Berrell Homes Privacy Policy.

In its commitment to ensuring that your privacy is protected Berrell recognises that it has obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”). The object of this Policy is to set out how Berrell collects, uses, discloses and manages “personal information” which is collected from you and that the manner in which this information is handled is open and transparent and in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act.

“Berrell” reference to Berrell Homes in this Policy means Berrell Homes and its related companies and trusts including Berrell Constructions

“Personal information” means information as defined in the Privacy Act which generally relates to it is any information that can be used to personally identify you such as your name, address, telephone number and email address.

“You” means Berrell’s customer and, where relevant, includes members of the general public.

PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our Privacy Policy identifies how we treat your personal and non-personal information.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

Non-personal information is information that cannot identify you. If you visit this web site to read information, such as information about one of our services, we may collect certain non-personal information about you from your computer’s web browser. Because non-personal information cannot identify you or be tied to you in any way, there are no restrictions on the ways that we can use or share non-personal information. What is personal information and how is it collected? Personal information is information that identifies you as an individual, such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and fax number. We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways:

  • When you send us an application or other forms

  • When you conduct a transaction with us, our affiliates, or others

  • When we collect information about you in support of the purchase, such as credit card information

  • In some places on this website, you have the opportunity to send us personal information about yourself, to elect to receive particular information, to purchase access to one of our products or services, or to participate in an activity.

COOKIES

Cookies are used to enable us to identify users and the frequency of their visits to the Berrell website. If you do not agree to allowing cookies to be activated you may make changes to the privacy options of your particular browser by preventing cookies from being operative. You should be aware however, that this may interfere with your use of the site and may restrict you from using all the tools offered on the site. Other service providers, advertisers or affiliates may also use cookies to enable them to assess web traffic and determine the effectiveness of advertising. We have no input or control as to what these companies may do with information they may collect via cookies.

HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

The use of any personal information is carefully monitored and will be restricted solely to enabling us to ensure delivery of any goods and services offered by us or to inform you of other products or services available from Berrell and its affiliates. You acknowledge that the primary purpose of providing your personal information to us is in order to enable Berrell to supply of goods and services, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries.

In order to provide our products and services, we may need to share personal information with other organisations being its trusted suppliers and contractors. You agree to allow us to release your personal information to these third parties as it is incidental and necessary in order to enable us to deliver our goods and services to you. Commonly, organisations we would share such information with, include:

  • Related or associated companies

  • Agents, contractors and service providers

  • Suppliers

  • Sub-contractors

  • Staff

  • Your or our professional advisers

  • regulatory authorities where required by law;

  • (“Third Party Suppliers and Contractors”)

You acknowledge and agree that it in order to enable Berrell to provide its goods and services it will be necessary for it to disclose your personal information to the third party supplier and contractor. In so doing, you have no objection to the release of your personal information to them.

You acknowledge and agree that any recorded telephone conversation may be required by us to be released to a third party supplier contractor who will be retained for the sole purpose of assisting us in developing our training and development programmes.

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION USED FOR COMMUNICATIONS?

We may contact you periodically by email, mail or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, services and content that may be of interest to you. Also, some of the features on this website allow you to communicate with us using an online form. If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a reply via email. The email response or confirmation may include your personal information. We cannot guarantee that our emails to you will be secure from unauthorised interception.

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorised personnel and third party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personal information.

LINKS

This site contains links to other websites that provide information that we consider to be interesting. Berrell is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS

This site may provide public discussions on various business valuation topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitive information in the public discussions. Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the website. Berrell does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Also, remember that you must comply with our other published policies regarding postings on our public forums.

HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, and DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

You may access, correct, update, and delete any personally identifiable information that you submit to the web site. You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations on the website. To do so, please either follow instructions on the page of the web site on which you have provided such information or subscribed or registered or contact us at info@berrellhomes.com.au

REMOVAL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will delete or permanently remove any personal information we may have collected after a reasonable period has lapsed.

GENERAL

Berrell reserves the right to modify this statement at any time. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be listed in this section, and if such changes are material, a notice will be included on the homepage of the website for some time. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by Berrell or about our website practices, please contact us at info@berrellhomes.com.au