This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through our websites, communications (e.g., emails, phone calls, and texts), and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”). The terms “we”, “us”, and “ANTSS” refer to: (i) ANTSS trading as Westson , an Australian proprietory limited ABN 52001586394.
When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy. We may translate this Privacy Policy into other languages for your convenience. Nevertheless, the English version governs your relationship with ANTSS, and any inconsistencies among the different versions will be resolved in favour of the English version.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Directory, including any information you send to or through the Directory. We use that information to provide the Directory’s functionality, fulfil your requests, improve the Directory’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Directory, personalise your experience, track usage of the Directory, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Directory, display relevant advertising, market the Directory, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Directory, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.
Please also note:
Account Information: When you create a ANTSS account, we store and use the information you provide during that process, such as the first and last name you enter, email address, zip code, physical address, and any other information you may provide during the account creation process, such as a gender, phone number, or birth date. We may publicly display the first name and last initial that you provide, as well as any photo or other content you submit through the account creation process, as part of your account profile. We also store and use any preferences you provide to personalise your user experience, including dining and activity preferences. You can later modify some of the account information you provide through your account. If you believe that someone has created an unauthorised account using your personal information, you can request its removal by flagging it.
Public Content: Your contributions to the Directory are intended for public consumption and are therefore viewable by the public, including your photos, ratings, reviews, tips, lists, Collections, compliments, Ask the Community posts, ANTSS Talk posts, and edits to business page information. Your account profile (e.g., first name, last initial, city, neighbourhood, the month and year you created your ANTSS account, profile photos and list of friends on ANTSS) is also intended for public consumption, as is some of your other activity through the Directory, like how you vote on other people’s contributions (e.g., useful, funny, cool, helpful, or not helpful), which contributions you like, where you check-in (including when friends on ANTSS tag you in their own check-ins), which contributions or users you follow, and which businesses you follow or bookmark. You can limit the public nature of some of these activities through your account settings.
Contacts: You can invite others to join or become your friend on ANTSS by providing us with their contact information, or by allowing us to access contacts from your computer, mobile device, or third party sites to select which individuals you want to invite. If you allow us to access your contacts, we will transmit information about your contacts to our servers long enough to process your invitations.
Communications: When you sign up for an account or use certain features, you are opting to receive messages from other users, businesses, and ANTSS. You can manage some of your messaging preferences through your account settings, but note that you cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative, transactional, or legal messages from ANTSS. For example, if you make a reservation, order food, place yourself on a waitlist, or request a quote from a business through the Directory, we may send you messages about your transaction using the contact information you provide, including through automated SMS text messages to your phone number. We may also track your actions in response to the messages you receive from us or through the Directory, such as whether you deleted, opened, or forwarded such messages, and share that information with other parties to your messages (for example, to let them know if you have viewed their message). When a user requests a quote or similar information from multiple businesses through the Directory, we may disclose to those businesses information about the status of the user’s requests, such as whether any business has responded to the request, the type of response provided (for example, a quote or a request for more information), and whether the user has responded to any business’s reply. If you exchange messages with others through the Directory, we may store them in order to process and deliver them, allow you to manage them, and we may review and disclose them in connection with investigations related to use of the Directory, as well as our efforts to improve the Directory. We may not deliver messages that we believe are objectionable, such as spam messages, fraudulent solicitations, or requests to exchange reviews for compensation. If you send or receive messages through the Directory via SMS text message, we may log phone numbers, phone carriers, and the date and time that the messages were processed. Carriers may charge recipients for texts that they receive. We may also store information that you provide through communications to us, including from phone calls, letters, emails and other electronic messages, or in person. If you are a representative of a business listed on ANTSS, or use a phone number associated now or previously with such a business, we may contact you, including by phone or email, using the contact information you provide us, make publicly available, or that we have on record for your business. Our communications with you, including phone calls, may be monitored and recorded for quality purposes.
Transactions: If you initiate a transaction through the Directory, such as a reservation or purchase, we will collect and store information you provide associated with your transaction, such as your name, phone number, address, email, and payment information, as well as any other information you provide, in order to process your transaction, send communications about the transaction to you, and facilitate future transactions. This information may be shared with third parties, and third parties may share such information with us, for the same purposes. When you submit credit card numbers and other sensitive payment information, that information is encrypted using industry standard technology. If you write reviews about businesses with which you transact through the Directory, we may publicly display the fact that you transacted with those businesses in connection with such reviews. For example, if you make a dining reservation through the Directory and later write a review about your experience, we may publicly display the fact that you made your reservation through the Directory.
Activity: We store information about your use of the Directory, such as your search activity, the pages you view, the date and time of your visits, businesses you call using our mobile applications, and reservations, purchases, or transactions you make through the Directory. We also store information that your computer or mobile device may provide to us in connection with your use of the Directory, such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, WiFi information such as SSID, mobile carrier, phone number, unique device identifier, advertising identifier, location (including geolocation, beacon based location, and GPS location), and requested and referring URLs and mobile applications. We may also receive and store your location whenever our mobile applications are running, including when running in the background, if you enable our mobile apps to access such information in the course of using the Directory. You may be able to limit or disallow our use of certain location data through your device or browser settings, for example by adjusting the settings for our applications in iOS or Android privacy settings.
Different Devices: You may access the Directory through different devices (e.g., your mobile phone or personal computer) and different platforms (e.g., the ANTSS website or ANTSS mobile apps). The information that we collect and store through those different uses may be cross-referenced and combined, and your contributions through one ANTSS platform will typically be similarly visible and accessible through all other ANTSS platforms.
Professional Information: If you represent a business on ANTSS, we may collect and display information about you related to your business activities, such as a business name that may incorporate your name, or a publicly available business address that is also used as a home address. We will also collect and display information about your professional background that you choose to share with us through the Directory, such as information about your professional licenses or certifications, or your professional history or specialties.
COOKIES
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Cookies may contain unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Directory, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have interacted with, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.
You can set some Cookie preferences through your device or browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of the Service. The method for disabling Cookies may vary by device and browser, but can usually be found in your device or browser preferences or security settings. For example, iOS and Android devices each have settings which are designed to limit forms of ad tracking. Please note that changing any of these settings does not prevent the display of certain advertisements to you.
THIRD PARTIES
- Third parties may receive information about you as follows:
- Advertisers: We allow third parties to use Cookies through the Directory to collect the same type of information for the same purposes as we do. In doing so, we adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Third parties may be able to associate the information they collect with other information they have about you from other sources. We do not necessarily have access to or control over the Cookies they use, but you may be able to opt out of some of their practices by visiting the following links: Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note that opting out does not prevent the display of all advertisements to you. We may also share some non-identifiable, de-identified or aggregated information from or about you, such as location information, with third parties in connection with advertising programs and data analytics. You may be able to limit our sharing of some of this information through your mobile device settings, as described in Section 2 above, or through the Directory’s settings.
- Content Partners: We allow third party partners to use and display some of the public content available through the Directory, such as your photos, reviews, and other information listed under “Public Content” in Section 1 above.
- Directory Providers: We rely on third party Directory providers to support or provide Directorys for us in connection with your use of the Directory, such as food delivery Directorys, communications and hosting, security and fraud prevention, technical and customer support, tracking and reporting usage of the Directory, quality assurance testing, payment processing, marketing, and other functions. We share information from or about you with these third party providers so that they can perform their Directorys or complete your requests. For example, we may share your advertising identifiers (e.g., your IDFA, GAID, or a cryptographic hash of your email address) with third party Directory providers that help us facilitate ANTSS’s advertising programs and measure and report their effectiveness, including with third parties that help determine the efficacy of ANTSS’s advertising programs by combining information they receive about you from other sources than the Directory. You may be able to limit our access to some of this information through your mobile device settings, as described in Section 2 above, or through the Directory’s settings. ANTSS’s third party Directory providers may likewise share information with us that they obtain from or about you in connection with providing their Directorys or completing your requests.
- Aggregate or Anonymous Information: We share user information in the aggregate with third parties, such as businesses that are listed on ANTSS and content distributors. For example, we disclose the number of users that have been exposed to or interacted with advertisements, or that we believe visited the physical location of a particular business.
- Business Transfers: We share information from or about you with our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control, and require them to also honor this Privacy Policy. If another company acquires ANTSS, or all or substantially all our assets, that company will possess the same information, and will collect, use, and disclose the information only as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Businesses on ANTSS: We may share information from or about you (such as your city, and if you provide it, your age and gender), your device type, and your use of the Directory (such as which businesses you bookmark or call, or if you visit a business’s URL) with businesses on ANTSS. You may adjust your account settings to increase or decrease the amount of information we share. Keep in mind that businesses can also view your public activity and posts, and may receive information from or about you when you transact or communicate with them, through ANTSS or otherwise, regardless of your settings (see Section 1 above). Additionally, if you make a phone call to a business through or in connection with your use of the Directory, we may share information about your call with the business that the business would have received had you called them directly, such as the date and time of your call and your phone number. You may be able to limit our ability to collect and share your phone number through your phone settings or phone Directory provider.
- Investigations and Legal Disclosures: We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure: (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal or law enforcement processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process or law enforcement request; (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Directory; or (c) protects our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public, such as disclosures in connection with ANTSS’s Consumer Alerts program. If you flag or otherwise complain to us about content through the Directory, we may share the substance of your complaint with the contributor of that content in order to provide an opportunity for the contributor to respond.
- Links: The Directory may link to third party-controlled websites, like a business’s URL. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your personal information with them, and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
- Third Party Integrations: If you sign up for, or log into, ANTSS using a third party Directory like Facebook or Google, or link your ANTSS account to your account with a third party Directory like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, we may receive information about you from such third party Directory. If you post content to a third party Directory through the Directory, that third party Directory will also receive that content, which will be visible to anyone that has access to it through that third party Directory. Some of our web pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to you from our third party partners, while preserving the look and feel of the Directory. In such cases, please note that the information you provide may be transmitted directly to the identified third party partner. If you interact with businesses through ANTSS, they will receive whatever information you choose to share with them, for example contact information you share through direct messages to the business or your phone number if you call the business.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Other users may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you post publicly. You can reduce the risk of being personally identified by using the Directory pseudonymously, though doing so could detract from the credibility of your contributions to the Directory. ANTSS users can also use the Find Friends feature to find one another based on their names or email addresses (you can limit your visibility for this feature in your account settings. Please also note that the messages you send or receive using the Directory are only private to the extent that both you and the recipient(s) of your messages keep them private. For example, if you send a message to another user, that user may choose to publicly post it. We may access, review, and disclose such messages in connection with investigations related to use of the Directory, as well as our efforts to improve the Directory.
DATA RETENTION AND ACCOUNT TERMINATION
You can close your account at anytime. We will remove certain public posts from view and/or dissociate them from your account profile, but we may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this Privacy Policy unless prohibited by law. For example, we may retain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Directory or to comply with legal obligations. We may also maintain residual copies of your personal information in our backup systems. Please note that businesses cannot remove their business pages, ratings, or reviews by closing their accounts.
CHILDREN
The Directory is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
SECURITY
We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
