ratemyestate

Our commitment to maintaining your privacy

Our Privacy Statement has been created we value our users and recognise their right to keep Personal Information private. Ratemyestate collects Personal Information and Personal Data from Site visitors to provide services to our users, and (as described below) for better customising our services to you.

Any Personal Information and Personal Data collected from you will be used by us in accordance with and as described in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement has been prepared by Ratemyestate. Ratemyestate owns and operates the website located at www.Ratemyestate.com.au (“the Site”) across desktop, mobile, tablet and apps and including any subdomains

Definitions

Where used in this Privacy Statement, the terms “Personal Information”, and “Australian Privacy Principle(s)” has the meaning attributed to those terms in the Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 (“Privacy Act”).In this Privacy Statement:

any reference to “Ratemyestate”, “we”, “us” and “our” includes a reference to Ratemyestate and each of Ratemyestate’s related bodies corporate (as that term is defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)).
"Advertiser" refers to individuals or entities that post ads on our Site
"Reviewer" refers to users of the Site and “Registered Users” refers to reviewers who register on the Site;Reviewers, Advertisers and users who otherwise subscribe for Ratemyestate’s products, services or information offered via the Site are referred to generically in this Statement as “visitors”, "users" or "you" unless the context provides that only Reviewers, Registered Users or Advertisers are being referred to;
“GDPR” means the General Data Protection Regulation, being Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
“Personal Data has the meaning attributed to that term in the GDPR;

Collecting other information on Ratemyestate visitors

Ratemyestate collects non-Personal Information on Site visits by users including, without limitation, which sections of the Site are most frequently visited, how often, and for how long. This data is always used as aggregated, non-Personal Information, and may be shared with Ratemyestate partners to provide them with information relating to how Ratemyestate visitors 'use' the Site.

IP Addresses

Ratemyestate’s web servers gather your IP address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services, and to monitor the use of our Site, including the monitoring of the location of our users.

Cookies

Ratemyestate uses cookies and applets to provide Reviewers with a better browsing experience and tailor advertisements from Ratemyestate or from our business partners that appear, (on the Site or other websites) to your browsing preferences and/or your Reviewer Profile, (as defined below). These cookies and applets collect non-Personal Information such as preferences and click activity for measurement and for features such as remembering your details for 'Auto Login' (provided you have chosen this option).

Ratemyestate uses cookies and scripts in respect of Advertisers to assist Ratemyestate in improving website performance, making business decisions, aiding in error reporting, aiding online payments and testing new functionality. These cookies and scripts collect non-Personal Information such as preferences and click activity for measurement and for features such as remembering your details for 'Auto Login' (provided you have chosen this option).

If you do not wish to have cookies active whilst you browse the Site you can "opt-out" by modifying the privacy options in your browser. However, doing so will prevent access to some areas of the Site and limit your use of some of the Ratemyestate services.

By opting out from ad targeting Ratemyestate and its third party providers will not use the collected information to target ads to you, however, the information collected may continue to be used by Ratemyestate for, amongst other things, estimation of user numbers, advertising fraud detection and debugging.

Third Party Measurement

To better understand our users, Ratemyestate utilises third-party measurement companies to assess Site and mobile Site traffic. A tracking code is used to collect the following information on the usage of the Site: