Greenhouse understands the importance of and is committed to protecting your privacy. Greenhouse upholds your rights under the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (cth) and other applicable data protection laws in Australia.

Please note that use of the Greenhouse website by you is subject to this Privacy Policy and this website's Terms and Conditions of Use.

Personal Information

We only collect personal information from you by lawful and fair means.  We do not collect any 'sensitive' information such as information relating to your race, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, political leanings and affiliations or trade memberships.

Greenhouse only collects personally identifiable information such as your name, home or work address, email address and telephone number/s.

We take reasonable precautions to ensure the personal information we collect, use and disclose, is accurate, complete and up-to-date.  However, this depends on data provided by you and we recommend that you inform us of any errors, updates or changes to your information.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Greenhouse will not collect information from you unless the information is necessary for one or more of its functions.  Greenhouse only uses your personal information for the purpose for which we collected it in the first place, namely:

• Providing our services to you.
• Internal record keeping and management needs.
• Our marketing activities. 
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
• Any use which is required or authorised by law.

Greenhouse may share data with trusted partners/affiliates to provide such services as customer support or to arrange deliveries.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at sales@greenhse.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Security

Our policy ensures that any information you provide remains private and secure. Systems and processes are in place to ensure that there is no misuse or unathorised access to your information.

There are always risks associated with the provision of personal information whether this is by phone, in person or over the Internet.. No technology is completely safe, tamper-proof or hacker-proof. However, we take significant steps to protect the personal information that we hold from misuse, loss, unathorised access, modification and disclosure.

How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Cookies enable us to operate an efficient service and to track your usage of our website, therefore enhancing and customising your experience.

For the exhaustive list of cookies we collect see the List of cookies we collect section.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Updates

Greenhouse reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy to reflect company policy, customer feedback and changes to law.  These amendments will be effective immediately.

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at sales@greenhse.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Note

The term "Greenhouse" is taken to refer to and include both Greenhouse International and Greenhouse Technologies.

 

List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE name	COOKIE Description
CART	The association with your shopping cart.
CATEGORY_INFO	Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
COMPARE	The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
CURRENCY	Your preferred currency
CUSTOMER	An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
CUSTOMER_AUTH	An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
CUSTOMER_INFO	An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS	Stores the Customer Segment ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE	A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
FRONTEND	You sesssion ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW	Allows guests to edit their orders.
LAST_CATEGORY	The last category you visited.
LAST_PRODUCT	The most recent product you have viewed.
NEWMESSAGE	Indicates whether a new message has been received.
NO_CACHE	Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART	A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
POLL	The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
POLLN	Information on what polls you have voted on.
RECENTLYCOMPARED	The items that you have recently compared.
STF	Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE	The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE	Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS	The products that you have recently viewed.
WISHLIST	An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
WISHLIST_CNT	The number of items in your Wishlist.