Privacy

Me First Beauty Pty Ltd ACN 652 390 237 Me First Beauty respects and upholds your right to privacy protection under the Privacy Act 1988 Privacy Act and any similar state or territory legislation applicable to Me First Beauty’s operations. If applicable, Me First Beauty also controls and processes data in accordance with the principles set out in the General Data Protection Regulation.

This policy describes how Me First Beauty and its related entities manage any personal information about you that it and its related entities may collect.

  1. What personal information does Me First Beauty collect?

    Me First Beauty and its related entities may collect the following kinds of personal information:

    • name, address, telephone number and email address
    • transaction details associated with your purchases from Me First Beauty including credit card details
    • any information you provided to Me First Beauty through loyalty programs or customer surveys
    • details of your use of Me First Beauty’s website including your server address, domain name, type of browser, date and time of your visit and pages accessed
    • any additional information provided to Me First Beauty, its related entities and/or its service and/or support centre

  2. How does Me First Beauty collect personal information?

    Me First Beauty and its related entities may collect personal information about you when you purchase goods and services from Me First Beauty or its related entities, when you contact Me First Beauty or its related entities with an enquiry, when you submit an employment, supplier, franchise or licence application, through Me First Beauty ’s website or social media platform, when you enter a competition or other promotion, when you join a loyalty program or Me First Beauty’s mailing list or complete a customer survey or when you have any similar dealings with Me First Beauty or its related entities.

    Me First Beauty may collect information about you regarding your use of the Me First Beauty website. This is collected using cookies or similar technologies when you access the Me First Beauty website. Me First Beauty may collect information about the type of device you use to access the website, the operating system and version you use, your IP address, your browser type and the pages you view on the Me First Beauty website, and what interactions you have with the content.

    Me First Beauty may hold personal information about you electronically and in hard copy records.

    Me First Beauty takes all steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to destroy or de-identify personal information that it no longer needs and is not required by law to retain.

    Me First Beauty takes all steps as are reasonable in the circumstances and uses all reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to protect personal information that it holds from misuse, interference and loss and from unauthorised access, use, modification and disclosure.

  3. How is your personal information used?

    Me First Beauty may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information about you for the following purposes:

    • to assist in providing goods and services to you
    • to communicate promotional offers and special events
    • for Me First Beauty’s internal administrative, marketing, planning, product development and research requirements
    • to assist with any calls you make to Me First Beauty or its service and/or support centre
    • for any purpose made known to you at the time of collection of your personal information
    • to personalise your website experience, such as recording your preferences and settings, and to collect statistics to help us improve and further develop Me First Beauty’s website, products and services

    Me First Beauty will only use your personal information for the purposes for which you have given your consent. Me First Beauty will not disclose personal information about you to any person except on a confidential basis to agents, advisers and suppliers that Me First Beauty uses in the ordinary operation of Me First Beauty’s business, such as for data processing, printing or mailing or as required by law.

    If you elect not to provide your personal information to Me First Beauty, Me First Beauty may not be able to provide you with the goods and service you require, respond to your requests, manage or administer the goods or services, personalise your experience with Me First Beauty or verify your identity.

    At any time you may opt out of receiving any communications from Me First Beauty (other than as required for the operation of Me First Beauty’s business, e.g. regarding payment of your account) by making a written request to Me First Beauty.

    You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Me First Beauty website.

    If at any time you provide the personal information of another person to Me First Beauty then you must ensure that that person has read and understood this policy and separately consents to that personal information being collected and held by Me First Beauty for the above purposes.

    Me First Beauty will hold your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it is collected and held and to comply with applicable laws, legal obligations, maintain accurate financial and other records, resolve disputes and enforce Me First Beauty’s agreements. When it is no longer necessary to hold personal information, Me First Beauty may erase such personal information.

  4. Access and correction of your personal information

    You may request access to personal information Me First Beauty holds about you by writing to Me First Beauty’s Privacy Officer at the address below. Where Me First Beauty holds information that you are entitled to access, Me First Beauty will endeavour to provide you with a suitable range of choices as to how you access it for example emailing or mailing it to you.

    If you believe that personal information Me First Beauty holds about you is incorrect, incomplete, out of date, irrelevant, misleading or inaccurate, then you may request that Me First Beauty correct it. If Me First Beauty is satisfied that the information requires correction, it will take such steps if any as are reasonable in the circumstances to correct such information having regard to the purpose for which the information is held. If requested by you, Me First Beauty will also notify any other entity that Me First Beauty has disclosed that information to, that the information has been corrected.

    If Me First Beauty refuses to correct the information as requested by you, then Me First Beauty will give you a written notice which sets out the reasons for the refusal except to the extent that it would be unreasonable to do so, the mechanisms available to complain about the refusal and any other matter proscribed by the Privacy Act.

    If the General Data Protection Regulation applies, you may also within the limitations of legal and regulatory requirements:

    • Request Me First Beauty to erase personal information Me First Beauty holds about you or request that further processing of your personal information is restricted or suspended. In some instances, this may mean Me First Beauty cannot provide goods or services to you.
    • Request that Me First Beauty forward your personal information to a third party.
    • Withdraw your consent to Me First Beauty using your personal information.
    • Object to your personal information being used for direct marketing.

  5. How to make a complaint about an alleged breach of the Privacy Act?

    If you consider that Me First Beauty has breached the Privacy Act, you may complain to Me First Beauty by writing to Me First Beauty’s Privacy Officer at the address below within 6 months of the date of the alleged breach. You must specify full details of the alleged breach. Me First Beauty’s Privacy Officer will investigate the complaint and advise you in writing of the outcome of the investigation within 60 days of receipt of the complaint. If Me First Beauty has breached the Privacy Act, it will endeavour to rectify the breach in an appropriate manner.

    If you believe Me First Beauty has failed to adequately respond to your complaint, you may be entitled to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country if one exists or a relevant supervisory authority such as the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner by calling 1300 363 992 or by writing to GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001 or enquiries@oaic.gov.au.

  6. Miscellaneous

    1. In this policy “personal information” has the same meaning as under the Privacy Act.
    2. References to Me First Beauty are to Me First Beauty Pty Ltd ACN 652 390 237.
    3. Any questions or complaints about this policy or the management of any personal information about you by Me First Beauty should be made in writing to info@mefirstbeauty.com.au.
    4. This policy represents Me First Beauty’s policy as at the date of issue. Me First Beauty may change this policy from time to time by updating the policy that appears on its website.