PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

Vital Aspect Pty Ltd

Privacy Policy 

Vital Aspect Pty Ltd 

YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US

Vital Aspect Pty Ltd (Vital Aspect) respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect, store and treat your personal information. This policy is meant to help you understand more about why we collect and use your Data, whether you’re a corporate client, user/subscriber of Vital Aspect’s products or services (together known as, “The Services”), or even if you’re just visiting the Vital Aspect website. By using any of Vital Aspect’s Services, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy and, as applicable, the Vital Aspect Terms of Use. In particular, by visiting this website or enrolling in our Services, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, including any updates or revisions to this Privacy Policy.

  1. PARTIES

1.1. This Privacy Policy describes how Vital Aspect Pty Ltd (“Vital Aspect”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) collects, uses, stores, shares and protects your information in connection with services offered by Vital Aspect including, but not limited to, services provided at or using the domains https://vitalaspect.com.au, https://vital-aspect.thinkific.com, https://vitalaspect.typeform.com(the “Site” or “Site’s”); tools or applications including, but not limited to, mobile and other software applications related to the Site (the “Applications”); and images, text, videos, metadata, and other material available through the Service (the “Content”) (collectively, the “Service”).

1.2. This Privacy Policy applies when you (“you”, “User” or “Participant”) access, visit or use any portion of the Service.

1.3. This Privacy Policy is part of, and is governed by, the terms and conditions set forth in the Vital Aspect Terms of Use.

  1. AGREEMENT TO TERMS OF PRIVACY POLICY

2.1. Any Service provided by Vital Aspect is purely voluntary. You are not required to provide any personal information to us unless you choose to access features of the Service that require such information. If you do not agree with the terms of this policy or Vital Aspect’s Terms of Use related to the Service, then please do not provide us with personal information, exit the Applications immediately, and refrain from using the Service.

2.2. Accordingly, accessing, visiting or using the Service, you expressly consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy and in the Vital Aspect Terms of Use.

  1. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

3.1. We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. You may be required to accept the amended Privacy Policy upon logging in to your Vital Aspect Account in order to keep using the Service. Alternatively, we may post any material changes to this Privacy Policy on the Site with a notice advising of the changes in advance of the effective date of the changes. We may also notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy, before the effective date of the changes, by sending an email or in another conspicuous manner reasonably designed to notify you. If you do not agree to the new Privacy Policy, you may terminate using the Service within the applicable thirty (30) day period and you will not be bound by the new terms. Otherwise, the new terms will take effect after thirty (30) days.

  1. RIGHTS TO ACCESS, RECTIFICATION OR ERASURE, RESTRICTION AND OBJECTION, OF PROCESSING

4.1. You have the right to access, rectification, opposition, erasure (“right to be forgotten”), and right to restriction of processing of your personal data by directing any such requests to Vital Aspect Pty Ltd, PO Box 71, Bondi LPO, Bondi 2026, NSW Australia. You may also direct such requests to support@vitalaspect.com.au.

  1. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT USERS

5.1 As a User, we collect and store information relating to you and your use of our Services. We collect this information through a variety of ways including:

Information we collect directly from the User

a) Registration information: information provided to us when a User registers for an account, including email address and name. We need this information to provide you with our Services, for example, to confirm your identity and contact you. Name and email are needed to allow Users to access our Services for processes such as processing enrolments, authentication, or otherwise administering our Service. This information is given on a voluntary basis when a User accesses our Services, for example, visits our site, enrolls in a course, or fills in a form.

b) Payment and Billing info: if you subscribe to a paid plan or purchase a course, we require you to provide your billing details. When transactions between you and our website involve payment by credit card, debit card and/or third-party online payment services, we will collect information related to the transaction as part of the course of doing business with you, including billing address, telephone number, and other information related to the transaction.

c) Health data and sensitive personal data: as a health and wellness provider, Vital Aspect may collect sensitive and health-related data from the User. This may include, but is not limited to, age, gender, employer, medical history and lifestyle habits. This information is given by the User voluntarily, and in doing so, the User gives Vital Aspect express consent to collect, analyse and store this data as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We are committed to the security and safety of your personal data via the processes outlined in section 5.2.

Information we collect about the User indirectly or passively when interacting with us

a) Usage data: Vital Aspect collects usage data about Users whenever they interact with our services, including information they have elected to make publicly available. We collect data about how and when you access your account in order to give you access and at the same time improve our Services. As a User progresses through our course(s) we collect information about how they interact with the course, including but not limited to, their progress through the course, quiz scores, survey results, discussion or forum contributions and other student activities.

b) Device and application data: Vital Aspect collects data from the device and application the User uses to access our services, such as the IP address and browser type. We may also infer the geographic location based on the User IP address.

c) Referral data: if the User arrives at Vital Aspect’s website from an external source (such as a link on another website or in an email), we record information about the source that referred the User to us.

d) Information from cookies and page tags: Vital Aspect uses third party tracking services that employ cookies and page tags (also known as web beacons or web bugs) to collect aggregated and anonymized data about visitors to our websites. This data may include usage and User statistics.

5.2 Vital Aspect undertakes to fulfil the following obligations to keep User’s data safe:

a) To treat the personal data only to carry out the provision of the contracted Services (unless there is a legal rule that requires complementary processing).

b) To maintain the duty of secrecy with respect to the personal data, even after the termination of the contractual relationship, and to ensure that our employees have committed in writing to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data processed.

c) To ensure, taking into account the available technology, the costs of implementation, and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, as well as the risks of varying probability and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, that we will apply adequate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including, where appropriate, among other things:

i) The pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;

ii)The ability of ensuring the continued confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of the systems and services;

iii)The ability of restoring the availability and access to personal data quickly in the event of a physical or technical incident;

iv) A process of regular verification, evaluation and assessment of the effectiveness of the technical and organizational measures in order to ensure the safety of the processing. When evaluating the adequacy of the security level, special account shall be taken of the risks presented by the data processing, in particular as a consequence of the destruction, loss or accidental or unlawful alteration of the personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed, or the communication or unauthorized access to such data. In the event that the implementation of specific and concrete security measures is needed, those measures will be added to this Agreement by means of an Annex.

d) To keep under our control and custody the personal data to which we have access in relation with the provision of the Service, and to not disclose them, neither transfer or otherwise communicate them, not even for their preservation, to personsunrelated with the provision of the Service covered by this Agreement.

e) To delete or return to the User, at their choice, all personal data to which we have had access in order to provide the Service. Likewise, Vital Aspect undertakes to delete the existing copies, unless there is a legal rule that requires the preservation of the personal data. However, employees and other personnel working for Vital Aspect are entitled to access Users data as required to carry out our obligations under the terms of the contract.

f) To notify the User, without undue delay, of any personal data security breaches of which Vital Aspect is aware and, if applicable, to the interested parties of the security breaches that occur.

g) To bring, in writing, a record of all categories of processing activities performed.

h) To cooperate with the OAIC or with other Control Authority, at its request, in the fulfilment of its power.

i) To follow industry standards on information security management to safeguard sensitive information, such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details and any other Personal Information entrusted to us. Our information security systems apply to people, processes, and information technology systems on a risk management basis.

j) We exclusively process payments through PCI DSS Level 1 payment providers, which is the highest level of compliance available.

5.3 Vital Aspect is an Australian company and we provide services to customers, and our technology processes data, from users around the world. Accordingly, Vital Aspect may transmit and store your personal information outside of the country, state, or province in which you are located.

  1. PURPOSES AND LEGITIMATE BASIS OF THE USE AND SHARING INFORMATION PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

6.1. We use the information we collect from you to perform the services requested and in connection with the Terms of Use.

6.2. We also use your information to review, investigate and analyze how to improve the services provided. We may also collect and analyze your data to monitor, maintain and improve our services and features.

6.3. We may internally perform statistical and other analysis on information we collect (technical and meta data) to analyze and measure user behavior and trends, to understand how people use our services, in order to. Improve and optimize our performance of such services, and to monitor, troubleshoot and improve our services, including to help us evaluate or devise new features.

6.4. We may use your information for internal purposes designed to keep our services secure and operational, such as testing purposes, troubleshooting, to prevent abusive activity (i.e. fraud, spam, phishing activities), and for service improvement, research and development purposes.

6.5. If you connect your Vital Aspect account with your account on a Social Media or third party platform, we may use the information that you make available through the applicable Social Media or third party platform and that the applicable Social Media or third party platform has made available to Vital Aspect, in accordance with the privacy or other settings that are applicable to your Social Media or third party platform account.

6.6. We may send you Vital Aspect reminders, tips and updates by any means, including email and similar means of electronic communication like personalised advertisements as part of providing relevant content helpful to use our services effectively. In order to customize such information and commercial communications as much as possible, Vital Aspect may use statistical techniques that allow the creation of user profiles and data segmentation.

6.7. We do not and will never share, disclose, sell, rent, or otherwise provide personal Information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services. We share your information with our service providers who help us to provide our services to you, in which case those third parties are required to comply with our privacy policy and any other adequate technical and organizational measures.

6.8. Your data is not disclosed to any third party except (i) for providing the services you requested and for which Vital Aspect collaborates with third parties, (ii) when we have your permission, (iii) when it is required by a competent authority in the exercise of its duties (for example in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities) or (iv) as otherwise required by law.

6.9 Where a User is participating in a Vital Aspect Service through their employer or an organization, Vital Aspect will never share a User’s individual health or sensitive information with the employer. Vital Aspect may share anonymous, cohort-based health data with the employer or organization. Vital Aspect may share a User’s individual usage data with their employer, for the purpose of enhancing engagement with the Service. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, the User gives Vital Aspect express consent to share individualized usage data with the User’s employer or organization.

6.10 If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases. This information may be disclosed to a potential purchaser under an agreement to maintain confidentiality. We would seek to only disclose information in good faith and where required by any of the above circumstances.

6.11 We do not use your data other than as described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

  1. LEGITIMATE BASIS OF PROCESSING

Vital Aspect’s use of your data for the purposes described above is based on the following legitimate basis:

7.1 User Data

If you are a User, we are entitled to use your data in order to fulfil our contractual obligations with you and, if you are acting on behalf of a legal person, we have a legitimate interest to use your data in order to maintain the relation with your company as a Vital Aspect client. In addition, we are entitled by law to use your data for direct marketing purposes, in order to send you commercial communications related with Vital Aspect products or services which are similar to the Services, since legislation on data privacy recognizes direct marketing to clients as a legitimate interest of use of personal data, and legislation on information society services expressly allows Vital Aspect to send you commercial communications by electronic means, provided that they are related with products or services which are similar to the Services. In any case, you are entitled to ask us, now or at any moment, not to send you any commercial communications. If you don’t want us to send you commercial communications, you can do it, now or at any moment, by changing the communication preferences in your account settings page.

  1. COOKIES

8.1 A cookie is a small string of information that the website you visit transfers to your computer for identification purposes. Cookies can be used to follow your activity throughout the Vital Aspect Service and that information helps us to understand your preferences and improve your experience.

8.2 Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

8.3 We use cookies to recognize your device and provide you with a personalized experience.

8.4 We also use cookies to attribute visits to our websites to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram and other third-party vendors.

8.5 Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet in order to serve you targeted ads.

  1. CANCELING YOUR ACCOUNT, OPTING OUT OF EMAIL, AND MODIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION

9.1 You may cancel your account and you may opt out of receiving any emails from Vital Aspect at any time by changing the settings in your account settings page. We will respond to any such request, and any appropriate request to access, correct, update or delete your personal information within the time period specified by law (if applicable) or without excessive delay. We will promptly fulfill requests to delete personal data unless the request is not technically feasible or such data is required to be retained by law (in which case we will block access to such data, if required by law).

9.2 You may modify your personal information by logging in and visiting your settings at “My Account” page or emailing us at support@vitalaspect.com.au.

9.3 We encourage you promptly to update your personal information when it changes. Information concerning your past behavior with the Service may be retained by Vital Aspect as long as necessary for the purposes set out in Section 10.

9.4 We will continue to store archived copies of your Personal Information for legitimate business purposes and to comply with the law.

9.5 We will continue to store anonymous or anonymized information, such as website visits, without identifiers, in order to improve our Services.

  1. RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

10.1. We retain information for active Vital Aspect Accounts as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations. In addition, we may retain information from closed accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce the Vital Aspect Terms of Use and take other actions permitted by law.

10.2. The information we retain about you will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy during the maximum terms permitted by law, and will exclusively be used for the purposes described in section 9.1 above. After those terms, your information will be fully deleted or, alternatively, will be anonymized.

  1. 11. USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS

11.1 The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a username and password for access to certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping the username and password confidential. Do not give your password to anyone. If you enter a section of our website that requires a password, you should log out when you leave. As a safety precaution, you should also close out of your web browser completely and reopen it before viewing other parts of the Internet.

  1. DISCLAIMER

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, including the illegal acts of third parties (such as criminal hacking).

  1. HOW TO CONTACT US

Send a request via https://vitalaspect.com.au/contact.

  1. COMPLAINTS

If you consider that any use of your data might breach any of your rights, you can lodge a complaint at any time by emailing us at support@vitalaspect.com.auor, alternatively, by filing a complaint before the OAIC at https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-complaints/