Purpose of data collection, data processing and data use
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1 March, 2021.
We at Unexplored take your privacy very seriously and are committed to being transparent with how we use your information.
We are engaged in operating online publications covering news and trends in fashion, art, music and culture. We processes personal data for the following purposes:
- Operation of the website, including statistical analysis of the use
- Provision of content
- Advertising
- Execution of contracts
Groups of people concerned and the associated data and category of data
Customer and user data, data from partner companies that are needed to fulfil the purpose.
Children under 16
Our website is not directed toward children under 16 and we will not knowingly collect information for any child under the age of 16.
If you are the parent of a child under the age of 16 and have a concern regarding your child’s information on our website, please contact us at info@afrocentrikfest.com.au
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 anonymised 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.
- To further develop and improve our services – for example, adding new features that we think our users will enjoy or help them have a satisfactory user experience;
- To monitor and analyse trends and better understand how users interact with our services;
- To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition;
- To monitor and prevent any problems with our services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Automatic and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our services;
- To communicate with you, for example through an email, about offers and promotions offered by Automatic and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on Automatic and our products; and
- To personalise your experience using our Services, provide content recommendations, target our marketing messages to groups of our users (for example, those who have a particular plan with us or have been our user for a certain length of time), and serve relevant advertisements.
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.
Information you give us or information provided through a social network.
For example, some of our services require you to sign up for an account, provide information for a contest or award, or link an account through a social network. The information we collect may include email, name, phone number, address, or credit card information. Such information is necessary to render the services requested and/or to provide contractual services. Unless statutory provisions provide otherwise, the data will be deleted if the purpose cease to apply, e.g. if the services are performed in full or if you unsubscribe from our services.
When you contact us, either by e-mail or by using our contact form, we collect the data you have submitted with your request (e.g. name. e-mail) and may keep a record of your communication to help solve any issues you might be facing. Unless statutory provisions provide otherwise, the data will be deleted if the purpose cease to apply, e.g. if we have processed your request.
We work with social networks including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Snapchat, Instagram, and YouTube. We have access to information you directly provide and information through those social networking services based on your privacy settings on those networks. Such information serves to enhance the usability of our services. Unless statutory provisions provide otherwise, the data will be deleted if the purpose cease to apply.
Contact forms
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Time limits for the deletion of data
Under statutory provisions, a variety of obligations and periods apply with regard to the keeping of data. Once these retention periods have expired, the corresponding data must be erased as a matter of routine. Any data not affected by this is deleted if the purposes mentioned above cease to apply.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We do not share personal information with companies, outside organisations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances apply:
With your consent
We will share personal information with companies, outside organisations or individuals if we have your consent to do so. We may also seek your additional consent for purposes subsequently notified to you.
For external processing
We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. If personal data is transferred to or processed in countries outside the European Union, we make sure that our contractors guarantee an adequate level of data protection.
For legal reasons
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We will share personal information with companies, outside organisations or individuals if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users or the public as required or permitted by law.
In case of a sale or asset transfer
If we become involved in a merger, acquisition or other transaction involving the sale of some or all of our assets, user information, including personal information collected from you through your use of our services, could be included in the transferred assets. Should such an event occur, we will use reasonable means to notify you and ask for your consent where applicable.
In anonymous form for business purposes
We may share anonymous, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners such as businesses which we have a relationship with, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information to show trends about the general use of our services.
Newsletter
You have the opportunity to receive a newsletter containing targeted information via our web service. In this case we must collect and save your email address, which we will only use to send the newsletter. You can unsubscribe via our website at anytime. At the end of the newsletter you will find a link intended for this purpose and provides a simple way to cancel the newsletter. In this case your data will be deleted.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We work hard to protect our users from unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold however no website is entirely secure. You should protect the account information in your possession as well. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at info@afrocentrikfest.com.au
Right to information
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed by us. Where that is the case, you have the right to access to the personal data and the following information:
1. the purposes of the processing;
2. the categories of personal data concerned;
3. the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
4. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
5. the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
6. the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
7. where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source.
Right to rectification
You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to erasure
You have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data where one of the following grounds applies:
1. the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;
2. the personal data has been unlawfully processed;
3. the personal data has to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which Unexplored is subject;
If Unexplored has made personal data public and is obliged to erase the personal data, we will taking into account of available technology and the cost of implementation. We will also take reasonable steps, including technical measures to inform controllers which are processing the personal data you have requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data.
The right to erasure shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:
1. for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
2. for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which Unexplored is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
3. for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data by Unexplored relating to you infringes the stipulated provisions above.
In all such cases, please refer to us by e-mail to info@unexplored.com.au
If you have any questions about data protection, please feel free to contact us at any time using the details given above.
Changes
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.