www.clarebradyauthor.com

 

Our General Privacy and Cookies Policy tells you what we do with your personal information when you use this website (www.clarebradyauthor.com). This website is operated by Icebreaker Pty. Ltd. (the “Company”). The Company is a Private Public company registered with the Australian and Securities Commission in Australia having an ACN number 146719119. The registered address is in Victoria, Australia.

Icebreaker Pty. Ltd. is the “data controller” of your personal information.

Please read the following carefully to understand what we do with your personal information.

HOW AND WHEN WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU 

We do not intend to collect any personal information about you, however, personal information might be collected from you:

• when
  you contact us or ask for any information from us (for example if you
  email us at [email protected],
  or when you contact us through social media channels such as Facebook,
  Twitter, Instagram or any other software applications that have similar
  technologies that we use); or
• when
  you visit our website.

Where we ask you for your personal information, we will tell you whether it is optional. We will also explain what will happen if you decide not to provide information which we have said is not optional. Sometimes, depending on what personal information you give us, we may be unable to provide you with a certain service.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU 

We may collect personal information about you which you provide to us, such as your contact details (e.g., your name, address, or email address) (“Unique Identifiers”).

We may collect personal information about you when you interact with our website, like online identifier, Internet Protocol address, unique device identifiers, geolocation information, and internet or other electronic network activity information (“Internet or other electronic network activity information”).

We may also keep a record if you contact us with a complaint or question (“Correspondence”).

You can review and/or have deleted your personal information and refuse to permit further collection or use of your personal information by contacting us as indicated below.

WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use your personal information to do the following things:

• to provide you with any information and services you have asked for;
• to ensure that you can see and use the website without any problems, and protect the security and integrity of the website;
• to help you and to help us provide you with good service;
• to protect your personal information and to prevent someone from copying your details;
• to analyse your use of the website;
• to take precautions against liability; and
• to follow the law and/or respond to judicial process.

LEGAL BASIS FOR USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information where we have a legal reason to do so. The legal reason will depend on why we have your personal information. In almost every case the legal reason will be one of the following:

• Our Legitimate Business Interests: Where we need to understand our customers, promote our services and work effectively to provide you with this website and other services, as long as in each case this is done in a way which does not harm your privacy and other rights.

• Compliance with Law: Where we need to use your personal information in order to follow the law.

WHERE WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The personal information that we have may be sent to, and kept in countries, which have less strict, or no laws protecting your personal information. When we do this, we will take steps to make sure that your personal information is protected and to make sure it is treated the way we treat your personal information. Depending on which country you live in, you can ask us to provide more information on how we do this by contacting us.

We do not enable children to make personal information publicly available.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take steps to make sure that your personal information is kept for as long as we need it for the reason we collected it for. Once we don’t need it anymore, we will delete it.

SECURITY

We take steps to protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of your personal information and will try to stop anyone else from being able to use it if they’re not supposed to.

GIVING YOUR INFORMATION TO OTHERS

We may give your personal information to:

• companies within our group of companies;

• service providers helping us to analyse the website and improve our services to you;

• in the event that we sell any business or parts of it, to those companies buying our business or parts of it; and
• companies or third parties for the purpose of following the law and keeping our business safe from any criminals.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies to make sure our website works for you and to improve our website.

Cookies are small files of information that a web server generates and sends to a web browser. Web browsers store the cookies they receive for a predetermined period of time, or for the length of a user’s session on a website. They hold small amounts of information about you and how you use the website so that we can remember any choices you make, make sure our website is showing you the right content and to make sure our website works well for you. These cookies also give us information to decide how we can make our website even better.

Cookies on our website are generally divided into the following categories:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas. These cookies are session cookies that are erased when you close your browser.
• Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of users on the website and understand how such users navigate through the website (e.g., when and which pages are visited, in what order the pages are visited, how long a user may stay on a particular page, and where a user is located). This helps to improve how the website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.  These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser. For example, we use Google Analytics for this process. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/. You can opt-out of Google Analytics’ collection and use of data generated by your use of the website by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

If you don’t want us to use cookies on your computer anymore, you can change your web browser settings to delete them. Please note that if you do that, some parts of the website might not work as well.

Do Not Track

Icebreaker Pty. Ltd. respects your privacy, but we do not alter the information we collect or change the website in response to “do-not-track” signals we receive from your browser.  For more information about DNT please visit https://fpf.org/thank-you-for-visiting-allaboutdnt-com/.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have certain rights regarding your personal information. These include the right to:

• update your personal information to ensure it is up-to-date and correct;
• ask us to stop using your personal information and to delete it;
• have a copy of your personal information; and
• ask us to provide your personal information to another service.

You can do any of the above by contacting us at [email protected]

You can also complain to the Australian Information Commissioner,
https://www.oaic.gov.au/ if you think we
have used your personal information in the wrong way or please feel free to
contact us at [email protected].

Our website links to other websites. If you are leaving this website, be sure to check the privacy notices of the website you are visiting as we do not control the privacy practices of those third-party websites.

CHANGES TO THIS GENERAL PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY 

This General Privacy and Cookies Policy (“Policy”) is effective as of the date above and will remain in effect until a new policy supersedes it. The most recent version of the Policy will be reflected by the “last updated” date noted at the top of the page. We may change this Policy at any time.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about the information in this General
Privacy & Cookies or would like further information, please feel free to
contact us only through email.

[email protected]

Last Updated 10th June, 2025