Who we are

Our website address is: https://wsplastics.com.au.

Your privacy is very important to us. At W&S Plastics Pty Ltd (“W&S Plastics”) we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

W&S Plastics operates several websites including wsplastics.com.au and eyeprotectionaustralia.com.au. It is W&S Plastics’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, W&S Plastics collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. W&S Plastics’purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how W&S Plastics’ visitors use its website. From time to time, W&S Plastics may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

W&S Plastics also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. W&S Plastics only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

You are requested to provide information which will assist us respond to you and the identifying information is retained to allow us to communicate with you.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. W&S Plastics uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of W&S Plastics website, and their website access preferences. W&S Plastics visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using W&S Plastics’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of W&S Plastics’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by W&S Plastics and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

W&S Plastics will not share your personal data with other people or organisations that are not directly linked to us except under the following circumstances:

  • Your data may be used by other organisations that provide services on our behalf such as dealing with online payments and other forms of payment processing, ie credit card transactions and preventing fraud.

  • We may reveal your personal data to any law enforcement agency, court, regulator, government authority or other organisation if we are required to do so to meet a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of anyone else.

Any organisations which access your data in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by strict contractual restrictions to make sure that they protect your data and keep to all data privacy laws that apply. We may also independently audit these service providers to make sure that they meet our standards.

We will not share your personal data with anyone else for their own marketing purposes unless we have your permission to do this.

W&S Plastics may use social plug-ins from other organisations such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. These other organisations may receive and use personal data about your visit to our site. If you browse our site and view content, the information they collect may be connected to your account on their site. For more information on how these organisations use personal data, please read their respective privacy policies.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website(s), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Business Transfers

If W&S Plastics or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that W&S Plastics goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of W&S Plastics may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to W&S Plastics’ websites choose to interact with W&S Plastics in ways that require W&S Plastics to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that W&S Plastics gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address and for those who wish to receive W&S Plastics updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, W&S Plastics collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with W&S Plastics. W&S Plastics does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors may refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

W&S Plastics may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, W&S Plastics may monitor the most popular pages on the wsplastics.com.au site. However, W&S Plastics does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

W&S Plastics discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on W&S Plastics’ behalf or to provide services available at W&S Plastics’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. W&S Plastics will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, W&S Plastics discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when W&S Plastics believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of W&S Plastics, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an W&S Plastics website and have supplied your email address, W&S Plastics may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with W&S Plastics and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. W&S Plastics takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational controls to protect your personal data against unauthorised processing and against accidental loss, damage or destruction. You are responsible for choosing and maintaining a secure password when we ask you to set up a password for My Account. You should keep this password confidential and you should choose a password that you do not use on any other site. You should not share your password with anyone else, including anyone who works for us. Unfortunately, sending information via the internet is not completely secure. We will do our best to protect your personal data once with us, however, W&S Plastics cannot guarantee the security of any personal data sent to our site while still in transit and so you provide it at your own risk.

What third parties we receive data from

When you sign up to our services W&S Plastics may add to the personal data you give us by combining it with information shared with us by other trusted organisations. We may also add information to improve the accuracy of your delivery address when we send out mail. We may also obtain information from partners whose offers we include in some of our marketing communications and we use this information to ensure that we do not send you irrelevant marketing.

We also use information on the content you have viewed on our site and your interaction with the content to add you to groups with similar interests and preferences, so that we can make our online advertising more relevant. Sometimes we use data about your interests or demographics that third parties have collected from you online to add to these groups. Please refer to our cookies policy for more information on how we use cookies.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We use personal data collected through our site for a number of purposes, including the following:

  • To provide the services you sign up for, such as sending out your order. We also use the personal data for related internal administrative purposes – such as our accounting and records – and to make you aware of any changes to our services.

  • To send marketing communications when we have your permission, or when permitted by law.

  • To personalise our services (for example, so you can sign in), remembering your settings, displaying personalised advertising as well as measuring how effective our online adverts are, and tailoring our marketing communications

  • To carry out marketing analysis, for example we look at what you have viewed on our site and what products you have bought (including what you have looked at and what products or services you have bought on our other platforms if applicable) to better understand what your interests and preferences are, and to improve our marketing by making it more relevant to your interests and preferences. You can opt out from having your personal data used for marketing analysis by going into your account to the tab “Emails and marketing”.

  • To improve our marketing communications, we use a similar technology to cookies to confirm whether you have opened a marketing email or clicked on a link in the email.

  • For statistical purposes such as analysing the performance of our site and to understand how visitors use it.

  • To respond to your queries and to resolve complaints via the Contact form.

  • For security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe and secure and used in line with our terms of use.

  • To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, W&S Plastics may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at W&S Plastics’ sole discretion. W&S Plastics encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.