Lynkz ABN 37 618 690 930; and its products “Lynkz”(‘we’, ‘our’, ‘us’) regards personal privacy and payment security as an important part of our relationship with our customers and users.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we manage (including the collection, use and handling of) personal information of people who use our website, have an account with us or acquire services from us (‘you’). This may include representatives of our corporate customers and people seeking information about our products and services.
If you provide us with personal information through accessing our website and/or setting up an account with us, you
In this policy ‘personal information’ means ‘information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable (whether the information is true or not or recorded in any form or not)’.
If you personally create a Lynkz customer account (‘Account’) on our website, we need to collect and therefore require you to provide a range of personal information including your name, address, email address, phone number, mobile telephone number, your Lynkz username and password, and financial information such as credit card or bank account details, and credit or transaction history. This is not an exhaustive list, and we also collect personal information you include in emails or other correspondence you send to us.
If you create an Account on behalf of a company or other legal entity on our website, we need to collect and therefore require you to provide personal information about directors, officers, authorised representatives or guarantors of the company or other legal entity. However, you should not provide information about other individuals unless you are authorised to do so, and we rely on you to inform those other individuals that you are providing their personal information to us and to advise them about our Privacy Policy.
In addition to collecting personal information via our website, we may collect personal information in the following ways:
While you can choose to deal with us or access some features on our website anonymously or using a pseudonym, you may be asked to provide certain personal information when using interactive areas of the site. Generally, you have no obligation to provide any information requested by us. However, if you choose to withhold the requested information, we may not be able to provide you with the products and services that depend on the collection of that information.
We do not collect personal information about you if you simply visit our site, however our website uses cookies and may use web beacons to collect information about the use of our site, including:
Use of cookies and web beacons does not involve the retrieval or recording of any personal information (such as a name or email address) by us. To the extent that this data could make you identifiable, we will not attempt to identify you from these records.
Search terms that you enter when searching our database engine are collected, but are not associated with any other information that we collect, hence the user is not identifiable. We use these search terms to ascertain what users are looking for on our website, and to improve the services that we provide, as well as for the purpose of statistical usage analysis or systems administration.
This Policy applies to the domain name lynkz.com.au only. It does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the use of, or the protection of information provided to, other websites linked to our website.
We use the personal information we collect to provide our customers and users with a high level of service. In particular, we use personal information:
We may also use your personal information for the purpose of displaying or publishing advertising on web pages that you access or for sending you advertising and promotional material we think might be of interest to you. By submitting your contact details through our website, you consent to us displaying or sending such material to you. For material that we email to you, we provide a functional opt out facility with all promotional emails. You can let us know if you no longer wish to receive this sort of information by emailing us at support@lynkz.com.au and we will remove your details from the distribution list.
We may disclose personal information to our related entities, third party service providers (including IT service providers, data storage and handling facilities, payment systems operators, mail houses and legal or financial advisers) to the extent necessary for them to assist us in providing services to you. We require our service providers to adhere to strict confidentiality requirements and all applicable privacy laws, and not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than the services for which they are engaged to provide.
We may disclose personal information to other persons or organisations if required to do so by the order of a court or tribunal or if the disclosure is otherwise authorised or required by law. For example, personal information may be disclosed where it is necessary to eliminate or minimise a risk to public health or safety, investigate or deal with unlawful activity or serious misconduct or establish or defend a legal claim.
We generally do not disclose personal information to persons outside Australia. However where you pay for services using a personal credit card, your personal information is likely to be sent outside of Australia (mainly to the USA) for processing by Stripe.com. We may also disclose personal information to third parties (such as our service providers) located overseas if such disclosure is necessary for us to provide products and services to you. The overseas countries to which we disclose your personal information depends mainly on where the third party service providers selected by you are located.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you provide personal information (including credit card details) on our website, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When credit card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete credit card details.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
Your personal information may be stored electronically or in paper files, in storage facilities that we own, operate or control ourselves, or that are owned or operated by our contractors or service providers. In addition to the above specific security measures regarding data transmission, we take reasonable steps to maintain the security of your personal information and to protect it from misuse, interference and loss, as well as from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. The security measures we take include:
If you have any questions about security on our Website or the security of your personal information collected and held by us, you can email us at support@lynkz.com.au
We take all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information collected, used and disclosed by us is accurate, up to date and complete. We will promptly correct any inaccurate information when identified.
Subject to any legal restrictions, we will let you know what personal information we hold about you if you ask us to. If your request is particularly complex, or requires detailed searching of our records, there may be a cost to you in order for us to provide this information.
If you believe there are errors in our records about you, please let us know and we will investigate and correct any inaccuracies.
All requests for access to personal information held by us should be made to support@lynkz.com.au
If you believe your privacy has been interfered with and wish to make a complaint, please contact our Privacy Officer. The Privacy Officer will investigate your complaint and notify you of the outcome. If your complaint indicates that there has been an interference with your privacy by a person other than us, the Privacy Officer may discuss the complaint with that other person in an attempt to resolve it.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint or the way we handle it, you may make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.OAIC.gov.au/privacy/making-a-privacy-compliant.
If you would like further information on our privacy policy, or if you have any concern about the protection of your personal information, please email support@lynkz.com.au
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on our homepage.
We may provide business or commercial credit (including but not limited to extended payment terms) to our customers in connection with our services. As a result, we may collect credit information and credit eligibility information (credit-related information) about you as referred to in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Act”). This Credit Reporting Policy relates to us and to our related entities that are deemed to be credit providers for the purposes of the Privacy Act, and sets out how we manage credit-related information about individuals. It does not apply to the collection or use of credit-related information about corporations.
Primarily, we collect credit-related information about you directly from you, and from your business dealings with us (including but not limited to any credit-related information provided to or derived by us in the normal course of operation of your Account).
We may also collect credit-related information about you in any of the circumstances relating to other personal information described in our Privacy Policy under the heading “Kinds and Collection of Personal Information”, if such collection is permitted under the Act, the Credit Reporting Privacy Code, and any other regulations or instruments made under the Act (collectively “Privacy Laws”).
Since we only provide business or commercial credit (rather than consumer credit) as part of our business, we do not hold an Australian Credit Licence (“ACL”) under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth). We are also not a member of a recognised external dispute resolution scheme (“EDR”). As such, we will only collect credit-related information about you from third parties if such collection is permitted by the Privacy Laws and with your consent, if such consent is required under the Privacy Laws).
We store and safeguard your credit-related information in the ways described in our Privacy Policy under the heading “Storage of Collected Information”.
How we use and when we disclose your credit-related information
As a provider of business or commercial credit only, a non-holder of an ACL and a non-member of an EDR, we will not use your credit-related information or disclose any such information (including any disclosure to any credit reporting body) if such use or disclosure is prohibited by the Privacy Laws.
We may, however, use or disclose your credit-related information for other purposes and in other circumstances as described in our Privacy Policy under the heading “Use and Disclosure of Personal Information”, when permitted to do so by the Privacy Laws.
Our use and disclosure of credit-related information is regulated by Part IIIA of the Act and the Credit Reporting Privacy Code. We will only use or disclose such information for purposes permitted by these laws, such as:
We generally do not disclose any credit-related information about you to persons outside Australia. However where you pay for services using a personal credit card, we may disclose your credit-related information to Stripe.com located in the USA for one or more of the purposes listed above.
If you wish to access or correct errors in any of your credit-related information that we hold, please contact us using the contact details in our Privacy Policy under the heading “Access to and Correction of Personal Information”.
We may apply an administrative charge for providing access to your credit-related information, depending on the request.
How to make a complaint regarding our compliance with Part IIIA of the Privacy Act and the Credit Reporting Privacy Code
If you think that we have not complied with Part IIIA of the Privacy Act or with the Credit Reporting Privacy Code (which regulates credit reporting), you can make a complaint by using the contact details in our Privacy Policy under the heading “Complaints and Further Information”.
We will acknowledge your complaint in writing as soon as practicable within 7 days. We will aim to investigate and resolve your complaint within 30 days of receiving it. If we need more time, we will notify you about the reasons for the delay and ask for your agreement to extend this 30 day period (if you do not agree, we may not be able to resolve your complaint).
While we hope that we will be able to resolve any complaint without the need to involve third parties, if you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint you can make a complaint to the Australian Information Commissioner (www.oaic.gov.au).
We reserve the right to modify this Credit Reporting Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to it, we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on our homepage.