Use of persoanl information
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to The Piercing Haus and its related companies' handling of personal information generally and when you use this site.
For the purpose of this privacy policy we are referred to as "The Piercing Haus".
The Piercing Haus is bound by the National Privacy Principles as set out in the Australian Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 as amended and the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993.
What Personal Information is collected by The Piercing Haus?
Visitors to the website may choose to submit personal information through e-mail. You may provide information including but not limited to, details such as your name, e-mail address or contact phone number.
This information will be recorded by The Piercing Haus and updated by The Piercing Haus when additional information is supplied or upon request from you. The contact details of The Piercing Haus are available on site should you need to access your own information.
Use of Personal Information
The Piercing Haus use the personal information gathered to assist in making your experience with The Piercing Haus a satisfying one.
Your personal information may also be used by The Piercing Haus to notify you about new products, services or promotions in the tourism, hospitality or services industries from time to time.
Will your information be given to anyone else?
You should be aware that from time to time, The Piercing Haus may have a minority interest in other companies in the tourism, hospitality or services industry. Your personal information may be transferred to those companies and others in which The Piercing Haus has a minority interest for the purpose of promoting the services and products which these companies offer. Those companies can be contacted if you elect to stop receiving such information at any time.
All personal information collected by The Piercing Haus is only made available to those authorised individuals who need to handle that information for the purposes outlined in this policy. In some circumstances, personal information may also be disclosed outside The Piercing Haus.
For example, we may disclose personal information to third parties to whom The Piercing Haus contracts out specialised functions (such as mailing houses and printing companies). In such cases we will require an undertaking from such persons to comply with the National Privacy Principles and Information Privacy Principles and do not use the personal information for any purposes beyond the scope of our contract with them.
The Piercing Haus will also disclose personal information when required by law and may disclose it when reasonably necessary to assist an enforcement body or to lessen or prevent a threat to individual or public health or safety.
Use of Cookies
The The Piercing Haus website application uses cookies exclusively for session management. These temporary cookies serve to identify the user during each individual visit to the site ("session"). This is a built-in feature of Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. These cookies are temporarily stored in the user's browser throughout the course of each individual session. No other use is or can be made of the information contained in these cookies, and there is no trace of individual sessions.
External links on our Site
Other companies, which place links on the Site, may collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising or content through the use of cookies. Due to the technical operation of the Internet, The Piercing Haus cannot control this collection of information and accepts no responsibility for this collection, use or disclosure. You should contact these content providers if you have any questions about their use of the information they collect. Similarly, there may be links that will let you leave the Site. The use of information and/or privacy provided by the operator of a linked site as to any information you provide in accessing a linked site is in no way subject to this Privacy Policy. The Piercing Haus takes no responsibility for any privacy policies or practices of any web sites accessible from the Site, whether or not such practices conform to privacy policies of those sites.
Removal from our lists
If you do not want to receive e-mail or posted offers from The Piercing Haus generally please let us know by sending an e-mail message to: [email protected].
Access and Correction
You have a right to seek access to information, which the The Piercing Haus holds about you (although there are some exceptions to this). You also have the right to ask us to correct information about you which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
If you wish to exercise your right under the Australian or New Zealand Privacy Acts to seek access to the personal information held by The Piercing Haus , then you should address your request in writing to our Privacy Officer. Please note that in the interests of protecting the privacy of all visitors to our site, if you request details of any personal information held by us, we will need to identify you properly. To do this, we may telephone you or require your current name and address (any former addresses that may assist in identification) and a copy of a form of identification such as a current driver's licence or passport. We will assume, unless you tell us otherwise, that your request relates to our current records about you. This will include the personal information about you, which is held on our databases and files. For legal and administrative reasons, The Piercing Haus may also store records containing personal information in its archives. If you are of the view that personal information about you is not accurate, complete or up to date, please provide our Privacy Officer with your request for correction (contact details are set out below). Any requests for correction will be dealt with promptly.
Is personal information stored safely?
Reasonable steps are taken to ensure the security of personal information from such risks as loss or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or about how we have handled personal information about you, please contact the The Piercing Haus:
- by telephone: +61 484 610 394 or
- by email: [email protected]; or
- by letter: The Piercing Haus, 246 Johnston Street, Fitzroy VIC - 3065, Australia
The privacy policy may change from time to time.