Effective date: 15 Feb 2021
FOUR DOTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ("we", "us" or "our") operates the following websites: https://fourdots.com.au/ and https://fourdots.com/.
This page is dedicated to informing our clients, users, and visitors about our policies for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data belonging to the persons using our Service. Four Dots uses your data to provide and improve its services. By using our Service, our clients agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Digital marketing agency: FOUR DOTS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, Level 26, 44 Market Street, Sydney NSW 2000.
Owner contact email: [email protected]
Service is the https://fourdots.com.au/ website operated by Four Dots.
Personal Data refers to the information about a living individual who can be identified from those pieces of data or from other information that is in our possession or is likely to come into our possession.
Usage Data is automatically collected data that is generated by the user when they are using our Service or our Service infrastructure itself (for example, time spent on a page).
Cookies refer to the small pieces of data stored on a visitor's device (desktop computer, laptop, mobile device, tablet, etc.) that track user behaviour and activity.
Data Controller refers to the natural or legal person or people who determine the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is, or is to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are the Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers) refers to any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. Four Dots may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User) refers to any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
Four Dots collects several different data types in order to provide and improve our Service to you, our user.
If you use our Service, Four Dots may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable data ("Personal Data") that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable data may include, but is not limited to:
Four Dots may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. Users can always choose not to receive this type of content and/or communication and can do so by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in the emails we send to them.
We may also collect information regarding how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This type of diagnostic data may include, but is not limited to, the following information:
Four Dots may use and store data about user location ("Location Data"), only if the user gives us permission to do so. Location Data is used to provide features of our Service, as well as to improve and customise our Service. Users can use their device settings to enable or disable location services when they are using our Service.
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that are — if you agree — stored within a user's browser or on their device's hard drive. These files hold information that is transferred to your device's hard drive and are used to track user behaviour so we can more easily improve our Service, UX, advertising campaigns, and so on.
Four Dots uses the following cookies:
Please note that third-party entities (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies. Four Dots does not have any control over those cookies, which are typically analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our platform.
Except for the necessary ones, all cookies expire after 1 year.
Four Dots uses the collected data for various purposes, including:
For users from the European Economic Area (EEA), Four Dots' legal basis for collecting and using your personal information is described in this Privacy Policy and depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Four Dots may process your Personal Data because:
Four Dots only retains your Personal Data for the necessary period of time and for the purposes laid out in this Privacy Policy. Four Dots retains and uses Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with legal obligations and applicable laws, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for purposes of internal analysis. Typically, Usage Data is retained for shorter timeframes, unless:
Your information — including your Personal Data — may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside your state, country, province, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
The user's consent to this Privacy Policy, as well as the submission of their information, represents their agreement to this type of data transfer. We will take all necessary steps to make sure that your data is handled securely and treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that your Personal Data will not be transferred to an organisation or a country that does not have adequate controls in place, especially in terms of personal data security.
If Four Dots is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred, in which case we will provide you with timely notice before your Personal Data is transferred and/or subjected to a different Privacy Policy.
Four Dots may disclose your Personal Data if such action is necessary to:
Four Dots deems data security and protection to be critical. However, it is important to state that no internet-based data transmission or storage method is 100% secure. Four Dots uses commercially acceptable means of protecting your Personal Data, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) have specific data protection rights. Four Dots takes reasonable steps to allow these users to correct, modify, delete, or limit the use of their Personal Data.
Please contact us if you want to be removed from our systems, or if you want to learn what Personal Data our agency holds about you.
In certain circumstances, our users have the following data protection rights:
Four Dots users also have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of their Personal Data. For more information, we suggest you contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Four Dots may employ third-party companies and individuals in order to:
These third-party entities may have access to your Personal Data only to perform the aforementioned actions and tasks on behalf of Four Dots, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics is Google's web analytics service that tracks website traffic and provides reports on traffic data. Google collects the data and uses it to track and monitor the use of our Service. The data that Google Analytics tracks can be shared with other Google services, and Google may also use it to contextualise and personalise the ads within its own advertising network. Users can choose not to provide their activity on the Service to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which prevents Google Analytics from using this data.
Four Dots uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites after a visitor has visited our Service. Our agency and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on the user's past visits to our Service.
The remarketing and analytics services we use are provided by:
Four Dots' Service may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by Four Dots. Visitors who click these links will be directed to third-party websites, so we recommend that you closely review the privacy policies belonging to those sites. Four Dots does not have control over third-party websites and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices belonging to third-party websites or services.
Four Dots' Service does not address persons under the age of 18 ("Children"). Our agency does not knowingly collect or process personally identifiable information belonging to anyone under the age of 18. Parents or guardians who are aware that their child has provided our agency with Personal Data should contact our team. Should we become aware that our company has collected a child's Personal Data without the verification of parental consent, Four Dots will take all necessary steps to remove that data from our servers.
Four Dots may periodically update this Privacy Policy. Should there be any changes, we will notify you by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will send timely notifications to our users via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service prior to those changes coming into effect. We will also update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this policy become effective once they are posted on this page. We recommend that users review this Privacy Policy periodically to look for any potential changes.
Users who have any questions about this Privacy Policy can contact us by email at [email protected], or by phone on +61 2 8999 3731.
Four Dots Australia Pty Ltd · Level 26, 44 Market Street, Sydney NSW 2000.