Vasy Terms and Conditions

Our vision is to grow a family of people who are there for each other, helping each other grow personally and professionally.

We believe that sharing information can be an important business and personal development tool. We recognise that posting can be an extremely effective vehicle for communicating with members of the public with common interests. We are committed to supporting readers’ interaction knowledgeably, accurately and socially.

Content Policy

Vasy is a free service for communication and sharing relevant information. We believe our communication site increases the availability of information, encourages interests and makes possible new connections between people.

However, in order to uphold these values, there needs to be some boundaries on the type of content that can be posted on Vasy. The boundaries we have defined are those that serve to enhance the service as a whole.

Content Boundaries

Our content policies play an important role in maintaining a positive experience for online users. Please respect these guidelines.

From time to time, we may change our content policies so please check back here.

Truthful, transparent and honest: For members of the public to fully realise the benefit of viewing posts, they need to have the right information. Please ensure your posts are truthful, transparent and honest representations.

Warranties: Do not make statements about warranty, expressly or implied.

Misleading: Please do not post photos, videos or make statements that are misleading and/or deceptive.

Harassment: Do not harass, abuse, offend or belittle others when commenting.

Crude Content: Do not post content that is shocking or graphic.

Acknowledgment

You understand that your posts may be posted and viewed publicly on the Vasy website. You agree that we have the right and permission to use your comments, should they include your name, likeness, voice, testimonial, personal details or photograph without further compensation, permission, or notification. You understand and agree that all comments are the exclusive rights of Vasy and you do not ask for or expect compensation for the use of your posts.

By using Vasy posting site, you signify your acceptance of and obligations to these terms and conditions.

Disclaimer

All messages, information, photos and videos made available on the Vasy website and any opinions, advice, statements or other information contained in any messages posted or transmitted by any third party are the responsibility of the author of that message and not of Thomas Le Hoang (unless Thomas Le Hoang is specifically identified as the author of the message). The fact that a particular message is posted on or transmitted using this site does not mean that Thomas Le Hoang has endorsed that message in any way or verified the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message. If specific advice is required for your individual circumstances, you should consult an appropriate expert directly. Do not rely on the general material on this site. Any messages posted are not a substitute for expert and legal advice. Posting messages that harass, abuse, offend, belittle or threaten anyone is prohibited and will result in banning from using this site. We encourage visitors to this site to report any objectionable message to thomaslehoang@wiseberry.com.au. Comments on Vasy are not monitored 24/7.

Privacy Policy

We acknowledge and respect the privacy of individuals and as such makes every efforts to comply with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act").

This privacy policy applies to the use of the Vasy website.

It is important that you regularly visit our terms and conditions of use including Content Policy, Disclaimer and Privacy Policy available on this website as its content may be updated from time to time without notice as part of our commitment to ensuring that it complies with legislative and other requirements.

What is personal information:

Personal information means any information that can be used to personally identify you.

What personal information do we collect, hold and is being displayed on this site:

Personal information collected by us may include your name, mailing, street and billing address, email address, profession, your location, purchases you make on this website, entries you make, comments, messages, photos and the content you post and share on the site. This information may be displayed and shared publicly.

Please refer to your privacy settings and ensure to check your personal settings once you are logged in, to control whom you wish to get messages from and show your location to other members.

We collect information about:

The people and groups you are connected to, share information with and how you interact with them, such as the people you communicate with the most or the groups you like to share with.
How you use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with or the frequency and duration of your activities. 

We also collect content and information that other people provide when they use our Services, including information about you, such as when they share a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync or import your contact information.

Information about payments

When you use our Services for purchases, we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes your purchase, as well as billing, shipping and contact details. Your payment details are collected by PayPall. Please ensure to check PayPall Privacy Policy.

How do we collect your personal information:

Generally, we will collect personal information directly from you. For instance, we may collect personal information from you when you fill in a login form, sign up for an account, make a purchase, during conversations and communications between you and Vasy members, send us an email, use our services, and when you sign up to email alerts.

Use and disclosure of personal information:

Personal information collected by us will only be, treated with strictest confidence, collected by lawful and fair means, used for lawful purposes, collected with your consent, disclosed with your consent, used for the purpose it is collected, used for other purposes as disclosed in this privacy policy or at the time of collection.

For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information:

To obtain login to this site, to allow you to communicate and exchange comments with other Vasy members, to answer your enquiry as the case may be;

For secondary purpose which is directly related to the primary purpose and you would reasonably expect us to use or disclose the information in such a manner;

For purposes related to promotion and marketing (including direct marketing). For example, we may use the personal information we collect from you in our direct marketing to identify particular products and services we believe may be of interest and benefit to you. We may then contact you to let you know about these products and services and how they may benefit you. These communications may be in the form of email, SMS or mail. If you do not wish to receive direct marketing information from us, please tell us by emailing us on our Contact Form available on this site or follow the opt-out route as indicated in our marketing communications;

To maintain our database on Vasy members;

To assess the performance of our website;

To comply with any law, regulation and rules

To whom do we disclose your personal information:

To our employees and related entities (including Wiseberry Franchises Pty Limited, Synergi First Pty Limited);

To external organisations and parties who are contracted to us to provide particular services on our behalf such as marketing systems, designs, supplies and prints, web hosting providers, IT administrators, mailing houses, and other service providers;

To other persons and organisations including your followers, governmental and regulatory authorities;

When required by law.

We may disclose personal information to service providers located overseas where our data hosting and other IT and email service providers are stored on an overseas server. We may disclose your personal information to entities within Australia who may store your data overseas. In the unlikely event that a disclosure is made to an overseas recipient, the information may not be protected by the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). By providing your details however you consent to your information being disclosed in this manner.

We do not sell, rent or share your personal information in a manner other than disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Information Logged:

We operate the website with outsourced technical assistance.

When visiting this site, a record of your visit is logged and information automatically recorded. We may collect information for statistical purposes to find out how our website is used and navigated, including the number of hits, the frequency and duration of use, to discover what information is most and least used. Knowing what is useful to you enables us to make the website more helpful, to provide better services, to improve its performance and to increase its effectiveness. We may also log errors and collect information for security purposes when for example it suspects an illegal use of the website.

The information logged when you access the website includes:

The user's Internet domain and Your IP or server's address;

The date and time of your visit to the site;

The pages you visit and the documents downloaded;

Your web browser version and type (for example internet explorer, safari, etc);

The user's operating system (for example, Windows NT, Windows 97 & 98,OSX etc);

The time taken to transmit information to you; and

The previous Internet address from which you came directly to this website.

All of this information is used for statistical analysis or systems administrative and security purposes. In such instances, no attempt will be made to identify users or their browsing activities, except if we suspect an improper use of the website and/or when required by or under law.

Cookies and Tracking:

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in your web browser while you are browsing the website or open certain emails.

We use cookies, also known as local storage, to collect, store and track limited information about the user's computer and/or the user. These cookies help maintain the integrity of statistics, prevent fraud and to improve the site experience, for example we use cookies to remember user preferences, among other things. We do not use cookies to collect your personal information or follow your web browsing habits.

We use different types of cookies for different purposes:

"required cookies" are necessary for our website to work properly
"performance cookies" allow us to analyse how Visitors use our website so we can measure and improve the performance of our website
"functional cookies" allow us to remember choices you may have made on our website, and
"advertising cookies" are used to present ads that are relevant to your interests.

We may utilize cookies to track referrals from internal and external affiliates, as well as advertising campaigns. We may also use a third party service provider to send emails that you have agreed to receive. Pixel tags and cookies may be used in those email messages to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to enable us to provide more focused marketing communications to you.

You may set your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or change the settings on your web browser to clear or disable cookies. If you decide not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features of our websites.

Please be aware that if you visit third party websites where you are prompted to log in or that are customizable, you may be required to accept cookies. Cookies do not enable third parties to access any of your personal (i.e., contact) information. However, advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and are not responsible for information collected through them.

Security:

The law provides specific provisions that prohibit us from collecting, using or disclosing anyone's personal information except in performing their duties and in specific situations permitted by law.

Personal information received from you is held with the strictest confidence. We will endeavour to keep personal information securely stored in our systems. Employees only have access to your personal information when needed in the performance of their duties. We take measures to protect stored information using anti-virus software and barriers (such as Firewall) to protect unauthorised users to access our system. The information will only be released if required by law or your permission granted. We will however not be held responsible for unauthorised access to the information.

You need to be aware however of the inherent risks associated with the transmission of information via the Internet. You should make your own assessment of the potential risks to the security of your information when making a decision as to whether or not you should subscribe to, use and access this website and its services, taking into account that this is a public communication site.

To increase the security of your information, please ensure to close your browser when you have finished your user session. It is also important to log out of any of our Web applications correctly. This is to secure your information from others who may be sharing a computer with you, or when using a computer in a public place, such as a library, learning centre or Internet café.

Links to third party websites:

Our internet site may contain links to and/or information from other websites. These websites are conducted by third parties and we do not control, approve, review or endorse the content or the information collected and sourced from these websites. Prior to disclosing your personal information on any other website, you should refer to the privacy statements directly available on those websites. We also accept no responsibility for the currency, reliability and accuracy of the information available on and/or sourced from linked websites.

Correction or Deleting your Personal Information:

You may contact us at our ‘Contact Us’ page and request that your personal information be corrected or deleted from our system.

Vasy Terms and Conditions February 2018