Disclaimer
brandsExclusive is committed to providing our members with the best possible products and services. This requires that we store and use from time to time your private information such as name, address, contact number and email address. We also want our members and business partners to have the confidence that we manage their personal information with an appropriate and legally required level of privacy.
This Privacy Policy covers the brandsExclusive website as well as information provided through any means of communication to brandsExclusive. In this privacy policy, “we”, “us”, “our” and other similar references mean brandsExclusive and “you” and “your” and other similar references mean a specific user of the website and the members and members of brandsExclusive. By visiting the website, and or by becoming a member you accept the practices described in this privacy policy.
Gathering of Personal InformationPersonal Information is any information that identifies you, would enable someone to contact you, or that describes your relationship with brandsExclusive. We collect and store Personal Information when you become a member and/or login to use our website, ask a question, complete a form, conduct a transaction, or send us an email.
While you are not required to submit any information to our website, if you do not provide the requested information, you may not be able to access or use some of the features and functions of our website and we may not be able to provide you with certain services.
brandsExclusive uses your Personal Information to complete transactions, respond to your questions and requests, deliver the products and services you purchased or requested, and notify you of upcoming sales events and promotions, updates, or special offers that we think may interest you.
brandsExclusive does not intentionally gather data from or about children. Minors are not permitted to participate in brandsExclusive Sales.
If brandsExclusive sells its business, such sale may include your Personal Information.
Some of the information that is collected on our website is not Personal Information, because it does not reveal your identity. For example, we may record your server address, domain name, the date and time of your visit to this site and the pages that you viewed. This information is used by us in anonymous, aggregated form only, for statistical and website development purposes.
However, we reserve the right to use or disclose this information to try to locate an individual if we reasonably believe that the individual may have engaged in any unlawful or inappropriate activity in connection with this website.
A cookie is a small data file that a web site transfers to your Internet browser for identification purposes. The cookies that we use do not identify you individually. Instead, they identify your Internet browser.
We use “session” cookies to maintain session information about you when you log into our website, which enables us to personalise your current visit and perform ecommerce activities such as maintaining your shopping basket.
We also use “persistent” cookies to personalise the user experience, to help protect our members and to provide us with user information of our website. Persistent cookies allow us to track users on brandsExclusive and help us identify users abusing our service.
Most Internet browsers are set to accept cookies. If you prefer not to receive them, you can adjust your browser to reject cookies, or to notify you when they are being used. There are also software products available that can manage cookies for you. Rejecting cookies can however limit the functionality of this website.
Access to InformationbrandsExclusive has implemented a range of safeguards in an attempt to prevent unauthorized access, maintain your data and correctly use your personal information through technological, physical and administrative measures.
As specified in this privacy policy and as much as commercially reasonable, we limit access to your personal information. However, employees, officers and appointed business partners will need your personal information to perform their role in providing you our products and services.
We may provide aggregate statistics about our members, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to our supply partners or third party vendors, but these statistics do not include Personal Information.
We do not share information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
In providing our members and members with products or services, we may disclose personal information to third parties. This includes companies that perform marketing services and other business operations and services for us or supply products to us.
In the case of contracted service providers, we may disclose Personal Information to the contracted service provider and the contracted service provider may in turn provide us with Personal Information collected from you in the course of providing the relevant products or services. We take steps to help ensure that our contracted service providers comply with the National Privacy Principles when they collect and handle your Personal Information.
We may also disclose personal information to third parties:
- where required or authorised by or under law to do so; and/or
- with your consent (which may be written, verbal or implied from your conduct).
We may also disclose Personal Information in the good-faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect and defend our rights or property or the rights or property of other users of our website, or to act in an emergency to protect the personal safety of users of our website or the public.
External LinksOther companies or organizations may have links to their website on our website. brandsExclusive is not responsible for how these other companies or organizations collect, use, disclose, or secure the information that you provide them. If you choose to access a third party website linked to our website, you do so at your own risk and subject to any terms of service or privacy policy (if any) associated with such third party website.
Changes to Personal DataYou can view and change your Personal Information we have stored in the "My Account" section of the member login section of our website.
Unsubsribe or Membership cancelationIf you wish to unsubscribe, please go to “I would like to change my personal details or email preferences” and deselect “Subscribe: I would like to receive sales event invitations.”
If you still like to stay informed without getting a daily email, try our VIPBOX, our fun and innovative application for your desktop that lets you know about what’s happening on brandsExclusive.
If you wish to cancel your membership and have your Personal Information removed from our database for any reason, simply contact us via the "support" page of our website.
Modification and Notification of ChangesbrandsExclusive may at our sole discretion edit this Privacy Policy because of changes in Internet technology or applicable legislation. Please ensure you check this Privacy Policy from time to time for such changes.
Complaints, questions or suggestion about your privacyIf you have questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices please contact us via the “support” section of our website.
Any complaints in relation to your privacy may be directed to The Privacy officer at privacyofficer@brandsexclusive.com.au or by letter to brandsExclusive (Australia) pty ltd, PO Box 618, Paddington, NSW, 2021.