Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://theauthentic.today.
The Authentic takes the protection of your Privacy seriously. Your Privacy is very important to us and we are bound by and conform to the Australian National Privacy Guidelines (which are part of the Privacy Act) and also adhere to the Anti-Spam Regulations.
Collection of information
In providing you access to The Authentic website, we collect your email address, billing and delivery information when you order our products. We will only use this for the purpose that you provided it to us and we will not disclose the information to third parties without your approval. Your information is required to ensure billing and delivery of your products; and our suppliers are not permitted to retain, store, share, or use the data for any other purpose. We do not store your credit card information. No access will be provided to your information except where required by Australian law and in compliance with Australian legislation.
If you have given your approval, we will from time to time send you information about The Authentic products and services. We subscribe to Active Campaign, an email marketing platform, to provide this information to you.
In distributing newsletters, Active Campaign will collect personal information from you, including email addresses you have provided to The Authentic for the purpose of receiving electronic newsletters, and all information relating to those email addresses. Active Campaign also uses cookies, web beacons and Flash player codes to collect information about
- when you access The Authentic electronic newsletters;
- your browser type and version;
- your operating system and other similar information.
For more information on the information Active Campaign will collect, please refer to the Active Campaign’s privacy policy.
If you do not wish to receive email about The Authentic products and services, would like your customer record removed or you have a question about our Privacy Policy please contact us via our contact form.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.