Data Privacy – SmartDeals Australia

Data Protection

SmartDealsAu is an innovative platform committed to providing you with the best shopping deals across various sectors, including electronics, fashion, home goods, and more. Our mission is to make quality products accessible and affordable by leveraging exclusive offers.

What Personal Data We Process

To offer you our services, we collect and process several types of personal data, including:

Contact Information: Full name, email address, telephone number, and any other contact details you provide.
Browsing and Purchase History: Data on the deals you’ve shown interest in, your purchases, and your interactions with our platform.
Payment Information: Credit/debit card details and billing address necessary for transaction completion. Note that while we may facilitate transactions, payment processing is typically handled by third-party service providers.
Preferences and Feedback: Details you provide about your preferences, including marketing preferences, and any feedback or reviews you leave on our platform.
Technical Data: IP addresses, browser types, and versions, time zone settings, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.

Why We Process Your Data

Your data is processed for several pivotal reasons:

Service Provision: To fulfill your requests, process your transactions, and provide you with our services.
Personalization: To tailor your experience on our platform according to your interests and past interactions.
Communication: To send important information about your account, transactions, updates, and more.
Customer Support: To offer assistance and respond to your inquiries or complaints.
Improvement and Development: To analyze usage, troubleshoot, and enhance our offerings.

Lawful Basis for Processing

We rely on several legal bases to process your data:

Consent: Your explicit permission when we ask for it.
Contractual Obligations: Processing necessary to fulfill our contractual duties to you.
Legal Compliance: Processing is required to comply with our legal obligations.
Legitimate Interests: Processing for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

Who is the Controller of Your Data

SmartDealsAu acts as the data controller, assuming responsibility for your personal information under this Privacy Notice and applicable laws.

International Transfers

Your data may be transferred and stored in countries outside of your own, potentially with different data protection laws. We ensure such transfers comply with legal requirements and that your data is secure.

Your Privacy Rights

You possess rights regarding your data:

Access: To request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: To have any incomplete or inaccurate data corrected.
Erasure: To ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Restriction: To suspend the processing of your data.
Objection: To object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
Portability: To request the transfer of your data to you or a third party.

Sharing Your Data

Your data can be shared with:

Service Providers: Third parties who provide services such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
Business Partners: For the provision of the products and services you have requested or to offer opportunities that may interest you, subject to your preferences.
Legal Obligations: When required by law, such as for compliance with a subpoena or similar legal process.

Data Retention

We retain your data only for as long as necessary for the purposes it was collected, including legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject.

This Privacy Notice may be updated to reflect changes to our information practices. We will notify you of any significant changes and encourage you to review this notice periodically.
Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice or our treatment of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us.