Privacy Policy

Melbourne Coffee Academy Pty Ltd, ABN 20 626 209 630 (hereinafter referred to as “Melbourne Coffee Academy”) Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how the information given by you to Melbourne Coffee Academy is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from Melbourne Coffee Academy, www.melbournecoffeeacademy.com.au (the Site).

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

How do we use your Personal Information?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you; Screen orders received for potential risk or fraud; and provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We will use your email to send you marketing and promotional communications via Squarespace. You can update, change or withdraw from our marketing communication by emailing us at info@melbournecoffeeacademy.com.au or following the unsubscribe link within our direct emails.

Sharing your Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Squarespace to power our booking system. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your personal information here - https://www.squarespace.com/privacy. We use Square to process payments. You can read more about how Square uses your personal information here - https://squareup.com/au/en/legal/general/privacy-no-account

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 Information here - https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, or lawful requestsfor information we receive, and/or with our financial advisors, accountants and lawyers or as otherwise required.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies.We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

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.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. If you would like us to remove your personal data, you can email info@melbournecoffeeacademy.com.au. However, not any data we believe we should keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Keeping your personal information secure

We wish to ensure that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place physical and electronic systems to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we believe we are legally required to do so.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@melbournecoffeeacademy.com.au