Privacy

My Privacy Commitment

I understand and acknowledge the importance of the privacy of customers and other visitors to my website, www.seanmorahan.com.  This privacy includes any information about customers that I collect and record and which could be used to reasonably identify them.

I view privacy as a serious matter and I adhere to the Privacy Act 1988 and the National Privacy Principles.  Copies of these documents are available from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at: www.privacy.gov.au/act/

This Privacy Policy Statement sets out my policies on how I manage personal information throughout my business.

Types of Personal Information I Collect

The kind of information I collect will vary depending on the extent to which you use my services, but will generally include your name, your address, your e-mail address, your telephone numbers and other contact details, and your business or employer.  I may also collect information about your use of products and services I supply, and any preferences that you tell me about.

If you become a customer I may collect information about: your business performance; your past, current and future business needs; your business circumstances including business goals, booking times, reliability, etc.

Why I Collect Personal Information

Generally, I collect and use personal information about customers and visitors to provide a range of information and services relating to comedy writing and/or performing, and other comedy related services including, but not limited to, events, marketing activities and functions.

About Your Preferences

I do not collect sensitive personal information, such as your political or religious beliefs, sexual preference or ethnic background.

I collect general information for statistical and maintenance purposes that enables me to continually monitor and improve the performance of this website.

This information includes the number of users visiting this website and the number of pages viewed, the date, time and duration of visits, and the path that led each user to this website.

This information will not identify you and I will not attempt to identify you from this information by other means.

How I Collect Information

Generally, I collect personal information directly from you, such as when you apply for information from me or request a product or service, in the course of providing you with that product or service.

I may collect and update that information over the phone, at your place of business, at a performance venue, over the Internet, from publicly available information, in person, when you write to me or if you hire me or are involved  in my, or my company’s performance, promotions or marketing campaigns.

I may also collect personal information through third parties, e.g., associated people or businesses who refer you to me.

My Storage of Information

I store personal information in computers,  paper-based files and other records.  In so doing, I have taken steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

In accordance with the National Privacy Principles, I periodically review reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information when it is no longer needed.  Furthermore, unless it is not practicable or lawful, I will provide you the option of interacting with me anonymously.

Your Privacy with the Other Organisations I Work With

Because your privacy is important I will not sell, rent, or trade your personal information without your prior informed consent.

In providing my business services to you, I may disclose information about you to my associated businesses and contractors to carry out activities on my behalf, e.g. comedy performers, comedy writers, marketing contractors.

I may use your personal information to contact you from time to time to give you information and offers about performances and services provided by me.

If you do not wish to receive marketing information from me, my company or our associated organisations, you will be given information in each such communication on how to opt-out of receiving this contact from us.  You may also contact me on any of the contact details on these pages to tell me your contact preferences.

To protect your privacy, I impose strict requirements of security and confidentiality on all  contractors and third parties as to how they handle your personal information.  Outside contractors are not allowed to use information about you for any purpose except to perform the services I and my company have asked them to provide.

Your Access to Your Personal Information

I will take reasonable steps to make sure that the personal information we collect, use or disclose is accurate, complete and up to date. If your personal details change, such as your address or phone number, please contact me to update your details so we may continue to provide requested information to you.

After receiving a request from you, I will provide you with a copy of any personal information which I may hold about you in accordance with my obligations under the Privacy Act.  In accordance with the Act, I may, within reason, charge a fee for retrieving this information, in which case I will inform you of the fee in advance of providing the information.

I undertake to promptly acknowledge and investigate any complaint about the way I manage personal information.

Other Third Parties and my Website

I use Webalizer and Advanced Web Statistics ( AW Stats ), two web server log file analysis programmes, to gather general information from code in the web pages of this website. This information is not capable of identifying you.  Types of information gathered include your IP address, what pages you have viewed, time of your view and your location previous to accessing the website.  I use this information for statistical and maintenance purposes.

I may, from time to time, also use external companies for maintenance or problem solving and to gather non-personal information from cookies in order to analyse the effectiveness of any of my marketing activities.

Information Subscriptions

I may offer an e-mail subscription service on my web site/s.  The only information required for this subscription is a name and an e-mail address.  The database for this subscription service is managed on my behalf by Aweber Communications, Inc.  Aweber Communications’ Privacy Policy may be viewed at:  http://www.aweber.com/privacy-policy.htm

Changes to My Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy Statement may be updated from time to time. The current edition will be located here on my website.

Contact Me

If you have any questions about this policy or if you wish to update information we hold about you, please write to:

P.r. i.v.a.c.y:   S e a n M o r a h a n . c o m
P. O.  B o x  3|6|8|3
Marsfield
N S W   2,1,2,2
AUSTRALIA

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