Salesforceworks (“Salesforceworks” “the Company”, “we,” “our” or “us”) is firmly committed to protecting the privacy of users and complying with the privacy standards set out in the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as well as international data privacy standards.
We understand that we will, from time to time, collect and use your data. Accordingly, we have established this Privacy Policy to set out, among other things, our data collection, retention, use and disclosure practices. Please read this Privacy Policy together with our Terms of Service to understand how your information is treated.
Collection of personal information
When you visit or use the Site, you are likely to provide us with your personal information, including, without limitation, names, proof of identity, gender, age, email addresses, photographs, phone numbers or other information related to your use of the Site. This information may be collected when you sign up for a Freelancer or a Client Account; when you update your Freelancer or Client Account; when you contact us; when you respond to our request for information; or when you submit your personal data to us for any reason. In addition, we may receive information about you from third parties and we shall treat the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information relating to third parties
If the personal data supplied to us relates to third parties, by submitting such information to us, you confirm having the consent of the third party and authority to provide the personal data on their behalf.
Information relating to Children
We are committed to protecting the rights of children, including privacy and the Site is not meant for children. Accordingly, we shall not intentionally collect or store information about children.
Use of information
We use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:
a) To provide and improve the services under the Site, address your inquiries, and process your registration;
b) To monitor the effectiveness of the Site;
c) To communicate with you and to enable communications between Users;
d) To diagnose or fix technology problems;
e) To automatically update the Site;
f) For any other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information, with your consent, and as further described in this Privacy Policy.
We do not sell or rent any collected information to third parties. We will maintain the confidentiality of your personal information and we may only share it with selected third parties only for the purposes set out in this policy or if we are legally obliged or entitled to do so in law. We may also share information about you with a) the payment systems we use; b) other companies that provide products or services to us including SMS authentication and location tracking services; c) governmental authorities; and d) any other third party if allowed to do so in law.
Please note that we may have no control over how third parties collect, process or store your personal information and as such, we shall not accept any liability resulting from the unlawful collection, processing or storage of personal information by third parties.
Use of cookies
Like many other websites, we and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about how you use the Site and provide features to you. Cookies are small text files that are stored on browsers or devices by the Site.
By using the Site, you agree that we can place cookies on your device. If you want to restrict or block any cookies, you should do this through the web browser settings for each browser you use and on each device you use to access the internet. Please be aware that some areas of our website may not function if your web browser does not accept cookies. However, you can allow cookies from specific websites by making them “trusted websites” in your web browser. The “Help” function within your web browser should tell you how to make these changes.
We may also ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to your devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party.
Sharing of information and Consent
We may share your information with our agents, employees or contractors to help provide, understand, and improve the Site.
We can only use or share your information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy with your express consent.
Storage and processing of information
All information collected through the Site will be stored and processed within Australia.
By registering for and using the Site, you consent to the transfer of information to Australia or to any other country in which we maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Site secure and take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. To help us keep your information safe, we expect you to maintain the secrecy of your unique password and account information.
Data retention
We shall retain personal data collected for a reasonable time frame, which will vary depending on the nature of the data and whether the data may be needed for future legitimate use.
Following termination or deactivation of your account, we may retain information (including your profile information) for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.
When your Personal Information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was obtained, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your Personal Information.
Your control over information
You may, at any time, edit, update or delete your details as displayed in the Site, including your address, email, names, among others. However, when you delete or update information, we follow a process to ensure that the modification or deletion is not accidental or malicious. Accordingly, there may be delays between when you edit/delete information and when copies are edited/deleted from our active and backup systems.
Updates to the Privacy Policy
We may modify or amend this privacy statement from time to time.
To let you know when we make changes to this privacy statement, we will amend the revision date at the end of this page. The new modified or amended privacy statement will apply from that revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed about how we are protecting your information.
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through support@salesforceworks.com.
Effective Date: 9th of June 2020
Last updated on: 9th of June 2020
