Introduction
At Umitech, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://umitech.com.au or use our services. By accessing our website, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
Information We Collect
Website Visitors
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.
Account Registration
If you create an account on our website, we collect your name, email address, username, and password. You may also provide additional optional information such as your organization, job title, and profile picture.
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
Information submitted through contact forms on our website will be used solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry and will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy.
How We Use Cookies
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They allow us to recognize your device and remember certain information about your visit. For detailed information about the cookies used on Umitech, please refer to our cookie policy.
Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential cookies: Required for the operation of our website
- Preference cookies: Remember your settings and preferences
- Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
- Marketing cookies: Used to track visitors across websites
Comment 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.
Login Cookies
If you visit our login page, 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.
Managing Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
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 you had visited the other website directly.
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.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website and services
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website and services
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, including for customer service, updates, and marketing purposes
- Process transactions
- Prevent fraudulent transactions and monitor against theft
- Comply with legal obligations
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
Business Transfers
We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Password Reset
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Spam Protection
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
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.
Your Privacy Rights
Access, Correction, and Deletion
You have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you
- Request that we delete any personal information we hold about you
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.
Australian Privacy Principles
As an Australian business, we comply with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The APPs govern how we collect, use, disclose, store, and secure your personal information.
International Data Transfers
If we transfer your personal information outside of Australia, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.
Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Making a Complaint
If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details above. We will investigate your complaint and respond to you within a reasonable time. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at www.oaic.gov.au.
Last Updated: 25 April, 2025