Last updated: March 24, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Tony Park’s website. This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.tonypark.net, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected to this website (collectively, the “Site”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Site. We have adopted this Privacy & Cookie Policy to explain what information may be collected on our Site, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.
This Privacy & Cookie Policy applies only to information we collect through the Site and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy & Cookie Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Site. Depending on your activities when visiting our Site, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we may collect certain information about you, including:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, postal address, and phone number.
- Transaction Information: When you purchase an eBook through our Site, we collect information necessary to complete your transaction, including your payment information. Note that all payments are processed through WooPayments, and we do not store your complete credit card details on our servers.
- Communication Information: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, the contents of a message or attachments you send to us, and other information you choose to provide.
2.2 Non-Personal Information
When you use our Site, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Site. This information is typically collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies and may include:
- Log and Usage Data: Information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
- Device Information: Information about your computer or mobile device, including device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
- Location Information: We may collect information about your approximate location as determined by your IP address.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our Site
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Site
- Understand and analyse how you use our Site
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Site, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Process your eBook purchases and deliver them via BookFunnel
- Find and prevent fraud
- Comply with legal obligations
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
4.1 What Are Cookies
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
4.2 Cookies We Use
Our Site uses the following types of cookies:
- Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for you to browse the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Site. These cookies cannot be turned off.
- Preference Cookies: These cookies enable the Site to remember information that changes the way the Site behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you are in.
- Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors engage with our Site. These cookies collect information about your use of the Site, including which pages you go to most often and if you receive error messages from web pages.
4.3 Cookie Management
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Our Site uses CookieYes (https://www.cookieyes.com/), a GDPR-compliant cookie consent management tool, which allows you to control which cookies you accept or reject.
5. Third-Party Services
5.1 Payment Processing
We use WooPayments to process purchases made through our Site. When you make a purchase, you will provide your payment information directly to WooPayments. We do not store your full payment details on our servers. For more information about how WooPayments processes your data, please refer to their Privacy Policy.
5.2 eBook Delivery
After completing a purchase, we use BookFunnel to deliver your eBook. We will share your email address with BookFunnel to facilitate the delivery of your purchased eBook. BookFunnel will send you a private link via email to download your eBook. For more information about how BookFunnel processes your data, please refer to their Privacy Policy.
5.3 Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. Google Analytics may collect information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. For more information about how Google Analytics processes your data, please refer to their Privacy Policy.
6. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. These include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
- Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
- To Protect Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in litigation.
7. International Data Transfers
We are based in Australia, and your information may be processed in regions with different data protection laws. By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storage, or processing. We will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
9. Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information.
You have the following rights:
- Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Restriction of processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at tony@tonypark.net.
10. Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through any of its features, make any purchases through the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy & Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy & Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy & Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy & Cookie Policy, please contact us at tony@tonypark.net.