Privacy policy

1. Introduction

Girlosophy takes your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information very seriously.  Girlosophy undertakes, as a policy, not to interfere with an individual's privacy rights in the way it collects, uses, or discloses the personal information of any persons who provide it with such information in the course of carrying out its business.  This policy, which applies to all personal information collected, held and used by Girlosophy, demonstrates that commitment to privacy. Girlosophy complies with the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as well as other applicable Australian laws protecting personal information ("Australian Privacy Law").

2. Collection

Girlosophy will, at all times, collect personal information in a fair and lawful manner.  It will usually collect information directly from the individuals in question.  However, Girlosophy may collect personal information from other organisations (such as 5th Finger) who, for example, offer SMS database marketing services.

3. Quality

Girlosophy will take all necessary steps to ensure that any personal information we collect, use or disclose is up to date and accurate.

4. Use

Girlosophy only collects personal information that is necessary for its activities or functions as an online content creator and media outlet, as a vendor of products and services and in providing a range of other services to its customers and stakeholders.  In this capacity, the different primary purposes for which Girlosophy collects and uses personal information are the following:

• for marketing Girlosophy's products and services, including via electronic direct marketing and/or Girlosophy pages on Social Media Platforms; however, in all such cases, you will be given the option of not receiving further communications of that nature; and
• to process customer purchases.

5. Disclosure

Girlosophy will not disclose personal information which you may provide us to third parties without your prior consent, except in the following circumstances:

• if we engage a contractor or service provider to do something on our behalf, in which case, unless we tell you otherwise, they will only be authorised to use the personal information we disclose to them for the purpose of providing the service or performing the function required by us (we will also seek a commitment from the contractor/service provider that it treat all personal information in accordance with Australian Privacy Law and this Privacy Policy); and
• where we are required or authorised to do so by law, including (without limitation) to government agencies or in emergency situations and when assisting in law enforcement.

Girlosophy will never sell your personal information to third parties.

6. Security

Girlosophy will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is secure from any misuse, unauthorised access, modifications or disclosure.

7. Website

This Privacy Policy covers the Website and Girlosophy pages on Social Media Platforms (see section 10.10 of these Terms of Use below).  Girlosophy takes reasonable steps to protect the security of personal information (including cookie information) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  

8. Cookies

A cookie is a small message given to your web browser by our web server.  The browser stores the message in a text file, and the message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Girlosophy may use cookies on this website.  For example, a cookie can be used to store registration information so that a user does not need to re-enter it on subsequent visits.  If you are concerned about cookies, most browsers have an option that permits users to refuse a cookie.  However, in order to enjoy the full functionality of the Website, your browser must be set to accept cookies.  Most browsers also enable you to delete Girlosophy's cookies stored on your computer or device after you have finished using the Website.  In order to collect user statistics we may anonymously log information, and identify categories of users by items such as domains and browser types.  

Unfortunately, no one can guarantee that data passing over the Internet cannot be intercepted or used by unauthorised third parties.  Accordingly, although Girlosophy works hard to protect that information, it cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to it.  Once Girlosophy receives information that you have transmitted to it, Girlosophy will undertake reasonable steps to preserve the security of that information in its own systems.

9. Spam Protection

The Website uses a web service provided by Mollom BVBA to determine the quality of messages posted to a website, and particularly to determine whether these messages are to be considered as unsolicited messages or "spam".  Mollom collects, stores and uses the personal information you provide during this process.  Please see Mollom's Privacy Policy at http://mollom.com/web-service-privacy-policy for more information.

10. Social Media Platforms

Girlosophy currently has a number of social media pages including on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube which you have the option of subscribing to and in the future may join other similar social media platforms (together Social Media Platforms).  You may use the Website and/or subscribe to any Girlosophy distribution lists without subscribing to any of our pages on Social Media Platforms. 

These Terms of Use and Privacy Policy also apply to information which you may provide to Girlosophy through Social Media Platforms.  However, you should be aware that, depending on the personal privacy settings which you adopt on particular Social Media Platforms, all the information you post through a Girlosophy page on a Social Media Platform may become available to other subscribers to that Social Media Platform or generally available to the public. You should therefore not post any personal information through one of Girlosophy's Social Media Platform pages that you do not wish to be available to the public and you should not post the personal information of any other person without their express consent.

Before you join the Girlosophy pages on any Social Media Platforms, we ask you to read their privacy policies.  The privacy policies of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, for example, can be found at:

• http://www.facebook.com/policy.php?ref=pf;
• http://twitter.com/privacy; and
• http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube.

11. Access to personal information

We will provide you with access to most personal information that we have about you, but sometimes that will not be possible, in which case we will tell you why.  If you would like to access your information, to find out what information we have about you, or request us to correct and/or update information that we hold about you, please contact us using the contact details in section 16 of the Terms of Use. 

12. Contact

If you have any queries in relation to this policy or its administration, including about how Girlosophy collects, holds, uses, and discloses personal information, or if you have a complaint about our handling of your personal information, you should contact Girlosophy using the contact details in section 16 of the Terms of Use.