Bootleg Bar is fully committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our Website and any website hosted by Bootleg Bar. This Policy may change from time to time without warning, so please take the time to check back periodically.

 

This policy will let you know:

- What personally identifiable information is collected from you;

- How your information is used;

- With whom your information may be shared;

- How you can access, update, or delete your information.

 

Bootleg Bar collects information in several ways. There are two types of information that Bootleg Bar will collect, personal information, and other more impersonal, statistical information that relates to the way you use the Website and to surveys you may choose to participate in from time to time.

 

Personal information is gathered when you register as a community member. During registration and membership proceedures Bootleg Bar may ask for your name, your email address, your date of birth, your gender, your zip or postal code, your occupation and other personal information.

 

Bootleg Bar use cookies to cache information, and to gather some of the impersonal information that relates to the way you use the Website. For example, Bootleg Bar may gather your server address, and your top level domain name. Similarly, Bootleg Bar may also record what pages you accessed on the Website and in what order you accessed them. Bootleg Bar may also record the date and time of your visit to the Website, and what page you came to the Website from.

 

If you contact Bootleg Bar, we may keep a copy of that correspondence.

Certain downloadable software applications and applets that we offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that feature.

 

Sometimes the Website may contain links shared by other Community Members to third party websites outside of the control of Bootleg Bar. When you access external websites, make note that Bootleg Bar is not responsible for the privacy practices of that site. For your own protection, please read the privacy policies of each site that you visit via the Website.

 

Personal information is gathered so that Bootleg Bar can carry out the business of running the Website for its community members, and providing a better browsing and using experience.

 

What Bootleg Bar gathers depends on the way you use the Website. Outside of what is required for registration to become a member, information that could be gathered by Bootleg Bar includes the User Content, which may include stories that you share, the images or videos that you upload, and anything else that you cause to appear as part of the Website.

 

Bootleg Bar will use ‘cookies’ for monitoring and informing Bootleg Bar of traffic patterns and statistics relating to the use of the Website. A ‘cookie’ does not identify you personally, but it does identify your computer. This allows Bootleg Bar to understand Community Members’ needs and preferences, and to improve the layout and usability of the Website.

 

If you do not wish to have your computer identified, you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, and this will provide you with an opportunity to either accept or reject it at each instance.

 

We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of Australia where a response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we believe it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Terms of Use. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.

 

Bootleg Bar encourages its Members to share stories and images or videos on the Website. By becoming a Member and contributing to the Website, your contributions will be available on the Website for other Members and Guests to see. In this way, Bootleg Bar leaves the kind of personal information you make available up to your own discretion.

 

When it comes to personally identifiable information, Bootleg Bar will not sell, trade, rent or disclose any of the information you disclose during the registration process with third parties, unless you have given your consent for Bootleg Bar to do so. This includes any contact information you have provided. Otherwise, Bootleg Bar will only disclose personal information if we believe in good faith that it is required by Australian law, or it is permitted under the Privacy Act(Cth) 1988.

 

Bootleg Bar protects the personal information it collects in a secure database, which can only be accessed by employees of Bootleg Bar. Bootleg Bar employees treat personal information held by Bootleg Bar as confidential, and are required to maintain that confidentiality in the strictest possible confidence.

 

Bootleg Bar cannot control the actions of other Members with whom you may choose to share information. Although it is against the Terms and Conditions of the Website, Bootleg Bar cannot prevent user uploaded content on the Website from being used by people without your authorization. Whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on the Website, information can be collected by other Community Members or Guests to the site. Even after removal, copies of your User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other community members have copied or stored that information. In short, if you post personal information online you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

 

Your Bootleg Bar Website information is password protected so that you and only you have access to your personal information. Community Members may modify or delete any of their personal information at any time by using your Community Member ID name and your password via “Your Profile” page.

 

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorised persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on Bootleg Bar’s website will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on Bootleg Bar’s websites. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password and using up to date antivirus software.

 

From time to time Bootleg Bar may make changes to this Privacy Policy. In the event of such changes, Bootleg Bar will post these changes on the Website to make all Community Members aware of what the changes are. Bootleg Bar will always make you aware of what information we collect about you, how we use it, and when we may disclose it.

 

All Community Members will be bound by any change to this Privacy Policy after those changes have been posted.