Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
Local Carbon Pty Ltd ACN 650 359 489 trading as Riff (we, us, our) understands that protecting your personal information is important. This privacy policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or collect by us, when interacting with you. how we collect and handle your personal information, and what choices you have with respect to that personal information. Personal information is defined in the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth) (the Act).
This Privacy Policy takes into account the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles. . You may have additional rights if you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area (EU) under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, and if you are located in the United Kingdom (UK), under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) (together, the GDPR). Appendix 1 outlines the details of the additional rights of individuals located in the EU and UK as well as information on how we process the personal information of individuals located in the EU and UK.
Where you subscribe to the Riff service, the Riff Terms and Conditions (available here) contain additional terms and conditions in relation to our collection and use of other, non-personal information that you provide to us in connection with the Riff service.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our website, products or services that may impact how we handle personal information. If we make a change, we will upload the revised privacy policy to our website, so we recommend you check back regularly to review any changes. Changes to this privacy policy will apply from the date that we upload the revised policy to our website, and your continued use of our website, the Riff service or our other services after that time constitutes your acceptance of the changes.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Personal information: is information or an opinion, whether true or not and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual who is identified or reasonably identifiable.
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
Identity Data including your name, age, profession, photographic identification.
Contact Data including your telephone number, address and email.
Financial Data including bank account and payment card details (through our third party payment processor, who stores such information and we do not have access to that information).
Transaction Data including details about payments to you from us and from you to us and other details of products and services you have purchased from us or we have purchased from you.
Technical and Usage Data when you access any of our websites, platforms or emails, details about your internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser session and geo-location data, statistics on page views and sessions, device and network information, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behaviour, access and use of our website (including through the use of Internet cookies or tracking pixels), and communications with our website.
Interaction Data including information you provide to us when you participate in any interactive features, including surveys, contests, promotions, activities or events.
Marketing and Communications Data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
Professional data including where you are a worker of ours or applying for a role with us, your professional history such as your previous positions and professional experience, or whether you hold required authorisations or licences.
Sensitive information is a sub-set of personal information that is given a higher level of protection. Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information. We do not actively request sensitive information about you. If at any time we need to collect sensitive information about you, unless otherwise permitted by law, we will first obtain your consent and we will only use it as required or authorised by law.
HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information in a variety of ways, including:
when you provide it directly to us, including face-to-face, over the phone, over email, or online;
when you complete a form, such as registering for any events or newsletters, or responding to surveys;
when you use any website we operate (including from any analytics and cookie providers or marketing providers. See the “Cookies” section below for more detail on the use of cookies);
from third parties; and
from publicly available sources.
HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:
to verify your identity;
to enable you to access and use our services, including to provide you with a log in;
where you are a supplier to us, to receive products and services from you;
to provide you with updates on our products and services that we think may be relevant to you, and to market our products and services to you, including contacting you electronically for this purpose’
to develop and improve our website, products, and services’
to bill you or the organisation you represent and to collect money that you or they owe us;
to respond to communications from you;
to protect and/or enforce our legal rights and interests, including defending any claim;
if you have applied for employment with us, to consider your employment application;
for internal record keeping, administrative, invoicing and billing purposes;
for any other purpose authorised by you; and
to comply with our legal obligations or if otherwise required or authorised by law.
DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We may disclose personal information to:
our employees, contractors, and other companies within our corporate group;
any third parties that provide or support our website and corporate IT systems we use to operate our business or supply our services;
third parties to collect and process data, such as analytics providers and cookies;
payment systems operators or processors;
a person who can require us to supply your personal information (e.g. a regulatory authority) in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or in response to a non-mandatory request for information;
any other person authorised by law (e.g. a law enforcement agency);
a new or prospective owner of our business or our assets in connection with any merger or sale of all or part of our business or assets (in which case we will take reasonable steps to ensure the new owner has a privacy policy reasonably consistent with this policy);
any other person you give us consent to disclose the information to; and
any other third parties as required or permitted by law, such as where we receive a subpoena.
OVERSEAS DISCLOSURE
While we store personal information in Australia, where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia. We will only disclose your personal information overseas in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect our ability to work with you as a customer or supplier of our business.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict and unsubscribe: To object to processing for direct marketing/unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.
Access: You may request access to the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to withhold access to your personal information. If we cannot provide access to your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal. If we can provide access to your information in another form that still meets your needs, then we will take reasonable steps to give you such access.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to promptly correct any information found to be inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading. Please note, in some situations, we may be legally permitted to not correct your personal information. If we cannot correct your information, we will advise you as soon as reasonably possible and provide you with the reasons for our refusal and any mechanism available to complain about the refusal.
Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take in response to your complaint. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
STORAGE AND SECURITY
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures, to safeguard and secure personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.
USER-GENERATED CONTENT
We may enable you to post reviews, comments, photos and other user-generated content. Any content you choose to submit will be accessible by anyone, including third parties not associated with us. We have no control over how others may use or misuse information you make publicly available. We are not responsible for the privacy, security or accuracy of any user-generated content you choose to post or for the use or misuse of that information by any third parties.
COOKIES AND ANALYTICS
We may use cookies, tracking pixels and similar technologies on our website and in our emails from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Tracking pixels are tiny, invisible images (typically the size of one pixel) embedded in web pages or emails. Cookies and tracking pixels, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do recognise you when you return to our online website and allow third parties to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If and when you choose to provide our online website with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie or collected by tracking pixels. Unlike cookies, tracking pixels do not store any information on your device, but instead send information to our servers when the pixel is loaded.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
You can block tracking pixels by using ad-blocking or privacy-focused browser extensions. Some email providers allow you to block images by default, which can prevent tracking pixels in emails from loading.
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) and tracking pixels you may not be able to access all or parts of our website and you may not receive personalised content.
Google Analytics: We may use Google Analytics Advertising Features. We and third-party vendors may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers together. These cookies and identifiers may collect Technical and Usage Data about you.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features including using a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser add-on found here. To opt-out of personalised ad delivery on the Google content network, please visit Google’s Ads Preferences Manager here or if you wish to opt-out permanently even when all cookies are deleted from your browser you can install their plugin here. To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, please follow these instructions for your mobile device: On android open the Google Settings app on your device and select “ads” to control the settings. On iOS devices with iOS 6 and above use Apple’s advertising identifier. To learn more about limiting ad tracking using this identifier, visit the settings menu on your device.
To find out how Google uses data when you use third party websites or applications, please see here.
Facebook/Meta Analytics: We may use tools provided by Meta, such as the Meta Pixel, advanced matching, and Conversions API. These allow us to measure ad performance and deliver ads that may be relevant to you on Meta platforms based on your activity on our website/app. You can control whether we can join data from third party partners with your Meta account for ads by adjusting your preferences within Meta's settings. You can disconnect this data from your Meta account by changing your settings for Off-Facebook activity. For more information, please see Meta's Privacy Policy here.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
If you follow a link on our website to another site, the owner of that site will have its own privacy policy relating to your personal information. We are not responsible for any content on these other sites, or for how the owners of that site collect, use and protect personal information that you may provide to them. We suggest you review that site’s privacy policy before you provide any personal information.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or if you would like to request access to, or correction of, your personal information, or to make a complaint you can contact us via email at privacy@tryriff.ai
APPENDIX 1: ADDITIONAL RIGHTS AND INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THE EU OR UK
Under the GDPR individuals located in the EU and the UK have extra rights which apply to their personal information. Personal information under the GDPR is often referred to as personal data and is defined as information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (individual). This Appendix 1 sets out the additional rights we give to individuals located in the EU and UK, as well as information on how we process the personal information of individuals located in the EU and UK. Please read the Privacy Policy above and this Appendix carefully and contact us at the details at the end of the Privacy Policy if you have any questions.
WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION IS RELEVANT?
This Appendix applies to the personal information set out in the Privacy Policy above. This includes any Sensitive Information also listed in the Privacy Policy above which is known as ‘special categories of data’ under the GDPR.
PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING
We collect and process personal information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable laws. We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. Note that we may process your personal information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please reach out to us if you need further details about the specific legal ground, we are relying on to process your personal information.
If you have consented to our use of data about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your data because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer doing business with us. Further information about your rights is available below.
DATA TRANSFERS
The countries to which we send data for the purposes listed above may be less comprehensive that is what is offered in the country in which you initially provided the information. Where we transfer your personal information outside of the country where you are based, we will perform those transfers using appropriate safeguards in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws and we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Appendix 1. This includes:
only transferring your personal information to countries that have been deemed by applicable data protection laws to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information; or
including standard contractual clauses in our agreements with third parties that are overseas.
DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
EXTRA RIGHTS FOR EU AND UK INDIVIDUALS
You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you and how we are process it (commonly known as a “data subject request”). You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have your personal information rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to object to decisions being made based on automated processing where the decision will produce a legal effect or a similarly significant effect on you, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal information to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal information relating to you transferred to you or another organisation.
If you are not happy with how we are processing your personal information, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant Data Protection Authority based on where you live. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Data Protection Authority, so please contact us in the first instance using the details set out above in our Privacy Policy above or the details set out below.
REPRESENTATIVE – EU AND UK INDIVIDUALS
We value your privacy and your rights as a data subject and have therefore appointed Prighter Group (Prighter) with its local partners as our privacy representative and your point of contact if you are located in the EU or the UK. Prighter gives you an easy way to exercise your privacy-related rights (e.g. requests to access or erase personal data).