Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the way WSKK Martial Arts WSKK Martial Arts is committed to providing quality services to you and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we may collect, uses, maintains, and discloses and otherwise handle your personal and sensitive information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the WSKK Martial Arts website (“Site”).

We have adopted the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). The APPs govern the way in which we collect, use, disclose, store, secure and dispose of your ‘Personal Information’.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION AND WHY DO WE COLLECT IT?

Personal Information is information or an opinion that identifies an individual or can reasonably be ascertained from that information or opinion. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information includes some or all the following information: a member’s name, contact details, date of birth, emergency contact details, bank account and/or credit card details, student identification details, employment details, payment history and Sensitive Information.

Your Personal Information may be obtained in many ways including interviews, membership registrations, correspondence, by telephone, by email, via our website www.wskk.com.au, or via Facebook enquires.

We collect your Personal Information for the primary purpose of providing our products, services and/or special offers to you, and for marketing purposes. WSKK Martial Arts use of Personal Information also includes the following primary purposes:

to obtain your opinions or comments.
to record statistical data for marketing analysis.
to process and consider an application for employment.
to promote and market all current and future WSKK Martial Arts businesses, venues, products, and services and to inform new members about the products and services of WSKK Martial Arts and WSKK Martial Arts commercial partners.
to assist with WSKK Martial Arts internal business processes.
to conduct market research and/or to improve WSKK Martial Arts products and service offerings.
to administer contests, promotions, and surveys.
for any other purposes that could be reasonably expected of WSKK Martial Arts; and
to enable WSKK Martial Arts to comply with its obligations under law.

We may also use your Personal Information for secondary purposes closely related to the primary purpose, in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure.

You may unsubscribe from our mailing/marketing lists at any time by contacting us in writing via www.wskk.com.au/contact.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Sensitive Information is defined in the Privacy Act to include information or opinion about such things as an individual's racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a trade union or other professional body, criminal record, or health information.

Sensitive information will be used by us:

for the primary purpose for which it was obtained; or
with your consent, or where required or authorised by law.

THIRD PARTIES

Where reasonable and practicable to do so, we will collect your Personal Information only from you. However, in some circumstances we may be provided with information by third parties. In such a case we will take reasonable steps to ensure that you are made aware of the information provided to us by the third party.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your Personal Information may be disclosed in a number of circumstances including to related entities of WSKK Martial Arts, WSKK Martial Arts contractors, agents and suppliers engaged to provide products and/or perform services, commercial partners where we have agreed appropriate information sharing arrangements, WSKK Martial Arts professional advisors, any other person for any other purposes that would be reasonably expected (including if required by law), or otherwise with your consent.

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 7 years. Phone numbers and e-mail addresses will not be sold, rented, or leased to 3rd parties. E-mail / SMS may be sent to inform you of news of our services or offers by WSKK Martial Arts.

WEBSITE/ONLINE PRIVACY

WSKK Martial Arts will handle Personal Information collected online with the utmost care and will not knowingly use it in ways not explicitly consented to by the user who supplied the information and to whom the information refers.

WSKK Martial Arts will handle Personal Information collected online consistently with the way that it handles Personal Information collected offline. Other matters specific to our handling of Personal Information online are set out below.

a) Cookies

No Personal Information is collected by WSKK Martial Arts when individuals visit our website, unless they chose to provide it to us (for example, by sending us emails through our website). However, we may collect certain data that does not identify individuals (sometimes called “web log information”) when they visit certain pages (such as the type of browser and operating system they have). We may also use “cookies” which are small files that are stored on computer and that manage the security and navigation process of the site. Users can choose to block these cookies, but some portions of the site may not function correctly if they do. This type of data is collected for statistical purposes only, and while cookies will identify a computer, they are unlikely to identify users personally. 3rd party advertising companies may also use cookies for tracking purposes.

b) Email/SMS marketing

We will not distribute our marketing material via SMS unless customers have consented to this. This is a requirement of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth). Further, customers can unsubscribe from our e-newsletter or other bulletins by using the “unsubscribe” facility contained in each electronic publication we send. Occasionally, WSKK Martial Arts will send promotional SMS or email messages to prospective customers to market a service or activity. This will only be done on the reasonable belief that customers would be interested in the subject matter. In every case, students will be provided with clear and simple instructions on how to be removed from our mailing list.

c) Hyperlinks to other websites

Our web site may contain links to other web sites which we do not control, they are not covered by our Privacy Policy. If users access other websites using the links provided, operators may collect information from users and use it in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours. We have no control over the types of information the site owners choose to collect and how they use it.

d) Social Networking Acceptable Use Policy

WSKK Martial Arts encourages all comments on any of our social networking pages (e.g. Facebook). Your opinion is important to us, and we would love to hear from you. However, the social networking sites must not be used to abuse others, expose others to offensive or inappropriate content, or for any illegal purpose.

It is the user’s responsibility to protect their personal privacy when using our social networking pages. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of social networking pages.

GOOGLE / FACEBOOK ADS

Google and Facebook, as third-party vendors, uses cookies to serve ads.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to sites they visit on the Internet.

Website visitors may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

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 here: www.wskk.com.au/contact.

To protect your Personal Information, we may require identification from you before releasing the requested information.

MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

It is an important to us that your Personal Information is up to date. We will take reasonable steps to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate, complete, and up to date. If you find that the information we have is not up to date or is inaccurate, please advise us as soon as practicable so we can update our records.

POLICY UPDATES

This Policy may change from time to time and is available on our website.

If you have any queries or complaints about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: www.wskk.com.au/

WSKK Martial Arts

PHONE. 0407723180