Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 1, 2023

B Positive Group Pty Ltd, (“B Positive,” “ashplaysted.com”, "paladinpartners.com.au", “mindsetfitmethod.com “ "Ash Playsted" "we,” “us,” “our”) is committed to protecting both the personal as well as business information you share and/or store with us. This Privacy Policy applies to transactions and activities and data gathered through the Paladin Partners or associated Websites and interaction you may have with its related Social Media accounts. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may revise it without notice.

Generally, we may collect and use personal information for many purposes, including, but not limited to: billing, product and service fulfillment, understanding customer needs, providing a better website, improving products and services, and communicating with customers and potential customers regarding our products and services with third-party products and services.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US

We do not collect personally identifiable information e.g., name, e-mail address, contact or similar information unless you choose to provide it to us. If you voluntarily provide us with personal information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through our Website, we may use that information only to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information or services that you request. To the extent that we process your personal information based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time as stated below.

ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATION

to enable your use of our services and fulfill your requests for certain features, such as enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, and message boards;
by performing statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of our services to improve our relationship with our customers
for product development purposes and to generally inform advertisers about the nature of our subscriber base to improve our relationship with our customers;
to customize your experience by allowing advertising to be targeted to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent

to enable your use of our services and fulfill your requests for certain features, such as enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, and message boards;

DIRECT COMMUNICATION

An important aspect of our services includes direct communication with our customers. As a result, we will periodically send you communications to your email, text, or voice mailbox, via telephone, fax, cell phone, email, paper mail, or any other delivery method regarding the products or services you may have purchased through this Website. We may also send you information about product or service updates, new features, or information we believe you may find interesting. We may send you information regarding other products and services we offer.

HOW TO ACCESS, CORRECT, DELETE OR EXERCISE OTHER RIGHTS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to request to access, correct, object to the use, restrict or delete personal information that you have reviously provided to us, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company, you may contact us at ash@playsted.com.au with the subject line “Data Subject Request.” We will attempt to comply with your request. However, the nature of our business, along with the applicable law governing our business, requires us to retain your information for several years. Please also note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the personal information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion). There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.

As a result, we cannot guarantee the deletion of all your information. But, when we receive a deletion request, we will remove your applicable information from our marketing and billing systems accordingly. This will ensure that there are no further mailings or billings directed towards you. As we continue to refine our systems, we will establish a method for the complete removal of all user information from the system without compromising our legal and ethical duties. This document will evolve as these new methods are defined and tested for permanent account deletion. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING OUR USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We may use the information you provide for marketing purposes such as promotional emailing, direct mail, and sales contacts. We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from receiving electronic communications from us if you are a user of products or services and no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by sending a request for list removal to ash@playsted.com.au. If you have provided your information to us, and opt-out, we will put in place processes to honor your request. This may entail keeping some information for the purpose of remembering that you have opted-out.

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please also note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you messages for administrative or other purposes directly relating to your use of the products or services, and you cannot opt-out from receiving those messages.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Services);
Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

The security of personal information is a high priority for us. We seek to use reasonable technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You transmit and receive all such information at your own risk.

WE PROVIDE ANY AND ALL SERVICES AND INFORMATION ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND GRANT NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

If you have any questions about the security of your interaction with us please contact us at ash@playsted.com.au

SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES

Our products and services may use social media features provided by third parties, such as the Facebook Like button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our websites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

THIRD PARTY PAYMENT PROCESSOR

We currently use third-party payment processors. When making payment, your personal information may be collected by such processors directly and not by us and will be subject to the third-party’s privacy policy. We have no control over and are not responsible for, third parties’ collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third-party site or service used in connection with our products and services. The inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Close, Zoom or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our products and services, including our social media pages.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

In providing our products and services, we use various third-party vendors who may either directly or indirectly collect information from you, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft. You should review the relevant privacy policies (for further information on how each third party handles your personal information. If you would like a list of all third-party vendors who we currently use, please request the “current third-party vendor list” by emailing us at ash@playsted.com.au

CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER; GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION

The Services are controlled and operated by us from Australia and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of Australia. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using our services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including Australia, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your personal information. By using our services, including our website, you acknowledge and agree that (1) this Privacy Policy and any other agreement between you and us shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, notwithstanding any conflict-of-law provisions to the contrary; and (2) all disputes and claims relating to this Privacy Policy and any other agreement between you and us shall be litigated in the courts located in the State of Victoria, Australia, and you expressly waive any objections to such jurisdiction and venue and irrevocably consent and submit to the personal and subject matter jurisdiction of such court in any action or proceeding.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND THIRD-PARTIES

During your visit as you browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we automatically collect and store the following anonymous information about your visit:

the date and time you access our site;
the pages You visit on our site;
if You navigate to our site by clicking a link, the location of that link;
the technical capabilities of the computer you use to access our site;
the internet service provider You use to connect to our site (for example “companyX.com” if You have a commercial internet account, or “universityX.edu” if You connect from a university); and
the IP address (a number automatically assigned to Your computer whenever You are surfing the internet) from which You access our site.

We use this information, in the aggregate, to make our website more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology used, to detect operational problems, and to improve the website’s overall security.

COOKIES, BEACONS, LOCAL STORAGE, AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use “cookies,” Web beacons, HTML5 local storage, and other similar technologies. These technologies allow us to manage access to and use of the Services, recognize you and provide personalization, and help us understand how people use our Services. You may not be able to access certain areas of our websites, including paladinpartners.com, if your computer does not accept cookies from us.

We do not respond to browser-based “do not track” signals.

We may transmit non-personally identifiable website usage information to third parties in order to show you advertising for AshPlaysted when you visit other sites.

ANALYTICS, LOG FILES AND READING HISTORY

We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, operating system and other useful information about the use of our Services, including a history of the pages you view.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you, including customized recommendations, advertising, to improve marketing, and to track access and use of our Services across the devices that you may use to access our Services.

We have hired third parties to provide us information, reports, and analysis about the usage, browsing patterns of our users. They may independently record the type of device and operating system you are using, general location information, as well as events that occur on our Website, such as how often you use our Website.

THIRD-PARTY PERSONS OR ENTITIES WITH WHOM WE SHARE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, WE WILL NOT SELL, RENT, SWAP OR AUTHORIZE ANY THIRD PARTY TO USE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS.

THIRD PARTIES

We may share information about our audience in aggregate or de-identified form. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to indicate a restriction of our use or sharing of aggregated or de-identified information in any way.

DISCLOSURE BY NECESSITY

We may occasionally access, preserve, and/or disclose personal information as required by law, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena or we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to

comply with the law or with legal process;
protect and defend our rights and property;
protect against misuse or unauthorized use of Our Services; or
protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

As we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities or we may merge with another company, or be bought by another company. In such transactions, personal information may be among the transferred assets.

Your information may be stored and processed in any country in which we maintain facilities or conduct operations. By using our Website, your personal information may be transferred outside of your country of use and/or residence.

When your account becomes inactive, your information may remain in our computers, electronic databases, and archives, and may not be reasonably capable of expungement.

MISCELLANEOUS

CHILDREN’S GUIDELINES

COPPA Compliance. We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information about children under the age of 13. If you are under 18 years of age you are not authorized to provide us any personal information and should not use or access this Website.

YOUR AUSTRALIAN PRIVACY RIGHTS: NOTICE TO AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMERS AND OPT-OUT INFORMATION

Australia’s “Direct Marketing” law, Civil Code section Chapter 7: APP7, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from Australian customers asking about businesses’ practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, such businesses may have in place a policy not to disclose personal information of customers to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes if the customer has exercised an option to opt-out of such information-sharing. We do not share your personal information with third parties for the purpose of direct marketing if you have exercised an option to opt-out.

AMENDMENTS

This Privacy Policy may be amended by us at any time and without notice, but only by amending this Policy as posted on this Website. Any amendments will become effective 30 days after being posted on the website unless circumstances require that a change is immediately implemented.