Privacy Policy.

  1. Introduction

1.1 Social Studio is owned and operated by Social Studio PTY. LTD ABN 26 660 176 698 (Social Studio, We, Us or Our).

1.2 Social Studio provides a service with the intended use to facilitate interaction between brands (Brands) and media users who may wish to produce content for online advertising. In these terms and conditions, Brands and Content Creators are collectively referred to as Users or You (with all derivative words having a corresponding meaning).

1.3 Social Studio is committed to ensuring that the privacy – within the meaning of the Australian Privacy Act 1988 – of Users registered through the website is protected. This Privacy Policy describes how Social Studio collects, uses, discloses and stores Personal Information that is provided by You and generated by Your use of the website

1.4 By using the Website, You are agreeing that Social Studio may make use of Your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You additionally agree to be bound by the terms below.

1.5 We encourage You to read this Privacy Policy carefully and contact Us if You have any queries at [email protected]

1.6 In this Privacy Policy:

Personal Information is any information about You where Your identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained from the information, including, but not limited to, Your name, address, email address, photos or phone number and other like information.

Sensitive Information is a subset of Personal Information which contains information or an opinion about Your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, sexual preferences or criminal records. Sensitive Information also includes any of Your health information. A reference to Personal Information in this Privacy Policy is also a reference to Sensitive Information.

1.7 We endorse fair information handling practices and use of information in compliance with Our obligations under the privacy laws in force in Australia from time to time. Any information provided, including identification of individuals, will be used only for the purpose/s intended or authorised and where the intention includes confidentiality, information will be treated as such unless otherwise required by law.

1.8 Social Studio may change this Policy by updating this page. Any update to this Policy will be effective from the date that it is posted Our website, https://socialstudio.marketing

  1. Collection of Personal Information

2.1 Users’ Personal Information is held by Social Studio in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). We actively collect only the Personal Information that is reasonably necessary for Users to utilise the Website.

2.2 We will collect Personal Information from You when You click submit form. Personal Information collected by Us will primarily include:

  •       Personal Information such as Your name and email

2.3 We will not directly solicit, nor actively collect, Sensitive Information from you.

 

  1. Use of Personal Information

3.1 We may use Your Personal Information:

  • To provide better personalised services that are tailored to Your needs; 
  • For purposes related to Our research, planning, product and service development, security and testing; 
  • To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 
  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

  1. Disclosure of Personal Information

4.1 Social Studio may disclose Your Personal Information to its agents or sub-contractors for the purposes set out in section 3.1, always on the condition that the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obliged to use that Personal Information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy, or otherwise if You have provided specific consent to the disclosure.

4.2 In addition to the uses set out in section 3.1, by proceeding to submit a form, You consent to disclosure of Your Personal Information as follows:

  •       as required under a subpoena, court order, or legal process, or in order to establish, exercise or defend Social Studio legal rights or otherwise as required by law;
  •       in order (in the reasonable opinion of Social Studio) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Social Studio Terms and Conditions of Use; 
  •       in circumstances where Social Studio is acquired by or merged with another company; 
  •      with our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
  •       in order to enforce Our Terms and Conditions of Use; and ·in order to investigate or resolve complaints against or involving Social Studio which raise civil liabilities and to aid any government agency in any investigation circumstances.

  1. Security of Personal Information

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

Our company is hosted on the WordPress.com platform. WordPress.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through WordPress.com’s data storage, databases and the general WordPress.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

  1. Sensitive Information

Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record or health information.

Sensitive information will be used by us only:

  •    For the primary purpose for which  it was obtained
  •    For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose
  •    With your consent; or where required or authorised by law.​

  1. Third Parties

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

  1. Your Obligations

8.1 This Privacy Policy sets out Social Studios obligations in relation to the collection, disclosure and use of Your Personal Information. In using the Website, however, certain Personal Information may additionally be disclosed to You by other Users, or You may disclose Your own Personal Information to other Users.

8.2 You must ensure that You comply with the Privacy Act 1988 in collecting, storing or making any use of User Content disclosed to You by Us via the Website, or by other Users whether via the website or otherwise.

8.3 We are not responsible for and cannot control how Users will use or disclosure Your Personal Information if You share this information with them directly. If You share or intend to share Personal Information with a User We recommend that You review their Privacy Policy (if they have one), and obtain legal advice.

8.4 We are not liable for any User’s use of personal or sensitive information (within the meaning of the Privacy Act 1988) which is disclosed by one User to another, or obtained by one User from another, whether via the website or otherwise.

  1. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, for example, to keep track of your preferences and profile information. Cookies are also used to collect general usage and volume statistical information that does not include personal information.
We use another company to place cookies on your computer to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics for us about visitors to our site.

  1. Policy Updates

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. 

  1. Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy or If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at:

[email protected]

1 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD Australia 4101