Privacy Policy
The IT TechNinjas (trading name of The Trustee for Hobbs Trust, ABN 78 689 368 058) is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
1. Who we are
The IT TechNinjas is a Brisbane-based managed IT services provider. We can be contacted at:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: +61 7 3188 5466
- Post: PO Box 1209, Morayfield QLD 4506
2. What personal information we collect
We may collect the following personal information:
- Contact form submissions: your name, email address, company or organisation name, and the content of your message.
- Communications: information you provide when you contact us by phone, email, or other means.
- Client engagements: business contact details and relevant technical information provided in the course of delivering our services.
We do not collect sensitive information (such as health information, financial account details, or government identifiers) through this website.
3. How we collect personal information
We collect personal information:
- Directly from you when you complete the contact form on this website.
- When you contact us by phone, email, or in person.
- In the course of providing managed IT services to your organisation.
This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies and does not collect personal information. We do not use Google Analytics or any other cookie-based analytics service on this site.
4. Why we collect personal information
We collect and use personal information to:
- Respond to your enquiry or request for information.
- Provide, manage, and improve our managed IT services.
- Send you our newsletter (The Ninja Brief) if you have requested it.
- Meet our legal and contractual obligations.
- Protect the security of our systems and services.
5. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to:
- Email delivery providers: we use SMTP2Go to deliver email messages. Contact form submissions are transmitted through this service. SMTP2Go processes data in accordance with its own privacy policy.
- Cloudflare: this website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may process connection metadata (such as IP addresses) as part of delivering the website. Cloudflare processes data in accordance with its privacy policy.
- Professional advisors: lawyers, accountants, or other advisors where necessary.
- Authorities: where required or permitted by law.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
6. Overseas disclosure
Some of our service providers (including Cloudflare and SMTP2Go) may store or process personal information outside Australia. Where this occurs, we take reasonable steps to ensure those providers handle information in a manner consistent with the APPs.
7. Data retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. Contact enquiries are generally retained for a period of up to seven years for record-keeping purposes.
8. Security
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. Our website is served over HTTPS and hosted on Cloudflare's infrastructure. Form submissions are transmitted securely to our email system.
We are subject to the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme under the Privacy Act 1988. In the event of an eligible data breach, we will notify affected individuals and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) as required.
9. Your rights
You have the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected].
10. Complaints
If you are not satisfied with our response to a privacy complaint, you may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at www.oaic.gov.au .
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will always be available at this address. We encourage you to review it periodically.
12. Contact us
For any privacy-related questions, contact us at [email protected] or +61 7 3188 5466.