Thank you for visiting The Drop Bear Collective, a web tech business that makes websites and apps (or for using one of our products). We respect and protect the privacy of our users and clients. This privacy policy tells you how we collect and use information. This can be on our websites and apps, and some of the websites and apps that we have built for clients.

Cookies

A cookie is a short piece of data which is sent from a web server to a web browser on the user's machine when the browser visits the server's site. The cookie is stored on the user's machine, but it is not an executable program and cannot do anything to your machine. Whenever a web browser requests a file from the same web server that sent the cookie, the browser sends a copy of that cookie back to the server along with the request. In this way, the server knows you have visited before and can co-ordinate your access to different pages on its web site. A server cannot find out a name or email address, or anything about a user's computer, by using cookies. Cookies are essential in providing a seamless access to some online databases. The Drop Bear Collective uses first-party cookies to obtain session details for access to parts of our sites. Cookie information is not stored or collected by The Drop Bear Collective.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Reports obtained from Google Analytics are used to help improve the efficiency and usability of this website, and the websites and apps we build for clients.

Google Analytics uses first-party cookies and JavaScript code to gather statistics about how the website is accessed. It anonymously tracks how our visitors interact with this website, including where they came from, what they did on the site including such things as news registration. The information generated by the cookie and JavaScript code about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers located outside Australia. Google is based in the United States of America (USA). Should you wish to contact Google, you can find contact details on Google's Contact page.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, websites and apps, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

By using this website and/or the websites or apps built for our clients, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described in Google's Privacy Policy and for the purposes set out above. Relevant legislation of the USA will apply. 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.

Google AdWords

We have been asked to add Google Ads (previously called Google AdWords) code to some websites which we have built. The Drop Bear Collective added this code in good faith and under the instructions of the clients and the company/ies they’re working with. If you'd like to find out more information or would like to contact Google please use the links provided above.

Collection Of Personal Information

If you provide us with your email address, it will not be added to any other mailing list or disclosed to third parties without your consent.

Social Media

When you use The Drop Bear Collective's social media pages or pages associated with websites or apps built for our clients, you are using an external site and are therefore bound by the privacy principles of that site. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of that site for further information. The Drop Bear Collective does not endorse, and is not accountable for, any views expressed by third parties using external sites.

Sharing Our Content Through Social Media

The Drop Bear Collective and some of our clients may also use interfaces with social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GooglePlus and others. If you choose to "like" or "share" or "recommend" information from this or these websites and/or apps through these services, you should review the privacy policy of these services. If you're a member of a social media site, the interfaces may allow the social media site to connect your visits to this site with other personal information.

Promotional Material

Products (websites, apps, videos, etc.) made by The Drop Bear Collective may be used in promotional material. Clients should let us know if they do not want these products to feature.