Privacy Policy

We know that it’s a funny world we’re living in and keeping your family safe and secure is important, particularly when it comes to the weirdness of the web! Read our Privacy Policy below to put your mind at ease.

At Makia The Baby Journal, we are committed to protecting your information at all times. As part of our commitment, we promise you that:

  • You own every piece of information, including pictures, that you upload into your journal at any given time.
  • You control who has access to your account/password.
  • We will never sell or share any information that belongs to you except as laid out in this Privacy Policy.

We respect your privacy

Makia The Baby Journal respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website visitors. We adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This policy sets out how we collect and treat your personal information.

"Personal information" is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you.


Collection of personal information

Makia The Baby Journal will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you enter onto our website or provide to us directly.

You may provide information such as your name, address and email address to enable us to send information, provide updates and process your product or service order. We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal affairs, change your logins or email preference, respond to surveys and/or promotions, provide financial or credit card information or communicate with our customer support.

Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.


How we collect your personal information

Makia The Baby Journal collects personal information from you in a variety of ways, including when you interact with us electronically, when you access our website and when we provide our products services to you. We may receive personal information from third parties. If we do, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy.


Use of your personal information

Makia The Baby Journal may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information, updates and our services. We may also make you aware of new and additional products, services and opportunities available to you. We may use your personal information to improve our products and services and better understand your needs.

Makia The Baby Journal may contact you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to email or mail.


Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy. Personal information is only supplied to a third party when it is required for the delivery of our services.

We may from time to time need to disclose personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request.

We may also use your personal information to protect the copyright, trademarks, legal rights, property or safety of Makia The Baby Journal, www.makiajournal.com, its customers or third parties.

Information that we collect may from time to time be stored, processed in or transferred between parties located in countries outside of Australia.

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.

By providing us with personal information, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the types of disclosure covered by this Policy. Where we disclose your personal information to third parties, we will request that the third party follow this Policy regarding handling your personal information.


Security of your personal information

You may request details of personal information that we hold about you in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). If you would like a copy of the information, which we hold about you or believe that any information we hold on you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please email us at admin@makiajournal.com or through the contact form on our website.

We reserve the right to refuse to provide you with information that we hold about you, in certain circumstances set out in the Privacy Act.


Complaints about privacy

If you have any complaints about our privacy practises, please feel free to send in details of your complaints. We take complaints very seriously and will respond shortly after receiving a notice of your complaint.


Changes to Privacy Policy

Please be aware that we may change this Privacy Policy in the future. We may modify this Policy at any time, in our sole discretion and all modifications will be effective immediately upon our posting of the modifications on our website or notice board. Please check back from time to time to review our Privacy Policy.


Website

When you visit our website

When you come to our website (www.makiajournal.com) we may collect certain information such as browser type, operating system, website visited immediately before coming to our site or straight after, etc. This information is used in an aggregated manner to analyse how people use our site, such that we can improve our service.

Cookies

We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google Adwords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.

Third party sites

Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Makia The Baby Journal is not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.