Privacy Policy 

Our website address is: https://www.thelimetreeclinic.com.au.

This Privacy Policy describes how The Lime Tree Clinic Pty Ltd (the “Site”, “Sites”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from us (the “Site”) or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, regulatory reasons or medical requirements.

How we collect and use your personal information

To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect, and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.

How we source your data

The main way The Lime Tree Clinic sources your data and personal information is through the use of “cookies”. A cookie is a small data file stored on your device’s browser. Its purpose is to help the The Lime Tree Clinic website keep track of your visits and activity. The cookies we use include, but are not limited to, the Google AdWords tracking cookie; meaning The Lime Tree Clinic will continuously display ads across the internet and on the Google Display Network.

You can find information on the specific type of cookies used in your browser settings. You also have the option to block our cookies, however this will impact your experience on the The Lime Tree Clinic website.

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.

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.

How we use your personal information

  • Providing Products and Services: We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to your account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and to enable you to post reviews.

  • Marketing and Advertising: We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.

  • Security and Fraud Prevention: We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.

  • Communicating with you: We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship with you.

Who we share your data with

We have set out below the categories of recipients to who we may share information, and the reason for sharing:

Service providers: The Lime Tree Clinic has service providers who do work on our behalf and who may need to ascertain personal data so that they that they may provide their services to us.

Payment processors: We will share your personal data with our payment processors as and when necessary to enable them to process your payments, and for anti-fraud purposes.

Advertising partners: The Lime Tree Clinic and its advertising partners may, from time to time, process certain personal data to help us understand your preferences so that we may deliver more relevant advertising to you.

Law enforcement and data protection authorities: Personal data will be shared when we believe, in good faith, it is necessary for us to do so in order to comply with a legal obligation under applicable law, or respond to valid legal process, such as a search warrant, a court order, or a subpoena. We also share your personal data where we believe, in good faith, that it is necessary for the purpose of our own, or a third party’s legitimate interest relating to national security, law enforcement, litigation, criminal investigation, protecting the safety of any person, or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm, provided that we deem that such interest is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms requiring the protection of your personal data.

Purchasers of our business: We will share your personal data in those cases where we sell or negotiate to sell our business to a buyer or prospective buyer. In this situation, The Lime Tree Clinic will, to the extent required by law, continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal data and give you notice before your personal data is transferred to the buyer or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Data retention and deletion 

The Lime Tree Clinic will only keep your personal data only as long as necessary to provide you with the The Lime Tree Clinic Service and for legitimate and essential business purposes, such as maintaining the performance of the The Lime Tree Clinic Service, making data-driven business decisions, complying with our legal obligations, and resolving disputes. The Lime Tree Clinic keeps some of your personal data for as long as you are a customer of the The Lime Tree Clinic Service.

At your request, we will delete your personal data so that it no longer identifies you, unless we are legally allowed or required to maintain certain personal data, including situations such as the following:

  • Where we need to retain the personal data for our regulatory, legal, tax, audit, and accounting obligations, we will retain the necessary personal data for the period required by applicable law; and/or,

  • If there is an unresolved issue relating to your account;

  • Where necessary for our legitimate business interests such as fraud prevention.

What rights you have over your data

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Right to Access: You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.

  • Right to Delete: You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right to Correct: You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

  • Right of Portability: You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.

  • Right to Limit and/or Opt out of Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: You may have a right to direct us to limit our use and/or disclosure of sensitive personal information to only what is necessary to perform the Services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average individual.

  • Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.

  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.

  • Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.

  • Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

Complaints procedure

If you have a complaint concerning the manner in which we maintain the privacy of your personal information, please contact us as set out below. All complaints will be considered by us, and we may seek further information from you to clarify your concerns. If we agree that your complaint is well founded, we will, in consultation with you, take appropriate steps to rectify the problem. If you remain dissatisfied with the outcome, you may refer the matter to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Minors

The Lime Tree Clinic Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at hello@thelimetreeclinic.com.au or by mail using the details provided below:

The Lime Tree Clinic
Re: The Director 
The Lime Tree Clinic, 100 Outram Street, West Perth WA 6005, Australia