Second 50 Community Privacy Policy.

At Second Fifty Pty Ltd. (“Second 50”, “we”, us” or “our”), the privacy of its users and other individuals (“you, “your”) is a top priority. Your privacy is at the core of the way we design and build the services (the “Second 50 Service” or the “Service”) and products we provide to you. “Website” means our website at https://www.second-50.co./

 Second 50 is committed to protecting your privacy and is bound by the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”) as well as other applicable laws protecting privacy.

​​Collection of your personal information

When you register to apply to become a member of Second 50 or otherwise interact with us, we collect some personal information, such as your name, phone number, email address, company and home and/or business postal addresses. You may also give us access to your third-party services such as your social networking information if you give us access to your account on social network connection services.

 With your permission (which you grant when you sign up for or begin using our Service), Second 50 collects and stores the information you provide or that we collect in order to administer our Services and/or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions.

 In addition, we collect your personal information and data as follows:

Accessing our Service: When you use the Service, we automatically collect certain information from your Device, its software, and your activity using the Services. This may include, for example (but without limitation), the Device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, the web page visited before or after you came to our Website, the information you search for on our Website, locale preferences, identification numbers associated with your Devices, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, system configuration information, metadata, and interactions with the Service, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyse trends in the aggregate and administer the site.

​Financial transactions: When you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through Second 50, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers email address, and phone number. 

Cookies: Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Second 50 uses cookies or similar technologies to analyse trends, administer the Website, track users’ movements around the Website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Website or service.

Blogs: Our Website offers publicly accessible blogs and community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at community@second-50.co. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information.

Third-party collection: Second 50 may obtain this business contact and company information from third-party sources, such as business intelligence platforms. The information obtained by these third-party sources is from publicly available sources such as news articles. This information is used to support Second 50 marketing and sales efforts. The Second 50 team may contact you based on this information to gauge your interest in Second 50’s Services and offerings. You may opt out of these communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link provided in the email.

​Use of your personal information

We use your personal information to:

To provide our Service: to create and update versions of your profile with Second 50 to display your identity and the information you choose to share. When you invite others to join Second 50 by using the Service, we send them an email for that invitation at the email addresses assigned to them in your address book.

If you provide us with personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  For example, we use Circle platform analytics to help us understand how our users use the community site - you can read more about Circle’s Terms of Service and how Circle uses your Personal Information in their Privacy Policy. 

We are not responsible for what those parties do with your information, so you should make sure you trust the application and that it has a privacy policy that is acceptable to you.

The officers of Second 50 commit to:

·        ​​​identify you and update our records and ensure your details are accurate.

·        provide our Services to you and to send communications as requested by you.

·        liaise with key organisations to deliver our Services, including software providers, state, territory and local governments.

·        answer enquiries about our Services.

·        provide you with updates and relevant information concerning our Services.

·        assess the performance of the Website and to improve the operation of the Website.

·        provide information to our suppliers and other service providers to enable them to provide our products and Services to you, including business, marketing, research and related purposes.

·        comply with any Australian law, orders of courts or tribunals, any rule, regulation, lawful and binding determination, decision or direction of a regulator, or in co-operation with any governmental authority of any country (or political sub-division of a country).

 Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to the following:

Third-parties: We may use certain trusted third-party companies and individuals to help us provide and improve the Service (including but not limited to data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, payment processing, and improvement of the Service’s features). These third parties may have access to your information for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy. As of the date this policy went into effect, we use Circle and Superpath to store some of your information (for example, your files) and Mail Chimp to store some email addresses.

Sub-processors: Second 50 may transfer personal information to companies that help us provide our service. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the provisions in this Policy regarding notice and choice, as well as the service agreements with our members. A list of Sub-Processors can be made available upon request.

Business transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but we will notify you (for example, via email, sign in notification, and/or a prominent notice on our Website) if that happens or if your information otherwise becomes subject to a different privacy policy in lieu of this one. We will also notify you of choices you may have regarding the information.

Law Enforcement: We may disclose to third parties data stored in your Second 50 account and information about you that we collect only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy and when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation, or compulsory legal request, such as to comply with a subpoena; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Second 50 or its users; or (d) to protect Second 50’s rights.

We do not sell Personal Information to third parties.

Third-Party links

Our Website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Second 50. If you submit personal information to any of those websites, your information is governed by their privacy policies.

​​Data Retention

Second 50 will retain personal data we process on behalf of our members for as long as needed to provide Services to our members. Our intention is to retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with the Services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, you may delete your account. We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and rights, or if it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it.

Consistent with these requirements, we will try to delete your information quickly upon request. Please note, that Second 50 may retain your personal data for longer where there is a legal obligation, contractual, or legitimate interest, unless these interests are overridden by the individual’s fundamental rights; in those cases data will be removed once it is no longer needed for those purposes. In addition, we do not provide access, transfer, change, or delete information from our servers’ files where that right adversely affects the rights of others.

Security

Second 50 stresses its privacy and security standards. Although no one can guarantee absolute security, we regularly re-evaluate our privacy and security policies in order to adapt to new challenges. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. We encrypt the most sensitive data that you store on Second-50 using the standard encryption methods.

​Choice/Opt-Out

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails.

How to access and correct your personal information

Upon request, Second 50 will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information.

If you are a registered user, you may review, update, correct, or delete certain Personal Information provided in your registration or account profile by changing your account settings.

If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our Service, you may update or delete it by making the change in your account settings, although (in some cases) we may retain copies of your information if required by law, to protect our rights, or if it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it.

You may at any time withdraw any consent that you have provided to us to process your information, or exercise your right to access and correct your personal information by contacting us as provided below. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request, for security purposes.

We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days.

Choice

Second-50 acknowledges that you have the right to access your personal information. If you are a user of one of our Services and would no longer like to be contacted by one of our members, or other individuals or organisations that may have contacted you in the delivery of a service via Second 50, please contact the user that you interact with directly. If you are unable to resolve an issue regarding this, please contact community@second-50.co and we will do our best to help.

​​Children

Our Services are not directed to persons under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without the parent’s consent, he or she should contact us at community@second-50.co. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.

​Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

​​​​Non-Australian Users

If you are located outside of Australia, please note that the information you provide to us will be used, maintained, retained, transferred and disclosed in Australia, where laws regarding use of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By using our Platform, you consent to such use, maintenance, retention, transfer and disclosure in accordance with this Privacy Policy,  The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

​Questions or Comments

We welcome questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. If you wish to access, verify and/or amend your personal information or make a complaint under this Privacy Policy, please contact community@second-50.co

This Privacy Policy was last revised on 19 July 2024.