Terms & Privacy
WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Thank you for visiting the Synergy Pacific website. Please read the Terms and Conditions of this website carefully as any use of the website by you constitutes acceptance of the Terms and Conditions set out below.
Throughout this site, the terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “SP” refer to Synergy Pacific.
Synergy Pacific may update these terms at any time without notice. You should visit this page periodically to review the then-current Terms of Use. Please note that Synergy Pacific may, at its sole discretion, terminate your access to this website at any time without notice.
Use of this Service is governed by, and subject to, the Terms of Use located here (the “Terms”). Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms. Your use, or access, of the Service constitutes your agreement to be bound by these provisions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE SERVICE.
GOVERNING LAW
Terms and Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are subject to the laws of the State of Queensland, regardless of your location. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of and venue in the courts located in the State of Queensland, County of Australia, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the Services.
CONTACTING US
Synergy Pacific welcomes your comments regarding our Terms and Privacy Policy. If you have any questions and would like further information, please contact us by any the following means emailing to hello@synergypacific.com.au.
ACCURACY OF CONTENT
We have taken proper care and precautions to ensure that the information we provide on this website is accurate. However, we cannot guarantee, nor do we accept any legal liability arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of anything contained on this website or on any linked site. Any reliance upon the material on this website shall be at your own risk. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor any changes to the material and the information contained on this website.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHTS
This website is owned and operated by Synergy Pacific. Unless otherwise specified, all materials on this website are the property of Synergy Pacific and are protected by the copyright laws of Australia and, throughout the world by the applicable copyright laws. You may, view, print and/or download one copy of the materials from this website on any single computer solely for your personal, informational, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. No materials published by Synergy Pacific on this website, in whole or in part, may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any means unless expressly agreed to by us, in which case we require you to sign a Licence Agreement. The use of any such materials on any other website or networked computer environment or for any other purpose is strictly prohibited and such unauthorised use may violate copyright, trademark and other similar laws.
If you wish to use content, images or other of our intellectual property, you should submit your request to us at the following email address: hello@synergypacific.com.au.
LINKS TO EXTERNAL WEBSITES
This website may contain links that direct you outside of this website. Synergy Pacific may provide these links to other sites as a convenience to you, and in no way should this be interpreted as an endorsement of any company, content or products to which it links. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this website, you do this entirely at your own risk. We accept no liability for loss or damage arising out of or in connection to your use of these sites.
You may link to our articles or home page. However, you should not provide a link that suggests any association, approval or endorsement on our part in respect to your website, unless we have expressly agreed in writing. We may withdraw our consent to you linking to our site at any time by notice to you.
COMMUNICATIONS
Any non-personal communication or material you transmit to this website by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like is, or will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that anything you transmit or post (Feedback) will be deemed, at the time of communication to Synergy Pacific, the property of Synergy Pacific and Synergy Pacific) shall be entitled to full rights of ownership, including without limitation, unrestricted right to use or disclose such Feedback in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed, and for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting without further reference or payment or compensation to you.
Furthermore, Synergy Pacific is free to use for any purposes whatsoever (including but not limited to the developing, manufacturing, advertising and marketing of products) any ideas, artwork, inventions, developments, suggestions or concepts contained in any communication you send to this website. Any such use is without reference or compensation to you. By submitting information, you are also warranting that you own the material/content submitted, that it is not defamatory and that the use of the material/content submitted by Synergy Pacific will not violate any third party’s rights. Synergy Pacific is under no obligation to use the information submitted.
INDEMNIFICATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE
You agree to indemnify Synergy Pacific and hold us harmless from and against any and all liabilities or expenses arising from or in any way related to your use of this website or the Services or information offered on this website, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgements, litigation costs and solicitors fees of every kind and nature incurred by you or any third parties through you.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
We take no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the content or statements contained on this website or in relation to our Services. Statements made are by way of general comment only and you should satisfy yourself as to their accuracy.
In no event shall Synergy Pacific or its approved suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages including, without limitation, loss of profits or revenues, costs of replacement goods, loss or damage to data arising out of the use or inability to use this website or any linked site, damages resulting from use of or reliance on the information or materials presented on this website, whether based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory even if Synergy Pacific or its approved suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
Use of information you have provided us with, or that we have collected and retained relating to your use of the website and/or our Services, is governed by our Privacy Policy. By using this website and the Services associated with this website, you are agreeing to the Privacy Policy. To view our Privacy Policy and read more about why we collect personal information from you and how we use that information.
CONFIDENTIALITY
All personal information you give us will be dealt with in a confidential manner in accordance with our Privacy Policy. However, due to circumstances outside of our control, we cannot guarantee that all aspects of your use of this website will be confidential due to the potential ability of third parties to intercept and access such information.
GOVERNING LAW
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Queensland, Australia. Any disputes concerning this website are to be resolved by the courts having jurisdiction in Queensland.
We retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms and Conditions, in your country of residence or any other appropriate country or jurisdiction.
PRIVACY POLICY
Synergy Pacific understands the importance of your personal privacy. Therefore, we have created this Australian Privacy Policy (herein referred to as Privacy Policy) so that you know how we use and disclose your information when you make it available to us under Australian consumer laws. The Privacy Policy below discloses our practices regarding information collection and usage on websites located at synergypacific.com.au, konsiderate.com.au, whisper.com.au (collectively, the “Websites”) and the service provided thereon (the “Service”). By using or accessing the Websites and the Service, you signify your agreement to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE OUR SERVICE OR PARTICIPATE IN OUR SERVICES.
Throughout this site, the terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “sp” refer to Synergy Pacific.
Key aspects of our privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy include the following explanations:
The information we collect and why we collect it;
How we use that information;
How we share information; and
The choices we offer.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We may ask you for, or you may voluntarily submit, personally identifiable information when you are using the Service. The personally identifiable information which you may provide to us could include, but is not limited to:
Your name
Your contact information (including, without limitation, address and email address);
Your IP address; and
Other personal information.
NON-PERSONAL OR AGGREGATE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
When you access our Service, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you, such as IP host address, web pages viewed, browser type, operating system, referring service, search information, device type, page views, usage and browsing habits on the Service and similar data. We may also aggregate demographic information collected from our users (such as the number of users in a particular geographical location) in a manner that does not identify anyone individually. We may also aggregate information collected offline in connection with the Service, obtain non-personally identifiable information from third-party sources and develop aggregate information by anonymising previously collected personally identifiable information. It is possible at times when collecting non-personally identifiable information through automatic means that we may unintentionally collect or receive personally identifiable information that is mixed in with the non-personally identifiable information. While we will make reasonable efforts to prevent such incidental data collection, the possibility still exists. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected your personal information, please notify us at hello@synergypacific.com.au.
INFORMATION USAGE
We will only use your personally identifiable information as described below unless you have specifically consented to another type of use, either at the time the personally identifiable information is collected from you or through some other form of consent from you or notification to you:
We may share your personally identifiable information collected in connection with providing the Service.
We may use your personally identifiable information to respond to your inquiries or requests.
We may use your personally identifiable information to send you emails from time to time about our services, but we will not provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for them to contact you directly unless otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy or you provide your consent.
We may share your personally identifiable information with third parties (collectively, the “Third Party Vendors”) to further the purpose for which you provided such information to us. We urge you to read the privacy practices of all of our Third Party Vendors before submitting any personally identifiable information through the Service.
We may disclose personally identifiable information as required by Australian law or legal process.
We may disclose personally identifiable information to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, or the terms or policies for our services or our sponsors.
We may transfer your personally identifiable information in connection with the sale or merger or change of control of Synergy Pacific or the division responsible for the services with which your personally identifiable information is associated.
We may share your personally identifiable information with an affiliate of My Synergy Pacific who is in the same corporate family as us as long as their privacy practices are substantially similar to ours.
Non-personally identifiable or aggregate information may be used by us for any purposes permitted by Australian law and may be shared with any number of parties, provided that such information shall not specifically identify you.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a service for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and interaction with that service. Many services use cookies for these purposes. We may use cookies (and similar items such as clear gifs, web beacons, tags, etc.) on our Service to customise your visit and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient, or to enable us to enhance our Service. We may also use and place cookies (and similar items) on your computer from our third-party service providers in connection with the Service, such as an analytics provider that helps us manage and analyse Service usage, as described more fully below. In addition, our advertisers and business partners may set cookies and similar items on your computer when you use our Service. You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences, in which case you may still use our Service, but it may interfere with some of its functionality. Cookies and similar items are not used by us to automatically retrieve personally identifiable information from your computer without your knowledge.
If you delete your cookies, change browsers or use a different cookie, our cookie (or an opt-out cookie) may no longer work and you will have to re-input (or opt-out) again.
ANALYTICS AND CONVERSION TRACKING
We may use analytics services that use cookies, javascript and similar technologies to help us analyse how users use the Service. The information generated by these services about your use of the Service (including your IP address or a truncated version of your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by analytics service providers on their servers. Those service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your, and other users, use of the Service, compiling reports for us on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage.
We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For example, we use cookies on our site for Google Analytics (the “Analytics Service”). The Analytics Service is a web-based analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. The Analytics Service customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.
Like many services, the Analytics Service uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.
The Analytics Service collects information anonymously. They report website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt-out of the Analytics Service without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may also use Google conversion tracking and/or similar services to help us understand your and other users’ use of the Service.
AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
When you access the Service or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your system by using cookies and other types of tracking technologies. This “automatically collected” information may include Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), a unique user ID, device type, device identifiers, browser types and language, referring and exit pages, platform type, version of software installed, system type, the content and pages that you access on the Service, the number of clicks, the amount of time spent on pages, the dates and times that you visit the Service, and other similar information. Depending on the law of your country of residence, your IP address may legally be considered personally identifiable information. In Australia, you are protected by IP legislation and intellectual property laws.
SECURITY
The security of your personally identifiable information is very important to us. When we collect your personally identifiable information online, we use reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorised access. However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your personally identifiable information will be completely free from unauthorised access by third parties such as hackers and your use of our Service demonstrates your assumption of this risk. We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. Only those employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties are authorised to have access to your personally identifiable information. For more information on protecting your privacy, please visit https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/privacy-act.
YOUR DISCLOSURES IN BLOGS AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA
You should be aware that personally identifiable information which you voluntarily include and transmit online on the Service or in a publicly accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online, or that you share in an open forum such as an in-person panel or survey, may be viewed and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable to control such uses of your personally identifiable information, and by using the Service or any other online services you assume the risk that the personally identifiable information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of purposes.
If you login to the Websites and/or Service through your Facebook account, connect to a third-party service such as Facebook or LinkedIn through an icon or link on the Service or otherwise link your Synergy Pacific account with a third-party service, we may share the contents of your post and associated information (such as your username, the fact that your connection originated from the Service, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party. With your one-time consent, we may also send information about the content you watch and your activities on the Service to such third parties. Once such information is shared, the use of your information will be subject to that service’s privacy policy and this Privacy Policy will not apply.
PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN
We generally do not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If at any time in the future we plan to collect personally identifiable information from children under 13, such collection and use, to the extent applicable, shall, when required, be done in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and appropriate consent from the child’s parent or guardian will be sought where required by COPPA. When we become aware that personally identifiable information from a child under 13 has been collected without such a child’s parent or guardian’s consent, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
OTHER SERVICES
As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third-party Services from within our Service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. When you link away from our Service, you do so at your own risk.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use personally identifiable information in a way that materially differs from this Privacy Policy, including sharing such information with more third parties, we will post such changes here and provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of such differing uses. Your continued use of the Service and our services following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.
OPT-OUT PROCESS
All unsubscribe or opt-out requests may be made by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the relevant email. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt. However, we are not responsible for, and in some cases we are incapable of, removing your personally identifiable information from the lists of any third party who has previously been provided with your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or your consent. You should contact such third parties directly. If you would like to update or correct any personally identifiable information that you have provided to us, please email us at info@synergypacific.com.au and once we confirm your information, we will update such information within a reasonable amount of time.
COMMUNICATIONS WITH SYNERGY PACIFIC
By providing your contact information to us (including, without limitation, your email address, physical address, and phone number) (collectively the “Channels”) to us, you expressly consent to receive communications from us. We may use the Channels to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or services developed or provided by us or our business partners, provided that, we will not give your contact information to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
By using the Service, you expressly consent to receive in-product communications from us (including, without limitation, push notifications on the App).
By providing your phone number to us, you expressly consent to receive phone calls and/or text messages from us. We will not give your phone number to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Any phone calls and/or text messages delivered to your phone or device may cause you to incur extra data, text messaging, or other charges from your wireless carrier. MESSAGE AND DATA RATES MAY APPLY. You are solely responsible for any carrier charges incurred as a result of phone and/or text communications Synergy Pacific.
Any communication or material you transmit to us by email or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Except to the extent expressly covered by this [Australian] Privacy Policy, anything you transmit or post may be used by us for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, you expressly agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to us, as well as any data developed using the content of such communication, without compensation and for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services using such information.
NO RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties, nor does it require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the Service.