Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2024

 

Worldwide Appliances is committed to protecting your privacy. Worldwide Appliances uses your Personal Data to maximise the services that it provides.  Worldwide Appliances respects the privacy of the Personal Data provided by you and adheres to applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations.  Please read the following Privacy Policy so you understand how your Personal Data will be used.

 

 

DEFINITIONS

 

Personal Data means all information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, including names, physical addresses, email address, phone number, preferences, feedback and suggestions, IP addresses, location data, financial information and related personal information.

 

Worldwide Appliances means Worldwide Appliances Australia Pty Ltd

 

 

APPLICATION

This Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Data processed by Worldwide Appliances including all Personal Data you submitted.

 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Worldwide Appliances does not own or control, or to individuals whom Worldwide Appliances does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which Worldwide Appliances may disclose your Personal Data as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

 

 

CONSENT TO Worldwide Appliances’S PRIVACY POLICY

By submitting Personal Data, which includes registering a product, an individual agrees with the terms of Worldwide Appliances’s current Privacy Policy. If an individual does not agree with any term within this Policy, then Personal Data should not be provided. You are not obligated to provide Worldwide Appliances with your Personal Data, however, failure to provide Personal Data may result in Worldwide Appliances being unable to provide you with product(s) and/or provide certain services including after sales service.

 

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA AND OTHER INFORMATION

Worldwide Appliances collects and process Personal Data and other information for the following purposes:

• To register a product warranty;
• To perform authorised financial transactions as part of the purchase of a product or service;
• To provide a personalised service;
• To analyse and evaluate our users use of Worldwide Appliances’s website;
• To improve products and websites;
• For directly marketing to you;
• To protect Worldwide Appliances’s legal interests and fulfil its regulatory obligations;
• To respond to enquiries, feedback or complaints received from you;
• On an aggregated non-identifiable basis, to:
1. Help Worldwide Appliances understand its market position; and
2. Assist with marketing to others;
• In other circumstances, provided Worldwide Appliances complies with applicable Data Protection laws and regulations;

 

Worldwide Appliances will not collect any Personal Data unless an individual provides this information voluntarily.  By providing Worldwide Appliances with your Personal Data, you are authorising Worldwide Appliances to use that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

 

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

Worldwide Appliances will not sell your Personal Data to anyone.

 

Worldwide Appliances may share your Personal Data with other brands or entities within the Worldwide Appliances Group. 

 

Worldwide Appliances may at its discretion engage third parties to provide services on its website or for its business processes, including to process and analyse data collected. Worldwide Appliances may share your Personal Data as necessary for the third party to provide the service. Worldwide Appliances limits the information it provides to third parties to the information they need to provide the service. Worldwide Appliances deals with third parties that are required to meet the privacy standards described in this Policy in handling your Personal Data.

 

If a product or service is ordered from Worldwide Appliances, then Personal Data may be shared with Worldwide Appliances’s suppliers and other third parties to allow delivery of such product or service.  These suppliers and other third parties are only authorised by Worldwide Appliances to use Personal Data for the purpose it is given.

 

Worldwide Appliances may from time to time need to disclose certain information, which may include your Personal Data, to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.  Worldwide Appliances may also use your Personal Data to protect the rights, property or safety of Worldwide Appliances, our customers or third parties.

 

If there is a change of control in one of our businesses (whether by merger, sale, transfer of assets or otherwise) customer information, which may include your Personal Data, could be disclosed to a potential purchaser under a confidentiality agreement. We would only disclose your information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances. 

 

 

STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Personal Data stored in Worldwide Appliances’s system is protected by electronic and procedural safeguards. We take reasonable precautions to protect Personal Data (and other content) from accidental loss and theft by storing it in secure data centres. Communication between users and our servers is encrypted via industry-standard secure sockets layer (SSL).

In relation to website security, the website is protected with an SSL Certificate. An SSL certificate serves as a digital "passport" that allows data to be transmitted over secure networks — protecting financial and credit card transactions, signups, web access to mail, sensitive information and intranets. It authenticates and encrypts the data transferred through the website to the server.

 

We take all reasonable steps to protect Personal Data, including through internal and external security, restricting access to Personal Data to those who have a need to know, maintaining technological products to prevent unauthorised computer access and regularly reviewing our technology to maintain security. Credit card information is not stored by Worldwide Appliances on its servers. We choose technology partners based on their security and privacy policies and practices.

 

Given internet transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be entirely secure, you acknowledge and agree that you use the website and Shirro’s services is at your own risk.

In case of a security incident or any other breach of security safeguards, such as unauthorised disclosure of Personal Data under Worldwide Appliances’s control, Worldwide Appliances will respond in accordance with applicable Data Protection Laws, including any applicable reporting to the appropriate data protection authority.

RETENTION AND DELETION OF PERSONAL DATA

Worldwide Appliances will retain your Personal Data for as long as it needs to provide you with its services.

 

Worldwide Appliances takes steps to regularly destroy Personal Data, however it may:

 

1. a) in some cases, retain a copy of your Personal Data to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and to comply with our trust and safety obligations. Personal Data retained for this purpose will be archived and stored in a secure manner and will not be accessed unless required for any of these reasons; and

 

(b) retain Personal Data in an aggregated, de-identified or anonymous or other form where there is no reliable way of identifying you from the information. Worldwide Appliances is free to use and reproduce any such information freely, and for any purpose whatsoever.

If a child has provided Worldwide Appliances with personal information, his or her parent or guardian may contact Worldwide Appliances for the purpose of deleting this information.

 

COOKIES

A cookie is a small file placed in your web browser that collects information about your web browsing behaviour.  Use of cookies allows a website to tailor its configuration to your needs and preferences. Cookies do not access information stored on your computer or any Personal Data. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings.  This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Our website uses cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience.  In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords.  These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit. 

 

TRANS-BORDER PERSONAL DATA FLOWS

 

Worldwide Appliances is a globally connected business and therefore stores and processes Personal Data gathered on serves located in other countries.

 

Some of your Personal Data may be disclosed to overseas recipients. Where we transfer your Personal Data to related entities, we believe that the recipients of such information are subject to a law, binding scheme or contract which effectively upholds principles for fair handling of the information that are similar in all material respects to this Privacy Policy.

 

Please be advised that through your continued use of Worldwide Appliances’s website and services, you are transferring your Personal Data to Australia and you expressly consent to that transfer.

 

LINKS

This website may contain links to other websites.  These links are meant for your convenience only.  Links to third party websites or retailers do not constitute Worldwide Appliances’s sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites or retailers. Worldwide Appliances is not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Worldwide Appliances encourages our users to read the privacy statements of each website or third party that collects Personal Data. 

 

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to:

(a)        access and correct your Personal Data that is held by us at any time.

 

(b)        request the erasure of any or all of your Personal Data;

 

(c)        restrict or object to the processing of any or all of your Personal Data; and

 

(d)        withdraw any consent to processing that you have previously given in respect of any or all of your Personal Data.

 

Please contact Worldwide Appliances (see “Contact Information” below) with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your Personal Data, your consent, access, correction requirements, or your opt-in or opt-out choices.

Please note that where we are not, or are no longer, in a position to identify you within the information we hold (including because of any de-identification techniques we may have employed), then your rights as described above shall not apply.

We will respond to any request made in respect of the above in accordance with the applicable data protection laws.

We will respond to any request made in respect of the above without delay, but in any case within one (1) month of a request, or two (2) months where the requests are complex or numerous (in which case, we will inform you of such delay).

LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

You acknowledge and agree that the processing of your Personal Data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Personal Data is central.

 

In respect of all other processing of Personal Data detailed in this Privacy Policy (including direct marketing activities), such processing is necessary for the purposes of a legitimate interest pursued by Worldwide Appliances and we have assessed that such interests are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the persons to whom the Personal Data relates. You have the right to object to the way we process your Personal Data where the processing is based on legitimate interests. For more information see “Your Rights” section below.

 

STATE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

State laws may allow you to exercise certain access rights and make certain requests in relation to your data. Please contact Worldwide Appliances to make a request in accordance with local law.

 

CHANGE IN PRIVACY POLICY

Worldwide Appliances will review and amend this Privacy Policy to ensure it remains current. Worldwide Appliances may modify this policy at any time, in its sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon Worldwide Appliances posting the updated Privacy Policy on this website.  Please return periodically to review the Privacy Policy.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions or concerns about Worldwide Appliances’s Privacy policy or the use of your Personal Data, please contact Worldwide Appliances at marketing@worldwideappliances.com.au. Worldwide Appliances endeavours to respond within 48 hours to enquiries. Alternatively, you may contact Worldwide Appliances by phone 1300 694 583 To assist Worldwide Appliances to action the enquiry, please provide your full name and include details of the brand or Worldwide Appliances contact to which the enquiry relates.