PRIVACY POLICY

 

Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd (trading as Maraboon Vet Surgery & Maraboon Pet Resort) and each of its subsidiaries recognises that your privacy is important to you and is committed to protecting your personal information and complying with its obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect your personal information, what we do with it and how it’s protected.

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HELD BY SUTHERLAND & REYNOLDS PTY LTD

 

For the purposes of providing veterinary services and animal care to your animal, the personal information we collect includes:

  • Name
  • Address (including residential, business or postal addresses).
  • Telephone numbers (including residential, work or mobile).
  • Email address.
  • Pet/animal details (including name, species, breed, colour, age, desexing status, microchip details, pet insurance details (if applicable).
  • Persons of authority (may include spouse and other persons who have an interest/authority in the treatment of your pet).
  • Work details (if applicable).

We may also collect information such as:

  • Marketing preferences and preferred method of delivery (email, SMS, direct mail, social media).
  • Responses to customer satisfaction surveys and similar activities.
  • Device identification information.
  • Pet medical histories from other veterinarians. 

For the purposes of employment, we may also collect, in addition to the above:

  • Employment history.
  • Working eligibility rights.
  • Reference details.
  • Education details.

 

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Clients - We collect your personal information through our interactions with you:

  • During conversations with our staff (by phone, in person or electronically).
  • When you request an estimation of services.
  • When you present your pet for treatment.
  • When you complete forms or other documentation.
  • When you submit a form on our website.

In some cases, where it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain your personal information directly from you, we will seek to obtain it from a publicly available source or third party.

Employees/unsolicited job applications – We collect information from you when you apply for employment and when you complete forms applicable to the recruitment and selection process. Applications from job seekers, are kept with permission from the job seeker, for six months from the receipt of application for the purpose of recruitment in the immediate future. After six months, this information will be destroyed.

Other veterinary surgeons and staff (who are involved in the care of an animal), Contractors etc (other than those employed by Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd) – may collect personal information from you when you interact with us. This information is generally collected for administration purposes.

 

HOLDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

We may hold your personal information in electronic form or in paper form:

Information held in electronic form is retained in our computer systems, databases and servers which are controlled by Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd or by third parties under contractual agreement with Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd. 

Information held in paper form is securely stored at our facilities and may be converted to electronic form.

We use security, password protection, encryption and other measures to ensure your personal information is protected from misuse, interference and loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

 

PURPOSES FOR USING AND DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

We use and disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide safe and effective veterinary/animal care to your pet or animal.
  • To communicate with you about upcoming appointments/bookings, health checks, vaccination schedules and other related veterinary/animal care matters.
  • To answer your questions, provide you with information or advice (including general pet health advice) or consider and respond to requests or complaints made by you.
  • To process insurance claims.
  • To carry out transactions with you, such as administer billing, administer third party payment arrangements and debt recovery.
  • To carry out transactions with you, such as process payments via direct debit.
  • To perform research and conduct quality assurance to improve our services.
  • To seek feedback from you to manage, monitor, plan and evaluate our services.
  • Purposes involving the training of staff.
  • To assess your suitability for employment.
  • To test and maintain our information technology systems.
  • Any purpose that requires us to obtain advice from consultants, professional advisors and/or other veterinary/animal care professionals (for example veterinary pathologists/specialists).
  • For risk management and the management of legal liabilities and claims (for example, liaising with insurers and legal representatives).
  • Any propose to comply with laws or regulations or to comply with any directions given by regulators or authorities (for example, for the purposes of quarantine, public health and notifiable disease incidents).
  • Any purpose disclosed to you and to which you have consented.
  • To maintain our business records and otherwise to run our business.
  • We may disclose personal information to data analysts, IT services.

 

ANONYMITY AND PSEUDONYMITY

 

You have the right to use a pseudonym or not identify yourself, when dealing with Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd  when lawful and practicable (for example, when making an enquiry). However, it is not always practical to deal with you anonymously or pseudonymously on an ongoing basis. If we do not collect personal information from you, we may be unable to provide your pet with the veterinary/animal care services you have asked us to provide.

 

DIRECT MARKETING

 

Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd  may send you direct marketing communications (via SMA, email or regular mail) from time to time, to keep you informed about products and services related to your bookings or the health of your pet or that may be of interest to you.

We respect your choice to “opt-out” of direct marketing communication activities. You may opt out of direct marketing communications at any time by contacting our Vet Clinic on 07 49876800 or by emailing admin@maraboonvet.com.au or Pet Resort on 07 4987 7748 or by emailing admin@maraboonpetresort.com.au 

 

OVERSEAS DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Unless we have your consent, or an exception under the Australian Privacy Principles applies, we will only disclose your personal information to overseas recipients where we have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipient does not breach the Australian Privacy Principles in relation to your personal information.

 

ONLINE AND DIGITAL SERVICES INCLUDING WEBSITE

Security - Our websites take every precaution to protect our users information. When our subscription form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL encryption software.

Third Party Sites - To the extent hyperlinks or banner advertisements incorporating hyperlinks are utilised to access third party sites, you should be aware that these third party web sites are not controlled by Maraboon Veterinary Surgery and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies of these individual sites to see how your personal information will be utilised by the operators of those third party web sites.

Indemnity - Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd has taken all precautions in displaying accurate details but shall not be held liable for any errors and/or be held responsible for any actions undertaken by users of the site due to displayed errors.

Future Changes - By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Maraboon Veterinary Surgery. Maraboon Veterinary Surgery may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept these changes.

Cookies - Our websites (www.maraboonvet.com.au, www.maraboonvetblackwater.com.au & www.maraboonpetresort.com.au) utilizes “cookies", which are pieces of data that are stored on your hard drive containing details about your use of our website.  Cookies do not provide us with information about you that can be used to identify you, rather, they anonymously track usage of our website, so that we can enhance users' experience of our website.  You may elect to reject cookies and still use our website, however in doing so, you may be unable to access certain pages.

Digital identifiers - We may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our website, track use movements on our website, and gather broad demographic data for aggregate use, which we may share with our partners and advertisers.  We note that IP addresses are not linked to any information that could identify you.

 

ACCESSING AND CORRECTIONS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

You are entitled to access your personal information held by Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd  on request. If you wish to access your details, you may contact our Privacy Officer using the details provided below. In limited circumstances, access to your personal information may be declined in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Updating your information – We will endeavor to keep your personal information up to date, accurate and complete. You can assist us with this by letting us know if you notice errors or discrepancies in the information we hold about you and letting us know if your details change. If you consider any personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, out-of-date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading you are entitled to request correction of the information. After receiving a request from you, we will take reasonable steps to correct your information.

Destruction of Personal Information - Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd  takes reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify your personal information where it is no longer required.  Personal information which forms part of our veterinary surgeons treatment records is maintained in accordance with legislative and professional requirements.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information - Unless you authorise us to, Sutherland & Reynolds will not disclose any personal information including your pet's medical records to anyone other than who is listed as owner or authorised person on your client file. It is your responsiblity to inform us if there are any changes to who can access the information on your file. 

 

MICROCHIPS

 

It is your responsiblity to ensure that any personal information stored on your pet's microchip is kept up to date. The information stored on the microchip ultimately reflects the legal ownership of your pet. You must check with your pet's microchip provider (Central Animal Records, AAR etc) as to what information they have stored on the chip and update it accordingly if your information changes. If there is conflicting information between the microchipping company database and our client/patient database, we may not be able to provide you with information regarding your pet, including being able to contact you if your pet becomes lost. 

 

QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS

 

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the way in which we have handled your personal information, or of you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under the Privacy Act, please contact us:

Postal Address: PO Box 2316, Emerald QLD 4720
Telephone: 07 49877748
Email: manager@maraboonpetresort.com.au
 

On the receipt of a privacy complaint, we will consider and respond to your complaint within a reasonable timeframe. If you are not satisfied with our response, or you believe that Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd  may have breached the Australian Privacy Principles or the Privacy Act, you are entitled to make a complaint to the Office of Australian Information Commissioner. This office can be contacted by telephone on 1300 363 992 or visit www.oaic.gov.au

 

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

 

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Our current Privacy Policy will be published on each of our websites.

Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and accordingly maintains the following Privacy Policy to protect the personal information you provide online. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available within the website. Questions regarding this policy should be directed to manager@maraboonpetresort.com.au

 

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Company Name: Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd

Trading Name: Maraboon Pet Resort

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Company Name: Sutherland & Reynolds Pty Ltd

Trading Name: Maraboon Pet Resort