Understanding Data and Privacy Policy for Our Clients

1.Introduction

At Arore Communications, d/b/a Arore Communications (“us”, “we”, “our” or the “Company”), we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, personal data (“Personal Data”) refers to any information that, on its own, or in combination with other available information, can identify an individual.

The office locations of Arore Communications can be found on the footer of the Arore Communications website.

We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we adhere to the following:

Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and the applicable provincial legislation
Quebec Law 25
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Brazil’s Data Protection Legislation (LGPD)
California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)

Scope

This policy applies to the Arore Communications websites, domains, applications, services, and products. This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services or platforms that may be accessed through (non-Arore Communications) links that we may provide to you. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. The third-party’s own privacy policy will govern any Personal Data that you provide to these websites. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.

Processing Activities

This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:

Make use of our application and services as an authorised user
Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement

This privacy policy was generated from a standardised form, based on the services we provide

2.Personal Data We Collect

When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data: This includes:

Account Information, such as your name, email address, and password
Payment Information, such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
Demographic Data, including age, gender
Financial Information, including credit card numbers
Purchase Information, specifically if personalised or unique

When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

Account Information, such as your name, email address, and password
Payment Information, such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
Demographic Data, including age, gender
Financial Information, including credit card numbers
Purchase Information, specifically if personalised or unique
Feedback, such as customer support or product reviews
Product information, such as serial number, product registration, and licensing information
Content, such as posts, comments, audio, or documents

How We Collect Your Personal Data

From You: You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:

Create an account or purchase products on our website.
Use our products or services;
Create content through our products or services;
Express interest in our products or services;
Downloading software and/or our mobile application;
Subscribe to our newsletter.
Complete a voluntary market research survey.
Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
When you log in to our website via social media;

Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.

Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:

Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you permit us to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organisations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations and groups, who share data for fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.

Suppose you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals. In that case, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to exercise otherwise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the “Contact us” section below.

Device and Usage Data

When you visit the Arore Communications website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, turn off cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

We also process information when you use our services and products. This information may include:

Device IDs
Login information
IP Address
Time stamps
Authentication records
Location information
Individual Products you view
Web terms or searches that led you to the site
Time zone
Other operational data.

Data we collect from third parties

We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to Arore Communications services, partners and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how third parties handle your Personal Data. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions, you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Arore Communications (contact details below).

Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to understand those third parties’ privacy practices better.

Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.
These purposes include:

To deliver your product or service
To fulfil orders, including electronic and non-electronic shipments
Building a Safe and Secure Environment
To verify or authenticate your identity, and
Investigate and prevent security incidents such as breaches, attacks and hacks
Providing, Developing, and Improving our Products and Services
Deliver, maintain, debug and improve our products and services.
Enable you to access Arore Communications services and set up accounts.
Provide you with technical and customer support
Organise and Deliver Advertising and Marketing
Send you newsletters and other marketing communications about current and future products, programs and services, events, competitions, surveys and promotions held by us or hosted on our behalf; and
Organise events, register attendees and schedule meetings for events.
For research and development
To communicate with you about the Products and Services

Where we process your Personal Data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services, to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business, for example, against fraud. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be needed if any changes are made to the type of data collected. Within our contract, if you fail to provide consent, some services may not be available to you.

Third Party Tools

ASANA Project Management Software
Google Drive
Harvest Time Tracking Software
Drop Box

International Data Transfer and Storage

Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: this may not be within the country in which you reside). Your Personal Data may also be transferred to and maintained on servers living outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy as well as applicable data protection law. In regions that are not considered adequate, we will enter into EU standard contractual clauses (or equivalent measures) with parties outside the EEA and ensure proper controls are in place for the security of your data. More information about these clauses can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021D0914

Sharing and Disclosure

We will share your Personal Data with third parties only in the ways set out in this Policy or set out at the point when the Personal Data is collected.

We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Data here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

You can also opt out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We may also use your Personal Data to provide you with targeted marketing via advertisements or communications (such as newsletters).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/

Legal Requirement

We may use or disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connection with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.

Service Providers and Other Third Parties

We may use a third-party service provider, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. We may share your Personal Data with marketing agencies, database service providers, backup and disaster recovery service providers, email service providers and others, but only to maintain and improve our products and services. For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the “Contacting us” section below.

3. Cookies

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site in addition to potential partners and third parties to that business. The collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.

How we use cookies

To give you the best experience possible, we use the following types of cookies:

Strictly Necessary: As a web application, we require certain necessary cookies to run our service.
Preference: We use preference cookies to help us remember how you like to use our service. Some cookies are used to personalize content and present you with a tailored experience. For example, location can be used to provide you with services and offers in your area.
Analytics: We collect analytics about the types of people who visit our site to improve our service and product.

4. Retention & Deletion

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law. When we no longer need Personal Data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymise it.

5. Merger or Acquisition

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

6. How We Keep Your Data Safe

We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure, encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is involved.

We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law.

In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.

7. Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18 Years.

8. Your Rights for Your Personal Data

Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. These rights may include:

Right to Access (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 15, CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA, LGPD, POPIA) You have the right to learn whether we are processing your Personal Data and to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you.
Right to Rectification (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 16, CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, LGPD, POPIA) You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate Personal Data that we process about you rectified.
Right to be Forgotten (right to erasure) (GDPR Article 17, CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA, LGPD, POPIA) You have the right to request that we delete Personal Data that we process about you, unless we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Right to Restriction of Processing (GDPR Article 18, LGPD) You have the right to restrict our processing of your Personal Data under certain circumstances. In this case, we will not process your Data for any purpose other than storing it.
Right to Portability (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 20, LGPD) You have the right to obtain Personal Data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such Personal Data to another data controller, where this is (a) Personal Data which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you or the third party that subscribes to services.
Right to Opt Out (CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA) You have the right to opt out of the processing of your Personal Data for purposes of: (1) Targeted advertising; (2) The sale of Personal Data; and/or (3) Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. Under the CPRA, you have the right to opt out of the sharing of your Personal Data with third parties and our use and disclosure of your Sensitive Personal Data for uses necessary to provide the products and services reasonably expected by you.
Right to Objection (GDPR Article 21, LGPD, POPIA) Where the legal justification for our processing of your Personal Data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the Personal Data for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.
Nondiscrimination and non-retaliation (CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA) You have the right not to be denied service or have an altered experience for exercising your rights.
File an Appeal (CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA) You have the right to file an appeal based on our response to you exercising any of these rights. In the event you disagree with how we resolved the appeal, you have the right to contact the attorney general located here:
- If you are based in Colorado, please visit this website to file a complaint.
- If you are based in Virginia, please visit this website to file a complaint.
- If you are based in Connecticut, please visit this website to file a complaint.
File a Complaint (GDPR Article 77, LGPD, POPIA) You have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority. If you are based in the EEA, please visit this website (https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en) for a list of local data protection authorities.

Withdrawing Consent

If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out of marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You can request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by submitting the request to our privacy team using the form below. For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.

9. Changes

We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy, we will post an updated version on this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.

10. Contact Us

To request a copy for your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request that your data be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we’ve made the process simple:

Write to us at:

ARORE COMMUNICATIONS
59, Ireland St. West Melbourne, VIC 3003
ABN: 39 215401847
Email: admin@arore.au