PRIVACY POLICY AND COOKIES

Privacy Policy

balsacentral.com highly values the strong relationships we have with our customers. The gradual introduction of data collection technology at balsacentral.com will be handled with full and proper respect for the privacy of our customers. To protect your privacy, you can visit the balsacentral.com site without identifying yourself or having to reveal any information about yourself.
Your personal information: what do we collect, and how do we use it?

• We do not collect personal information when you visit our site unless you place an order or register with us.

When you place an order you will be asked for the following personal information: your name, e-mail address, mailing address, delivery address and any special delivery instructions, phone number. We may share this information and only that information which is absolutely necessary, with those third parties that are involved in the processing of your order. For example, the financial institution that issued your credit card and, where balsa is ordered, the shipping carrier that delivers your order. – As a first time customer, you may receive a telephone call or email requesting more information to confirm the details that you have supplied to us.

• We do not share, sell, rent or barter any identifiable personal information to any third party without your permission.
• When you log on to our site, if you have already registered, we will ask you your user ID and password.
• Occasionally we may have promotional /specials/new product or information emails available to make your shopping and purchasing experience easier. Should you decide to subscribe, we will send you your requested information from time to time. You may unsubscribe at any time. Subscription to this service is optional and free.
• When you submit feedback or questions via e-mail or contact us for information about our Web site, we will request your name and email address. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiries.

By default, all web server log files capture IP addresses. We may use your IP to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our website and to track web usage. this information is used internally and is not shared with anyone else. As the Federal Government introduces new privacy legislation – balsacentral.com will review and update As appropriate its privacy policy. More information on privacy legislation is available from the Federal Privacy Commissioner at www.privacy.gov.au

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of information sent from a Web server to your computer. We use cookies when someone logs into our site, to maintain that login, to retain login information, if requested, and for the service of our shopping basket. We do not use cookies for marketing, promotional or advertising purposes, nor do we use cookies to track your Internet activity before or after you leave balsacentral.com.

Any activity, while you are at the website, may be monitored. Your computer will only store a maximum of 2kb of cookies. They are deleted on a first in first out basis. No other company has access to our cookies. balsacentral.com has found that attractive, graphics-rich emails are a quick, effective and low-cost way to communicate with customers and prospects about promotions.

We maintain an opt-out, user-customizable subscription service of email addresses of people requesting promotional emails. We do not want to send emails to you if you would prefer not to receive them. Changes you can make To make any changes to your contact information, please sign on to the website and utilise our customer management facility by selecting “My Account” or feel free to contact us via email at sales@balsacentral.com

Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our user's experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.