Privacy Policy
Three Piece Marketing is a digital marketing and strategy agency located in Australia. We have multiple digital footprints inclusive of our website, social media accounts, email and commentary across other platforms.
Our website – www.threepiece.marketing is a marketing website designed to convey what we do and how we do it. We encourage visitors to get in touch if they need marketing assistance and/or have questions. In doing this, we ask for interaction with them and in doing so, may collect personal data.
What is Personal Data
“Personal Data” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual, including:
- Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
- Name
- Telephone number
- Email address
Three Piece Marketing may need to collect and process these types of Personal Data in order to provide the requested Services to you, or because we are legally required to do so, or because such information is of particular importance to us and we have a specific legitimate interest under law to process it.
We have a legitimate interest in collecting and processing Personal Data, for example: (1) to ensure that our networks and information are secure; (2) to administer and generally conduct business across the Agency; and (3) to prevent fraudulent activity.
If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the requested Services.
Data Collection
When visitors leave comments on the site or complete forms, 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.
When you complete one of the various forms used on our websites or other collection formats, we may collect personal information about you. The information we collect online is not intended to be of a sensitive nature, but we understand the concerns that underlie the passing of personal information to third parties.
We recognise that your privacy is very important and that you have a right to control personal information. We know that providing personal information is an act of trust and we take that seriously. Three Piece Marketing is guided by the National Privacy Principles outlined in the Privacy Act 1988 and other applicable laws governing the handling of sensitive personal information.
Through the careful and secure handling of your personal data, we will take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information we hold about you and to keep this information accurate and up to date. You are able to help us in this process by updating your personal data as and if it changes.
Please be advised, that unless required, we will not release your information without your consent. Circumstances whereby we may release your information include:
- A Requirement by law;
- We believe it necessary in order to provide you with a service which you have requested, such as our newsletters or marketing material;
- We suspect that your use of the site, in particular, the extranet, is for purposes other than what they have been constructed for;
- To protect the rights or property of Three Piece Marketing or any member of the public; or
- To lessen a serious threat to a person’s health or safety.
However, please know that your personal information will never be passed to a third party for the purposes of promoting its products and services directly to you, without your explicit consent.
If you are aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our site, bring them to our attention and we will take these issues seriously, working to address these concerns promptly. You can contact us using the form on the site.
For more information about privacy, the legislation surrounding it and issues in Australia, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website.
Use of Personal Data
We and our service providers may use Personal Data for our legitimate business interests, including the following:
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
- To send administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms or contracts, conditions and policies, as well as marketing communications that we believe may be of interest.
- For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying the Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operating and expanding our business activities.
Cookies
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
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.
Collection of Data from digital assets
We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
- Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version and the name and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
- IP Address: Your IP address is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
- Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalise your experience. We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used and assist us with resolving questions regarding them. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services.
- Analytics. We use Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and other platforms, which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyse information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn about Microsof’ts Policy on Clarity via Sample wording for Clarity Site and Privacy Policy Disclosure | Microsoft Learn and Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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.
Suggested text: 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
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.