Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.bellenvironmental.com.au.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Contact forms
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
R.A. Bell Web Sites Privacy Statement
R.A Bell & Co A.B.N 26 306 957 261 incorporating R.A. Bell. All rights reserved. Head Office: 68 Berkshire Road, Sunshine North, VIC 3020, 03 8582 1861.
R.A Bell & Co is subject to the Privacy Act 1998 (the Act).
The following sets out how R.A Bell & Co will deal with personal information related to the content and use of its web sites.
1. Collection of Information
Information Automatically Logged
R.A Bell & Co may make a record of your visit and logs any of the following information for statistical and business purposes – the user’s server address, the user’s domain name, IP address, the date and time of the visit, the pages accessed and documents downloaded, the previous site visited and the type of browser used.
Security Information
R.A Bell & Co sites have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information as defined in the Security Policy .
A login name and password are required to visit secure areas, such as the R.A Bell & Co Club. You should ensure that your password is kept securely and cannot be discovered by anyone else.
R.A Bell & Co has implemented strong encryption technology to prevent client’s and customer’s information being intercepted in transit over the Internet. Every transaction is carried out utilising SSL 3.0, RC4 with 128 bit encryption (High); RSA with 1024 bit exchange.
Cookies
A cookie is information that a Web site puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a client/server communication.) It is possible to disable the accepting of cookies by your web browser, however doing so may restrict your ability to access some web pages.
Unique identifiers are also used to store information about visitor’s preferences, to enable the dynamic display of the site according to your preferences when you return.
This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the R.A Bell & Co website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
Registration Forms
If personal information is collected via a website this will be done by sufficiently secure means.
Individuals will be provided with alternative means of providing personal information to R.A Bell & Co, other than via the website.
For certain applications, our site’s registration forms require users to give contact information (like name and email address).
External Links
Some web pages contain links to other sites. R.A Bell & Co is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
2. Use of personal information
Personal information you supply on-line will be used by R.A Bell & Co in conducting the business of the R.A Bell & Co. Such uses include matters related to administration, provision of services and the dissemination of information to staff and/or strategic partners.
Contact information from registration forms is used to get in touch with the visitor to a website when necessary, for example when the visitor is seeking information.
3. Disclosure of personal information
R.A Bell & Co will not disclose personal information concerning you, including your email address, to parties outside the R.A Bell & Co except in accordance with its Privacy Policy which conforms to the requirements of the the Act .
Public Forums
The R.A Bell & Co Club contains message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
4. Data Quality/Access
R.A Bell & Co will always try to maintain accurate, complete and up-to-date information. The necessary procedures are in place to facilitate amendments and verification of personal information. If you think that your personal information retained by R.A Bell & Co requires changing please contact us.