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This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) sets out how BFORTY PILATES Pty Ltd ABN: 47 673 185 398 and its related entities (“BForty Pilates” or “we”) upholds your rights under the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”). This Privacy Policy for BForty Pilates lets you know what personal information of yours we hold, what we do with it, who we will disclose it to and how you can access the personal information we hold about you. You can also find out here how to change inaccurate personal information and how to opt out of receiving communications from BForty Pilates.
BForty Pilates may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this page. This Privacy Policy is effective from 1 January 2024.
BForty Pilates may collect the following information:
An individual is not obliged to provide their personal information to BForty Pilates however, without certain information from an individual it may not be possible for BForty Pilates to provide its products and/or services to the individual.
Where possible, BForty Pilates will generally collect your personal information directly from you. BForty Pilates may also collect personal information from BForty Pilates franchisees as well as from the BForty Pilates Booking System, BForty Pilates’ centralised online booking system, when you purchase BForty Pilates classes.
BForty Pilates may also collect personal information from you via their website www.bfortypilates.com.au (“BForty Pilates website”), promotional activities, competitions, and events. Also from other directly related companies and, if there is prior consent, from organisers of the events BForty Pilates’ sponsor.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, sensitive information means the information a member has disclosed to BForty Pilates about their physical and mental health and well-being. Sensitive information will only ever be used for providing services to you. Such information will not be used or disclosed for any other purposes without consent, except in exceptional cases when disclosure may be required by law or is necessary to protect the rights or property of BForty Pilates, or any member of the public, or to lessen a serious threat to a person’s health or safety. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy sensitive information is a subset of personal information.
The types of sensitive information generally collected by BForty Pilates include information relating to:
BForty Pilates will only use and disclose your personal information so we can provide you with the services you have requested as well as for the following directly related secondary purposes:
BForty Pilates will never sell your information.
BForty Pilates may disclose your personal information to third parties including its franchisees for the purpose for which it collects it. That is, generally, BForty Pilates will only disclose your personal information to third parties for the purpose of providing BForty Pilates classes and products to you or other directly related secondary purposes as set out above. BForty Pilates may otherwise disclose your personal information with your consent or if it is required or authorised by law.
Where we have obtained your consent to do so, or in circumstances where you would reasonably expect that your personal information would be used or disclosed for this purpose, we may contact you from time to time with marketing material about our other products or services or third parties. At any time you may opt out of receiving this marketing material by contacting BForty Pilates by emailing your local studio. Your consent to receiving this information will remain current until you notify BForty Pilates otherwise.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, use, modification, disclosure, alteration, or destruction we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
However, you should keep in mind that the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this website may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to BForty Pilates via e-mail.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies (Google Analytics) to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve the BForty Pilates website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
We also use Google cookies for remarketing to advertise online.
You can remove our remarketing cookie by deleting your Internet browsing history and clearing your cookies. This can be done through the tools/settings function of your Internet browser.
Overall, cookies help BForty Pilates provide you with a better BForty Pilates website, by enabling BForty Pilates to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives BForty Pilates access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with BForty Pilates.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the BForty Pilates website. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
The BForty Pilates website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Where we hold information that you are entitled to access, we will endeavor to provide you with a suitable range of choices as to how access is provided (e.g., email or mailing it to you). A fee may be charged to cover the cost of retrieval.
If at any time you believe that personal information we hold about you is incorrect, incomplete or inaccurate, then you may request that we amend it.
BForty Pilates will destroy or de-identify your personal information as soon as practicable once it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected. However, we may be required by law to retain your personal information after your relationship with BForty Pilates has expired. In this case, your personal information will continue to be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If we destroy personal information we will do so by taking reasonable steps and using up-to-date techniques and processes.
Franchisees are independent businesses, however, all franchisees have agreed to comply with this Privacy Policy. If you are concerned that there may have been a breach of this Privacy Policy by a franchisee, please contact the relevant franchisee directly.
For further information regarding this Privacy Policy or to make a complaint about the steps taken by BForty Pilates to protect your personal information or privacy, please contact BForty Pilates’ Privacy Officer at [email protected].
We will investigate any complaints received in writing and do our best to resolve them as soon as possible.
If you are not satisfied with the result of your complaint to BForty Pilates, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: