This policy covers how we use your personal information, and how we use cookies and similar technologies. It’s long, because we are not the only ones who have an impact on how your information is used.
1. Who we are
We are Astro Dog – a registered Australian Business. Our website address is: https://www.astrodog.com.au. Our ABN is 99 627 185 499.
2. What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal data is not just created by your interaction with our site. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.
In some cases, we collect the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users, e.g. your name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies.
Some of our plugins also collect your personal data. See the relevant information below. We collect information to enable the features of the website, to provide you with services on this website. We collect data to help us understand where our customers are coming from, for marketing and make staying here safer and to be able to use 3rd party services which insist on collecting certain information to provide a service. By using the website, our checkout processes etc.. you are giving consent for us to do so. Astro Dog does not sell or redistribute your information. We are not interested in, nor do we intend to personally identify any visitors to our site.
3. Payments
In order to accept payments, we use payment providers such as eWay and and Paypal. Credit card information is not kept by us, it’s handled only by eWay and Paypal so they can pay us when you pay them. By using these services you may be storing personal data or sharing data with an external service. Learn more about how this works, including what you may want to include in your privacy policy. These may also request data from us to process the financial services we request they render to us. We may be legally obligated to provide information to law enforcement, which we will do. You can find out more about eWay’s policies by going to https://www.eway.com.au/privacy-policy/. You can read paypal’s privacy policy here.
4. 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 anonymised 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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
5. 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. You are solely responsible for the content of information you publish, including pictures.
6. Contact forms
We keep contact form submissions indefinitely for customer service and legal purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
7. Cookies
As with most websites, when you visit this website, a small amount of data may be stored on your mobile phone, tablet, or computer hard drive using cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. Use of the term “cookies” in this Policy is broad and includes similar technologies. Cookies help make this website work and provide information to us about how users interact with our site. We use this information to improve our website. We do not seek to identify individual visitors unless they volunteer it, by means of the contact form, RA form, signup, etc.. on the website.
The cookies we use range from strictly necessary ones that allow you to use the website, ones that add functionality to the website and improve your experience and analytical cookies which collect information about how visitors use the site, the number of visits, average duration, where people go on the site and so on. That helps us work out what areas of our website need improvement, who to write for so that we can make the website and store more effective. Many cookies are third-party cookies that we don’t control directly.
Information we collect via cookies do not identify you individually to the best of our knowledge.
When you accessed this website, our cookies were sent to your web browser and stored on your computer. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies. If you wish to remove them, you can manage this through the settings on your browser; however, please note that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features. The way to clear cookies varies from one browser to another. You can look in the Help menu of your web browser for full instructions.
8. Analytics / What third parties we receive data from
We do not use Google Analytics.
9. Who we share your data with
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you. Site data is stored in LA, in the United States of America with hostwithlove.com. This means your data may be unintentionally and unbeknownst to us able to be accessed under the terms of the United States of America and their laws. Additionally, we at times may need to grant developers that are performing technical services for us temporary access as administrators. Administrators have access to our website and its data when they perform technical updates.
10. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. 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.
We will only retain data for one year (or less) on our website. This does not affect your warranties, etc. and your invoice will continue to serve as proof of purchase.
11. 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.
12. Notice for Residents of the EU / Where we send your data
Residents of the European Union are advised not to use this website, or its services as we may not be compliant with the requirements. Go to our ebay store, which better automates the standards currently required.
13. Contact information
If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, please contact us at support at astrodog.com.au (support@astro….).
14. How we protect your data
We use technical measures such as encryption (SSL) to protect your data. We have installed security programs on our website to ensure the relative security of our website.
15. What data breach procedures we have in place
If we find out about a data breach, we will send an email to our registered users who have been affected. Please use a unique password on this site so that your data can’t be used to compromise other sites.
We limit the length of time that we retain data, so in the event of a breach, as few people as possible are affected.
16. Individual plugin / application notices
We use a variety of plugins to provide services to you. As a result, our policies are sort of an amalgam of their policies and ours. Here are specific disclaimers, explanations and notices from them that you must accept to use the site.
16.1 WooCommerce Specifics
We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.
What we collect and store – While you visit our site, we’ll track: Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed, Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping. Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!, We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site. When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to: Send you information about your account and order, Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints, Process payments and prevent fraud, Set up your account for our store, Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes, Improve our store offerings, Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them. If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses. We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them. Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access: Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information. Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.
16.2 WP Mail Logging
When you use this site several actions (e.g. commenting) trigger the dispatch of emails. They contain information about you associated with your email address. Which data are part of these emails depends on the action performed. These emails are stored and accessible to the site management as log.
16.3 Source: iThemes Security
What personal data we collect and why we collect it – Security Logs – The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 60 days.
Who we share your data with – This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri’s SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri; however, Sucuri could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri’s privacy policy.
How long we retain your data. Security logs are retained from 60 days to indefinitely.
Where we send your data – This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is shared with a service provided by ithemes.com. For privacy policy details, please see the iThemes Privacy Policy.
16.4 Source: Really Simple SSL
Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.
16.5 Source: WP Smush
Note: Smush does not interact with you. The only input option Smush has is to a newsletter subscription for site admins only. If you would like to notify your users of this in your privacy policy, you can use the information below. Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimise them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers. Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here. Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.
16.6 Source: Litespeed Cache
This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
16.7 Source: Akismet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Updated 6/2/23