What is personal information?

This refers to any information that you voluntarily submit to us and that identifies you personally, including contact details, such as your name, e-mail address, company name, address, phone number, and other information about yourself or your business. Personal Information can also include information about any transactions, both free and paid, that you enter into, and information about you that is available on the internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.

SECTION 1 – HOW DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

The main way we collect personal information about you is when you voluntarily submit to us, for example when you:

  • complete forms, applications or surveys;
  • request a brochure or contact us to ask for information;
  • enter competitions or register for promotions,
  • participate in forums on our website; or
  • otherwise specifically provide us with your personal information.

Navigational Information

This refers to information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed.

1. Cookies

Moddex uses cookies or similar technologies to analyse trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small piece of text that is placed within the memory of a computer and can be later retrieved by web page servers. We use cookies to enhance your interaction and convenience with our website. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

2. Web Beacons

A Web beacon is a clear graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel, that is placed on a Web site or in an email that is used to monitor the behaviour of the user visiting the Web site or sending the email. We use web beacons in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

3. Advertising

We partner with Third Party ad networks to manage advertising on other sites. Our ad network partners use cookies, Web beacons and other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.

4. Social Media Usage

We use social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to communicate with the public. When you communicate with us using these services we may collect your personal information, but we only use it to help us to communicate with you and the public. The social networking service will also handle your personal information for its own purposes. These sites have their own privacy policies and we encourage to read those on their sites.

5. Public Forums

We offer publicly accessible message boards, blogs, and community forums. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose any information through our public message boards, blogs, or forums, this information may be collected and used by others. We will correct or delete any information you have posted on the website if you so request. We also reserve the right to remove inappropriate or inaccurate comments.

SECTION 2 – WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you purchase something from us, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our site, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

We may also send you emails about our company, new products and other updates.

Trans-Border data flows

In providing our services to you it may be necessary for us to forward personal information to relevant overseas third-party service providers.

SECTION 3 – CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at www.moddex.com/contact-us or mailing us at: info@moddex.com.au (Australia) or info@moddex.com.nz (New Zealand).

SECTION 4 – DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

SECTION 5 – PAYMENT

If you choose to complete your purchase, then we may store your credit card data and is securely encrypted.  Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

We collect and process payment information from you when you purchase something from us, including credit cards numbers and billing information, using third party PCI-compliant

service providers. Except for this, we do not collect Sensitive Information from you.

SECTION 6 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

SECTION 7 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL).  Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all necessary requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

SECTION 8 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at info@moddex.com.au (Australia) or info@moddex.com.nz (New Zealand).