Privacy Policy
Last updated on 14-10-2021
This privacy policy sets out how we (Aushorse Marketing Proprietary Limited, owner of Racing Connections, registered office at PO Box 149, Canterbury, NSW 2193, Australia), will handle personal information we collect about you through the Racing Connections website and pages within. We can change this privacy policy at any time by publishing an updated version on the Racing Connections website.
In this privacy policy, "personal information" has the same meaning as in the Privacy Act 1988 (information about an identifiable individual).
About the Racing Connections website
Racing Connections is a website that provides users with information around racehorse ownership. The subpage, Owner In Training, is a quiz which enables users to find out what type of ownership is best suited to them.
What we collect
We collect personal information:
- when you submit your details through the Owner In Training quiz on the Racing Connections website
- when you answer questions through the Owner In Training quiz on the Racing Connections website
- as you use the Racing Connections website, in the form of statistics about how you use the website, and data on the devices you use to access the website, such as IP address, device ID and location.
Why we collect it, and what we use it for
We collect and use your personal information for various purposes:
- to develop our understanding of our customers' perception of racehorse ownership
- to assist with resolution of technical support issues or other issues relating to the Racing Connections website
- for internal research, development and optimization of the Racing Connections website
- targeting our advertising, Racing Connections' promotions and network safety issues (you can opt out at any time by emailing aushorsemarketing@gmail.com or unsubscribing on any email you receive from us)
- complying with laws in Australia and overseas, where they apply, and
Sharing your personal information
We may provide your personal information to our employees, contractors, advisors, agents and third party service providers, where we believe this is appropriate to help us with any of the purposes outlined above. Those third party service providers include Google Analytics, Mailchimp and Facebook. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that those recipients do not use that personal information for any other purpose including requiring employees and contractors to provide confidentiality agreements and encrypting the data we store.
We may also release personal information when we believe this is appropriate for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities), or to facilitate court proceedings, enforce or apply our Terms of Use, or protect our company, our users, or others.
We can also release personal information in other ways permitted by the Privacy Act 1988.
How we store your personal information
We will store any personal information we collect from you in accordance with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988, and will take reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal information including by encrypting all customer information and data we collect. Your personal information may be stored on servers owned by our computing infrastructure service provider under an account that we control.
Right to access your information
You have rights under the Privacy Act 1988 to find out what personal information we hold about you, to get a copy of that information, and/or to request corrections to that information. If you would like to do any of these things or for further information about our privacy policy, please contact us at aushorsemarketing@gmail.com.
Complaint process
If you are based in Australia and think we have breached the Information Privacy Principles, you should first complain to us in writing to aushorsemarketing@gmail.com with the subject line "Privacy complaint" and we will consider your complaint and respond to you as soon as we reasonably can.
Analytics
To improve the Racing Connections website and our advertising, we may use patterns and other meaningful information gathered from app analytics tools. This may include the timing and frequency of your use of the Racing Connections website, your IP address, your location, application performance metadata and other information that you voluntarily enter into the app. Last updated on 14-10-2021