Privacy Statement
Personal Information
Personal information is information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database) from which it is possible to determine your identity. Examples of personal information include your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
Our approach to privacy
V8SA respects the privacy of your personal information. We are bound by the National Privacy Principles (NPPs) as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). This Privacy Statement explains our policy for dealing with personal information that we collect.
Collection of personal information
Generally, we will tell you why we are collecting personal information when we collect it and how we plan to use it or these things will be obvious when we collect the information.
We collect personal information in a number of ways, including:
directly from you, such as when you provide information to us by phone, email, in an application form or competition entry form, or through our website; and
when you provide information web page form submissions such as a Live Timing Subscription.
As a general rule we do not collect sensitive information. However, if we do, it will usually be for the purposes of providing our goods and services and, where the law requires us to do so, we will seek your consent to collect it.
Use and disclosure of personal information
We may use your information to provide our services to you, to fulfil administrative functions associated with these services (for example processing payments) and to enter into contracts with you or third parties.
We may also use your contact information to notify you of important changes to our online shopping facility or to inform you of special promotions which may be of interest to you. Before we do so, we will provide you with an opportunity to give us permission to send you marketing or promotional material via an opt-in mechanism. That is, we will send you such material only if you elect to receive it or if it is provided to you in response to your request. You may also notify us at any time that you do not wish to receive marketing or promotional material by contacting us. Our contact details are set out below.
We may also disclose your information to our related companies, V8 Supercar Events Pty Ltd and V8 Supercar Television Pty Ltd.
You are not required to provide us with any personal information when visiting our website. However, sometimes we need to collect your information from our website to provide services that you request. For example, when you purchase a Live Timing Subscription.
We may disclose your information to our corporate sponsors and our service providers and contractors from time to time to help us to provide and market our services to you. If we do this we generally require these parties to protect your information in the same way we do.
We may disclose your information to market research organisations. The information we disclose to market research organisations relates to sales, trading patterns and online navigation techniques and is provided in aggregated form. That is, the information provided does not identify you as an individual.
Exemptions
Where appropriate we will handle personal information relying on the employer exemption relating to employee records and the related bodies corporate exemption in the Privacy Act.
Security
We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures including restricting physical access to our server, firewalls, the use of encryption technology during online transactions and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use or disclosure.
The Internet is not a secure environment. If you send us information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk. While we strive to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from our online products or services. These activities are conducted at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security.
Cookies:-
V8SCA and BigPond a may use 'cookies' on the V8 Supercar website. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our web sites may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for the V8 Supercar website to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of the V8 Supercar web sites.
V8SCA and BigPond use Neilsen//NetRatings and Omniture to collate usage statistics on our website. This analysis is performed using data collected from the v8supercar.com.au website, that may include click through gateways that redirect some web page requests via Neilson//NetRatings' secure-au.imrworldwide.com domain. This analysis is used to improve the web experience of our users. No personally identifiable information is collected by Neilson//NetRatings or Omniture from the V8 Supercar web site.
If you would like to opt-out of Neilson//NetRatings and Omniture anonymous user profiling, you can do so at the following pages at following pages at Neilsen//NetRatings and Omniture..
Our Technology Partner BigPond may use one of the following organisations Sensis MediaSmart® Sales Sales and the White Agency's partner, DoubleClick to provide advertisement management and delivery across the V8 Supercar website. DoubleClick and Sensis use cookies for anonymous profiling purposes to tailor advertising to user's preferences.
If you would like to opt-out of the DoubleClick anonymous profiling, you can do so here.
If you would like to opt-out of the Sensis MediaSmart anonymous profiling, then then do so here.
Finally BigPond uses 24/7 Real Media to provide search engine and web site conversion reporting across the BigPond Channel websites. 24/7 Real Media uses cookies for anonymous profiling purposes. No personally identifiable information is collected by 24/7 Real Media from the V8 Supercar web sites. If you would like to opt-out of the 24/7 Real Media anonymous profiling, you can so at the following page..
Important when deleting cookies
If you delete cookies from your computer’s web browser, you may remove your opt-out preference that you have set for the company’s listed above. The opt-out cookies set may also expire and may need to be refreshed by using the information set out on this page.
Access to information
You have a right to access most personal information we hold about you and if we deny access in some circumstances we will tell you why.
Please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer to ask for access to your information or if you have a complaint concerning your information privacy.
Contact details
If you would like more information about our approach to privacy please contact us:
V8 Supercars Australia
PO Box 607 Southport BC, QLD, 4215
Telephone: 61 07 5630 0364
Facsimile: 61 07 5630 0338
Privacy Compliance Officer: Adam Firth
