Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings.org

Barcaldine History by Sharon, a registered Australian business – ABN 36 599 392 206.

We recognise your need for appropriate protection and management of any personally identifiable information you share with us.

As part of our normal operations we may collect your information. This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we may collect and what may happen to that information.

This policy applies to all products and services provided by www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings. It also covers websites hosted by www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings or other third parties. www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings will take reasonable steps to comply with all applicable laws around the globe that are designed to protect your privacy.

This Policy’s intention is to tell you as much as possible about how www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings uses and manages personal information provided to, or collected by www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings, so you can make informed decisions about how you allow us to use your information.

www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings may, from time to time, review and update this Privacy Policy to take account of new laws and technology and changes to www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings’ operations. 

All personal information held by www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings will be governed by www.barcaldine-peopleplacesthings’s most recent policy, which is displayed on our local website.

• barcaldine-peopleplacesthings collects a range of personal information from members of the public. We collect most information directly from you. We collect this information so you can request a product or service from Us, or communicate with Us by email, newsletter, telephone or in writing.

In general, the type of personal information barcaldine-peopleplacesthings collects and holds could include (but is not limited to):

• Details required for the use of our website including your user name and password, and nickname provided when giving a recommendation
• Details required to improve the performance of our websites including your browsing activity, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, server address and domain name – the majority of this information presented to us is aggregated , and effectively anonymous
• Details such as your User Name passed on from social networking sites that you use, when engaging with us
• Your personal preferences regarding marketing communication and shopping interests if relevant.

barcaldine-peopleplacesthings uses personal information for the primary purpose for which it is collected and for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose. In general, barcaldine-peopleplacesthings uses personal information to assist barcaldine-peopleplacesthings manage and enhance its business as well as to provide people with ongoing information about barcaldine-peopleplacesthings in which they may have an interest.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, but they do enable us to provide the functionality you require when visiting the barcaldine-peopleplacesthings Website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Please note: you can set your internet browser to accept or reject all or certain cookies.

When you send us an email, we will use your email address to thank you for your comment and/or reply to your question, and we will store your communication and our reply for any future correspondence. Beyond out initial reply, we will never use your email address to send you any unsolicited message or information, nor will we share it with or sell it to anyone else for such use.

When you accept to receive information about our services, promotions, newsletters, press releases, and/or new offers, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or other services, until you ask us to stop (using the ‘unsubscribe’ instructions provided with each email communication.

When you request information or other services from us, we use your email address and any other information you give us to provide you with the information or other services that you requested, until you ask us to stop (using the ‘unsubscribe’ instructions provided with each email, and/or on the site where you signed up, and/or as we otherwise proved), or until the information or service is no longer available.

We will never use your email address or other information to provide you with any unsolicited messages or information (unless that is part of the service you are requesting), nor will we share it with or sell, rent or lease it to any third party for such use.

barcaldine-peopleplacesthings operates websites relating to its products and services and general business. To the extent that barcaldine-peopleplacesthings Websites contain links to sites operated by third parties and not related to barcaldine-peopleplacesthings products or services (“Linked Websites”), the Linked Websites are not controlled by barcaldine-peopleplacesthings and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of those companies. Before disclosing your personal information to Linked Websites, we advise you to examine their privacy policies.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

barcaldine-peopleplacesthings uses Google Analytics to gather data about usage of our website. You can find out how Google uses data when you use our site here.

barcaldine-peopleplacesthings may disclose personal information it collects about you to a related company to assist in developing the website and facebook page.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

barcaldine-peopleplacesthings refers to ‘sensitive information’ as  information relating to a person’s racial or ethnic origin, membership of political bodies, religions, trade unions or other professional or trade associations, sexual preferences, criminal record and health information.

If you decide to provide barcaldine-peopleplacesthings with sensitive information, it is barcaldine-peopleplacesthings’s policy that this information will be used and disclosed only for the purpose for which it was provided or a directly related secondary purpose, unless you agree otherwise, or if use or disclosure of this information is allowed by law.

Our website is not intended for children under 12 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 12 years of age. Children under 12 years of age are requested not to provide information on our website.