This document sets forth the Privacy Policy for the Festival of Busselton website – https://www.festivalofbusselton.com.au

Who we are

The Festival of Busselton is a ‘Not for Profit (NFP)’ organisation responsible for managing the annual community festival in the South West town of Busselton, WA.

Festival of Busselton is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service experience. Festival of Busselton is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals.

Festival of Busselton will never use your personal information for any reason other than why you gave it, and will never give anyone access to it unless forced to by law.

What personal information we collect and why

There are many aspects of the site which can be viewed without providing personal information, however, to engage with us you will be required to submit personally identifiable information (PII).

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments are checked through Akismet, an automated third party spam detection service.

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.

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: Automattic Privacy Policy.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact Forms

Festival of Busselton use contact forms to collect information enabling us to provide our services to you.

When you submit a contact form, we ask for contact information including your name, email address, and phone number (optional), so that we can reply to your inquiry.

Vendor Application Forms require detailed information on your business, which is required in order to satisfy community safety, compliance and risk.

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.

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.

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.

Site Security

Festival of Busselton use Wordfence to manage the security of this website.

The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. The information in these security logs is retained for 14 days.

The Wordfence privacy policy is available here: Wordfence Privacy Policy.

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.

Changes to this Privacy Policy –

Festival of Busselton reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use the Site.

Contacting us –

Festival of Busselton welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further information, please contact us.