Privacy Policy - Great This Time

Your privacy is important to us. Pursuant to the “Code for the Protection of Personal Data”, EU 2016/679 Regulation, this privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, and transfer your personal data when you use our site or interact with us, a well as your data privacy rights. We do not sell your personal data. It is the policy of Great This Time to respect your privacy and comply with the law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you across our website, https://greatthistime.com.

This policy is effective as of July 14, 2023 and was last updated on July 14, 2023.

When we refer to personal data in this policy we refer to any information that directly or indirectly identifies you, as well as make you identifiable. We also refer to “personal information”, as it is defined under California law, and as it is defined under Australian law.

Information We Collect

We collect your personal data when you visit our site, subscribe, or when you interact with us. We will only collect your personal data in line with applicable laws.

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

Be aware that when you comment publicly on an post on our site, the personal data you post, including your username and other information about yourself, are publicly accessible. This means that the data can be viewed online and collected by other people. We are in no way responsible for the way these other people use this personal data. When posting and commenting, we strongly recommend you avoid sharing any personal details, including information that can be used to identify you directly such as your name, age, address and name of employer. We are not responsible for the privacy of any identifiable information that you post on our site.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following:

Name
Email
Social media profiles

Collection and Use of Information and Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so, and the legal grounds to do so. We determine the legal grounds based on the purposes for which we have collected your personal data.. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Legal grounds for using your personal data

The legal ground may be one of the following:

Consent: Often we will use your personal data because we have asked for your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. For example, we may use the data:
- to send marketing emails to you, when we have asked your permission. You can withdraw your consent to receiving these emails at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email.
- to place non-essential cookies, or other similar technology.
- Compliance with law: In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal data.
- Our legitimate interests: We may process your personal data where it is necessary for our legitimate interests in a way that might be expected as part of running Great This Time, and in a way which does not materially impact your rights and freedoms. Legitimate interst includes the right to understand the website readers in order to improve the quality of the website. It is also our legitimate interest to promote ourselves and our services on the website, and to keep you informed about new posts or services, when you have subscried to our website and newsletter. Legitimate interest also includes enabling you to share our content with others using social media or email.

Where we rely on cookies to collect any personal data, please feel free to choose if granting or denying the use of those cookies.

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels;
Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content;
Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies;
When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes:

to enable you to customise or personalise your experience of our website;
to contact and communicate with you;
for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms;
for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;
for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have;
for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use.

Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.

Personal data that we receive about you from other organisations

We may add to the personal data you give us by combining it with other personal data shared with us by other trusted organisations. This includes, for example, the region that you are located in. We may also obtain your personal data from partners whose offers we include in some of our marketing communications and we use this personal data to ensure the accuracy of the information we hold.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to third parties to collect and process data:

third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms;
our potential employees, contractors, and/or related entities;
our existing or potential agents or business partners;
potential sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run;
courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights;
third parties, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you.
our advertising partners. These partners help us deliver relevant advertising across our website.
other organisations when our web pages use social plug-ins from these organisations (such as the “Facebook” function, Twitter’s retweet function, etc.). These other organisations may receive and use personal data about your visit to our sites or apps. If you browse our site or view content on our apps, personal data they collect may be connected to your account on their site. For more information on how these organisations use personal data, please read their privacy policies.

We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of the website to help create reports and statistics on the performance of the website.

We use Google Analytics to track user behaviour and we deploy analytics cookies. Data are stored for limited time and only used by us to improve the performance of the website. We have no control over the data management carried out by third parties.

Analytics cookies such as Google Analytics collect information such as your IP address, device type and operating system, referring URLs, location and pages visited. If you don’t want Google Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the ‘Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On’, provided by Google.

We embed a Facebook widget, which may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

We use other social media platform widgets or widgets of any kind for the social sharing of the content of this website that may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget and other personal data of yours, and use them in accordance to their own privacy policy, which we invite you to read if you decide to use the social share button.

Disclaimer

This website uses affiliate links. As defined by Techopedia, an affiliate link is a specific URL that contains the affiliate’s (Great This Time) ID or username. When a visitor of Great This Time clicks on one of its affiliate links, the website to which the visitor is redirected will recognise that the visit was generated by a link shared by Great This Time, and will generally recognise Great This Time a small commission.

International Transfers of Personal Information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on your preferences.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy, you retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.

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.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

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 provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. 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 to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

Your California privacy rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, California Civil Code Section 1798.100, if you are a resident of California you may contact us with regard to the following rights in relation to your personal data:

Right of Access: You have a right to request access to the personal data we may hold on you for the past twelve (12) months. You may submit up to two (2) requests per year of access to your personal data.
Right to Opt-In/Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Data: For individuals sixteen (16) years or older, you have the right to opt-out of sale of personal data we may hold on you. For individuals between thirteen (13) to sixteen (16) years old, you have the right to opt-in to the sale of personal data we may hold on you.
Right to Deletion: You also have the right to ask us to delete personal data we may hold on you or restrict how it is used. There may be exceptions to the right to deletion for specific legal reasons.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your California Consumer Privacy Act rights.

You can exercise the mentioned rights at any time by contacting us at contact@greatthistime.com.

Your rights under the Australian Privacy Act

We are required to treat your personal information in accordance to the Australian privacy Act rules. These rules are set out in the Australian Privacy Principles in force under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Australian privacy Act). Abidying to the Act, we are required to disclose to you what personal information we collect and how we use it, to store your information securely and to support you in exercising your rights.

Specifically, your rights are:

Right of access to the personal information held about you;
Right of correction to correct your information when it is incorrect;
Opt-out of personalised advertising and other direct marketing activities. You can choose to forbid the use of Google Analytics in your browser by installing the Google Analytics Opt-on Add-On, provided by Google.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative and regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt-in to or opt-out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the contact form on our website, or writing directly to contact@greatthistime.com.