EV Brief Privacy Policy 

EV Brief Media takes privacy seriously, and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. EV Brief Media will comply with its obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) in respect of that information. If you are located in, or are a citizen of the European Union, you may have additional rights under the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you are located in California, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).  If you are located in another jurisdiction, additional local requirements will apply.

Collection of your personal information

EV Brief Media collects and holds various types of personal information when you access the Website, comment on Website content, or sign up to our newsletter:

(a)    your name and contact details, including your e-mail address;

(b)    usage data including information about how you use our Website and Services;

(c)   technical data including your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website;

(d)     marketing and communications data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences

Quality and integrity of personal information

You are responsible for the quality, accuracy, and integrity of any information provided in your account details or profile or use of our Services.  If the personal information you provide to us is incomplete or inaccurate, we may be unable to provide you with the services you are seeking.  You can update your personal information at any time by emailing us.

Use and disclosure of your personal information

The personal information that we collect and hold about you depends on your interaction with us.  We will generally collect, use and hold your personal information if it is reasonably necessary for or directly related to the performance of our functions and activities and for the purposes of:

(a)    providing Services to you or our other users;

(b)    personalising our newsletter content.

Personal information will generally be collected directly from you through the use of any of our standard forms on our website.

We will never collect or disseminate your data for marketing or advertising purposes by third parties of any kind. The only time your personal information data may be disclosed is at the request of authorised regulatory bodies or otherwise if required to do so by law.

Security of your personal information

EV Brief Media is committed to protecting the security of your personal information.  We take reasonable measures to ensure the security of data you provide, and whilst we adopt all protections over your personal information within our control, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet.  As such, transmission of personal information via the internet is at your own risk and we cannot be held responsible for the security of such information.

Direct Marketing

We will only send you newsletters and information via email or our social media platforms about our Services with your consent. If you do not provide your consent to receive these communications, you may opt-out of receiving them from us by contacting us at the details below or by using opt-out facilities provided in our communications.  We do not provide your personal information to other organisations for the purposes of their direct marketing and will not sell, rent or lease our customer lists to third parties.

Overseas disclosure

It is unlikely that we will need to disclose your personal information to an overseas recipient or otherwise store your personal information overseas.  If we are ever required to do so, we will obtain your informed consent or ensure that the overseas recipients comply with the APPs.

GDPR compliance

If your Personal Information is governed by the GDPR, you may have additional rights as set out below:

(a)    Request erasure of your Personal Information.  This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.  You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Information to comply with local law.  Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

(b)   Object to processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

(c)   Request restriction of processing of your Personal Information.  This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal information in the following scenarios

(d)    If you want us to establish the information’s accuracy;

(i)    where our use of the information is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;

(ii)    where you need us to hold the information even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and

(iii)    you have objected to our use of your information but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

(e)    Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third party.  We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.  Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

(f)    Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Information.  However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.  If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you.  We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

CCPA compliance

The CCPA requires EV Brief Media to make certain disclosures that already are covered in this Privacy Policy.  If your personal information is governed by the CCPA, this section provides an overview of the information required by CCPA and how to exercise your additional rights:

(a)    In order to operate the Services we may collect and use the various categories of personal information including your name and contact details, usage data including information about how you use our Website and Services, profile data, technical data, marketing and communications data and other information necessary for or incidental to the provision of the Services.

(b)   Our Privacy Policy describes how we share or disclose your personal information.  We may share personal information automatically collected from your device and location information, if you have agreed to share it, with selected third party service providers, including vehicle manufacturers.

(c)    As described in this Privacy Policy, when permitted by you, we may use and share your personal information with trusted partners for advertising and related services that they provide to us.  Some partners may also use this information for their own purposes.  The transfer of your information to such partners may be considered a “sale” under the CCPA. Information on how you can opt out of sharing your information with these partners for purposes beyond the advertising services they provide us is provided below.  You also can opt out of sharing your information for personalised advertising through available web-related opt outs and mobile application-related opt outs described above.

(d)  You have the right to:

(iv)    Know your Personal Information. You can request information about the Personal Information collected from your use of the Services.

(v)    Delete your Personal Information. You can request that we delete the Personal Information that we have collected from your use of the Services.  We will delete your information unless it is necessary for purposes permitted by CCPA.

(vii)    Opt out of sale of your Personal Information. You can opt out of the sale of personal information at any time by accessing the “Do Not Sell My Information” link in the footer of our Website.

(e)    Non-discrimination.  If you choose to exercise any of these rights, we will not deny goods or services to you or provide different quality of services, unless that difference is reasonably related to the value provided by your personal information.

If the CCPA applies, EV Brief Media may maintain records of consumer requests and how EV Brief Media responded to those requests for a period of 24 months in order to demonstrate compliance with the CCPA.

Using our Website and cookies

To improve your experience on our website, we may use ‘cookies’: small data files that are served by our Website and stored on your device.  These are used by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalise the Website.  Cookies may be used for recording preferences, conducting internal analytics, conducting research to improve our offering, assisting with marketing and delivering certain website functionality.  You may refuse to accept cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on your internet browser.  However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.  We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Where we anonymise your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Accessing or correcting your Personal Information

We are committed to maintaining accurate, timely, relevant and appropriate information.

Where requested, we will provide you with a copy of the personal information that we hold which relates to you, provided that the request is made in accordance with the APPs (contained in the Act).  We will also update any inaccurate information about you if you inform us that the information is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading.

There are no charges for requesting access to or the correction of your personal information. You can contact our privacy officer regarding access to or correction of your information by any of the following methods:

Email: hello@evbrief.com

We will respond to those requests within 30 days in accordance with our obligations under the Act.  If we refuse a request to access or correct personal information, where reasonable, we will provide you our reasons for doing so and information about your ability to complain about such refusal.

In order to protect the confidentiality of your Personal Information, details of your information will only ever be passed on to you where we are satisfied that the information relates to you.  Accordingly, we may request documentation from you which confirms your identity before passing on any personal information which relates to you.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

EV Brief Media will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback.  If we do so, the latest version of our Privacy Policy will be available on our Website and will apply to all your personal information held by us at that time.  EV Brief Media encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of how EV Brief Media is using, collecting, protecting and disclosing your personal information.

Further information

If you require any further information or have any queries regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact our privacy officer at the details set out above.

Should you wish to read more information on the Act, we recommend that you visit the website of the OAIC at www.oaic.gov.au.