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PRIVACY POLICY

NYV PTY LTD, having office address at 22 Waterhaven Bvd, Point Cook 3030, Australia (hereinafter also referred to as “Company,” “Leatherkart,” “we,” “our” or “us”) operates www.leatherkart.com.au (“Website”) and provides a wide range of quality products made up of leather (“Services”).

Our Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is in compliance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) and Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) govern your visit to our Website and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of our Service.

We take your privacy very seriously. In this Policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue the use of our Services immediately.

We use your data to provide and improve Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Policy, the terms used in this Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. Our Terms and Conditions govern all use of our Service and together with the Policy constitute your agreement with us.

If this Policy is modified in any way, it will be updated here. Regularly checking and reviewing this page ensures that you are updated on the information which may be collected, used (and under what circumstances), and if it may be shared with other parties (if at all). If we believe that the modifications are material, we will notify you of the changes by posting a notice on the Website, or emailing you at the email address provided to us by you, and as we may deem appropriate. What constitutes a material change will be determined by us, at our sole and absolute discretion. In this Policy "you", "your" or “users” refers to the users of the Website.

PLEASE READ THROUGH IT CAREFULLY, AS IT IS IMPORTANT. IF THERE ARE ANY TERMS IN THIS POLICY THAT YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH, PLEASE DISCONTINUE THE USE OF OUR SERVICES IMMEDIATELY.

1.
SECTION 1 - WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
1.1.
The personal information you disclose to us

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services or otherwise when you contact us.

The personal information that we may collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website, the choices you make and the services and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

1.2.
Personal Information provided by you

We collect names; email addresses; phone numbers; shipping addresses; billing addresses; order details and other similar information. We may also collect additional information about our clients in order to provide relevant and effective services.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

1.3.
Information automatically collected

When you access our websites, we, our service providers and our partners may automatically collect information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity on our websites. Typically, this information includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on or in our websites, such as pages or screens you accessed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access.

Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites. This information is collected via various mechanisms, such as web beacons, embedded scripts, and similar technologies. This type of information may also be collected when you read our HTML-enabled emails.

1.4.
Log and Usage Data

Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Website and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings and information about your activity on the Website (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called 'crash dumps') and hardware settings).

1.5.
Device Data

We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or other devices you use to access the Website. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, and operating system configuration information.

2.
SECTION 2 - DO WE USE COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TRACKERS?

We use temporary and permanent cookies, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify users of our services to enhance user experience and to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, understand email campaign effectiveness and for targeted visitor and user engagement by tracking your activities on our websites. We use third-party tracking services like Google Analytics to understand the behaviour of our website visitors and serve them better.

Further, the pages on the website may also include web beacons or pixels, which are electronic files to count users who have visited that page, to track activity over time and across different websites, to determine users’ interactions with emails we send, to identify certain cookies on the computer or other electronic device accessing that page, or to collect other related information, and this information may be associated with your unique browser, device identifier, or Internet Protocol address.

You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent to your computer. However, this may prevent our site or services from working properly. You can also set your browser to delete cookies every time you finish browsing. For more information please refer to our Cookies Policy.

3.
SECTION 3 - HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

  • To facilitate account creation and login process. We use the information to facilitate the account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.

  • To provide our services to you. We offer products for sale, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keep you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

  • To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.

  • To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).

  • To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.

  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information torespond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

  • To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences.

4.
SECTION 4 - WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

We may process or share the data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.

  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.

  • Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfil the terms of our contract.

  • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal processes, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

  • Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

  • Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit or use the Website. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

  • Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

  • Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

5.
SECTION 5 - DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we process the information as set out in this policy. However, we may retain your Personal Data for a longer period of time where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

6.
SECTION 6 - WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?

The Website may contain third-party links which may link to other websites. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of the data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Website. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

WE HEREBY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR, ANY INFORMATION, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES POSTED OR OFFERED AT ANY OF THE THIRD-PARTY SITES LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE. BY CREATING A LINK TO A THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE, WE DO NOT ENDORSE OR RECOMMEND ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED OR INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THAT WEBSITE, NOR ARE WE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED OR ADVERTISED AT THOSE SITES. SUCH A THIRD PARTY MAY HAVE A PRIVACY POLICY DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF OURS AND THE THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE MAY PROVIDE LESS SECURITY THAN THIS SITE.

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SECTION 7 - HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this Policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8.
SECTION 8 - HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within a secure environment.

9.
SECTION 9 - YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS UNDER PRIVACY ACT 1988 (CTH)

As an Australian company committed to safeguarding your privacy, we operate in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), which confer specific rights pertaining to your personal data. We deeply respect these rights and are dedicated to ensuring their fulfilment.

  1. Right to Information: You have the right to be informed about how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information. Comprehensive details are provided in our Privacy

  2. Right to Access: You possess the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. We will furnish this information in a timely manner and in compliance with legal requirements.

  3. Right to Rectify: If you believe that your personal information with us is incorrect or incomplete, you can request corrections or updates.

  4. Right to Erasure: Under specific circumstances, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal information. However, this right is subject to legal and contractual obligations.

  5. Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal information for specific purposes, such as direct marketing. We will assess your request in accordance with applicable laws.

  6. Right to Restrict: You may request limitations on the processing of your personal information under certain situations, temporarily altering how we use your data.

  7. Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit this data to another data controller when technically feasible.

  8. Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent as the basis for processing your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time. This does not impact the legality of processing based on consent prior to withdrawal.

  9. Right to Lodge Complaints: Should you believe that we have not complied with the Privacy Act or the APPs, you retain the right to file a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The Website link for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is https://www.oaic.gov.au/.

To exercise any of these rights or if you have inquiries or concerns about your data protection rights, please contact us using the contact information specified in this Privacy Policy. We will respond to your requests in accordance with the law

10.
SECTION 10 - WHAT INFORMATION DO THE SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVE ACCESS TO?

Leatherkart may use third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

11.
SECTION 11 - CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference and not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

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SECTION 12 - HOW DO WE PROTECT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY?

Our Services are not for the use of children below the age of 18 (“Child” or “Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18 without the consent of the parents or legal guardian. If you become aware that a Child has provided us with Personal Data without the parent's or legal guardian’s consent, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from Children, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

13.
SECTION 13 - WHICH PAYMENT PROCESSOR DO WE USE?

We provide paid products and/or services within the Service. We don’t store or collect your payment details. We may use third-party services for payment processing like PayPal.

In that case, the information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

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SECTION 14 - HOW CAN YOU SUBMIT A COMPLAINT?

If you have a complaint about our handling of your personal data, you may contact our data protection officer using the contact information below. We request that a complaint be made in writing. Please provide details about your concern or complaint so that we can investigate it. We will take appropriate action in response to your complaint, which may include conducting internal discussions with relevant business representatives. We may contact you for additional details or clarification about your concern or complaint. We will contact you to inform you of our response to your complaint. You also may have a right to file a complaint with a national or local regulatory agency.

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SECTION 15 - DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

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SECTION 16 - CONTACT US

After reviewing this policy, if you have any additional questions, concerning this Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an email to support@leatherkart.com.au by adding the word “Privacy” in the subject line.