Privacy Policy

Email Communications And Push Notifications

You may provide your email address to us directly by:

• Subscribing to our email newsletters or other services
• Purchasing products or services through our site
• Registering for an event with Doc Lures, such as a webinar
• Contacting us using the webform on the DocLures.com website
• Contacting us direct via email

When you subscribe to our newsletter, DocLures.com uses the Aweber email service to send broadcast emails, such as weekly podcast episode notifications, special member bonuses, special offers and bonus tips. If you wish to receive these emails, you must subscribe to them yourself from our website. DocLures.com does not manually add email addresses to this mailing list and does not purchase or rent mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email. When you register for an event or purchase a product from us you will be added to an email database from which we may deliver the product to you or send reminder notices, updates, or other information relating to the event or product. As this is part of providing a service you have requested, you may be added to this mailing list automatically through our payment processor and not consciously have opted in. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email, but transactional emails such as proof of purchase and product delivery are a legal requirement and wll still be sent to you. However, by unsubscribing you will no longer receive any other emails from us. Note that the only way to get onto a DocLures.com mailing list is to submit your email address. We do not purchase, rent of scrape email addresses and d not manually add email addresses to our database. Likewise, in accordance with international law, we do not sell, rent or otherwise provide the personal data of our visitors, members, customers or subscribers to any third party.

How We Use The Personal Data We Collect

We may use cookies in the following ways:

• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
• Personalizing content that you see on our website
• Our website analytics
• Remarketing our products or services to you
• Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
• Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
• Affiliate marketing
• Allowing you to post comments
• Allowing you to share content with social networks

We may use cookies and other information we collect from you to:

• Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us
• Personalize and customize our content
• Make improvements to our website
• Contact you with updates to our website
• Resolve problems and disputes
• Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
• Notify you when new content such as podcasts become available on our site

Who we share your data with

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes, although we may provide it to third-party service providers that we hire to assist us in the delivery of our content and/or products. These include (but are not limited to): payment processors, web analytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.

Google And Social Media Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with third parties such as Facebook, Google, Instagram or Youtube (and other social media platforms) for our own marketing purposes, such as the creation of lookalike audience marketing campaigns. This helps us to expand our audience, which allows us to continue producing high quality, free content for our users. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice, you are giving your consent for your information to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.

Release Of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your personal data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.

Transfer of Personal Data

If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business. You have the right to unsubscribe or to revoke your consent for us to use your data, including in the event of our business ownership being transferred.

Forums And Communities

Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate with each other through online forums, private Facebook groups and community discussion boards . Use care when posting on these boards, as we do not monitor them and your personal information is not protected by our privacy notice. Nor are we liable if you disclose personal data through these, or other, online mechanisms. Personal data you post on our website or social media may be available worldwide by means of the Internet and we cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

Retaining And Destroying Your Personal Data

We retain information that we collect from you only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Revoking Consent For DocLures.com To Use Your Personal Data

You can revoke your consent for us to use your personal data at any time, which will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your PD, send us an email with your request to: [email protected]

Third Party Privacy

Postings you make on our website or social media that contain information about third parties must have the permission from the affected parties be be posted. DocLures.com and our employees or agents are not legally liable for the actions of our users, but we will remove any postings about which we are notified, if such postings violate the privacy rights of others. The parties responsible for making the posting may be blackbanned from further posting, at the discretion of the DocLures.com team.

Browser Privacy Settings

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

External Websites

DocLures.com links to many external websites that are not under our control. Be aware that when you visit these sites you will not be protected by this privacy policy. Most other sites will have their own privacy notice and we accept no responsibility for these websites. Links are provided for your convenience and you acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your own risk.

Children’s Safety And Privacy

The DocLures.com website is designed and intended for Australian audiences over the age of 18 years. However, we recognise that minors may freely access this site. We take care to ensure that the content on DocLures.com is suitable for all ages and persuasions, but do not guarantee that it will be suitable for minors or that it does not contain content that may offend some visitors to the site. Parental guidance is therefore recommended for minors visiting the site and we advise parents to implement means to prevent access to DocLures.com should they feel the content is unsuitable for children. DocLures.com does not knowingly collect PD from minors. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

Data Security

The DocLures.com website uses industry-standard security measures and authentication. We and the third parties who provide services for us maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal information. Transactional data from your credit card or Paypal is encrypyted by our service providers Stripe and Paypal, both of whom are industry leaders in online transaction processing. For your security, DocLures.com is never in possession of your credit card or Paypal account details.Unfortunately, due to the nature of online transactions we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal information or secure data transmission. We make all commercially reasonable efforts to protect our users and customers from credit card misuse however, you understand and accept that DocLures, our employees and agents are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website, products, subscriptions or services and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.

European Union Users

This site is specifically designed and intended for use by Australian audiences and complies with current Australian Privacy Regulations. However, we recognise that due to the international nature of online business the site may be accessed and frequented by European users. DocLures.com advises that the personal information collected from European users may be stored, processed, and transferred to our operation in Australia. The European Union has not found Australia to have an adequate level of protection of personal information under Article 45 of the GDPR. DocLures.com relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. By using our website, European users accept that their personal information may be transferred to Australia for the purpose of providing goods, services and/or information requested from DocLures.com, or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. DocLures.com will use and protect the information we collect from you in accordance with this privacy notice.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and will post changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we have need to disclose or use your personal in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Website Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with your personal data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Remarketing

Our website uses a remarketing advertising service provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at when you are on other websites that sign up to show ads for Google. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells fishing tackle, but you do not buy anything. On subsequent visits to other websites you might notice ads for fishing tackle from that first site. In this case, the website’s owner has most likely paid for you to be show his/her ads on other websites to encourage you back to his own website. Doc Lures may use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/

Facebook Remarketing

Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing you may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in their browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows us to show ads on Facebook to people who are similar to those who have already visited or made a purchase from our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Email Communications And Push Notifications

You may provide your email address to us directly by:

• Subscribing to our email newsletters or other services
• Purchasing products or services through our site
• Registering for an event with Doc Lures, such as a webinar
• Contacting us using the webform on the DocLures.com website
• Contacting us direct via email

When you subscribe to our newsletter, DocLures.com uses the Aweber email service to send broadcast emails, such as weekly podcast episode notifications, special member bonuses, special offers and bonus tips. If you wish to receive these emails, you must subscribe to them yourself from our website. DocLures.com does not manually add email addresses to this mailing list and does not purchase or rent mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email. When you register for an event or purchase a product from us you will be added to an email database from which we may deliver the product to you or send reminder notices, updates, or other information relating to the event or product. As this is part of providing a service you have requested, you may be added to this mailing list automatically through our payment processor and not consciously have opted in. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email, but transactional emails such as proof of purchase and product delivery are a legal requirement and wll still be sent to you. However, by unsubscribing you will no longer receive any other emails from us. Note that the only way to get onto a DocLures.com mailing list is to submit your email address. We do not purchase, rent of scrape email addresses and d not manually add email addresses to our database. Likewise, in accordance with international law, we do not sell, rent or otherwise provide the personal data of our visitors, members, customers or subscribers to any third party.

How We Use The Personal Data We Collect

We may use cookies in the following ways:

• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
• Personalizing content that you see on our website
• Our website analytics
• Remarketing our products or services to you
• Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
• Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
• Affiliate marketing
• Allowing you to post comments
• Allowing you to share content with social networks

We may use cookies and other information we collect from you to:

• Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us
• Personalize and customize our content
• Make improvements to our website
• Contact you with updates to our website
• Resolve problems and disputes
• Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
• Notify you when new content such as podcasts become available on our site

Who we share your data with

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes, although we may provide it to third-party service providers that we hire to assist us in the delivery of our content and/or products. These include (but are not limited to): payment processors, web analytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.

Google And Social Media Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with third parties such as Facebook, Google, Instagram or Youtube (and other social media platforms) for our own marketing purposes, such as the creation of lookalike audience marketing campaigns. This helps us to expand our audience, which allows us to continue producing high quality, free content for our users. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice, you are giving your consent for your information to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.

Release Of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your personal data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.

Transfer of Personal Data

If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business. You have the right to unsubscribe or to revoke your consent for us to use your data, including in the event of our business ownership being transferred.

Forums And Communities

Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate with each other through online forums, private Facebook groups and community discussion boards . Use care when posting on these boards, as we do not monitor them and your personal information is not protected by our privacy notice. Nor are we liable if you disclose personal data through these, or other, online mechanisms. Personal data you post on our website or social media may be available worldwide by means of the Internet and we cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

Retaining And Destroying Your Personal Data

We retain information that we collect from you only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Revoking Consent For DocLures.com To Use Your Personal Data

You can revoke your consent for us to use your personal data at any time, which will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your PD, send us an email with your request to: [email protected]

Third Party Privacy

Postings you make on our website or social media that contain information about third parties must have the permission from the affected parties be be posted. DocLures.com and our employees or agents are not legally liable for the actions of our users, but we will remove any postings about which we are notified, if such postings violate the privacy rights of others. The parties responsible for making the posting may be blackbanned from further posting, at the discretion of the DocLures.com team.

Browser Privacy Settings

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

External Websites

DocLures.com links to many external websites that are not under our control. Be aware that when you visit these sites you will not be protected by this privacy policy. Most other sites will have their own privacy notice and we accept no responsibility for these websites. Links are provided for your convenience and you acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your own risk.

Children’s Safety And Privacy

The DocLures.com website is designed and intended for Australian audiences over the age of 18 years. However, we recognise that minors may freely access this site. We take care to ensure that the content on DocLures.com is suitable for all ages and persuasions, but do not guarantee that it will be suitable for minors or that it does not contain content that may offend some visitors to the site. Parental guidance is therefore recommended for minors visiting the site and we advise parents to implement means to prevent access to DocLures.com should they feel the content is unsuitable for children. DocLures.com does not knowingly collect PD from minors. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

Data Security

The DocLures.com website uses industry-standard security measures and authentication. We and the third parties who provide services for us maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal information. Transactional data from your credit card or Paypal is encrypyted by our service providers Stripe and Paypal, both of whom are industry leaders in online transaction processing. For your security, DocLures.com is never in possession of your credit card or Paypal account details.Unfortunately, due to the nature of online transactions we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal information or secure data transmission. We make all commercially reasonable efforts to protect our users and customers from credit card misuse however, you understand and accept that DocLures, our employees and agents are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website, products, subscriptions or services and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.

European Union Users

This site is specifically designed and intended for use by Australian audiences and complies with current Australian Privacy Regulations. However, we recognise that due to the international nature of online business the site may be accessed and frequented by European users. DocLures.com advises that the personal information collected from European users may be stored, processed, and transferred to our operation in Australia. The European Union has not found Australia to have an adequate level of protection of personal information under Article 45 of the GDPR. DocLures.com relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. By using our website, European users accept that their personal information may be transferred to Australia for the purpose of providing goods, services and/or information requested from DocLures.com, or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. DocLures.com will use and protect the information we collect from you in accordance with this privacy notice.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and will post changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we have need to disclose or use your personal in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Who we are

Greg “Doc Lures” Vinall is an Australian fishing personality, aquatic scientist, fishing educator and well known lure maker. The Australian Lure Fishing (ALF) Podcast was created by Doc Lures to improve the availability and accessibility of lure fishing information to the Australian public. Our website address is: http://doclures.com and you can contact us at: [email protected]. For the purpose of this privacy policy, “DocLures.com” refers to the Doc Lures website and the Australian Lure Fishing Podcast. This includes Dr Greg Vinall and employees, associates and agents of the website and podcast, including the immediate families of employees, associates and agents of the DocLures,com website and Australian Lure Fishing Podcast.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Doc Lures does not collect sensitive financial information from any of our visitors. In the event that visitors purchase from us, we use third party providers such as Paypal and Stripe to process transactions. These organisations use sophisticated encryption technologies to protect customers and Doc Lures does not receive any sensitive information during transactions. However, Doc Lures does collect some personal data to enable us to provide a better service to those who come to our website. This includes your name, email address, IP address and/or other details you provide to us when:

• You contact us via the webform on our contacts page.
• You sign up for our newsletter.
• You accept our invitation to subscribe to push notifications on our website.
• You subscribe to RSS feed, podcasts or other features of our website
• You contact us, or choose to like, comment or share our social media pages or content
• You share our pages, posts, podcasts etc on your own social media or embed any of out content on your website

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on DocLures.com may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have 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.

Website Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with your personal data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Remarketing

Our website uses a remarketing advertising service provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at when you are on other websites that sign up to show ads for Google. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells fishing tackle, but you do not buy anything. On subsequent visits to other websites you might notice ads for fishing tackle from that first site. In this case, the website’s owner has most likely paid for you to be show his/her ads on other websites to encourage you back to his own website. Doc Lures may use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/

Facebook Remarketing

Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing you may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in their browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows us to show ads on Facebook to people who are similar to those who have already visited or made a purchase from our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Email Communications And Push Notifications

You may provide your email address to us directly by:

• Subscribing to our email newsletters or other services
• Purchasing products or services through our site
• Registering for an event with Doc Lures, such as a webinar
• Contacting us using the webform on the DocLures.com website
• Contacting us direct via email

When you subscribe to our newsletter, DocLures.com uses the Aweber email service to send broadcast emails, such as weekly podcast episode notifications, special member bonuses, special offers and bonus tips. If you wish to receive these emails, you must subscribe to them yourself from our website. DocLures.com does not manually add email addresses to this mailing list and does not purchase or rent mailing lists. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email. When you register for an event or purchase a product from us you will be added to an email database from which we may deliver the product to you or send reminder notices, updates, or other information relating to the event or product. As this is part of providing a service you have requested, you may be added to this mailing list automatically through our payment processor and not consciously have opted in. You can unsubscribe from this list at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email, but transactional emails such as proof of purchase and product delivery are a legal requirement and wll still be sent to you. However, by unsubscribing you will no longer receive any other emails from us. Note that the only way to get onto a DocLures.com mailing list is to submit your email address. We do not purchase, rent of scrape email addresses and d not manually add email addresses to our database. Likewise, in accordance with international law, we do not sell, rent or otherwise provide the personal data of our visitors, members, customers or subscribers to any third party.

How We Use The Personal Data We Collect

We may use cookies in the following ways:

• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
• Personalizing content that you see on our website
• Our website analytics
• Remarketing our products or services to you
• Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
• Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
• Affiliate marketing
• Allowing you to post comments
• Allowing you to share content with social networks

We may use cookies and other information we collect from you to:

• Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us
• Personalize and customize our content
• Make improvements to our website
• Contact you with updates to our website
• Resolve problems and disputes
• Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
• Notify you when new content such as podcasts become available on our site

Who we share your data with

We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes, although we may provide it to third-party service providers that we hire to assist us in the delivery of our content and/or products. These include (but are not limited to): payment processors, web analytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.

Google And Social Media Data Sharing

We may share your personal data with third parties such as Facebook, Google, Instagram or Youtube (and other social media platforms) for our own marketing purposes, such as the creation of lookalike audience marketing campaigns. This helps us to expand our audience, which allows us to continue producing high quality, free content for our users. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice, you are giving your consent for your information to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.

Release Of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your personal data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.

Transfer of Personal Data

If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business. You have the right to unsubscribe or to revoke your consent for us to use your data, including in the event of our business ownership being transferred.

Forums And Communities

Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate with each other through online forums, private Facebook groups and community discussion boards . Use care when posting on these boards, as we do not monitor them and your personal information is not protected by our privacy notice. Nor are we liable if you disclose personal data through these, or other, online mechanisms. Personal data you post on our website or social media may be available worldwide by means of the Internet and we cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

Retaining And Destroying Your Personal Data

We retain information that we collect from you only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Revoking Consent For DocLures.com To Use Your Personal Data

You can revoke your consent for us to use your personal data at any time, which will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your PD, send us an email with your request to: [email protected]

Third Party Privacy

Postings you make on our website or social media that contain information about third parties must have the permission from the affected parties be be posted. DocLures.com and our employees or agents are not legally liable for the actions of our users, but we will remove any postings about which we are notified, if such postings violate the privacy rights of others. The parties responsible for making the posting may be blackbanned from further posting, at the discretion of the DocLures.com team.

Browser Privacy Settings

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

External Websites

DocLures.com links to many external websites that are not under our control. Be aware that when you visit these sites you will not be protected by this privacy policy. Most other sites will have their own privacy notice and we accept no responsibility for these websites. Links are provided for your convenience and you acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites is solely at your own risk.

Children’s Safety And Privacy

The DocLures.com website is designed and intended for Australian audiences over the age of 18 years. However, we recognise that minors may freely access this site. We take care to ensure that the content on DocLures.com is suitable for all ages and persuasions, but do not guarantee that it will be suitable for minors or that it does not contain content that may offend some visitors to the site. Parental guidance is therefore recommended for minors visiting the site and we advise parents to implement means to prevent access to DocLures.com should they feel the content is unsuitable for children. DocLures.com does not knowingly collect PD from minors. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.

Data Security

The DocLures.com website uses industry-standard security measures and authentication. We and the third parties who provide services for us maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal information. Transactional data from your credit card or Paypal is encrypyted by our service providers Stripe and Paypal, both of whom are industry leaders in online transaction processing. For your security, DocLures.com is never in possession of your credit card or Paypal account details.Unfortunately, due to the nature of online transactions we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal information or secure data transmission. We make all commercially reasonable efforts to protect our users and customers from credit card misuse however, you understand and accept that DocLures, our employees and agents are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website, products, subscriptions or services and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.

European Union Users

This site is specifically designed and intended for use by Australian audiences and complies with current Australian Privacy Regulations. However, we recognise that due to the international nature of online business the site may be accessed and frequented by European users. DocLures.com advises that the personal information collected from European users may be stored, processed, and transferred to our operation in Australia. The European Union has not found Australia to have an adequate level of protection of personal information under Article 45 of the GDPR. DocLures.com relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. By using our website, European users accept that their personal information may be transferred to Australia for the purpose of providing goods, services and/or information requested from DocLures.com, or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. DocLures.com will use and protect the information we collect from you in accordance with this privacy notice.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and will post changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we have need to disclose or use your personal in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.