Privacy Policy

Welcome to Art Aviso’s Privacy Policy

In this Privacy Policy, ‘us’ ‘we’ or ‘our’ means AvisoArt Pty Ltd, also commonly known as Art Aviso or www.artaviso.com (ABN/CAN 89 616 237 257). This document sets out how we handle your personal information if you are an Art Aviso Subscriber or a visitor to the Art Aviso website. We are committed to respecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy sets outs out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information. We are bound by the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act. By providing personal information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our website. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy. Personal information includes information or an opinion about an individual that is reasonably identifiable. For example, this may include your name, age, gender, postcode and contact details. It may also include financial information, including your credit card information.

What personal information do we collect?

We may collect the following types of personal information:
  • Username
  • Subscriber name
  • Mailing or street address
  • Email address
  • Content that you make available on our site (such as CV, Biography, Photos, Comments, Artwork descriptions, Captions, Forum comments, News items, Exhibition information, Opportunities, social media contacts.
  • Credit Card Details
  • your device ID, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information
  • Details of the products and services we have provided to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and respond to your enquiries;
  • Additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly through our website or app or indirectly through your use of our website or app or online presence or through other websites or accounts from which you permit us to collect information
  • Information you provide to us through customer surveys
  • Any other personal information that may be required in order to facilitate your dealings with us.

How we collect this information

We collect personal information directly, when you provide to us when you register on our website and communicate with us through correspondence, chats, email, or when you share information with us from other social applications, services or websites
  • interact with our sites, services, content and advertising
  • post images, captions, text and update your profile

Why do we collect, use and disclose personal information?

We may collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
  • to enable you to access and use our website | services | app
  • to operate, protect, improve and optimise our website | services | app, business and our users’ experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research and for advertising and marketing;
  • to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;
  • to send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information sent by, or on behalf of, our business partners that we think you may find interesting
  • to administer rewards, surveys, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners
  • to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our users, and enforce our agreements with third parties; and
  • to consider your employment application.
We may also disclose your personal information to a trusted third party who also holds other information about you. This third party may combine that information in order to enable it and us to develop anonymised consumer insights so that we can better understand your preferences and interests, personalise your experience and enhance the products and services that you receive.

Do we use your personal information for direct marketing?

We and/or our carefully selected business partners may send you direct marketing communications and information about our service. This may take the form of emails, SMS, mail or other forms of communication, in accordance with the Spam Act and the Privacy Act. You may opt-out of receiving marketing materials from us by contacting us at contact@artaviso.com and letting us know exactly what you do and don’t want to receive from us.

To whom do we disclose your personal information?

We may disclose personal information for the purposes described in this privacy policy to:
  • our employees and related bodies corporate
  • third party suppliers and service providers (including providers for the operation of our websites and/or our business or in connection with providing our products and services to you)
  • professional advisers, dealers and agents
  • payment systems operators (eg merchants receiving card payments)
  • our existing or potential agents, business partners or partners
  • our sponsors or promoters of any competition that we conduct via our services
  • anyone to whom our assets or businesses (or any part of them) are transferred
  • specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by us; and/or
  • other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

Disclosure of personal information outside Australia

We may disclose personal information outside of Australia to third party suppliers | cloud providers located in United States of America, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Singapore. We will, however, take reasonable steps to ensure that any overseas recipient will deal with such personal information in a way that is consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Using our website and cookies

We may collect personal information about you when you use and access our website. While we do not use browsing information to identify you personally, we may record certain information about your use of our website, such as which pages you visit, the time and date of your visit and the internet protocol address assigned to your computer. We may also use ‘cookies’ or other similar tracking technologies on our website that help us track your website usage and remember your preferences. Cookies are small files that store information on your computer, TV, mobile phone or other device. They enable the entity that put the cookie on your device to recognise you across different websites, services, devices and/or browsing sessions. You can disable cookies through your Internet browser but our websites may not work as intended for you if you do so. We may also use cookies to enable us to collect data that may include personal information. For example, where a cookie is linked to your account, it will be considered personal information under the Privacy Act. We will handle any personal information collected by cookies in the same way that we handle all other personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

How we keep your personal information secure

We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference and loss, as well as unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and we use a number of physical, administrative, personnel and technical measures to protect your personal information. For example, we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to safeguard the account registration process and sign-up information although no data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete, up-to-date, relevant and stored securely. Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites, and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy, so we encourage individuals to read them before using those websites.

Information about children

Our Site may not be suitable for children under the age of 18 years, so if you are under 18 we ask that you do not use our Site or give us your personal information (if you are a young tech wiz, please direct your nearest responsible adult to use the Sites for you!). It’s the responsibility of parents or guardians to monitor their children’s use of our Sites.

How long we keep your personal information

We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and others, and to comply with our legal obligations. If you no longer want us to use your personal information or to provide you with the Art Aviso services, you can request that we erase your personal information and close your Art Aviso account/subscription. Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information we will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate business interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you’re a user or visitor in the European Economic Area these rights also apply to you:

For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), we are a ‘data controller’ of your personal information.

Accessing or correcting your personal information

As a registered user/subscriber to the Art Aviso site you will generally have created your user profile and inputted your personal information and have access to your personal information in order to update the information. You can access the personal information we hold about you by contacting us via the email address contact@artaviso.com and requesting a copy of the information. Sometimes, we may not be able to provide you with access to all of your personal information and, where this is the case, we will tell you why. We may also need to verify your identity when you request your personal information. If you think that any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.

Making a complaint

If you think we have breached the Privacy Act, or you wish to make a complaint about the way we have handled your personal information, you can contact us at the email address support@artaviso.com with documentation and or examples of your complaint. Please include your name, email address and/or telephone number and clearly describe your complaint. We will acknowledge your complaint and respond to you regarding your complaint within a reasonable period of time. If you think that we have failed to resolve the complaint satisfactorily, we will provide you with information about the further steps you can take.

Contact Us

For further information about our Privacy Policy or practices, or to access or correct your personal information, or make a complaint, please contact us using the following email address: contact@artaviso.com

Both personal information and personal data have the same meaning in the context of this Privacy Policy

AvisoArt Pty Ltd Privact Policy version 1.1 Effective: 25/5/2018