Utility Locating Information – PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or
otherwise collected by us, offline or online, including through our https://www.utilitylocatinginformation.com/ (Site). In this Privacy Policy we, us or our means https://www.utilitylocatinginformation.com/.
Personal information
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
-your name;
-your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address and/or telephone number;
-your age and/or date of birth;
-your demographic information, such as postcode;
-your preferences and/or opinions;
-information you provide to us through customer surveys;
details of products and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our
response to you;
-your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views
and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour;
-information about your access and use of our Site, including through the use of Internet cookies, your
communications with our Site, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are
using and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
-additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our
Site, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit
us to collect information; and
-any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.]
We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties.
Collection and use of personal information
We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
-to enable you to access and use our Site, associated applications and associated social media
platforms;
-to contact and communicate with you;
-for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
-for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Site,
associated applications and associated social media platforms;
-to run competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you;
-for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and
services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;
-to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have; and
-to consider your employment application.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We may disclose personal information to:
-third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including
(without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, web-hosting and server providers, debt
collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional
advisors and payment systems operators;
-our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
-our existing or potential agents or business partners;
-sponsors or promoters of any competition we run;
-anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
-courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have
provided to you;
-courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection
with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal
rights; [and]
-third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products,
services or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of
Australia [including in any other location]
-third parties to collect and process data, such as [Google Analytics or other relevant businesses]. This
may include parties that store data outside of Australia [including in any other location]
We may store personal information overseas. Where we disclose your personal information to the third parties
listed above, these third parties may also store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia. Unless we seek and receive your consent to an overseas disclosure of your personal information, we will only disclose your personal information to countries with laws which protect your personal information in a way which is substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles and/or we will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to require that overseas recipients protect your personal information in accordance with the
Australian Privacy Principles.
How we treat personal information that is also sensitive information
Sensitive information is a subset of personal information that is given a higher level of protection under the Australian Privacy Principles.
Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information.
Sensitive information includes:
health information,
professional or trade association or trade union,
We only collect, hold, use and disclose sensitive information for the following purposes:
any purposes you consent to;
the primary purpose for which it is collected;
secondary purposes that are directly related to the primary purpose for which it was collected, including
disclosure to the above listed third parties as reasonably necessary to provide our services to you;
to contact emergency services, or to speak with your family, partner or support person where we
reasonably believe there is a serious risk to the life, health or safety of you or another person and it is
impracticable for us to obtain your consent; and
if otherwise required or authorized by law.
Your rights and controlling your personal information
Choice and consent: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By providing personal information to us, you
understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of this Site or
the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you
represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict: 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 using the details below.
Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be
payable for the provision of such information. In certain circumstances, as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), we may refuse to provide you with personal information that we hold about you.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant
or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information
found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.
Complaints: If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint,
please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly
investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint.
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing
communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the
communication.
Storage and security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The
transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard
against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies and web beacons
We may use cookies on our Site from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable
information.
However, they do allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to
appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If and when you choose to provide our Site with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We may use web beacons on our Site from time to time.
Web beacons (also known as Clear GIFs) are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the visitor’s behaviour and collect data about the visitor’s viewing of a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.