Privacy Policy

Hot Tomato Broadcasting Company Pty Limited owns and operates the websites myGC.com.au, 1029.com.au and 1029hottomato.com.au. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, these entities are referred to as “HTBC”.

HTBC respects the privacy of its audience, advertisers and other people we do business with, and we strive to comply with the relevant legislation and the Australian Privacy Principles 2014. HTBC handles, holds and permits access and correction of personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles including how to complain about a breach in privacy and request corrections to personal information.

This Privacy Policy outlines how the HTBC will handle personal information about you. As HTBC may collect personal information online through our websites this Privacy Policy also outlines our approach to online privacy issues.

Our Privacy Policy is divided into the following sections:

1. HOW AND WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
2. WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE GIVEN TO ANYONE ELSE?
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED?
4. YOUR RIGHT OF ACCESS AND CORRECTION
5. ONLINE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
6. COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
7. ADDITIONAL PRIVACY INFORMATION & HOW TO CONTACT US

1. HOW AND WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
HTBC needs to collect personal information in order to conduct its business. HTBC collects personal information from visitors if you access myGC.com.au, 1029.com.au or 1029hottomato.com.au, if you enter a competition, or to give us feedback. We collect this information for verification purposes. Advertisers: If you or your company purchases advertising time from HTBC, we will collect your business contact details. We need this personal information in order to provide you or your company with our services, and to provide you with information about our services and future promotions. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will use personal information about you to market our services to you or your company. Business contacts: Sometimes, HTBC needs to collect personal information from people we do business with. This will usually happen when we collect the name and business contact details of a person who is the contact in an advertising agency, or one of our advertisers, or a government agency or company we deal with, or in one of our contractors or suppliers. Our policy is only to use personal information collected from our business contacts for the business purpose for which it was collected, and not for any other purpose Our policy is only to use personal information collected from our business contacts or the users of its website for the business purpose for which it was collected, and not for any other purpose. We do not collect personal information that we do not need.

2. WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE GIVEN TO ANYONE ELSE?
We will not sell, rent or trade personal information about you to or with others without your direct consent unless we are compelled to by law, or if the disclosure is permitted under the Privacy Act.  Personal information collected by us may be disclosed to third parties with whom we partner to deliver competitions/promotions and where a mailing list opt-in is a requirement or option of competition/promotion entry.  Personal information may also be disclosed to contractors to whom we outsource specialised functions (such as mailing houses or printing companies) and if so, we take steps to ensure that those contractors: comply with the Australian Privacy Principles when they handle personal information about you; and are authorised only to use personal information in order to provide the services or to perform the functions required by us.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED?
HTBC takes steps to ensure that the personal information it holds is secure from unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure. We only permit your details to be accessed by authorised personnel.

4. YOUR RIGHT OF ACCESS AND CORRECTION
Under the Privacy Act, you have the right to seek access to information which we hold about you (although there are some exceptions to this). You also have the right to ask us to correct information about you which is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date. If you wish to exercise your right under the Privacy Act to seek access to the personal information that the HTBC holds about you, or if you believe that personal information about you is not accurate, complete or up to date, you should contact our General Manager, including the details of your request for correction (if applicable). Contact details can be found at the end of this Privacy Policy. Please note that the personal information we hold about you will be information that you have provided us. We will assume (unless you tell us otherwise) that your request relates to our current records about you. To provide you with access to “current” personal information, we would ordinarily provide you with a print-out of the relevant personal information from our databases, or with photocopies of records which are held only on paper files. We may charge you for the cost of providing this type of access, but this will depend on the scope of your request. For legal and administrative reasons, we may also store records containing personal information in our archives.

5. ONLINE COLLECTION OF PERSONAL AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
As noted above, our websites may collect personal information (eg if our visitors email us) No personal is stored on our server, unless authorised by the sender. If authorised, the only information stored is first and last name, email address, state and country.

6. COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE
HTBC may use ‘cookies’ on its websites. Cookies are an industry standard and most major websites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our websites may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for our website to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of our websites.

In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. HTBC extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. You can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our websites or take advantage of the improved website experience that cookies offer.

Refusing Cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”. Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

IP Addresses
HTBC also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. HTBC collects and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes.

7. ADDITIONAL PRIVACY INFORMATION & HOW TO CONTACT US
We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. We will make this Privacy Policy available to anyone who requests it, either at our offices or through our websites. For further information about privacy issues, see the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s website at www.privacy.gov.au. If you feel that HTBC is not complying with this Privacy Policy, or if you have other privacy concerns, please contact our General Manager using the following contact details:

• by telephone on 07 5519 2200
• by facsimile on 07 5519 2300
• by email to [email protected]
• by letter to PO Box 10290, Southport QLD 4215

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 28 January, 2016.