Privacy Policy
The Australian Privacy Principles
1. WIREFREEBROADBAND is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles in that Act. This Privacy Policy sets out how we manage your personal information in an open and transparent way, in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
The kinds of personal information held by WIREFREEBROADBAND
How WIREFREEBROADBAND collects personal information
Unsolicited personal information
What are the consequences of not providing Personal Information?
Collection Notices
Use of your personal information
Direct marketing
Contracting out services and disclosures
Your personal information in overseas locations
How you can access your personal information
You may remain anonymous
Security of your personal information
Security of your information while online
Cookies
Security of stored information
Other websites
Website access logs
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Privacy Complaints
Organisational Details
The kinds of personal
information held by WIREFREEBROADBAND
WIREFREEBROADBAND only collects personal information from you that we reasonably require to perform or is directly related to our functions. The personal information WIREFREEBROADBAND holds about you will depend on the services you request from WIREFREEBROADBAND and the use that you make of those services.
The information WIREFREEBROADBAND may collect includes:
contact details (such as your name, address, position, employer, email address, fax number and contact phone numbers);
your date of birth;
account name and account and routing number held by financial institutions from which payments for services provided by WIREFREEBROADBAND are made and information obtained as a result of credit checks which you authorise us to carry out;
records of communications between you and WIREFREEBROADBAND relating to services provided by WIREFREEBROADBAND to you;
phone call recordings (only if you have given permission);
records of your use of the services provided by WIREFREEBROADBAND to you;
billing statements.
How WIREFREEBROADBAND collects
personal information
WIREFREEBROADBAND generally collects personal information as a result of individuals contacting and/or liaising with WIREFREEBROADBAND in their capacity as employees, principals, agents, directors or business owners for the purposes of enquiring about or acquiring services from WIREFREEBROADBAND. WIREFREEBROADBAND may also collect personal information in connection with WIREFREEBROADBAND events, promotions or marketing activity (such as competitions).
WIREFREEBROADBAND no longer purchases personal information from list rental companies, but we may still use list data that we have previously purchased (except where you have opted out).
WIREFREEBROADBAND may also collect personal information from third parties such as:
resellers of telecommunication services;
credit providers or credit reporting agencies contacted by us (or by external service providers on our behalf) in the course of carrying out a credit check;
other entities who provide services to us which are related to the provision of telecommunication services provided to you;
government agencies which administer laws regulating telecommunication service providers, or complaint resolution processes established under those laws;
independent sales organisations; and
list rental companies.
Unsolicited personal
information
Most of the personal information collected by WIREFREEBROADBAND will be solicited information, which will come into our possession as a result of our requesting information from you.
At times, WIREFREEBROADBAND may receive unsolicited personal information about you without having requested that information. Examples of unsolicited information may include additional or alternative contact details you happen to provide. If WIREFREEBROADBAND receives unsolicited personal information, we will, within a reasonable period after receipt of that information, determine whether were entitled to collect the information for the purposes set out under Use of your personal information below. If not, then will destroy or de-identify the unsolicited personal information
What are the consequences of
not providing Personal Information?
If you refuse to provide WIREFREEBROADBAND with the Personal Information we need to perform our services, we may not be able to provide you with telecommunications services or we may be restricted in the way those services can supplied.
Another purpose of this Privacy Policy is to give you notice of matters in accordance with Australian Privacy Principle 5. Where it is practicable to do so, WIREFREEBROADBAND will at the time, or a reasonable time after we collect your personal information, provide you with a collection notice setting out the following matters:
Why we collect your information
What happens if you don't provide the information
Who we might we share your personal information with
Whether any of your information will be share with overseas organisations
How you can access your personal information or make a complaint
We refer you to our general Personal Information Collection Notice.
Use of your personal
information
WIREFREEBROADBAND respects your privacy. As a result, WIREFREEBROADBAND does not trade, rent-out or sell your personal information.
The primary purpose for which we use your personal information is to provide you with telecommunications services and related products and services.
In the course of providing a telecommunications service to you, we may also use your personal information for related purposes, which include the following:
processing your application, carrying out credit checking and scoring and ongoing credit management of your account;
provisioning or connecting your service;
network routing;
providing you with customer or helpdesk service;
credit checking;
billing you for that service and general account management;
investigating complaints or carrying out dispute resolution in relation to your service;
investigating and fixing faults in relation to your service;
performance monitoring of your services or testing or trialling activities;
following up any payments that you may owe us or processing refunds where required;
administering contractual agreements or arrangements necessary to provide services to you;
internal staff training
conducting market and product analysis and sending you product or services information.
Direct marketing
We may also use your information to tell you about our other products and services or bundled offerings, provided by WIREFREEBROADBAND.
We may use your information to tell you about products and services or bundled offerings provided by WIREFREEBROADBAND in conjunction with either:
our related bodies corporate (including those outside Australia); or
our marketing partners with which we share our marketing and advertising activities; or
other businesses that produce or deliver products or services in conjunction with, or on behalf of, WIREFREEBROADBAND.
We will not provide your information to these entities for the purpose of them contacting you in respect of a product or service with which WIREFREEBROADBAND is not involved.
We may tell you about our products and services or bundled offerings via direct mail, electronic direct mail, unsolicited telemarketing calls or any other means of direct communication.
We may do this during the period you are a customer for WIREFREEBROADBAND and for a reasonable period after you leave us.
You can always opt out of receiving direct marketing by emailing information@Wirefreebroadband.com.au and placing "OPT OUT" in the subject line and placing their contact information in the body of the email. We will process your request as soon as reasonably possible after receiving it and will not charge you for addressing your opt-out request.
Contracting out services and
disclosures
WIREFREEBROADBAND contracts out some services such as mailing, credit checking, provisioning, verification of sales and fault fixing to external providers. WIREFREEBROADBAND may disclose your personal information to these organisations but only so that they can perform services or supply goods in connection with the WIREFREEBROADBAND services.
WIREFREEBROADBAND may disclose your personal information to:
other telecommunications service and equipment providers,
WIREFREEBROADBAND's related bodies corporate,
resellers,
credit providers,
credit reporting agencies,
organisations to whom WIREFREEBROADBAND outsources services (such as mailhouses),
legal, financial and accounting advisers;
our marketing partners with which we share our marketing and advertising activities, and
other businesses that produce or deliver products or services in conjunction with, or on behalf of, WIREFREEBROADBAND.
At your request, WIREFREEBROADBAND may disclose your information to directory providers so that your information can appear in telephone directories.
Personal information shared with related bodies corporate may include your name, address and service history.
When we contract services or disclose your personal information, that personal information is either covered by contracts which protect your personal information or are subject to obligations which are substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles. WIREFREEBROADBAND may also disclose your personal information if required to by law. For example, we may disclose your personal information to government agencies for law enforcement purposes or to the operator of the Integrated Public Number Database.
Your personal information in
overseas locations
We operate both in Australia and overseas. Therefore we may need to share some of your personal information with organisations outside Australia.
WIREFREEBROADBAND may disclose some of your personal information that we hold to organisations located outside Australia in countries which do not have the same or substantially similar privacy laws, but only to the extent necessary to provide you with telecommunications services requested by you. We may also store your information in cloud or other types of networked or electronic storage. Where required, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that these overseas organisations do not breach the Australian Privacy Principles.
We have listed below the known countries in which the overseas organisations with which we share your personal information are located.
Canada
Europe
Japan
India
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
The Philippines
United Kingdom
United States
It is not always practicable to know in which country your information may be held, for example, when your personal information is stored in cloud. In these types of circumstances, disclosures may occur in countries other than those listed above.
Overseas organisations will be subject to their own laws and may be required to disclose information that we share with them. In those instances, we will not be responsible for that disclosure.
How you can access your
personal information
Generally, you have the right to see or obtain a copy of personal information about you that we may hold.
To request access to your personal information, please contact our Call Centre on (03) 8789 4988
As long as we can verify your identity, the person you speak to may be able to provide you with the information you require over the telephone. If you wish to have a copy of any information, we will ask that you put your request in writing and either post or fax that request to us. Again, this is to ensure that we can verify your identity.
In some cases, we may need time to consider and respond to your request for access. If we need time to consider your request, we will acknowledge your request within 14 days and respond within a maximum of 30 days.
If for any reason we refuse to give you access to your information we will let you know why, in writing.
The circumstances in which we may refuse to give you access to personal information we hold about you include where giving you access:
would have an unreasonable impact on other people's privacy;
would prejudice any negotiations we are having with you;
would prejudice an investigation of unlawful activity;
would prejudice activities carried out by, or for, a law enforcement body.
If you believe that we hold personal information about you that you consider to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date you should tell us by calling (03) 8789 4988. In most cases, we will amend any inaccurate, incomplete or out of date information. In some cases it is necessary for us to keep a record of what we know or understand to be correct at a particular time. However, in those circumstances, if you request, we will take reasonable steps to associate with the relevant record of your personal information a statement to the effect that you claim the information is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. We would ask that you discuss your request with us by calling (03) 8789 4988.
You may remain anonymous
When dealing with us, you have the option of not identifying yourselves or using a pseudonym.
You do not have this option where:
we are required or authorised by law, or a court or tribunal order to deal with individuals who have identified themselves; or
it is impracticable to deal with you without verifying your identity.
Security of your personal
information
WIREFREEBROADBAND is committed to protecting your privacy and recognises its obligations to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modifications or disclosure both under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Security of your information
while online
Our web server is capable of up to 128bit SSL encryption. Note however, that our web server can only chose the highest common level with your browser. If you use older browsers, you may find that it only supports 40bit or 56bit encryption
Cookies are small text files that our web server may ask your web browser to store on your machine.
The cookie cannot tell who you are, or determine your personal details, and is not used to actually track your access, apart from making sure you are the same person over a given "session" online. Although you could turn off cookies and not normally have any problems accessing many parts of our sites, there are other parts of our web server that rely on cookies. For instance we may use a cookie to store information temporarily between various pages in a lengthy multi-part order form, or to store screen preferences.
We do not make use of 3rd party cookies on our website.
Security of stored information
We take physical and electronic measures to secure your information. We store your personal information in password-protected servers that are in a restricted and monitored area. Access to this information is limited.
You also have a role in security of your personal information in some cases. For example, if you have been given access to our "Your Account", where you may pay your bill, look up call information and so on, it is your responsibility to protect your own personal access password.
Some of our websites contain links to other, external websites. The WIREFREEBROADBAND group of companies are not responsible for content or privacy policies websites that we do not want to operate.
All accesses to pages on our websites are "logged". The sort of information contained in these logs cannot easily identify you personally, but instead contains such things as a list of the pages accessed, and the sort of browser used. The information is used to check for attempts at "hacking", or other fraudulent activity, to indicate missing pages or other web server problems. It is periodically summarised to provide general statistics such as the number of people viewing particular parts of the site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to review our Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend our Privacy Policy at any time and to notify you by posting an updated version on the WIREFREEBROADBAND website Wirefreebroadband.com.au.
You can raise any privacy related concern or complaint about breaches of your Privacy in writing or by phone to: Privacy OfficerWIREFREEBROADBAND Pty Ltd
10/397 smith st Fitzroy VIC 3065
Telephone: 03 87894988
Company name: WIREFREEBROADBAND Pty Ltd
Email address: noc@Wirefreebroadband.com.au
Actual address: 10/397 smith st Fitzroy VIC 3065
Postal Address: 10/397 smith st Fitzroy VIC 3065