Your privacy is important to us

Homemadefood.com.au (hmf) is subject to the Privacy Act 1988 and complies with the principles for handling your personal information.

When we refer to ‘you’, we mean either you personally and/or your business as it relates to the functionality of the homemadefood.com.au website.

About homemadefood.com.au

Homemadefood.com.au provides a listing service for individuals and businesses operating with some connection to the food industry. It advocates ethical business practices, and offers a variety of industry related services.

Personal Information

When we refer to ‘personal information’ we mean information from which your identity is apparent. This information may include information or an opinion about you and/or your business, from which your identity can reasonably be ascertained.

Why we collect your personal information

Our website is information based, the purpose of which is to put customers in touch with suppliers of products and services.

Generally, we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for the purpose of pursuing our mission. Specific purposes include:

• to enable us to communicate with organisations listed on our website and other organisations and individuals with an interest in food and it’s associated products and services; and

• Via our website, we may disclose your personal or business information to those seeking your products or services.

How do we collect your personal information?

Where reasonable and practical we will collect your personal information only directly from you.

We will only collect, use and disclose personal information about you that is required in the provision of information about or the promotion or delivery of your products and services; administration of hmf’s business; business analysis; or to meet any legal obligations imposed on hmf .

To whom will we disclose your information?

Apart from those who search our website and find your information, we, in line with common business practices, may:

• Disclose your information to third parties for a Purpose and with whom we have entered into an agreement that gives you (or that the law requires to give you) at least the same level of protection to your personal information as we do.

• Disclose your information to those organisations as required or authorised by law.

• Only use de-identified information for any statistical or other analysis or similar research purposes.

• Only disclose your information to a third party in connection with a product or service offered by that third party with your prior consent.

• Take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

• Take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if we no longer need it for any purpose.

We cannot guarantee that the personal information that hmf collects, uses or discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date as it is the responsibility of each party listed on the hmf database to ensure that they maintain their section of the site.

Updating your personal information

It is important to our relationship that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. During the course of our relationship with you we will regularly ask you to check that your information is up to date. If you wish to make any changes to your information, you should logon to the website with your user name and password and make the appropriate changes to your listing. We will generally rely on you to assist by informing us if the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete.

Web site information collection and dissemination practices

We use your IP (Internet Protocol) address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. We analyse our web site logs to improve the relevance of content featured on the site. While these logs are IP identifiable, no attempt is made to link them with any individuals that browse the site. The site uses cookies simply to ensure a persistent client state. We also send session numbers and keys as cookies to ensure that your connection, when using our online services, is kept as secure as possible.

Registration Forms

The site’s registration form requires users to provide contact information (such as name; phone numbers, email, and postal address, and information about your products and services). This information is stored on a database that allows potential clients to find you, and for us to send out email list updates. It also serves as a mechanism for those listed to sign-on to our online services and to update their personal and/or business information.

Online Forms

This site uses forms for subscribers and visitors to the site to request information and transact with hmf. We collect information (such as email address); and demographic information (such as postcodes).

External links

This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the information handling practices or content of these external sites but we do endeavour to monitor these sites to ensure that they are appropriate to our site, its visitors and subscribers.

Public Information

Any information disclosed on this site becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. If your business is listed on this site, your contact details will be publicly available to anyone who visits this website.

In the future, we intend to maintain several email lists to keep subscribers informed about areas of specific interest. We will not sell, rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our lists to anyone.

Web site access by children

This site encourages children to obtain their parent’s permission before sharing personal information online.

Your contact details

We recommend that you manage all information relevant to you and your business as listed on the homemadefood.com.au website. This will help us to maintain your privacy by ensuring that any communications are sent to the contact address.

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