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Protecting Your Privacy

McGrath Smart Locks is committed to providing you with the highest levels of customer service. This includes protecting your privacy. McGrath Smart Locks is bound by the Privacy Act, which sets out a number of principles concerning the protection of your personal information.

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Set out below is information that McGrath Smart Locks is required to communicate to its users. McGrath Smart Locks recommends that you keep this information for future reference.

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McGrath Smart Locks

McGrath provides a range of smart lock products and related services through its website and authorised partners.

  • Your Personal Information

  • How we use your personal information

  • The McGrath Smart Locks's web site

  • Help us to ensure that we have accurate personal information

  • You can access your personal information

  • Contact Us

  • Your personal information

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Personal information held by McGrath Smart Locks may include your name, date of birth, current and previous addresses, telephone/mobile phone number and email address.

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If you choose not to provide certain personal information (e.g. your date of birth), McGrath Smart Locks may not be able to provide you with the services you require, or the level of service on which McGrath Smart Locks prides itself.

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Occasionally, you may need to provide personal information about other individuals to McGrath Smart Locks (e.g. about your authorised retailer and/or installer). If so, McGrath Smart Locks relies on you to inform those individuals that you are providing their personal information to McGrath Smart Locks and to advise them that McGrath Smart Locks can be contacted for further information (see "Contact' ). How we collect personal information.

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McGrath Smart Locks collects personal information in a number of ways, including:

  • directly from you, when you provide information by phone or in contact forms or the AI chatbot

  • from publicly available sources of information;

  • from McGrath Smart Locks's own records;

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How we use your personal information

Your personal information may be used to:

  • verify your identity;

  • assist you to subscribe to McGrath Smart Locks's services;

  • provide the services you require;

  • administer and manage those services

  • inform you of ways the services provided to you could be improved;

  • research and develop McGrath Smart Locks's products;

  • gain an understanding of your information and communication needs in order for McGrath Smart Locks to provide you with a better service; and

  • maintain and develop McGrath Smart Locks business systems and infrastructure, including testing and upgrading of these systems.

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Also, your personal information is collected so that McGrath Smart Locks can promote and market its services to you. McGrath Smart Locks does this to keep you informed of its products, services and special offers. If you do not wish McGrath Smart Locks to promote and market its products, services and special offers to you, please use the Contact.

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In relation to marketing and promotional material sent via email, McGrath Smart Locks will send such material only if you elect to receive it or if it is provided in response to your request. When we disclose your personal information in order to deliver the services you require, McGrath Smart Locks may disclose your personal information to organisations outside of McGrath Smart Locks. Your personal information is disclosed to these organisations only in relation to McGrath Smart Locks providing its services to you. These organisations carry out McGrath Smart Locks:

  • customer enquiries;

  • mailing operations;

  • marketing;

  • market research;

  • web site usage analysis.

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McGrath Smart Locks takes reasonable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

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In addition, McGrath Smart Locks may disclose your personal information to:

  • your authorised representatives or your legal advisers (e.g. when requested by you to do so);

  • McGrath Smart Locks's related companies;

  • McGrath Smart Locks's professional advisers, including its accountants, auditors and lawyers;

  • government and regulatory authorities and other organisations, as required or authorised by law;

  • organisations who manage McGrath Smart Locks's business and corporate strategies, including those involved in a transfer/sale of all or part of its assets or business (including accounts and trade receivables) and those involved in managing McGrath Smart Locks's corporate risk and funding functions.

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McGrath Smart Locks's web site

McGrath Smart Locks provides products and services via its web site. When you visit McGrath Smart Locks's site, its web servers record anonymous information such as the time, date and URL of the request. This information assists McGrath Smart Locks to improve the structure of its web sites and monitor their performance.

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McGrath Smart Locks may use 'cookies' on various web sites. Cookies are an industry standard and most major web sites use them. A cookie is a small text file that our web site may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for McGrath Smart Locks's web site to remember your preferences. As such, cookies are designed to improve your experience of McGrath Smart Locks's web site.

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In some cases, cookies may collect and store personal information about you. McGrath Smart Locks extends the same privacy protection to your personal information, whether gathered via cookies or from other sources. You can adjust your Internet browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our web sites or take advantage of the improved web site experience that cookies offer.

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McGrath Smart Locks also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network. McGrath Smart Locks collects and manages IP addresses as part of the service of providing internet session management and for security purposes.Help us to ensure we hold accurate information.

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Help us to ensure that we have accurate personal information

McGrath Smart Locks takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information it collects, uses and discloses is accurate, complete and up-to-date. However, the accuracy of that information depends to a large extent on the information you provide. That's why McGrath Smart Locks recommends that you:

  • let McGrath Smart Locks know if there are any errors in your personal information; and

  • keep McGrath Smart Locks up-to-date with changes to your personal information such as your name, address or email address.

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You can access your personal information

You have a right to access your personal information, subject to some exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, you will need to put your request in writing for, security reasons, and either send it by mail or email to McGrath Smart Locks.

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AI Chatbot Assistance

The McGrath Smart Locks website uses an AI-powered chatbot to assist with customer enquiries. Conversations may be recorded or stored for quality and service improvement. We do not use this information for marketing purposes without consent.

Please note:

  • Chatbot responses are automatically generated and may not always be fully accurate

  • For confirmed product information, we recommend contacting your nearest trusted retailer or installer in Australia or Internationally

  • Chat interactions may be logged and processed by our chatbot provider to improve performance and user experience

  • Do not share sensitive personal information through the chatbot

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our our contact page here.

McGrath Smart Locks App
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Data Privacy and Security Policy

McGrath Smart Locks operates a platform that manage all locks which integrate McGrath Smart Locks PCBs.

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This Privacy Policy sets out how McGrath Smart Locks collects, uses or discloses personal data that you have provided to us through the Platform or Services.

By using the Platform or Services, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy.

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If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, then we cannot provide the Platform or Services to you, and you should stop accessing the Platform. This Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites to which we link (“Third Party Website” or “Third Party Websites”).

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DEFINITIONS

“Aggregated Information” means information about all of our users or specific groups or categories of users that we combine together so that it can no longer identify or reference an individual user.

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“Data Controller” means the company responsible for the use and processing of Personal Information.

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“Personal Data” means information relating to a living individual who is or can be identified either from that information or from that information in conjunction with other information that is in, or is likely to come into, the possession of the Data Controller.

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What types of information does McGrath Smart Locks gather about its users?

1. Information that you give us

We collect and use the following personal data that you make available to us when accessing or using our Platform and Services. This personal data includes:

  1. Your personal details, including your name, phone number and email address, such as when you register or update the details of your user account, or when you supply ID verification information;

  2. Service, billing and delivery address, such as when you order or control home automation devices such as smart locks, thermostats, cameras amongst others, or grant control to the platform to apply intelligent algorithms to assist in controlling these devices;

  3. Contact list. This App collects Contacts to enable sending SMS/email message to a selected contact with passcode or ekey information;

  4. Image. This App collects Image to enable selecting a photo to be the avatar;

  5. Personal data that you have provided to Third Party Websites or services (e.g. Facebook or Airbnb, iCal or gmail calendar) and connected or synced to your McGrath Smart Locks account to the extent that you have authorised and consented to such disclosure by the Third Party Websites or services; and

  6. Any information you may have provided.

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2. Mobile Data

When you use certain features of the Platform, in particular our mobile applications we may collect and use different types of personal data such as your location, including general information (e.g., IP address, zip code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality on mobile devices used to access the Platform or specific features of the platform). If you access the Platform through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device

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3. Log Data

We may also collect and use Log Data, which is information that is automatically recorded by our servers whenever you access or use the Platform, regardless of whether you are registered with McGrath Smart Locks or logged in to your McGrath Smart Locks account, such as your IP Address, the date and time you access or use the Platform, the hardware and software you are using, referring and exit pages and URLs, the number of clicks, pages viewed and the order of those pages, and the amount of time spent on particular pages.

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4. Cookies and other Tracking Technologies

McGrath Smart Locks uses cookies and other similar technologies, such as mobile application identifiers, on the Platform. As a result, when you access or use the Platform, you consent to the use of such technologies and providing or making available certain information to us and to our business partners as set out below.

 

While you may disable the usage of cookies through your browser settings, we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from your browser or mobile application.

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We make use of cookies and other similar technologies to track your activities if you click on advertisements for McGrath Smart Locks services on third party platforms such as search engines and social networks, and may use analytics to track what you do in response to those advertisements.

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We may, either directly or through third party companies and individuals we engage to provide services to us, also continue to track your behaviour on our own Platform for purposes of our own customer support, analytics, research, product development, fraud prevention, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, investigation, as well as to enable you to use and access the Platform and pay for your activities on the Platform.

 

We may also, either directly or through third party companies and individuals we engage to provide services to us, track your behaviour on our own Platform to market and advertise our services to you on the Platform and third party websites.

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Third parties delivering advertisements or services on our Platform may have their own privacy policies and may set their own or other third party cookies via these advertisements and services. Other than setting up the coding they request when we receive the advert we don’t have control over how these companies employ cookies. While third parties may not collect information about users’ online activities on the Platform except as described in this policy and our Cookie Policy, by permitting cookies to be used while visiting our sites, you are agreeing to the use of cookies described in this section.

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Please note that if you have disabled cookies completely, you may not be able to access any or all of the features on the Platform, you may also still receive advertising on or about the Platform – it just will not be tailored to your interests.

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How mcgrath smart locks uses and processes the information that you provide or make available

We collect and use personal data for the following purposes:

  1. to enable you to access and use the Platform;

  2. to operate, protect, improve and optimize the Platform, ’s business, and our users’ experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research, personalize or otherwise customize your experience, and where you have given your consent for advertising and marketing;

  3. to help create and maintain a trusted and safer environment on the Platform and Services, such as through fraud detection and prevention, conducting investigations and risk assessments;

  4. to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;

  5. where we have your consent, to send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information about or general promotions for partner campaigns and services. You can unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving these communications by contacting us at support@mcgrathsmartlocks.com.au;

  6. to administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by or our business partners; and

  7. to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our users, and enforce our agreements with third parties.

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When mcgrath smart locks discloses or shares personal information, and to whom

IMPORTANT: When you use the Platform, your data may be sent to the United States and possibly other countries.

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We may transfer, store, use and process your information, including any Personal Data, overseas such as to the United States. Please note that laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and so the privacy laws applicable to the places where your information is transferred to or stored, used or processed in, may be different from the privacy laws applicable to the place where you are resident.

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Your Personal Data may be disclosed as follows:

  1. Parts of your public profile page that contain some Personal Data may be displayed in other parts of the Platform to other users for marketing purposes or to the extent necessary to operate and manage referral and rewards programs.

  2. As necessary to enable guests that you have approved to access the services you have subscribed to or the home automation devices available in your home. For example, an SMS or Email will be sent to your guest with the approved listing information to inform the guest on the check-in procedure.

  3. As necessary to enable the linking of your account on a third party social networking site to your account. Do note that some features on the Platform may require the publication and display of information received from the third party social networking site, as well as the publication and display of information from the Platform to the third party social networking site. You will be able to control such disclosure through the settings and authorisation on the Platform and, to the extent possible, on the third party social networking site.

  4. We may distribute parts of the Platform for display on sites operated by business partners and affiliates, using technologies such as HTML widgets.

  5. We may allow our related entities such as our subsidiaries, and their employees, to use and process your Personal Information in the same way and to the same extent that we are permitted to under this Privacy Policy. These related entities comply with the same obligations that we have to protect your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

  6. We may also engage third party companies and individuals, to provide services to us, including but not limited to technology services and services to help verify your identity, to conduct checks against databases such as public government databases (where legally allowed), to otherwise assist us with fraud prevention and risk assessment, to assist us with customer service, and to facilitate the payments or reimbursements you request (such as Concur and American Express). We may provide Personal Information about you to these third parties, or give them access to this Personal Information, for the limited purpose of allowing them to provide these services. We will ensure that such third parties have contractual obligations to protect this Personal Information and to not use it for unrelated purposes.

 

This Privacy Policy is subject to any existing laws of the Republic of Singapore in relation to the protection of information and if required by any lawful authority for any legal purposes such as the enforcement of any laws or to prevent the breaching of any laws, we shall release all such information as is legally required by the requisite and lawful authority in accordance with the directions of the lawful court of the competent jurisdiction.


We may also publish, disclose and use Aggregated Information and non-personal information for industry and market analysis, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other business purposes.

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How to change or delete your information, or cancel your mcgrath smart locks account

You may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information in your McGrath Smart Locks account. If you would like to correct your information or cancel your McGrath Smart Locks account entirely, you can do so by logging in to your account.

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Securing your personal information

We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your Personal Information against unauthorized access, destruction or alteration. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, and no method of storing electronic information, can be 100% secure. So, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your transmissions to us and of your Personal Information that we store.

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Your privacy when you access third-party websites and resources

The Platform will contain links to other websites not owned or controlled by McGrath Smart Locks. McGrath Smart Locks does not have any control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies, web beacons or other files on your device, or collect and solicit Personal Data from you. They will have their own rules about the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Data. We encourage you to read the terms of use and privacy policies of the other websites that you visit.

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Some portions of the Platform implement Google Maps/Earth mapping services, including Google Maps API(s). Your use of Google Maps/Earth is subject to Google’s terms of use (located at http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html) and Google’s privacy policy (located at http://www.google.com/privacy.html), as may be amended by Google from time to time.

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Changes to this privacy policy

We may change how we collect, use and disclose Personal Data at any time. We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting a notice on the Platform and by sending an email to you. If we let you know of changes through an email communication, then the date on which we send the email will be deemed to be the date of your receipt of that email.

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It’s important that you review the changed Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to agree to the changed Privacy Policy, then we will not be able to continue providing the Platform and Services to you, and your only option will be to stop accessing the Platform and Services and deactivate your McGrath Smart Locks account. You can deactivate your account by sending us an email to support@mcgrathlocks.com.au

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