Privacy Policy
(“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://hellosunshinemag.com.au (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.
We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at https://hellosunshinemag.com.au/terms/
Information Collection And Use
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, postal address and phone number (“Personal Information”).
We may gather personally identifiable information about you from either:
- Registration to Hello Sunshine Magazine email
- Subscription to Hello Sunshine Magazine by delivery service
- Billing for advertising
- Online shopping and e-commerce systems
- User-generated content and public activities (reviews, comments and ratings)
- Competitions and promotions
- Reader surveys and loyalty programs
- Employment applications
- Information from third party sources – Social-media platforms or other third-party services (such as Google Play Store or Apple App Store). If you choose to link your social-media account or account relating to other third-party services to nextmedia Services, you may be asking third-parties to send us certain information from those social media accounts or services accounts, and you are authorising us to collect, store, and use what they send us in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site 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 amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
What we do with the information we collect about you
We collect, use or otherwise process personal information as allowed under applicable law:
A) Provide the Hello Sunshine Magazine services you request. We use the information we gather about you to enable your use of Hello Sunshine Magazine services and fulfil your requests for certain products and services, such as providing the Hello Sunshine Magazine Services’ functionality to you, arranging access to your registered account, providing you with customer service, responding to your inquiries, requests, questions, suggestions, compliments or complaints, completing your transactions, sending you administrative information (such as change of our terms, conditions, or policies) and enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, promotions, surveys, research, events, digital resources and message boards (forums). We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you or comply with a legal obligation.
B) Analysis and Development of New Products and Services. We perform statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of the Hello Sunshine Magazine site, and their subscribing, purchasing, browsing and reading patterns, so we can analyse or predict our users’ preferences for product and services development purposes, to determine our promotional campaign effectiveness so we can adapt our campaign to the needs and interests of our users, and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base. We use this information for analytical purposes, including analysis to improve customer relationships, to support strategic business decisions and our marketing tactics and to measure and track our brand health. We will engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, or because we have a legitimate interest in doing so.
C) Customising Your Experience. We use the information that we have to better understand you and customise certain features of Hello Sunshine Magazine to provide you with an enhanced experience including to show you offerings, promotions or products that may be of interest to you, based on the demographic information, type of device you are using to access the Hello Sunshine Magazine content, your usage of Site and your browsing and reading history. We will provide personalised services because we have a legitimate interest.
D) Email Newsletters and Other Marketing Activities as well as Facilitating Social Sharing. Hello Sunshine Magazine will send you email newsletters or promotional emails about stories and offers by Hello Sunshine Magazine and its advertisers. To opt out of these emails, please unsubscribe here. We will use the information we have about you to advertise our services to you on our Site but also on other platforms. If you choose to use social-sharing functionalities, we will use your information to facilitate such action, and such action — along with any information you share — will be covered by the social-media platform’s privacy policy. We will engage in these activities with your consent or where we have a legitimate interest.
F) Allowing you to participate in Competitions, Promotions and Special Offers. Some of these promotions have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your personal information. We use this information to manage our contractual relationship with you.
H) User Generated Content and Public Activities. When you share or recommend links to content on a social-media platform (such as Facebook, Google+ and Twitter), that action and any information you share will be covered by that platform’s privacy policy. Any information you disclose in your public activities, along with your screen name or ID, or any image or photo, becomes public.
Links To Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. Hello Sunshine Magazine has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Site. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Hello Sunshine Magazine.
