Privacy Policy

Ascot Vale Smiles (“Ascot Vale Smiles“)operates Ascotvalesmiles.com.au and may operate other websites. It is Ascot Vale Smiles’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Like most website operators, Ascot Vale Smiles collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference,referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Ascot Vale Smiles’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Ascot Vale Smiles’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Ascot Vale Smiles may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Ascot Vale Smiles also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol(IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Ascotvalesmiles.com.au blogs/sites. Ascot Vale Smiles only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Certain visitors to Ascot Vale Smiles’s websites choose to interact with Ascot Vale Smiles in ways that require Ascot Vale Smiles to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Ascot Vale Smiles gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at Ascotvalesmiles.com.au to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Ascot Vale Smiles are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Ascot Vale Smiles collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Ascot Vale Smiles. Ascot Vale Smiles does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS

Ascot Vale Smiles may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Ascot Vale Smiles may display this information publicly or provide it to others.However, Ascot Vale Smiles does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION

Ascot Vale Smiles discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Ascot Vale Smiles’s behalf or to provide services available at Ascot Vale Smiles’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Ascot Vale Smiles’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Ascot Vale Smiles will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Ascot Vale Smiles discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Ascot Vale Smiles believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Ascot Vale Smiles, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Ascot Vale Smiles website and have supplied your email address, Ascot Vale Smiles may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Ascot Vale Smiles and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Ascot Vale Smiles takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

COOKIES

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Ascot Vale Smiles uses cookies to help Ascot Vale Smiles identify and track visitors, their usage of Ascot Vale Smiles website, and their website access preferences. Ascot Vale Smiles visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ascot Vale Smiles’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Ascot Vale Smiles’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

If Ascot Vale Smiles, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Ascot Vale Smiles goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Ascot Vale Smiles may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

ADS

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Ascot Vale Smiles and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Ascot Vale Smiles may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Ascot Vale Smiles’s sole discretion. Ascot Vale Smiles encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Ascotvalesmiles.com.au account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement