Privacy Policy

By making contact with me through this website or any other means such as, but not limited to; email, surveys, phone, instant messenger, voice chat, or sms constitutes an agreement to all parts of this privacy policy.

Any information collected from you via this website, email, msn messenger, phone or in person will not be sold to any third party. Any information you freely provide – including but not limited to; name, phone numbers, email, online profiles, chat messages, sent images, video or audio may be stored on the receiving computer/smart phone in full form or in logs. Whilst care is taken of network security of my regular home network and devices, I may be on other shared computers, public internet or in any other number of places and the safety of the data supplied at that time can not be controlled. Many social networking websites and programs will share friends of friends, uploaded images, logs of activities ad your computer may record your actions online as well, I am not responsible for the security of this data or any breach of its security and any effects following that. Any information used for marketing, promotion or conversation pieces will only be used with your identifying details removed unless otherwise advised and permission obtained.

Your personal information may be stored in a database and used to improve business services and be analysed or otherwise used for various marketing purposes. Database is stored on media not connected to the internet. If you wish to have your details removed at any time please advise request in writing.

Personal information may be shared with security or similar capacity third party on duty during your booking, this is for my personal protection only and not for any other purpose.

Your personal details and particulars may be utilised, documented or shared with any third party in the event of harassment, lack of payment, failed payment, or unsucessful bank transfer if service has already occured or cancellation fee is owed. You will be given 1 week to settle these matters satisfactorily, from the date of service or date of notification – whichever is earlier. Once this period has passed further action may be taken at anytime to recover owed amount, including but not limited to, further contact by any channel including but not limited to email, sms, phone, standard post, registered post, debt reporting through agency such as baycorp, or in person by myself or an agent acting on my behalf. These contacts may be at residential, work or any known address.

Threatening or harassing phone calls, emails or messenger behaviour, excessive and/or serial timewasting or unhonoured bookings may be reported to industry databases for the future safety of others in the industry. Phone numbers/email addresses may be partially censored.

Physical threats by phone, email, messenger, or in person are always taken seriously and will be reported to relevant authorities along with your contact details as relevant. Physically threatening, inappropriate, unwarranted or unagreed behavior including continuing behavior for which permission has been revoked may result in your information being passed to other appropriate third parties and/or authorities.

Information will only be shared with other third parties than those outlined above as required by law.

Privacy Policy may be changed at anytime without notice.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://melanieofsydney.com.au.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.