Our commitment to privacy

iEqualChange, Pty Ltd (IEC) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. IEC has developed this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to help protect your personal information. The Privacy Policy discloses the information we gather on www.iEqualChange.com (the “Site”), as well as ways in which we process and, share such information and how you can correct or change such information. This Privacy Policy addresses our privacy practices relating to the general use of our Site by anyone who visits, browses or otherwise uses the Site (collectively, “You”).

Before submitting information to the Site, please read this Privacy Policy. By visiting the Site, submitting information, or using any of our products or services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy and consent to having your data transferred to and/or processed in Australia. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

The information we collect

The Site is intended to provide a full experience without requiring you to submit any more Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) than is necessary to use the Site effectively. We do not require you to register or submit PII in order to visit the Site. Some activities on the Site can be performed without providing PII. When we ask for PII to, for instance, receive impact updates, we will not require anyone to disclose more PII than we believe is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. We collect the following categories of information from you:

Personally Identifiable Information Collected from Individuals

RETAILER: When choosing an NGO project on the i=Change platform on a Retailer’s site, the Retailer can access your name, email and the NGO project you chose. Retailer may communicate with you via their channels, and customise their message to you based on your NGO project choice, from a previous purchase you made on Retailer’s site.

iEC may receive and store any information you enter on the Site or provide to iEC, that would allow i=Change to identify you. The PII you provide to iEC will only be used by iEC in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Examples of PII we may collect from you:

  • If you choose to receive impact updates, we collect your name and email address
  • PII you provide about yourself when you send us an email
  • iEC may use the information you provide to contact you about our relevant content, products and services related to iEC. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time

Disclosure of Information to third parties

iEC may give your PII to any third parties under the following circumstances:

Fulfilment of Services

We may retain other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include, but are not limited to, companies and individuals who: (i) administer the IEC accounts; (ii) process donations; (iii) provide customer support; (iv) analyse data. Such third parties may be provided with access to PII needed to perform their functions but may not use such information for any other purpose.

Compliance with Law and Fraud Protection

We may disclose any information, including, without limitation, PII, that we deem necessary, in our sole discretion and without your prior permission, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. We may also exchange information, including, without limitation, PII, with other companies and organisations for credit fraud protection, risk reduction and related activities or to protect the rights, property or safety of iEC, its agents, employees or affiliates or others. iEC reserves the right to disclose PII for a user who we believe is in violation of our Privacy Policy or other terms of service as posted on the Site.

Sale or Transfer of Information

In the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution or sale or transfer of substantially all of the assets of iEC or the Site, PII and/or other information collected about you from the Site may be sold, assigned or transferred to the party acquiring all or substantially all of the equity and/or assets of iEC or the Site in order to permit the party to continue the operation of iEC and/or the Site or any successor version of the Site. By using the Site and providing PII to iEC, you consent to the sale and transfer of your information as described in this paragraph.

Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions govern iEC’s relationship with you when you use iEC’s website, www.iequalchange.com (“site”) and any or all services available on or through the site or otherwise provided by iEC (collectively, the “service” or “services”). By using or accessing the site, whether manually or through automated means, you agree to these iEC terms and conditions (“terms”). These terms apply to you if you are a charity, donor, event organiser, event registrant or any other user of the site and/or services (collectively, “users” or “you”). If you choose to not accept these terms, you may not use the IEC site or the services.

General

The headings used throughout these Terms and conditions are solely for convenience of reference and are not to be used as an aid in the interpretation of these Terms. If IEC fails to enforce any parts of these Terms and conditions it will not be considered a waiver.These Terms make up the entire agreement between you and IEC regarding the Site and supersede any prior agreements. These Terms and conditions do not confer any third party beneficiary rights. You will not transfer any of your rights or responsibilities under these Terms and conditions to anyone without IEC’s express written permission.

IEC may, at any time, assign our rights or delegate our obligations hereunder without notice to you in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise. Nothing in these Terms and conditions shall prevent iEC from complying with the law.

Jurisdiction

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of the state of Victoria, Australia and shall be interpreted, construed, and enforced according to the laws of Victoria, without giving effect to any conflict of laws or provisions.

Ownership of the Site, Site information and Services; Intellectual Property Rights
The Site and Services are expressly owned and operated by iEC. Unless otherwise noted, the design and content features on the Site and Services, including without limitation, information and other materials, illustrations, product layout and design, logos, icons, navigational buttons, images, artwork, graphics, photography, text, data, audio sound, software, HTLM code, URLs, and the like, as well as the selection, assembly and arrangement thereof (collectively, the “Site Information”), are owned by IEC, or are licensed by iEC from third parties. The Site and Services, as a whole and in part, are protected by copyright, trademark, service mark, trade name, and other intellectual property and proprietary rights, and all other applicable rights are reserved.

No other use of material on the site is permitted other than with the express written permission of the copyright holder.

Unless otherwise provided through any other applicable terms and conditions to which you agree, no portion of the Site, Services or Site Information may be reprinted, republished, modified, or distributed in any form without iEC’s express written permission. You may not, and these Terms do not give you permission to, reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, transmit, sell, distribute, license or create derivative works with respect to the Site Services or any of the Site Information.

Certain Site Information may be licensed from third parties and all such third party Site Information and all intellectual property and proprietary rights related to such third party Site Information belong to the respective third parties. You may not remove any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property or proprietary notice or legend contained on the Site, Services, or the Site Information and you must retain all copyright, trademark, service mark and other proprietary notices contained on the Site, Services or in the original Site Information on any authorized copy you make of the Site, Services or the Site Information.

You agree not to sell or modify the Site, Services or the Site Information or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Site or the Site Information in any way for any public or commercial purpose in any other manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, that disparages or discredits IEC or our licensees, that dilutes the strength of iEC’s property or our licensee’s property, or that otherwise infringes on iEC’s or our licensee’s intellectual property rights. You further agree to in no other way misuse the Site or the Site Information. We reserve any rights not expressly granted by these Terms or any applicable end-user license agreements. Unauthorised use of the site may give to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

Security

IEC is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure all information we collect online.

Privacy

In addition to reviewing these Terms, you should also read our Privacy Policy to better comprehend how we collect and use your personal information. Your use of the Site and its Services constitutes your agreement to our Privacy Policy.