Sports Gear Store – Privacy Policy
This policy outlines the privacy practices for Sports Gear Store; what information we gather when you complete your transaction with us, how we use it and how you can correct and change it. We treat your personal information and online privacy with the utmost importance. Sports Gear Store complies with all applicable Australian data protection and consumer legislation for online retail. We aim to ensure that our privacy policy continually meets all legal requirements in order to maintain and honour your privacy. This policy only outlines our activities from our servers.

General Privacy Information
Sports Gear Store contains links to third party internet sites and services that may collect data if you were to enter their site. They each have separate privacy and data collection practices that are independent of their own company and therefore Sports Gear Store has no responsibility or liability for these practices, actions or the content on their websites. While we strive to protect your personal information please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily and publicly disclose personal information on any online service or website, that information could be collected and used by others. Sports Gear Store can’t fully ensure the security of information you transmit to us. Any information you transmit online you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and account information.

Use of Information
When shopping at Sports Gear Store we will ask you for pertinent information to your order such as name, email address, billing address, delivery address, phone number and your product selections. We may also collect information about where you are on the internet (i.e. the URL that brought you to us, your IP address, browser type, device use, pages of our website viewed, and search terms entered on our site, regardless of being registered with our site. What you say to us on the phone or what we collect through the use of cookies is used for improving quality of service, targeting promotions and refining our product offerings to you. When you register as a user or check out as a guest on Sports Gear Store‘s website, we may also use your personal information to send you marketing and/or promotional materials from time to time. You can unsubscribe from marketing information at any time by using the unsubscribe function within the electronic marketing material.
The information we ask you for during checkout is stored on a secure server; Sports Gear Store will not disclose any information about any individual without the individual’s consent, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process. We will not share your email address or personal information with third parties or make public any data entered while placing your order. The only information we won’t retain is your credit card or banking details. Once you submit a transaction through our site the details are sent to a secure third party who process this information.

Online Security
Sports Gear Store utilizes a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. When purchasing from Sports Gear Store your credit card details are not stored in our systems in accordance with PCI-DSS standards. When purchasing from Sports Gear Store your financial details are passed through to a secure server using the latest 256-bit SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption technology. If you choose to modify your personal information or you have forgotten your password, you may do so by visiting the Sports Gear Store member page. You will be required to submit a valid member ID and password for authentication before you will be able to modify your file.

What are Cookies?
Sports Gear Store will use cookies to keep track of your current shopping session and personalise your experience. This is mandatory for a shopping basket function to work properly. Cookies are short pieces of data that are sent to your computer when you visit a website and on later visits, this data is then returned to that website. Cookies allow Sports Gear Store to recognise you automatically whenever you visit our site so that we can personalise your experience and provide you with a better service. We also use cookies (and similar browser data, such as Flash cookies) for fraud prevention and other purposes. If your web browser is set to refuse cookies from our website, you will not be able to complete a purchase or take advantage of certain features of our website, such as storing items in your Shopping Cart or receiving personalised recommendations. As a result, we strongly encourage you to configure your web browser to accept cookies from our website.