Privacy Policy

1) What is “personal information”?

a) The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) currently defines “personal information” as meaning information or an opinion about an identified individual or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:

1. whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
2. whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.

b) If information does not disclose your identity or enable your identity to be ascertained, it will in most cases not be classified as “personal information” and will not be subject to this privacy policy.

2) What information do we collect?

We will indicate within the registration processes of our products and services and other registration forms what types of personal information are required and those that are requested. You may choose not to submit the requested information, but that may limit or prohibit the Services that we are able to provide to you.

The kind of personal information that we collect from you will depend on how you use the Services. The personal information which we collect and hold about you may include:

a) Data You Provide to Us

1. Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address, social media handle, and phone number;
2. Account login credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints and similar security information;
3. Other account registration and profile information, such as job title, educational and professional background and qualifications;
4. Payment information, such as a credit or debit card number;
5. Comments, feedback and other information you provide to us, including search query data and questions or information you send to customer support; and/or
6. Interests and communication preferences.

b) Data from other sources

We also may obtain contact details and other information about you from our affiliates and from other third parties, including:

1. Social networks when you grant permission to the Services to access your data on one or more networks;
2. Service providers that help us determine a location in order to customise certain products to your location;
3. Businesses with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities; and/or
4. Publicly-available sources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate or supplement the information we hold.

d) Data From Services Use, Including Cookies

The Services may automatically collect information about how you and your device interact with the Services, including:

1. Computer, device and connection information, such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your device, mobile platform and unique device identifier and other technical identifiers, error reports and performance data;
2. Usage data, such as the features you used, the settings you selected, your URL click stream data, including date and time stamp and referring and exit pages, search terms you used, and pages you visited or searched for on the Services; and/or
3. For location-aware Services, the region, city or town where your device is located in order to provide you with more relevant content for where you are in the world.

3) How we collect your personal information

a) We may collect personal information from you whenever you input such information into the Services.

b) We also collect cookies from your computer which enable us to tell when you use the Services and also to help customise your Service experience.

c) We also collect this data from your computer, device or through our servers and the use of cookies and other technologies.This enables us to tell when you use the Services and also to help customize your Service experience.  Cookies are small text files that can be read by a web server in the domain that put the cookie on your hard drive. We may use cookies and other technologies to store your preferences and settings, help you with signing in, provide targeted ads and analyse site operations. As a general rule, however, it is not possible to identify you personally from our use of cookies unless you allow us.  You can control cookies through your browser’s settings and other tools. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to register, login, or access certain parts or make full use of the Services. 

d) We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services and fulfil the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

4) Purpose of collection

We collect personal information so that we can provide you with the best experience possible on the Services.

a) Depending on how you interact with us and the Services, we use your personal information to:

1. Provide, activate and manage your access to and use of the Services;
2. Process and fulfil a request, order, download, subscription or other transaction;
3. Provide technical, product and other support and to help keep the Services working, safe and secure;
4. Enhance and improve the Services and our other products, events, and services and to develop new products, services and benefits;
5. Offer you customised content and other personalisation to make the Services more relevant to your interests and geography;
6. Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
7. Notify you about changes, updates and other announcements related to the Services and our other products and services;
8. Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, notices and other information related to the Services and your interests;
9. Provide you with promotional messages and other information about products, events and services of ours, our affiliates and third parties such as sponsors;
10. Invite you to participate in user testing and surveys;
11. Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for purposes of research, audit, reporting and other business operations, including determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating our business performance, or in other ways pursuant to any Service agreement; and/or
12. Comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

b) By using our Service, you consent to the receipt of direct marketing material. We will only use your personal information for this purpose if we have collected such information direct from you, and if it is material of a type which you would reasonably expect to receive from us.We do not use sensitive personal information in direct marketing activity. Our direct marketing material will include a simple means by which you can request not to receive further communications of this nature.

5) Sharing of Your Personal Information

a) We may share your personal information with our affiliates and with sponsors, joint venture entities and other third parties, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee, application host or publisher, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices in managing your communications preferences and other settings.

b) If you access a third-party application on the Service through a license agreement with the licensor of that application, personal information relevant to that third-party application may be shared with the licensor so that it can provide you access to the application, subject to the terms of its license agreement and privacy policy.

c) Depending on the Services provided, we share information with our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives, including but not limited to, payment processors, customer support, email service providers, IT service providers, marketing service providers, research providers, mailing houses and shipping agents in order to process the information as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction or fulfil your request or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

d) The Service may let you post and share personal information, comments, materials and other content. Any such contributions that you disclose publicly may be collected and used by others. Please be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

e) We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:

1. protect the rights, property or safety of Mapview Pty Ltd, our users, employees or others;
2. detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues;
3. effect a corporate transaction such as a transfer of assets or an acquisition by or merger with another company; and/or
4. meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;

6) Data Security

a) We consistently implement measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of the personal information we process.The purpose of these measures is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of personal information.

7) Access and correction

8) Complaint procedure

9) Overseas transfer

a) Your personal information may be transferred overseas or stored overseas for a variety of reasons.It may be stored and processed in Australia or another country where Mapview Pty Ltd, its affiliates and their service providers maintain servers and facilities. It is not possible to identify each and every country to which your personal information may be sent.  We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law.

b) You consent to us transferring your personal information to overseas countries in the knowledge that if your personal information is mishandled in those jurisdictions, we disclaim responsibility and you will not have a remedy under Australian law.

10) European Union General Data Protection Regulation

In some circumstances, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides additional protection to individuals located in Europe. The fact that you may be located in Europe does not, however, on its own entitle you to protection under the GDPR. Our Service does not specifically target customers located in the European Union and we do not monitor the behaviour of individuals in the European Union, and accordingly the GDPR does not apply.

11) How to contact us about privacy