Rampart News Pty Ltd (ABN 94 682 901 042) (Rampart, we, us, or our) operates a subscription news service that allows subscribers to access news articles and content via the website www.rampart.news (Website). We are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and this privacy policy.
Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy as it explains how we manage your personal information. It also explains our obligations and your rights in respect of our dealings with your personal information.
- The types of personal information we collect
Personal information is defined in the Privacy Act as information or an opinion about you, or from which you could be identified, whether it is true or not.
The type of personal information we may collect from you may include (but is not limited to), your name, date of birth, location, residential address, email address, phone number, and payment and billing information.
If you do not wish to provide us with your personal information, we may not be able to provide you with requested services and you may not be able to use the Website and/or access all of its functions and features, including purchasing and using a subscription.
- How we collect personal information
We will collect and hold your personal information in a fair and lawful manner. Where it is reasonably practical to do so, we will collect your personal information directly from you. We may collect the personal information you directly give us through some of the following means:
- when you create an account via our Website;
- when you sign up to our mailing list;
- when you purchase or manage a subscription;
- when you submit a dispute or complaint in relation to the provision of any of our services;
- when you contact us via telephone or email;
- while conducting customer satisfaction and market research surveys;
- when you apply for a job with us; and/or
- as otherwise required to manage our business.
However, in certain cases we may collect personal information from publicly available sources and/or third parties, such as your company if you are an authorised user under a corporate subscription.
If we collect personal information about you from a third party we will, where appropriate, request that the third party inform you that we are holding such information, how we will use and disclose it, and that you may contact us to gain access to and correct and update the information.
- Purposes for handling personal information
As a general rule, we only process personal information for purposes that would be considered relevant and reasonable in the circumstances.
We collect, hold, use and disclose personal information to:
- offer and provide you with access to the Website and its features;
- make certain content available to you under your subscription;
- process, manage or contact you about your subscription;
- manage and administer your user account, including account keeping procedures and payments;
- provide you with information and updates about our services or your subscription;
- communicate with you or respond to your inquiries;
- comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; and
- otherwise manage our business, including (but not limited to), using your feedback to improve our services, subscriptions and/or our Website.
- Disclosure of personal information
We will not use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose unless you have consented to that use or disclosure or it is otherwise permitted under the Privacy Act.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties such as our service providers, payment processors, organisations that provide us with technical and support services (for example, to administer or manage your account or subscription), business partners or our professional advisors, where permitted by the Privacy Act. If we disclose information to a third party, we generally require that the third party protects your information to the same extent that we do.
- Security of personal information
We will hold personal information as either secure physical records, electronically on our intranet system, in cloud storage, and in some cases, records on third party servers, which may be located overseas.
We maintain appropriate physical, procedural and technical security for our offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, or modification of personal information. This also applies to the disposal of personal information.
We further protect personal information by restricting access to personal information to only those who need access to the personal information to do their job. Physical, electronic and managerial procedures have been employed to safeguard the security and integrity of your personal information.
We will destroy or de-identify personal information once it is no longer needed for a valid purpose or required to be kept by law.
- Minors
While we have no intention of collecting any personal information from individuals under 18 years of age, we are unable to check whether a Website visitor is of a certain age.
If we collect personal information of an individual under 18 years of age and their parent or guardian does not wish us to retain this personal information, please contact us using the contact details below and we will then ensure that this information is deleted.
- Direct marketing
We may also use your personal information for purposes other than the primary purpose for which we collect it, including for direct marketing purposes.
You may opt out at any time if you no longer wish to receive commercial messages from us. You can make this request by unsubscribing from our mailing list or contacting us using the contact details below.
- Cookies
We may also collect personal information from you when you use or access the Website or our services. This may be done through use of web analytics tools, ‘cookies’ or other similar tracking technologies that allow us to track and analyse your usage. Cookies are small files that store information on your computer, mobile phone or other device and enable and allow the creator of the cookie to identify when you visit different websites. Cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services. These ads may appear on the Website or other websites you visit. If you do not wish information to be stored as a cookie, you can disable cookies in your web browser.
- Overseas transfers of personal information
We may disclose your personal information to third party service providers that help us run the Website and our services, and in some cases, these recipients of your personal information may be located overseas, including in the United States.
As at the date of this Privacy Policy, we are not likely to disclose personal information to other overseas recipients. If in future we do propose to disclose personal information overseas, we will do so in compliance with the requirements of the Privacy Act. We will, where practicable, advise you of the countries in which any overseas recipients are likely to be located.
By providing your personal information to us, you consent to us disclosing your personal information to any such overseas recipients for purposes necessary or useful in the course of operating our business, and agree that Australian Privacy Principle 8.1 (as contained in the Privacy Act) will not apply to such disclosures. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that an overseas recipient breaches the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act, that entity will not be bound by, and you will not be able seek redress under, the Privacy Act.
If you do not want us to disclose your information to overseas recipients, please let us know by contacting us using the contact details below.
- Accessing your personal information
You may contact us to request access to the personal information that we hold about you and/or to make corrections to that information, at any time, by contacting us using the contact details below. We will respond to all requests for access to or correction of personal information within a reasonable time. If we refuse access, we will provide you with a written notice stating our reasons for refusing access. We may require some proof of identity and seek to recover reasonable costs from you which we have incurred for providing you with access to any of the personal information about you held by us.
We are not obliged to correct any of your personal information if we do not agree that it requires correction and may refuse to do so. If we refuse a correction request, we will provide you with a written notice stating our reasons for refusing.
- Complaints
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this privacy policy, or how we handle your personal information, please contact: hello@rampart.news.
We take all complaints seriously, and will respond to your complaint within a reasonable period.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your complaint, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
Sydney NSW 2001
Telephone: 1300 363 992Email: enquiries@oaic.gov.au
- Changes
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. An up-to-date copy of our privacy policy will be made available on our Website. Please ensure that you check the privacy policy regularly when you access our Website so that you are aware of the terms of the current privacy policy.
Last updated: February 2025