Last updated: 27 August 2024
OVERVIEW
This website, https://kathymcmillan.com.au is operated by Kathy McMillan (ABN: 45 202 180 412). By visiting our site, posting a comment, subscribing, or purchasing something from us, you agree to this Privacy Policy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before supplying your personal information.
This website has an SSL security certificate installed for the protection of our data and yours.
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. View the Gravatar Privacy Policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
COOKIES
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Cookies are also set up when you visit our online store, see ONLINE STORE section below.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to our website and other websites. You may opt out of personalised Google advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to our website and other websites. You may opt out of personalised Google advertising by visiting Ads Settings. We also track website visits using Google Analytics, which collects IP addresses and location information.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
Your data is only shared with our service providers for the purposes processing payments and delivering your order. The payment gateways at check out on this site are safely encrypted for your privacy and safety.
PASSWORDS
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
See ONLINE STORE section also.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE YOUR DATA IS SENT
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS
Data is collected via Mailchimp sign up form on an opt-in basis, and is kept only for the purpose of sending email newsletters/blog posts/updates/marketing content, and will not be shared with anyone. You may unsubscribe at any time.
FINANCIAL
Financial information such as credit card details are collected only for the purpose of processing your order, shared with the companies used to process payments. Payment gateways are encrypted.
ONLINE STORE
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed.
- Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order.
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
- Process payments and prevent fraud.
- Set up your account for our store.
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes.
- Improve our store offerings.
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them.
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for five years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them. Also see COMMENTS section.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example:
Payments
We accept payments through Square, Google Pay and Apple Pay. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these companies, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see: Square Privacy Policy, Google Pay Privacy Policy, and Apple Pay Privacy Policy for more details.
MAILCHIMP FOR WOOCOMMERCE
When shopping, Mailchimp keeps a record of your email and the cart contents for up to 30 days on their server. This record is kept to repopulate the contents of your cart if you switch devices or needed to come back another day. You may also receive abandoned cart reminders. Read the Mailchimp Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
You can review the most current version of the Privacy Policy at any time on this page.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change or replace any part of this Privacy Policy by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of those changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about the Privacy Policy should be sent to Kathy McMillan:
[email protected] Mobile: 0422 100 763
37A Mirug Crescent, Fletcher NSW 228