Privacy Policy

Last updated 2nd August 2021

Australian Precision Firearms Technologies and Wildlife Management (“we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or download any of our mobile or desktop applications (the “Application”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act). The NPPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your Personal Information. A copy of the Australian Privacy Principles may be obtained from the website of The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.aoic.gov.au.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the third-party online/mobile store (e.g., Apple, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Stripe, etc.) from which you install the Application or make payments, which may also collect and use data about you. We are not responsible for any of the data collected by any such third party.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE WEBSITE, OUR APPLICATION(S) OR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WE PROVIDE.

1. What is Personal Information and Why Do We Collect it?

Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual. Examples of Personal Information we collect include names, addresses, email addresses, phone, and facsimile numbers.

This Personal Information is obtained in many ways including correspondence, by telephone and facsimile, by email, via our website www.ausprecision.com.au, from your website, from social media and publications, sending feedback, responding to surveys, liking posts, from other publicly available sources and from third parties. We don’t guarantee website links or policy of authorised third parties.

We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our products and services to you which also includes marketing. We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure. You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing.

When we collect Personal Information, we will, where appropriate and where possible, explain to you why we are collecting the information and how we plan to use it.

2. Sensitive Information

Sensitive information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record, or health information.

Sensitive information will be used by us only:

  • For the primary purpose for which it was obtained.
  • For a secondary purpose that is directly related to the primary purpose.
  • With your consent, or where required or authorised by law.

3. Financial Data

Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our products services from our website or applications we develop.

We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor (which includes PayPal and Stripe, along with Direct Bank Transfer via your financial institution(s)), and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.

4. Third Parties

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

5. Disclosure of Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including the following:

  • Third parties where you consent to the use or disclosure; and
  • Where required or authorised by law.

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (e.g., PayPal, Stripe), data analysis (Google/Google Analytics), email delivery (Microsoft Office 365).

6. Security of Personal Information

Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorized access, modification, or disclosure.

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures (e.g., SSL Security Certificates, for our website, code signing for various applications along with endpoint antivirus security on our physical/virtual servers and infrastructure) to help protect your personal information.

While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information. Our servers (physical and virtual) along with our email communications systems are located within the country of Australia.

When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 7 years.

7. Access to your Personal Information

You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing. In order to protect your Personal Information, we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.

Australian Precision Firearms Technologies and Wildlife Management will not charge any fee for your access request but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.

Upon your request to terminate your account(s) that you may have with us, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.

8. Use of Your Personal Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you from your purchase and use of our products, services, and applications to:

  1. Assist law enforcement, legal, legislative, and regulatory requirements.
  2. Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally.
  3. Create, manage, and maintain your account.
  4. Deliver targeted advertising, newsletters, and other information regarding our products, services, and applications.
  5. Email you regarding your account or order.
  6. Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to our products, services, and applications.
  7. Notify you of updates to our website, products, services, and applications.
  8. Offer new products, services, and applications that we produce and develop.
  9. Perform other business activities as needed.
  10. Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
  11. Process payments and refunds.
  12. Request feedback and contact you about your use of our products, services, and applications
  13. Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
  14. Respond to product and customer service requests.
  15. Send you a newsletter.

It is important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete, and up to date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records and ensure we can continue to provide quality services to you.

9. Application Specific Policies

9.1 – Mobile Device Access
We may request access or permission to certain features from your mobile device, including your mobile device’s Photo/Image Library (for storing images generated by our application, Downloads Folders (for storing application updates/patches and or images generated by our application), Access to Audio (for playing sound from the application). If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.

9.2 – Geo-Location Information
Our applications do not track geo-location information from your mobile device at any stage of the application running (either background or foreground).

9.3 – Mobile Device Data
Device information such as your mobile device ID number, model, and manufacturer, version of your operating system, phone number, country, location, and any other data you choose to provide might be collected.

9.4 – Push Notifications
We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or the Application. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device’s settings.

9.5 – Facebook Permissions
Our applications do not access Facebook or request access to your Facebook basic account information.

9.6 – Data from Social Networks
Our applications do access data from Social Networks (e.g., Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc.).

9.7 – Social Media Contacts and Device Contacts
Our applications do not request access to your social media contacts or device contacts.

9.8 – Third-Party Advertisers and Offer Walls
We do not use third-party advertisers to serve ads within our applications or websites and we do not use offer walls in our websites or applications.

9.9 – Affiliates and Business Partners
We do not share any personal information with any affiliates or business partners.

9.10 – Online Postings and Interactions
When you post comments, contributions, or other content (including interactions with other users) to our website, social media pages or applications stores, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside of our control (e.g., Facebook, Google Play Store, Apple Store, Microsoft Store, Instagram, YouTube, etc.).

10. Tracking Technologies

10.1 – Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies, or other similar tracking technologies on our website or application to help customize our website, products, services, and applications to improve your experience. When you access our applications, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, though be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of our websites and applications.

10.2 – Internet-Based Advertising
Additionally, we do not use third-party software to serve adds on our website, services, or applications that we develop. We might implement email marketing campaigns and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us (e.g., Mailchimp or other email marketing-based tools).

10.3 – Website Analytics
We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on our website or applications through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyse and track users’ use of our website and applications, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. By accessing our website and applications, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors.

10.4 – Third-Party Websites
The website and applications may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us. Once you have used these links, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from our website, products, services and applications.

10.5 – Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

11. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data, we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

12. Emails and Communications

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:

  • Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with the application(s).
  • Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.
  • Contacting us using the contact information provided within this policy document.

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.

13. Policy Updates

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website and we reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website, products, services, and applications after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.

14. Privacy Policy Complaints and Enquiries

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Australian Precision Firearms Technologies and Wildlife Management
Email: info@ausprecision.com.au