Effective from July 2023

Privacy policy and use of information

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if a user visits our website and / or enters their email address from an online advertisement.

If you choose to use our website and / or engage with our social media advertisements, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy.

FOOTT (‘we, ‘us’, ‘our) is bound by the Australian Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). This Privacy Policy outlines how we deal with your personal information, as well as our legal obligations and rights as to that information. If we agree with you to use or disclose any of your personal information in which differ to those stated in this Privacy Policy, the provisions of that agreement will prevail to the extent of any inconsistency.

Information collection and use

For a better experience while using our website and engaging with our social media advertisements, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you in future forms of communication, including but not limited to responding to any requests of contact you make, advertising and email marketing.

Log data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data that are commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our website. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

Service providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our website management.
  • To provide marketing material on our behalf.
  • To perform other website-related services; or
  • To assist us in analysing how our website is used.

We want to inform our website visitors that these third parties have access to the Personal Information we collect, with the reason being to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose. If required or authorised, we may also disclose your personal information to government and regulatory authorities.

Security

We value your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

We take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information, held on our website or otherwise, is protected from:

  • Misuse, interference, and loss, and
  • Unauthorised access, disclosure, or modification

If we suspect or believe that there has been any unauthorised access to, disclosure of, or loss of, personal information held by us, we will promptly investigate the matter and take appropriate action, and we will comply with any obligations in relation to notifiable data breaches that are in force under the Privacy Act.

Links to other sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Google Ads

  • FOOTT uses Google Ads Remarketing to advertise online.
  • Third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet.
  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and/or device identifiers to serve ads based on your past visits to your website.
  • Visitors can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can point your visitors to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or control the use of device identifiers by using their device’s settings.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Questions and complaints

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy, or our handling of personal information, you should contact our Privacy Officer whose details are included in this Privacy Policy. You can also contact the Privacy Officer if you believe that the privacy of your personal information has been compromised or is not adequately
protected.

Once a complaint has been lodged, the Privacy Officer will respond as soon as possible. We will aim to deal with complaints at the source of the complaint. If you are not satisfied with the response received, you should let us know and our Complaints Officer will investigate further and respond.

Privacy officer

Our Privacy Officer’s contact details are:
Address: 24 Carroll Road, Shepparton East VIC 3631
Telephone: 1300 236 688
Email: community@foott.com.au