About VRQHA – Legal Policies
Privacy Policy
Victorian Racing Quarter Horse Association (VRQHA) respects the privacy of every individual who visits our website. This privacy statement provides notice of how we gather and utilise personal information. This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically to review this information.
VRQHA gathers personal information about our users when they are purchasing products or services. VRQHA may use personal information collected online to develop and improve the products, benefits and services offered to members or website users.
VRQHA may also use its statistical database, including information provided by you through this website, to distribute information about other VRQHA services and other organisations’ services to you. VRQHA may periodically send new release information, coupon offers or other information to VRQHA customers.
The personal information collected from you at this site is or may be used:
- for credit verification purposes;
- for billing purposes;
- to maintain your membership;
- to notify you about other or new services or promotions from time to time;
- to provide customer support;
- to provide you with the products, services or information you have requested.
VRQHA may also disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts or external advisors where permitted or required by law.
VRQHA’s policy is to provide you with the opportunity to limit the use and/or disclosure of your personal information. You may do this at any time when you receive email communications from us, or at any other time by written notice to VRQHA. If at any time you no longer wish to receive email or postal communications from VRQHA or from third parties, you can contact VRQHA customer service at any time and make an “opt out” request, as per details at the end of this statement.
Cookie Technology – VRQHA may utilise cookie technology to process and identify user data. A cookie is a piece of information that is transferred to a user’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. If users choose to, they have the option to set their browser to refuse cookies.
Each time you visit VRQHA’s website, anonymous navigation information is collected by our servers. This information includes:
- your server’s IP address;
- the date and time of your visit;
- the address of the previous site you visited;
- the website you leave our site to visit;
- the type of browser and operating system you are using;
- the address of the pages you accessed.
This information provides VRQHA with statistics about how the website is used and navigated, including the number of hits, the frequency of visits and the duration of visits to each web page on the site. It does not personally identify individual users unless the user has previously elected to identify themselves by submitting personal information.Information collected on this site may also be combined and de-identified to provide VRQHA with anonymous demographic and usage information. VRQHA can then use this aggregated information to develop new and/or more appropriate services and products to offer to customers and may also be provided to third parties.
Other than as described, VRQHA will not make an attempt to identify users or their browsing activities. However, in the unlikely event of an investigation, a law enforcement agency or other government agency may exercise its legal authority to inspect our Internet Service Provider’s logs.
If you wish to complain about our use of your personal information, please contact:
Privacy Officer
Victorian Racing Quarter Horse Association
PO Box 4
Linton VIC 3360
