Vespa Club of Melbourne Inc. Website Privacy Policy
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy the words “Vespa Club Melbourne”, “we”, “our” and “us” refers
to the Vespa Club of Melbourne Inc. ABN 20 549 611 488 and “Services” to materials and services
delivered on or through the website located at the domain name www.vespaclubmelbourne.com.au
(“Site”).
This Privacy Policy should be read carefully by users of the Site (“you“) prior to accessing or using the
information and services available through the Site. By providing us with your personal and sensitive
information for the provision of our Services to you, you agree to our collection, use and disclosure of your
personal information and sensitive information, as described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Our commitment to your privacy
Vespa Club Melbourne provides you with access to information about its offerings to members,
events and other community activities (“Services”). This Service allows you to purchase
memberships, access the Vespa Club Melbourne News and other information relevant to Vespa
Club Melbourne and its activities.
Vespa Club Melbourne takes your privacy seriously, and strictly adheres to the Australian
Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Principles") and other laws
relating to privacy, and the collection, use and disclosure of personal information and sensitive
information. We will only collect personal information and sensitive information that is necessary
for us to provide you with the Services.
This Privacy Policy outlines our practices relating to the collection, use, disclosure and storage of
your personal information and sensitive information. Unless you give us explicit consent
otherwise, we will act in accordance with this Privacy Policy about our collection and use of your
personal information and sensitive information.
2. The information we collect
We will only collect personal information and sensitive information that is reasonably necessary
for us to provide you with, or directly related to, the Services and any other goods that you request
from us.
We collect personal information and sensitive information from you when you interact with us.
The personal information and sensitive information which Vespa Club Melbourne collects may
include, without limitation, your name, images, postal address, email address, telephone number,
your work address, work telephone number, employer details, industry information, credit card
details, direct debit details, payment details, IP address the details of any Service, or any other
information necessary to provide the Service requested.
Vespa Club Melbourne will collect personal information and sensitive information only by lawful
and fair means and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Vespa Club Melbourne may collect
the personal information and sensitive information directly from you, from third parties with whom
you interact and authorise to provide us with such information or alternatively through publicly
available information.
When you access our website at www.vespaclubmelbourne.com.au via a browser or application,
our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information
such as your web request, GPS locations, session ID’s of your interaction with a service, Internet
Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or
more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
3. How we use your information
We will only use your personal, sensitive and protected information for the provision of our
Services to you or in the ways set out within this privacy policy, and for any other purpose which
we state at the time of the collection permitted by law and/or as required to provide the Services
you request.
We may also use the personal, sensitive or protected information you provide to directly market
to you. If we market to the public (such as through an advertising campaign), we will only use
aggregated information on a purely anonymous basis with your personal, sensitive or protected
information removed. You can opt out of marketing activities at any time by clicking the
unsubscribe button.
We may also collect information about you and how you interact with our website, by using or
storing “cookies” on your computer. You can delete cookies from your computer at any time via
your internet browser. However doing so may limit your use of some of the website’s features.
4. Content
Please remember that any information that you post in our public forums and any social media
interfaces is public information and will not be treated as confidential. Such information can be
collected and used by others. Please be careful and responsible when you are online.
Vespa Club Melbourne reserves its rights to remove offensive, slanderous, defamatory material
in our absolute discretion at any time.
5. Sharing your information
We will only disclose your personal information, sensitive information and protected information
in the following circumstances:
• When we have your consent.
• To third parties where necessary for us to provide our Service to you, or where you have
expressly asked us to do so for the purposes of them or us providing further Services.
• Banks, payment processors or other payment service providers.
• To our related bodies corporate, and their respective directors, officers, agents, and
employees for processing personal, sensitive or protected information on our behalf.
• We may from time to time engage external service providers to help us deliver our
services to you. These external service providers may be located in Australia and/or
overseas. In these instances, we may disclose your personal, sensitive or protected
information to these third parties to help deliver Services to you. You will be notified if we
engage an external service provider as and when required by your matter.
• To a third-party data storage provider as part of the storage of your personal, sensitive
or protected information on the Site. Information will be kept on servers located within
Australia however, back-ups may be stored on servers that are located overseas.
• To comply with any law enforcement agency, judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process in any jurisdiction that is investigating any breach or suspected breach of any
law in any jurisdiction regarding your identity or other personal, sensitive or protected
information provided by you to us.
• If a third party threatens to institute legal proceedings or otherwise makes a legal claim
against Vespa Club Melbourne, which arises directly or indirectly due to a breach of
Vespa Club Melbourne’s terms of use by you, and if the third party requires Vespa
Club Melbourne to release your personal information on the basis that they may bring a
legal claim against you then Vespa Club Melbourne reserves its right to comply with this
request.
• Where disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect Vespa Club Melbourne’s rights or
intellectual property or to protect the safety of Vespa Club Melbourne’s employees or
the public as required or permitted by law.
• Where we consider disclosure is necessary for the protection and wellbeing of a person.
• Where we are otherwise permitted by law to disclose your personal, sensitive or
protected information.
If you opt in to receive marketing email communications from us, these will be sent to you directly
by us. You can unsubscribe from receiving these communications at any time.
In the event Vespa Club Melbourne goes through a business transition, such as a merger,
acquisition by another legal person, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information may be among the assets transferred. We will ensure the confidentiality
of any personal, sensitive and protected information disclosed in this context.
6. How you may access your information
Copies of other personal, sensitive and protected information which we hold may be reasonably
requested by contacting us via online form at https://www.vespaclubmelbourne.com.au/contact
or contacting us on our social media page https://www.facebook.com/VespaClubMelbourne. We
may charge you a reasonable fee for complying with any such request.
We may refuse, in our sole discretion, to provide you access to your personal, sensitive or
protected information which we hold, where such refusal is permitted by the Privacy Act 1988
(Cth), the Privacy Principles or any other law or right.
If you no longer wish to receive email communications from us, you can unsubscribe at any time
by replying ‘unsubscribe’ to the emails we send you, or informing us via
https://www.vespaclubmelbourne.com.au/contact or contacting us on our social media page
https://www.facebook.com/VespaClubMelbourne and we will do it for you.
7. How we protect your information
We will act to protect your personal, sensitive and protected information in accordance with the
Privacy Principles. We are committed to keeping the personal, sensitive and protected
information you provide to us secure. We take all reasonable precautions to protect the personal,
sensitive and protected information we hold about you from misuse and loss and from
unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
While we take all due care in ensuring the privacy and security of your personal, sensitive and
protected information, the possibility exists that this information could be unlawfully intercepted
while in transit over the internet or while stored on our systems or on our website. We disclaim all
liability to you to the greatest extent pursuant to law should this occur.
We will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal, sensitive and
protected information if it is no longer needed for the purpose for which the information was
disclosed.
8. Quality & Correction of Personal, Sensitive and Protected Information
It is your responsibility to contact us from time to time to inform us of any changes to your
personal, sensitive and protected information to ensure that it is up to date, relevant and of an
appropriate quality to enable us to provide our goods and services to you.
Vespa Club Melbourne will take reasonable steps to correct your personal, sensitive and
protected information if you inform us that your personal, sensitive and protected information is
inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, including making any appropriate
deletions or additions to your personal, sensitive and protected information.
If you cease to use our Services, Vespa Club Melbourne may retain your personal, sensitive
and protected information to comply with its record keeping obligations under law.
9. Contacting us
If you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to request access to
your personal, sensitive and protected information or have a complaint about a breach of privacy,
then please contact us at https://www.vespaclubmelbourne.com.au/contact or contacting us on
our social media page https://www.facebook.com/VespaClubMelbourne.
Your queries, requests and/or complaints will be dealt with as soon as possible by our privacy
officer (but no later than 14 business days). Alternatively, any person may make a complaint to
the Privacy Commissioner.
The Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner may be contacted on
Tel: 8619 8719 or Fax: 8619 8700
E-mail enquries@privacy.vic.gov.au
or postal address at:
1 / 23 Everett St
BRUNSWICK WEST, VIC, 3055
10. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time as required. We will also keep prior versions
of this Privacy Policy archived. You should periodically visit this page to review the current Privacy
Policy.
For more information about privacy issues in Australian and protecting your privacy, visit the
Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on 2021-03-29