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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Think Smart Education Pty Ltd
ABN: 86 674 423 173
PO Box 1441, MUDGEERABA QLD 4213
Our website address is: https://thinksmart.education

Protecting your privacy

At Think Smart Education, we are 100% committed to protecting your privacy and security. We totally appreciate and respect how important privacy is.

For all Think Smart Education services, the data controller (the company that’s responsible for protecting your privacy) is Think Smart Education Pty Ltd.

Comments & Media

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Marketing Messages

If you are a customer or have said we can, we’ll send you marketing messages to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you find our products and services.

You can control the marketing communications you receive from us through the following options:

  • Emails:  You can also click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any marketing email you receive, and this will take you to the Contact Preferences section of your account so you can unsubscribe from that method of communication. 
  • Text Messages:  You can also text “stop” to the number provided within the communication and this will unsubscribe you from that method of communication. 
  • Any method of Marketing:  You can contact our Customer Care team.  Once you do this, we will update our records to ensure that you don’t receive further marketing messages. Simply email support[at]thinksmart.education

Please note that opting out of marketing messages will not stop service communications, such as order updates and other notifications that enable us to fulfil the service you have paid for.

Cookies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as web beacons) on our website to give you a personalised experience, personalised advertising and to analyse our web traffic..

Cookies are data files which can hold small amounts of info and they are stored on your device when you first visit a website. We use cookies when you visit our site, but you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. Be mindful though, blocking some cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

Cookies are used with our marketing partners to present you with appropriate offers and advertising as you browse other sites on the internet, based on your browsing activity while on our site. Cookies also allow us to work alongside our web analytics partner, Google Analytics, to see how you like to use our website, which pages or special functions you prefer and help us to make them better. We may match the data we capture through cookies with personal data that we already hold about you to better understand you. This helps us to continually improve the relevance of our promotional communications, your shopping experience and our products and services. The main purposes for which cookies are used are:

We use cookies for:

  • essential operations, like site navigation, online transactions and preferences
  • to enable us to meet contractual obligations to make payments to third parties when a product is purchased by someone who has visited our website from a site operated by those parties
  • allowing you to add items to your Cart or to complete a purchase
  • analysing visitor numbers and behaviours, such as what pages are frequently visited
  • for marketing and advertising, particularly web banner advertisements and targeted updates through digital channels and social media. We may use Google Ads, Facebook Custom Audiences, Microsoft Advertising, Hubspot or other CRM and data automation platforms to deliver targeted advertisements or messages to individuals who visit our website. We may target users through social media advertising and retargeting.
  • assessing the success of our advertising campaigns, offers and communications
  • targeting suitable advertising messages
  • understanding which Affiliates have helped us to reach new customers, or have promoted our products on their websites

How to control cookies?

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your individual browser controls, often under your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. More information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.

Many third party advertising and other tracking services offer you the opportunity to opt out of their tracking systems. You can read more about the information they collect and how to opt out through their privacy policy links listed below;

Facebook Advertising – https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Google Advertising – https://policies.google.com/privacy
X / Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Microsoft Advertising – https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-ca/privacystatement
Hubspot – https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We share your data with the following categories of companies as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you:

  • Companies in the Think Smart Education group, as sometimes different parts of our group are responsible for different activities
  • Companies that help to fulfil your purchases, such as payment processing providers, promoters, and delivery companies
  • Brand Partners that send purchases directly to you. We’ll make it clear if this applies when you place your order. We may also share your personal information with brand partners if you raise a serious complaint about a product of theirs that you’ve purchased through Think Smart Education or if you tell us that you haven’t received your order
  • Professional service providerssuch as marketing agencies, advertising partners and website hosts, who help us run our business
  • Affiliates who help us reach out to potential new customers or promote our products on their websites
  • Credit reference agencies, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies so we can help tackle financial crime, including, but not limited to, fraud and sanctions
  • Social Media and other online platforms where relevant to our relationship with you
  • Product advisors to help you choose the right products
  • Marketplace sellers where you place a Marketplace order; and
  • Other third-party payment providers, when you choose to use their payment services
  • Companies that we partner with to host competitions, and service providers that enable us to host those competitions, manage entries, contact winners and deliver prizes

We may provide third parties, such as brand partners or marketing partners, with information about our customers and their purchases. Before doing so, we make sure that this information does not identify you, for example by aggregating it, anonymising it or removing personal identifiers from it unless we have your consent to share your information for marketing purposes.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.