Privacy Policy

Independent Trade Promotions and Lotteries Pty Ltd (ACN 677 031 088) (Independent Draws, we, or us) takes the privacy of all its website at https://independentdraws.com.au (Website) users very seriously and takes great care to protect your information.

This privacy policy explains what information we collect about you, how we may use it, and the steps we take to ensure that it is kept secure. We also explain your rights and how to contact us.

By visiting or using our website, or contacting us, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to the collection, storage, usage and disclosure of your personal information by us in the manner described in this privacy policy.

Please note, to the extent the website contains links to other websites which are provided for your convenience, we are only responsible for the privacy practices and security of our website. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other website or application that you visit or use.

What information do we collect?

In order to provide you with products, we collect personal information about you from our website, telephone conversations, e-mails and written and verbal communications.

We may, by way of example, collect your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, information you supply when submitting forms on our website and any other information provided by you to us by engaging with us in any way.

Sensitive information will only be used and disclosed for the purpose for which it was collected by us or for a directly related secondary purpose.

We may supplement the information that you provide with other information that we obtain from our dealings with you or which we receive from other organisations.

Entrant Confidentiality

Independent Draws offers an electronic random draw system to draw winners of trade promotions (Draw System). Users of the Draw System (Users) may utilise the Draw System to record, store and process your personal information in order to conduct a draw for a trade promotion that you have entered.

Users are solely responsible for the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information (which may include your personal data) and obtaining permission to release or disclose any personal information (which may include your personal data) to us.

We strongly recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and practices of any third party to whom you provide personal information.

If you provide any information to us, including personal information of any person, you warrant and represent that you have authority to do so.

Independent Draws:

accepts no liability or responsibility in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of information by any other party; and
does not collect personal information from, nor deal directly with, entrants of trade promotions.

How will we use your information?

All personal information that we obtain about you will be recorded, used and protected by us in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and this privacy policy.

We will primarily use your personal information to provide our website and services to you and, for example:

Disclosing your information

In order to provide our services to you, we may need to appoint other organisations to carry out some of the processing activities on our behalf.

All third parties are given access to the information they need to perform their function but cannot use that information for other purposes. We may disclose personal information about you to:

other organisations that we have affiliations with;
promoters or sponsors of any competition conducted or promoted by us;
specific third parties that you have authorised to receive information held by us;
other third parties where necessary or desirable to provide you with our services;
our employees, related bodies corporate, contractors or external service providers for the operation of our website or business;
any relevant authority or enforcement body where we reasonably believe that such disclosure is necessary to bring legal action against
anyone who has breached our terms and conditions or have engaged in any unlawful activity;
such entities that we propose to merge with or be acquired by; or
any other person where otherwise required or permitted to by any law, including under the Privacy Act.

Cookies and tracking technology

Similar to numerous other website operators, we may employ a common technology known as ‘cookies’ on our site. Cookies are small data pieces stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive, and they serve to track your navigation patterns on each visit to our website.

It’s important to note that cookies utilised on any section of our website are not intended for gathering personally identifiable information; rather, they are solely used for internal management purposes.

While most browsers automatically accept cookies, you typically have the option to modify your browser settings to prevent the storage of cookies. Disabling cookies may restrict the range of services we can offer to you.

Disclosure for analytics

We may use Google Analytics and other third party analytics software to track your usage of our Services.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of our Services, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

Google may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Personal information collected by Google includes cookies and usage data, which is processed in the United States of America (subject to changes in Google’s data processing policies). You can find Google’s privacy policy on their website.

Information about other people

If you provide information to us about a third party (such as your directors, employees or someone you have business dealing with) please make sure that you are allowed to give that information to us.

In any event, we will treat any personal information we received in accordance with this policy.

If you think that someone else may have provided personal information about you to us, then you can contact us at info@independentdraws.com.au.

Security of information

We take the security of your personal information seriously.

We take a range of steps to ensure that this information is secure. These include:

ensuring that the information we collect is stored in a secure environment and protected from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure;
restricting access to your information to the employees, contractors and agents that require that information in order to provide you with our products or services; and
backing up the information on a secure server.

Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia.

By accessing our website, you authorise and agree:

to us giving your personal information, in accordance with this privacy policy, to a third party who is not in Australia or a third party who may transfer and store outside Australia your personal information (Overseas Recipient);
that, while we will take reasonable steps to ensure that an Overseas Recipient does not breach the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), Overseas Recipients are not bound by the APPs and subclause 8.1 of the APPs does not apply to the disclosure of your personal information to an Overseas Recipient; and
that, if an Overseas Recipient handles your information in breach of the APPs, you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.

Direct Marketing

We use your personal information to notify you of services that we are able to offer you from time to time.

You may opt out of receiving any publications, newsletter, or other marketing product at any time by following the opt out instructions in those messages.

Changes to this privacy policy

From time to time we may change our security and privacy policies.

We may modify this privacy policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website. Please check back from time to time to review our privacy policy.

Updating and correcting information

You can contact us to update or correct your personal information by e-mailing us at info@independentdraws.com.au

Your right to access your personal information

You have the right to access your personal information and requests for information about our privacy policy are welcomed.

You will need to prove your identity before we can grant you access. Note that access may be denied if one of the exceptions set out in the Privacy Act applies.

How to contact us

If you would like any further information or have any comments, queries or complaints about our privacy policy, privacy practices or any other aspect of our website or service, please contact us using the below details:

Privacy Officer

Independent Trade Promotions and Lotteries Pty Ltd
Email: info@independentdraws.com.au