Privacy Policy
SimByte Pty Ltd ACN 134 194 353 (we, us, our) is committed to protecting your privacy. We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act, in particular, by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), which set out the standards required by law for collecting, managing and disclosing your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains the way in which we handle your personal information and sensitive information, and the ways in which you can contact us regarding the personal information that we hold about you.
"Personal information" is information or opinion (in recorded form or otherwise) about an identified, or reasonably identifiable, individual.
"Sensitive information" is a type of personal information that is given more protection. It includes health, genetic and biometric information, as well as information about professional or trade association membership.
We put privacy at the centre of our business
SimByte manages storage for our clients’ customer data. This information is used either by them within their applications or used in analytics and reporting in understanding the markets in which they operate.
Although a lot of information is stored about individuals, there is no credit card data stored within our systems and all personally identifiable data is available only through authenticated and encrypted channels.
What types of personal information do we collect?
As stated above, while we collect personal information, we do not store any credit card data and any regular credit card transactions are achieved through tokenised data storage of the card data.
Furthermore, personal information stored is information required by our clients businesses and their management of services for their customers.
For what purposes do we handle your personal information?
We collect, hold, use and disclose the personal information that we collect to enable our clients to:
- to contact you;
- to deliver products and services to you
- to administer and manage transactions
- to maintain their business records
- to provide you with information about products and services that may be of interest to you
- to conduct market research
- to obtain services that assist them to run their business, including obtaining professional advice
- for any purpose required or permitted by law
- for any purpose you would otherwise reasonably expect
- for any purpose disclosed to you and to which you have consented, and
- otherwise to run their business.
Disclosing your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties, such as our related companies, business partners, affiliates, our professional advisers (such as lawyers, accountants or auditors) and our external service providers (such as mailing houses, debt collectors and information technology service providers).
We do not routinely disclose personal information overseas.
Security of your personal information
We hold personal information in both paper-based and electronic files. We seek to ensure that your personal information is protected from:
- misuse, interference and loss; and
- unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
The personal information that we hold about you is treated as confidential and only accessed when necessary. When we no longer require your personal information, including when we are no longer required by law to keep records relating to you, we destroy or de-identify it unless explicitly required by our clients.
Accessing your personal information
You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you by contacting us on the contact details set out below. We will deal with your request for access promptly. If we refuse access to your personal information, we will provide you with a written notice which sets out the reasons for our refusal.
We may recover the reasonable costs (if any) that we incur in responding to a request for access to your personal information.
Correcting your personal information
We seek to ensure that the personal information that we collect is accurate, up-to-date and complete and, in the case of our use or disclosure of that information, relevant as well. If you believe that any information that we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can ask us to correct your personal information accordingly. You may make such a request by contacting us on the contact details set out below. We will deal with your request to correct your personal information promptly.
If we refuse to correct any of your personal information following your request, we will give you a written notice which sets out the reasons for our refusal.
Marketing
We may use your personal information to provide you with information about products and services which we think may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time if you no longer which to receive this information. In order to do so, simply contact us on the contact details set out below and request that we no longer send marketing communications to you.
Questions and complaints
If you have any questions, or if you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under the Privacy Act (and, in particular, the APPs), or if you believe that the personal information that we hold about you has been compromised in any way, please contact us on the contact details set out below. We will respond to any question or complaint as soon as possible. If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may direct your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by email at enquiries@oaic.gov.au or by telephone on 1300 363 992.
Contact details
To contact us about any issue in this privacy policy, or about the way in which we handle your personal information, please contact us:
Privacy Officer
SimByte
Levels 20 & 21 Tower 2 Darling Park
Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
T: 1300 557 553
E: privacy@simbyte.com.au
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may make change to this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you. A current copy of our Privacy Policy is available on our website at www.simbyte.com.au/privacy-policy.
Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 8 February 2017.