Who we are
Our website address is: https://powearchitects.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal information broadly means information relating to or about you (you may be identified directly or indirectly from the information or by reference to other information or other identifying factors). Personal information also includes sensitive information such as your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, and your criminal record.
Personal information we collect
POWE collects personal information about our clients, individuals associated with or employed by our clients, job applicants, our business and professional contacts, and our suppliers. The types of personal information we may collect about you includes:
- your name, title, personal and/or professional contact details such as email, mobile phone number and address
- details of the organisation that you work for or represent, your position, and areas of interest
- bank or payment details
- resumes and references
- for job applicants, your skills, qualifications, languages spoken, professional memberships or accreditations, interests, employment history, personal references and past responsibilities
- your IP address, and browser type.
How we collect Personal Information
Where practicable, we will collect your personal information directly from you including when you visit our office or website, follow us through our social media accounts, when you contact us by email, phone or post and in the course of doing business with you. We may also collect your personal information from third parties, such as your employer where they nominate you as their contact or representative.
Where practicable and lawful, you can deal with us anonymously or using a pseudonym. However in many circumstances, if we do not collect the personal information we have asked for then we may not be able to provide our professional services, properly manage our business relationship with you, respond to your enquiries, pay your invoice or consider your job application.
How we use and Disclose Personal Information
We may use the personal information that we collect under our contract with you to:
- provide you with our professional services; and
- manage our relationship with you and/or the organisation you represent
- comply with any government mandate or direction such as ATO compliance or COVID19 tracking requirements
For our legitimate interest in:
- assessing your job application;
- helping to diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website;
- tracking your visits to or from our websites and to help us understand our visitors’ needs related to our website design;
- complying with our legal statutory and contractual obligations;
- direct marketing, development of events, programs and promotions and managing subscriptions; and
- responding to enquiries and complaints.
With your consent, where required, we will, through the preferred communication channel you have selected (by email or telephone):
- contact you with information about our knowledge leadership events and insights;
- send you our subscriptions; and
- market and promote our services to you.
If you have provided your consent you can withdraw it without detriment at any time (see ‘opting out of direct marketing’ below).
We may disclose your personal information:
- to your employer or the organisation you represent;
- to our subcontractors and service providers.
Any third parties to whom we disclose or permit access to your personal information in the course of providing services on our behalf will be subject to strict contractual restrictions to ensure that they protect personal information and keep it confidential, consistent with relevant privacy and data protection laws.
In certain circumstances (where required or permitted under applicable laws or with your consent (if so required by applicable laws), we may disclose personal information relating to you to third parties in order to comply with any requirements of law, or any legal or regulatory process, for the purposes of obtaining legal advice, for the purposes of credit risk reduction, to prevent and detect fraud and/or to protect and defend the rights and property of POWE.
Security of Personal Information
Your Personal Information is stored in a manner that reasonably protects it from misuse and loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.
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. However, most of the Personal Information is or will be stored in client files which will be kept by us for a minimum of 5 years.
Access to your Personal Information
You may access the Personal Information we hold about you and to update and/or correct it, subject to certain exceptions. If you wish to access your Personal Information, please contact us in writing.
POWE will not charge any fee for your access request, but may charge an administrative fee for providing a copy of your Personal Information.
To protect your Personal Information, we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.
Complaints Resolution
If you believe that your privacy has been prejudiced, you have a right to lodge a complaint with us. If you have any queries, concerns or complaints regarding any aspect of this policy, please contact us in writing:
Email: enquiries@powearchitects.com
Mail: PO Box 1410, Fortitude Valley Qld 4006
However, if you are dissatisfied with our complaints resolution process, you may refer your concerns to the Privacy Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au.
Further Information
Should you wish to obtain further information about the privacy legislation or the Australian Privacy Principles, we recommend that you visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) website at www.oaic.gov.au (http://www.oaic.gov.au/).
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 anonymized 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.
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. 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.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.