

What information may we collect from you?

  1. may collect the following personal information from you:
  2. name;
  3. current mailing or residential address;
  4. email address;
  5. telephone number;
  6. age or birth date; and
  7. profession or occupation.
  8. We collect personal information about you so that we can perform our business activities and functions and to provide best possible quality of customer service.  We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
  • 1. to provide our services to you;
  • 2. to send communications requested by you;
  • 3. to answer enquiries and provide information or advice about existing and new services;
  • 4. to provide you with access to protected areas of our website; and
  • 5. to comply with any Law, rule, regulation, Lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in cooperation with any governmental authority.

How do we collect your personal information?

  1. We collect your personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so.  When collecting personal information from you, we may collect in ways including:
  1. 1. when you make an enquiry about our products or services;
  2. 2. through your access and use of our website, including when you register as a member of our website;
  3. 3. during conversations between you and our representatives;
  4. 4. when you ask to be placed on one of our subscription/mailing lists; or
  5. 5. when you become a client or customer of ours or otherwise use our products or services.

What happens if we can’t collect your personal information?

  1. If you do not provide us with the personal information described above, some or all of the following may happen:
  1. we may not be able to provide our products or services to you, either to the same standard or at all;
  2. we may not be able to provide you with information about services that you may want, including information about special promotions; or invoices and records of purchases
  3. we may be unable to tailor the content of our website to your preferences and your experience of our website may not be as enjoyable or useful.

Site User Tracking Experience

  1. We may use tracking software to review and improve your experience of our Site. In particular, we may use Facebook, click funnels, Infusionsoft and Google Analytics Advertising products: Remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects data about our Site traffic via Google Advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers. Data collected via these Google products are not linked to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our Site. If you wish to opt out of the Google Analytics data collection, you may do so on Google’s Site at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Cookies

  1. When you access our website, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your computer.  This enables us to recognise your computer and greet you each time you visit our website without bothering you with a request to register.  It also enables us to keep track of services you view so that, if you consent, we can send you news about those services. We also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, to determine which areas of our website have been visited and to measure transaction patterns in the aggregate.
  2. We use this to research our users’ habits so that we can improve our online services.  Our cookies do not collect personal information. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does not accept them.  We may log IP addresses (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the Internet) to analyse trends, administer the website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information.

Security

  1. As our website is linked to the Internet, and the Internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online.  We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

Links

  1. We provide links to websites outside of our website, as well as to third party websites (such as social media sites). These linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that websites and its privacy policy.  Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.

Groups and forums

  1. If you participate in a discussion forum, chat room or webinar, you should be aware that the information you provide there will be made broadly available to others, potentially inside or outside Nature’s Child who have access to that discussion forum or chat room. Also, please recognise that individual forums and chat rooms may have additional rules and conditions. Each participant’s opinion on a forum or chat room is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store
  2. Please be advised that for any forums or Webinars you attend, recordings can be enabled by a meeting or webinar host. By signing up for any of Nature’s Child Organic Baby Storewebinar services or otherwise using them in any way, including without limitation by attending any Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store meeting or webinar, you expressly acknowledge that we may make and store Recordings for meetings or webinars, and may make such recordings available to hosts and other Attendees at the direction of Nature’s Child Natural and Organic Baby Store –  If you do not want to be recorded, you can choose to leave the meeting or webinar.

To whom will Nature’s Child disclose my personal information?

  1. We may disclose your personal information to:
  2. our employees, contractors or service providers for the purposes of operating our website or our business, fulfilling requests by you, and to otherwise provide services to you including, without limitation, web hosting providers, IT systems administrators, mailing houses, couriers, payment processors, data entry service providers, electronic network administrators, debt collectors, and professional advisors such as accountants, solicitors, business advisors and consultants;
  3. suppliers and other third parties with whom we have commercial relationships, for business, marketing, and related purposes; and
  4. any other organisation for any authorised purpose with your express consent.
  5. We only disclose this information if the third party has agreed to comply with the standards in our Privacy Policy.
  6. If there is a change of control of our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at Law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where we have sought to maintain confidentiality.

Direct marketing materials

  1. We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our services that we consider may be of interest to you once you have chosen to subscribe or as a direct result of an order you place with us.  These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, SMS and email, in accordance with applicable marketing Laws, such as the Spam Act 2003 (Cth).  If you indicate a preference for a method of communication, we will endeavour to use that method whenever practical to do so. In addition, at any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us (see the details below) or by using opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications and we will then ensure that your name is removed from our subscription/mailing list.
  2. We do not provide your personal information to other organisations for the purposes of direct marketing.

Security and data quality

  1. We take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is protected from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
  2. We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information that you submit to us through our website. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. We 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.
  3. 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.
  4. We may hold your information in either electronic or hard copy form, usually to create an invoice for your records which you can then request anytime. All invoices are held digitally on our website.  Personal information is destroyed or de-identified when no longer needed or when we are no longer required by Law to retain it (whichever is the later).

How long do you retain my personal data for?

  1. We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements and always with your permission
  2. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
  3. By Law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for five years for Australian tax Law purposes.
  4. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data; see your legal rights below for further information.
  5. In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

If I am based in the EU, what are my legal rights under the GDPR?

  1. If the General Data Protection Regulation applies to you because you are in the European Union, you have rights under data protection Laws in relation to your personal data:
  2. The right to be informed – that’s an obligation on us to inform you how we use your personal data;
  3. The right of access – that’s a right to make what’s known as a ‘data subject access request’ for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
  4. The right to rectification – that’s a right to make us correct personal data about you that may be incomplete or inaccurate;
  5. The right to erasure – that’s also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’ where in certain circumstances you can ask us to delete the personal data we have about you (unless there’s an overriding legal reason we need to keep it);
  6. The right to restrict processing – that’s a right for you in certain circumstances to ask us to suspend processing personal data;
  7. The right to data portability – that’s a right for you to ask us for a copy of your personal data in a common format (for example, a .csv file);
  8. The right to object – that’s a right for you to object to us processing your personal data (for example, if you object to us processing your data for direct marketing); and
  9. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – that’s a right you have for us to be transparent about any profiling we do, or any automated decision making.
  10. These rights are subject to certain rules around when you can exercise them.
  11. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@natureschild.com.au

How can you access and correct your personal information?

  1. You may request access to any personal information we hold about you at any time by contacting us (see the details below).  Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will try to provide you with suitable means of accessing it (for example, by mailing or emailing it to you).  We may charge you a reasonable fee to cover our administrative and other reasonable costs in providing the information to you. We will not charge for simply making the request and will not charge for making any corrections to your personal information. It is completely free to access a copy of your order or invoice at anytime.
  2. There may be instances where we cannot grant you access to the personal information we hold.  For example, we may need to refuse access if granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or if it would result in a breach of confidentiality.  If that happens, we will give you written reasons for any refusal.
  3. If you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request us to amend it.  We will consider if the information requires correction. If we do not agree that there are grounds for correction, then we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with it.

How can you withdraw your consent to this privacy policy?

  1. You may withdraw your consent to this privacy policy at any point.  If you wish to withdraw your consent to our collection and retention of your data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at hello@natureschild.com.au and we can arrange for your data to be deleted.
  2. You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information. If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us at the email address listed in this Privacy Policy.
  3. To unsubscribe from our email database, or opt out of any communications, please contact us at the email address listed at the start of the Privacy Policy, with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line of the e-mail or simply click UNSUBSCRIBE at any time at the bottom of every email we send to you

What is the process for complaining about a breach of privacy?

  1. If you believe that your privacy has been breached, please contact us using the contact information below and provide details of the incident so that we can investigate it.  We will treat your complaint confidentially, investigate your complaint and aim to ensure that we contact you and your complaint is resolved within a reasonable time (and in any event within the time required by the Privacy Act and/or GDPR, if applicable).

Contacting us

  1. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or a complaint regarding the treatment of your privacy or a possible breach of your Data Protection Officer using the details set out below.  We will treat your requests or complaints confidentially. Our representative will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved.  We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in timely and appropriate manner.
  2. Please contact our Data Protection Officer by email on hello@natureschild.com.au or by mail at NATURES CHILD PO BOX 1040 BYRON BAY NSW 2481

Changes to our privacy policy

  1. We may change this privacy policy from time to time, however, we will notify you of any changes to our privacy policy.  Any updated versions of this privacy policy will be posted on our website and will be effective from the date of posting.
  2. This privacy policy was last updated on 30 May 2018.