Privacy policy

Definitions.

The term ‘website’ used in the text below refers to ‘www.internationalmusiccompetition.com.au’

Notice of agreement.

By using this website, you agree to our ‘Privacy policy’ as given below. If you do not agree with any of the points listed here, please discontinue using our service.

Your privacy is important to us. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, www.internationalmusiccompetition.com.au, and other sites we own and operate.

Why we might request your personal information.

We may request your name and email address to be able to contact you (for example as a response to your using our Contact Form). We will only contact you to fulfil our service to you. We will not contact you with any marketing materials.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

We may use cookies to provide better site experience to you as well as for analytical reasons (we use Google Analytics). Those little pieces of information cannot identify your personal information but anonymously track your visits. Please remember that your activity online is not anonymous, and that various data are collected on the server access log while reading, browsing or downloading data from this site.

Analytics data is provided via our hosting provider BlueHost. Please visit their site for their detailed Privacy Policy (https://www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy?_ga=2.130274639.1731472020.1550295219-2145146381.1549411411).

Some metadata, such as clicks on various items and visits to the website, is stored in our server logs. If you click on YouTube videos, the number of views may be logged by the YouTube website. Please visit their website for more details on their Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Who has access to your data?

The owner of the website and the webmaster both have access to the data collected via the website. The hosting provider has access to the data related to server hosting.

Data security.

We do not process payments on this website. All security issues related to data entered during the payment process is handled by relevant organisations processing those payments (such as your bank and PayPal – including credit cards).

At all times we make all effort to keep data on the website secure, but it is not possible to guarantee 100% of data security online. We cannot be liable for any damages caused by security breach occurring on our site.

Data breach.

If your data is compromised, you will be notified within 72 hours from the moment we are aware of such breach.

Personal data disclosure.

The personal data you disclose on this site will not be shared with any third parties except in response to valid legal requests from authorities. Your personal data will be used only for communications related to this service.

Although all care is taken to protect data collected on this site, we cannot be considered liable for issues caused by illegal breaches of the site’s security such as hacking or similar.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

Your right to modify your personal data.

You can request your personal data to be modified and for your account to be terminated at any point. You can do this by logging in to your account (if you have one set up) and entering the changes yourself, or by emailing us and requesting the changes you would like made. This service agrees to respond to such requests within 7 days (in most cases) from date of receipt of the request.

How long and why we store your data.

We only store data for the duration and purpose of fulfilling our services to you. We do not do business in selling or marketing user personal data and we do not share your data with any third parties. We will only share your data if required by law authorities.

After the service is fulfilled data is deleted within 60 days, unless otherwise required by law.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Right to access.

You have the right to be informed about the data we might request, and to access, change or modify your data to ensure its accuracy.

Right to erasure.

You have the right to have your data deleted from our website unless forbidden by law.

Right to object.

You have the right to object any processing of your personal data via our website.

Portability.

You have the right to transfer your personal information to another party.