Wholesale Garage recognises the importance of your privacy and how important it is for us to protect your personal information. We are committed to protecting personal information which we hold and to complying with all relevant privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which we operate. This document describes how we manage your personal information and safeguard your privacy.
The kinds of personal information we collect and hold will depend upon the type of products and services we provide to you or obtain from you. We may collect your personal information:
The type of information we collect and hold about you may include your name, address, telephone numbers, email address, bank account and credit card details, date of birth, identification information and organisation. If you apply for trade credit, we may also collect and hold credit information about you.
We will also collect basic usage information when you use our website.
We generally collect personal information directly from you whenever it is reasonable practicable to do so.
We collect, use and disclose your personal information to carry on our business; to provide, administer, improve and personalise our products and services; to identify and interact with you; to let you know about other products and services which might interest you; to assess and improve the quality of our products and services; to protect our lawful interests; to deal with your concerns and enquiries; and to assist us generally in managing transactions with you, suppliers, consumers and others.
We may contact you by telephone, mail, electronically or otherwise to provide you with marketing, advertising or other material about our products and services we think you might be interested in, or to follow up on your interest in particular products and services, unless or until you tell us not to or we are restricted by law. If you do not want to receive direct marketing messages or want to change your contact preferences, contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).
We may also disclose your personal information in corporate transactions involving the transfer of all or part of our assets (including debts) or business or in a corporate restructure.
We may also be required or authorised by law to disclose your personal information. For example, we may disclose your personal information to a court in response to a subpoena or to a relevant taxation agency. We may also disclose information to other persons where you have provided your consent for us to do so.
Some of the third parties to which we disclose personal information may be located in New Zealand, Peoples Republic of China, the United State of America, the United Kingdom, throughout the European Union and other countries and you acknowledge that, while they will often be subject to confidentiality or privacy obligations, they may not always follow the requirements of Australian privacy laws.
We hold personal information electronically and in hard copy form. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, modification, or unauthorised access, use and disclosure. These steps include access control for our buildings, confidentiality obligations imposed on our employees and service providers, and the use of security measures for computer system access.
Once we no longer require your personal information for any of the purposes for which it was collected we will, subject to any legal obligations and responsibilities, take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify your personal information.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you become aware of any errors in your personal information or you change your personal details such as your name, address or bank account details, please contact us at your earliest convenience.
You can gain access to personal information that we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions allowed by law. Please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below) if you would like details about the personal information we may hold about you or if you would like us to update or correct it. We will handle any request in accordance with the relevant privacy regulations. We may require you to complete a request form and we also reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee for gaining access. We endeavor to deal with such requests promptly, but requests for a large amount of information, or information which is not currently in use, may require significant time to extract.
Generally, if you request us to do so we will amend any personal information about you held by us which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
If we are not able or unwilling to provide you with access to any personal information or to correct any personal information held by us, we will provide you with our reasons. If we do not agree to amend your personal information and you disagree, you may request that we make a note of your request to update the information, which says that you believe the information is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out-of-date.
You may also contact us to request us to stop using your personal information to contact you about our products and services. You can contact us if you wish to obtain more information about the way we manage personal information about you which we hold or if you are concerned that we may have breached our privacy obligations and wish to make a complaint.
Please visit the Contact Us page of this website.
You can also contact our Privacy Officer, by calling 1300 456 356.
For more information about privacy generally, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au and on 1300 363 992.
