We respect the privacy of our subscribers and visitors and therefore have adopted the following guidelines and rules.
Information we may collect about you
We may collect personal information about you including, but not limited to your name, address, phone number, email, personal interests and any other information provided. If you access any of our services through a social network site such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Linkedin we will collect limited information provided to us by that social network site, such as user name, site ID and email address.
We may also collect non-personal information about you including, but not limited to, data relating to your activities on our Website (including IP addresses) via tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and measurement software or data relating to survey responses. You acknowledge that the personal information you provide us and which we collect from you, is your own information or information which you have been authorised to provide to us.
How we collect personal information
We may collect personal information about you from a variety of sources including, but not limited to:
- registering to use our Website or parts of them;
- logging in to use our Website via your social networking site account;
- subscribing to receive Email Alerts and filling in forms, applications (e.g. insurance or finance), surveys or research, participating in promotions and competitions on the Website or the websites of our service providers;
- contacting us or our service providers for any reason including, but not limited to, reporting a problem with the Website, requesting further services or seeking our assistance;
- posting or contributing material on our Website.
We use this information for the following purposes
We use the personal information we have collected largely for the purpose of providing you with products and services that you have requested, responding to your inquiries, creating and maintaining your account and ensuring you comply and adhere to the Website terms of use.
More specifically, the Website may use personal information which it has collected to:
- ensure that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- provide a better or more relevant service or product to you, for instance by automatically populating forms on the Website when you make online enquiries;
- combine your personal information with information that the Website has collected from its service providers, third parties, cookies or web beacons in order to provide you with a better or more relevant and personalised experience and to improve the quality of its services and the services of third parties. For example, we may combine behavioural data we have collected about you through the use of cookies or web beacons and combine it with your personal information from requests you send to third parties through our website;
- personalise and customise your services, experience, advertising and content that you view and engage with on the Website or the websites of our service providers and business partners;
- respond to or provide you with service, products, information and assistance that you request from the Website;
- contact you to conduct surveys, research and feedback about our products, services or the Website;
- verify your identity when you register or log into our Website and remind you of your password and username;
- allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- help carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
- by disclosing the information to debt collection agencies to recover any amounts you owe us; and
- notify you about changes to our products and services.
If all or part of this information is not provided, we may not be able to provide these services.
Using and disclosing your personal information for marketing
We may:
- use your personal information to provide you with information about offers, promotions, goods or services, which we believe may be of interest to you; and
- share your information with our service providers and other third parties so that they can provide you with products or services (including advertising) on our behalf or help us to provide you with the requested products or services including contacting you in relation to the products or services.
- use your personal information to enable RunBoats and its third party contractors the ability to provide services to boat dealers/brokers based on data that contains details of information on RunBoats accessed by users (including, but not limited to, details of listings and other content displayed on RunBoats) so as to enable RunBoats and its third party contractors to provide remarketing services to boat dealers/brokers (for example, to enable advertisements to appear on other websites that are aimed at individual users based on information those users have previously accessed on RunBoats)
- You can opt out of off-site and third-party-informed advertising by adjusting your cookie settings. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of our Website, and may prevent you from being able to access certain features on our Website. For further information about deleting or blocking cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/
How we disclose your personal information
We may disclose personal information to our related bodies corporate, service providers or business partners. We may also disclose your personal information:
- to boat brokers and dealers, private sellers, insurance agencies, finance companies and advertisers that have listings or advertising on our Website and which you have requested information from by submitting an enquiry;
- to our service providers and other third parties, so that they can provide you with products or services on our behalf or products or services that you have requested directly from them, or to help us to provide you with our products or services. If you have subscribed to a service through the operating system on your mobile device (including, but not limited to Google’s “Google Now” service), we will disclose information such as your search history to Google. You can opt out of us providing such information to Google through the operating system on your mobile device;
- relevant public, government or regulatory authorities, our legal representatives or other concerned parties, in special situations where we have reason to believe that disclosing your personal information is necessary to help to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities; and
- where we are otherwise authorised or required by law to do so. If you request information from any organisation through our Website, you will need to check their privacy policy to find out how they handle your personal information. We are not responsible for the way these organisations collect, use, disclose or handle personal information you provide to them through our Website.
Disclosure and storage of personal information outside Australia
Personal information submitted to our Website may be held on servers located in Australia or the United States of America. We transfer data outside of Australia to our service providers in order to obtain secure storage, back-up and data retrieval services. We have implemented policies and procedures to safeguard the secure storage and processing of data with its related companies and has verified the security arrangements of its outsourced data processors. When you provide us with your personal information you give us your consent to store your personal information outside of Australia for the purposes described above.
Security
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information we collect. We have established safeguards and use reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, modification and disclosure. Our employees, contractors, agents and service providers who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us. We review and update our security measures in light of current technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.
Correction and access
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep accurate and up to date, any information which we hold about you. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect or you would like to review and confirm the accuracy of your personal information, you can contact us. You can also gain access to the personal information we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions provided for by law. To request access to your personal information, please contact us.
Unsubscribe
Upon request, we will remove any subscriber from our mailing lists. Any such request should be sent via e-mail to admin@runboats.com.au.
Removal from the Email Alert system for ‘Boat for Sale just listed’ is the user’s responsibility, an automated unsubscribe-facility is provided on the Email Alert email received by the user.
The Website is not responsible for the privacy policies of external web sites to which the Website may link.
Disclaimer
All content for marine ads is published as provided by the vendors. We accept no responsibility for errors, omissions or misrepresentations and eventual consequences or damages of any kind thereof.
Notification of errors or misrepresentations should be directed to the seller of the advertised product via the EMAIL SELLER form, located on the marine ad within the Contact section. In the event of the seller’s failure to comply with such a request, we ask to be notified of such via admin@runboats.com.au and will act according to our Terms & Conditions – Content Limitations.
We are not responsible for the content of external websites accessed by links from the Website. Services provided by third parties via the Website are beyond our control and we take no responsibility for their services.
The Website endeavours to present genuine and truthful information and supports visitors’ requests for correct advertising.