Disclosure Policy

This policy last updated: November 11th, 2023.

Scoop Club is a personal blog written and edited by Nate Teague. For questions about this blog, please contact me.

Scoop Club accepts paid advertising, sponsorship, and is part of affiliate programs such as Amazon.com. Where this is the case, I will clearly identify this on the relevant page. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely mine. Any product claim or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Scoop Club uses and protects any information that you give while using www.scoopclub.com.au.

I allow third-party companies to serve ads and collect certain anonymous information when you visit this website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.

If you are asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Scoop Club may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.

What is collected

The following information may be collected:

  • contact information including email address
  • demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What is done with the information

I require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • Use the information to improve my products and services.
  • I may occasionally send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which they think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights you have over your data

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact forms

We use a contact form which collects your name and email. We keep this information on file for customer service purposes. This data is not used for marketing purposes.

Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy – external site and for the purposes set out above. You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google – external site.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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.

Security

Scoop Club is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. The website uses Let’s Encrypt Authority X3 SSL certificate. If you enter any information on this website your data will be encrypted for security purposes. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected online are in place.

Cookies

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.

Overall, cookies help me provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. 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 website.

Information for European Visitors

If you use or interact with our Site then the data controller will be scoopclub.com.au. The contact details for this entity are provided in the “Contact” section below.

We process your information to meet our legitimate interests when we use your information to provide you with our content, products and/or services, to communicate with you, for our advertising and marketing purposes and in the context of a corporate transaction. To accomplish our legitimate interests, we may share your information with our service providers and business partners (including for our advertising and marketing purposes) and in the context of a corporate transaction.

In certain circumstances, you may have a right to access or object to the use of personal information held about you. You may also ask us to rectify, update, erase, restrict or to share your information in a usable format with another company, in each case subject to applicable law. We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your information.

Links to other websites

My website may contain links to other websites which are relevant to the topic being discussed. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I 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.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • if you have previously agreed to me using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

I will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. I may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting.

To update your details please contact me.