Privacy policy

PPMP is one of Australia’s leading software developers creating practice management software & business software for the Allied Health Industry. PPMP also creates online clinic management software for health and fitness professionals through its business, Better Clinics. PPMP provides technical support and training services to the end-users of its products and services, which include desktop, hosted and cloud solutions (“the products”).

PPMP is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your personal information and complying with the obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

This Privacy Policy applies to each of the companies in Reckon Group, being Reckon Limited and its subsidiaries in Australia and overseas such as Reckon Accountant Group Pty Ltd in Australia, Reckon Accountant Group Ltd in New Zealand (both referred to as “Reckon APS”), Reckon Docs Pty Ltd, nQueue Pty Ltd, and Reckon New Zealand Pty Ltd.

Please familiarise yourself with our Privacy Policy to understand:

  • the kind of information we collect and hold;
  • how and when we may collect and hold personal information from you;
  • the purposes for which we collect, hold use and disclose your personal information and what happens if we don’t collect the information;
  • the circumstances where we are likely to disclose information to overseas recipients and in which countries they are located; and
  • how you can contact us to access or correct personal information which we hold about you or complain about our collection, handling or disclosure of your information.

The Collection of Personal Information

Purpose

We collect personal information for purposes which relate to our business, functions and activities. Without your personal information, we may not be able to deliver or give you access to our products, or provide you with technical assistance or updates for our products.

We collect personal information in relation to:

  • installing, registering, activating or using products;
  • verifying and authenticating your purchase, initially and then during your period of use of the product, or where you may have changed details of the computer you are using with the product;
  • administering the validity of licenses;
  • providing installation key codes, access codes or other related access details;
  • invoicing;
  • refunds and dealing with warranty issues;
  • providing technical support, assistance, consulting services and training;
  • improving our products and services;
  • generally, to enable us to provide the product and information needed to ensure you are able to enjoy the maximum benefit of our products.

Where you provide us with personal information about someone else, for example other authorised users of our products, employees’ superannuation details, you must have their consent to provide their personal information to us based on this Privacy Policy.

Subject to your consent, whether express, or implied, ie, where the circumstances of the collection and use are in a manner you would reasonably expect us to collect or use your information, we may also collect and use personal information to:

  • maintain our internal business records;
  • promote our products to you;
  • provide you with more relevant and personalised information to be more relevant to you and your business;
  • use the information to promote products to you of some of our network of associated service providers and product vendors;
  • de-identify your information, and using the de-identified information for internal use for analysis of the use of our products, development, training and demonstration of our products; or for benchmarking and/or or sale to third parties;

When We Collect Personal Information

We most commonly collect personal information directly from our customers or their authorised representatives,  sometimes we collect information from a third party or a publically available source, but only if the person has consented to such collection or would otherwise reasonably expect us to collect their personal information in this way.

 

In summary, we most commonly collect personal information when you:

  1. Engage in product related activities, such as:
  • when you purchase, register, install, activate or use our products
  • when you use our technical support or consulting services
  • when you provide us with copies of your database or give us access to your database and systems so that we can provide you with the technical support or consulting services you may have requested;
  1. Engage with us in other ways, such as:
  • in your normal communications with us, when you email, telephone us or give us your business card
  • when you attend public functions, events, seminars, roadshows, conferences, training
  • enter competitions
  • when you use our website

In more detail, when PPMP may collect personal information from you:

  • When purchasing any PPMP products offered through the PPMP website or Better Clinics website, any PPMP App,  PPMP Call Centre, through retail and other sales channels.
  • Upon registration by you of any of the PPMP products offered through the PPMP website, Better Clinics website, any PPMP App, PPMP Call Centre, through retail and other sales channels.
  • Upon the purchasing of upgraded versions or renewal of subscription versions of PPMP products, often in response to our having communicated with you about such upgrades.
  • When you use our products.
  • When you use our website, community forum, blogs, message boards, & social media links from our website.
  • Upon seeking to become a PPMP product reseller where stock is provided on credit, we may seek financial details before approving the appointment as a reseller.

Personal information may also be collected when customers sign up for add-on services provided by third party suppliers such as banking services (eg for bank data downloads), or merchant accounts, superannuation payment services, tax lodgement services (including with the ATO),  share trading services, wealth management services, bill payments services loan applications and the like.

In these cases personal information may also be passed on to the third party and will be used, disclosed and protected in accordance with the third party’s respective privacy policy. Please also refer to “Third Party Service Providers” about our use of our third party suppliers and “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the PPMP”, to understand when your personal information we collect may be disclosed to an overseas recipient.

When your contact with us does not relate to a purchased product.

We also collect information at other times, which do not relate specifically to your purchase or use of our products, as described below:

  • From delegates who attend our roadshows, briefings, seminars, product training and demonstrations, as well as other public events where registration forms and feedback forms are filled out by attendees.
  • From entrants in PPMP competitions, wherever offered, such as via direct mail campaigns, a PPMP website, social media or any other media, at seminars or public events, which may or may not be hosted by PPMP.
  • Upon registering to request information from us on our website or your responses to offers or other marketing campaigns, competitions on our website or direct marketing campaigns.
  • Use of our website, community forum, blogs, message boards, & social media links from our website.

Information Collected

The information collected from you or your authorised agent directly, would generally comprise name, address, postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail contact details, other authorised users of your product, where applicable, as well as the details of the Reckon product that you use.

High level information in relation to your business may be also be collected and may include details of your industry or profession, for the purpose of better understanding your business and needs in relation to our product.

We collect information from you when installing the product and use of your product, ie a file on your hard drive records the date of installation, the unique product number of the computer, , the internet protocol address, hardware identification, operating system, application software, peripheral hardware, non-personally identifiable software usage statistics, and user experience habits and patterns.

In relation to certain products, we may collect and handle the following:

  • Better Clinics: health information (which is sensitive information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)), images of you, marital status and anniversary and date of birth.
  • BetterClinics use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

We will not collect sensitive information about you without first obtaining your consent. Provided you consent, your sensitive information may only be used and disclosed for purposes relating to the primary purpose for which the sensitive information was collected.

Using our website or social media tools

Depending on the type of activity you are engaging in, we may collect information directly and indirectly when you use our website or social media tools. We may also collect unidentifiable information from you relating to the pages you visit etc. See also “PPMP Website” and “Social Media & Public Forum” below.

Where you have provided your personal details when visiting our website, such as your membership, account or customer details, or registered for an activity, entered transactions , we may also collect information from you relating to how you use our website, the pages you have viewed, nature of the requests or enquiries you have made etc.

We also use third party service providers to assist us in the collection of this data relating to your use of the website. These service providers may include technology which enables them to also collect other publically available web-based data or other publically available information about you, such as any social media accounts providers on our behalf. Please refer to “Third Party Service Providers” to understand our use of third party suppliers.

Technical support or consulting services

If you request technical assistance or, in relation to PPMP products, consulting services, you may contact us online, telephone or in person. We may require the following information from you in order to provide you the assistance needed:

  • information relating to your problem and our suggested solutions are also recorded by us to assist in better customer relationship management;
  • you may also need to provide copies of your data or grant access to your database, provide password, pin or other access details in order that we may assist you with your problem or inquiry. Where passwords or other access details are provided, we strongly recommend that you update those access details once your issue has been resolved;
  • you may also be required to provide other details for the purposes of identification and verifying authorisations to provide support, such as if you require us to make any changes to your account or settings;
  • information collected from you in relation to technical support or consulting services may be obtained from you online or by telephone, and in the case of consulting services, they may also be obtained on or off your premises.

Please also refer to “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the PPMP”, to understand when you may be dealing with one of our technical support or consulting service providers who are physically located outside Australia.

How we use and handle this information

Where information is collected in relation to the purchase or use of a PPMP product, we use your personal information in the following ways:

  • We collect personal information so that we can communicate with you about the products that you use and efficiently manage and administer all products we provide to you. These communications could relate to software upgrades, feature variations or enhancements, billing, any particular issues or problems that have been detected within the software and corrective measures that may be taken, and informing you of other PPMP products, including the availability of specialised, software specific, stationery products, debt recovery services, software training services, share trading services, banking services, seminars relating to associated products such as share trading classes and other types of classes.
  • Identification and revalidation of licenses assists PPMP in establishing who is legally permitted to use the various PPMP products and therefore assists us in enforcing copyright and intellectual property rights.
  • Product information collected when it is installed or used assists us to regularly revalidate that the product is being used on the correct computer and is not installed on other computers without your authority and outside the terms of our licence.
  • The information we collect from you relating to your use of the products facilitates the provisioning of updates, support, invoicing or online services to you.
  • We may ask additional questions in relation to your business, which may include details of your industry or, profession, is to assist us in developing a member profile so that future offerings that may be developed for program participants are relevant and appropriately targeted.
  • In the case of the SuperLink product, we only collect personal information, such as banking details and the personal details of your employees in order to enable SuperLink to transmit the superannuation payments details to Westpac to make the in accordance with your instructions.
  • Aggregated information:
    We may also aggregate information which does relate to you to help us to monitor user experience and improve the effectiveness of our products, website and overall communication to you, for example, providing you information and products relating to matters for which you have indicated an interest in your browsing of our website, or participation in our online activities, requesting information from about products, articles, technical support etc.
    o We may also aggregate information which does not relate to you (containing no information identifiable to a specific person) which is collected:
    – in relation to your purchase and/or use of our products, use of the website, social media and blogs etc, it may sometimes be used for research and analysis purposes by us or contracted service providers for us to better understand statistical trends in industry and product usage.
  • Financial information:
    o In the case of financial information requested from parties wishing to be resellers and, as such, who are to be provided with PPMP product stock on credit terms, this information is used to perform credit referencing and checking.
    o Where credit card information is provided, we use it solely to check your financial qualifications and/or to collect payment from you.
  • Technical support or consulting:
    o Your information will only by used or accessed for:
    – the purposes of resolving your technical issue with the product; and
    – your information may be de-identified and used for product development training and the demonstration of our products; and
    – once your issue has been resolved your information is returned, destroyed or de-identified.
  • To communicate and promote our products and business.

If the personal information was collected through your other contact with us, ie. not relating to your purchase or use of our products, we use your personal information in the following ways:

  • To follow up any enquiries you may have made regarding our business or products and, because of the circumstances or express instructions from you, we communicate with you about products we understand you have or a likely to have an interest. Most of this communication with you will be by email. In all email communication of this kind with you, you will have the opportunity to opt out of any further emails.
  • To tailor our communication with you to ensure the information and communication you receive from us is relevant to you.
  • To assess and improve the effectiveness of our website and communication with you.
  • To communicate and promote our products and business.

Direct Marketing

We will only use your personal information for direct marketing where we have obtained your consent, directly or indirectly and in compliance with the Privacy Principles and the Spam Act 2003 (Cth). In the absence of express consent from you, we will only use or disclose the information in a way that you would reasonably expect your personal information to be used in relation to our business and products. For example, if you provide your business card to one of our employees at an event, we may communicate with you about our products or future events, unless you instruct us not to do so in response to such communication. In all our direct marketing to you, you will always have the ability to request us to discontinue sending to you any further of such direct marketing material to you.

If you would prefer not to receive communications from us that do not relate to any products to which you have subscribed or which you have purchased, please contact us as follows:

Australia 
Phone: 1800 RECKON (1800 732 566)
Fax: 02 9577 5557
Email: privacy@reckon.com

Disclosure

We will only use the personal information for the purpose for which it was given to us, or for purposes which are directly related to one of our functions or activities. We would only disclose information in circumstances permitted by the Privacy Principles, such as when:

  • You have consented;
  • You would reasonably expect, or have been otherwise made aware, that information of that kind is usually passed to third parties, bodies or agencies;
  • It is otherwise required or authorised by law.

Information collected may be shared with other subsidiaries within the PPMP for use in the provision and improvement of their products to you and in their advertising and marketing programs. Where information is shared within PPMP it will be disclosed and handled in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Subject to the exceptions below, no other external disclosure of your personal information is made by PPMP :

  • Where an external party wishes to communicate with any or all parts of the Reckon user database, and Reckon is agreeable to this communication being sent, we would generally try to undertake the communication on behalf of the external party;
  • Information may be provided to third party technical support services located outside Australia, for the purposes of dealing with technical support issues you may have raised to assist you and/or or which may also assist us to improve our product and process generally. Please refer to “Third Party Service Providers” about our use of our third party suppliers and to “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group”, to understand when your personal information may be disclosed to an overseas recipient
  • If you have signed up for add-on services provided by third party suppliers such as banking services, bank data downloads, superannuation payment services, and merchant accounts,. In these cases personal information may also be passed on to the third party and will be used, disclosed and protected in accordance with the third party’s respective privacy policy. Please refer to ”Third Party Service Providers” about our use of our third party suppliers and “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group” to understand when your personal information we collect may be disclosed to an overseas recipient;
  • Reckon may use, from time to time, external service providers to facilitate communications with its customers, for example a mail house. In these circumstances, Reckon may provide personal contact/address information to the external service provider to enable the communication to be dispatched. Such information is provided to the external service provider on the strict basis that it be used for this purpose only and that their handling of the personal information provided to them complies with Reckon’s Privacy Policy and the obligations of the Privacy Principles. Agreements with the external providers are put in place to ensure this. Refer to “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group” for more details;
  • Where the information is disclosed to a credit referencing bureau;
  • If required by law or to comply with a law, court order or legal process, including warrants, subpoenas and requests from liquidators or administrators.

When you install our products and allow third parties, such as members of our Reckon Partner Program, your professional advisers, or your employees, to have user rights to the products you may be disclosing your personal information to them.

In the event there is a transaction which involves the sale or any or part of our business assets, it is possible that personal information we possess may be transferred as part of the transaction. Further, where reasonably practicable, we will specify that the personal information will be handled in accordance with this policy and consistently with the requirements of the Privacy Principles.

Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group

In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act and Privacy Principles we advise that some personal information may be disclosed to a third party outside Australia. These parties may only use the information for the identified purpose and must use, handle and disclose the information in accordance with this Policy.

By providing us with personal information, you consent to the disclosure of your personal information to third parties who reside outside Australia and acknowledge that we are not required to ensure that those third parties comply with Australian privacy laws.

Where the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to Australian privacy laws (and not subject to the GDPR), you acknowledge that some third parties may not be regulated by the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act and if any such third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Australian Privacy Principles, it would not be accountable under the Privacy Act and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.

Please also refer to “Third Party Service Providers” to understand our use of third party suppliers.

Circumstances where your information may be collected, disclosed or stored outside Australia

Reckon APS products: Practice Management – on premises & Private Cloud

  • When purchasing or renewing products or seeking technical support, you may be assisted by our overseas subsidiaries in New Zealand.
  • If you use any of our products which incorporate Microsoft Office 365, then your emails and other data created using this software mayalso be stored and/or hosted by Microsoft in Singapore, but generally these are in Sydney. Please refer to Microsoft’s Privacy Policy in relation to its collection and handling of personal information from users of the Microsoft Office 365 product.

Reckon Accounts, Reckon One and Better Clinics products, technical support

  • When purchasing, registering or renewing products or seeking technical support, you may be assisted by our third party suppliers located in India or Nepal.

Virtual Cabinet

  • When installing and registering the product, personal information may be provided to the supplier of Virtual Cabinet in the UK in order to obtain the licence key or other access credentials for you to be able to use the product. The portal is hosted on servers in secure data centres in the UK managed by third party suppliers. As a consequence documents accessed using the portal will also be hosted on these servers in the UK.

Website use

  • If you visit our website and provide personal information, we use third party service providers to provide analytics and information relating to your use of our website.

Reckon Website

You may explore and browse our website (including those with Reckon and Better Clinics domain names) without providing any information about yourself. When you visit our website, for example, to purchase any products, or enrol into a training course, technical support, contribute to a forum, register for an event, participate in a competition or promotion, request further information from us, we generally request that you provide personal information about yourself primarily so that we can respond to your query, provide you with further information, confirm your details, booking etc.

You may choose not to provide this information but this would prevent or minimise your ability to experience the full features of the website, such as online payments, access to some subscription products, restrict access to certain areas of the website or activities.

The Reckon website uses:

  • “cookie” technology. What are cookies? Cookies are text files that a web site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes but does not identify you personally. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while you’re on a website. The use of cookies is an industry standard – you’ll find them at most major web sites. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to experience the full features of the website.
  • “navigational information”. This is information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, pages viewed, referral source. We use this information to improve the website. We may combine the navigational information and personal information to provide you with more tailored information about our products and business.

Social Media & Public Forum

Our website includes social media tools, such as the Facebook Like button, Share button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. The social media tools are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the Privacy Policy and other relevant policies of the companies providing them.

We also offer publicly accessible community forums, message boards and blogs. Please be mindful that any information you directly disclose through our public message boards, blogs, or forums, may be collected and used by others. We will correct or delete any information you have posted on the websites if you so request, please refer to “Access to Information and Complaints” section below.

Third Party Service Providers

We engage third party service providers to provide services to users of our websites and products and may need to share information, or give access to your personal information in order to provide information or products to you. The types of third party services may include analysing data, providing marketing assistance, technical support, consulting and training services relating to the installation, use, development, maintenance and support of our products, providing office and document management services, such as Microsoft Office 365.

We do all things reasonably practicable to select third party service providers, who represent, or who, in our reasonable opinion, we believe will comply with the Privacy Principles in relation to the collection, use, storage , disclosure and security of your personal information consistent with the Privacy Principles and this policy and only use the information for which it is disclosed.

Some of these third party service providers may store or host their data, which may include personal information they have collected on our behalf, outside Australia. Please refer to “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group”.

When using our products, you may also access add-on services provided by third party suppliers, which are provided to you subject to the terms of the third party supplier’s terms and conditions. In these circumstances, the collection, use, handling, storage and security in relation to any personal information collected from you by such third party, will be solely governed by the terms of their privacy policy, not Reckon’s Privacy Policy.

Information held by Third Parties

As a company incorporated in Australia and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, Reckon is required to maintain a register of members pursuant to the Corporations Law. This function has been contracted to an external provider, Computershare Limited (“CS”).

It is the usual practice for registers of listed companies to be managed by third parties. CS manages the members’ register on behalf of Reckon, which includes personal information relating to name and address details, security-holding balances, tax file numbers, bank account details and e-mail addresses. CS has its own Privacy Statement as to how it deals with personal information, and Reckon shareholders are directed to the Computershare website www.computershare.com/au for further information.

The trading and dealing activities of the Reckon ANZ Share Investing service are performed by Share Investing Limited (ABN 93 078 174 973, AFSL No. 238277). Pursuant to the agreement that Reckon has with Share Investing Limited, and as authorised by the customer when agreeing to the trading rules, ANZ Share Investing can provide to Reckon, at Reckon’s request, personal information relating to the customer. ANZ Share Investing has its own Privacy Statement and Privacy Policy, and Reckon ANZ Share Investing users are directed to the Reckon ANZ Share Investing section of the Reckon website (https://estore.reckon.com.au/74/34/ANZ-Share-Investing/more) for further information..

Some third party service providers may also store information they have collected on our behalf on their own servers, please also refer to “Third Party Service Providers”.

Third Party Websites

Our website and products may link to other websites. We do not control and are not responsible for, the content or data collection, handling and storage practices of any of these third party websites. Nor does the provision of any links to those websites constitute an endorsement of these other websites, their content or their practices. We do not have any control over any cookies or any tacking technologies they may apply.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites. These other websites are subject to their own privacy and any of their other related policies, if any.

Information Storage, Destruction & Security

Reckon is committed to take all reasonable steps to protect all its information, including from misuse, interference and loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.

We require all our employees, contractors and agents to agree to obligations of confidentiality with respect to information collected, handled or held by us or on our behalf, such as personal information and client information.

Information received by us or on our behalf, from clients or users of our products is treated in accordance with these obligations of confidentiality and the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Reckon uses electronic customer management and database systems to store most of the personal information. Some of the customer management and database systems are web-based. Some of these systems may be provided by third party service providers. Please also refer to “Third Party Service Providers”. Our databases and systems are accessed by authorised users and contain security features to ensure the protection and integrity of the data that we hold.

Reckon data and customer data created using Reckon’s products is stored on secure servers under our administration and control on our premises in Sydney or in data centres owned and managed by third parties such as Amazon Web Services. All of this data is hosted and stored in Australia except for any of our products which incorporate Microsoft Office 365, then your emails and other data created using this software maybe also be stored and/or hosted by Microsoft in Singapore, but is generally stored and/or hosted in Sydney.

We generally return or destroy or de-identify data which has been provided to use for technical support or consulting purposes. Some data, once de-identified, may be kept for training or QA purpose so that we may continue to develop and improve our products and processes.

Some of your personal information may also be in stored in databases hosted by third party service providers, in Australia, US or other countries, please see the relevant paragraphs “Third Party Service Providers“ and “Disclosure to overseas recipients outside the Reckon Group” for more details.

Access to Information and Complaints

The Privacy Principles provide you with the right to access the personal information that we hold in relation to you. If you would like:

i. details of the personal information which we may hold about you; or,
ii. to correct any of the information that we hold;
iii. to complain about a bread of the Privacy Act or Privacy Principles, please contact us as follows:

Australia
Phone: 1800 RECKON (1800 732 566)
Email: privacy@reckon.com

New Zealand
Phone: 0800 447 292
Email: privacy@reckon.com

Or write to us:

The Privacy Officer
Reckon Limited
Locked Bag 7522,
McMahons Point, NSW 2060
Australia

OR

The Privacy Officer
Reckon New Zealand Pty Ltd
PO Box 331 534
Takapuna, Auckland
New Zealand

We have internal procedures in place to deal with such requests, and we may require further information from you to verify your identity. Generally, we will correct or give access to your personal information where it is reasonable and practicable to do so in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Principles. If Reckon refuses to correct, or grant access to the personal information on grounds consistent with the Privacy Principles, then Reckon will provide written notice to you of its decision and reasons for the decision in the form required under the Privacy Principles.

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General

Should you have any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy or to issues generally surrounding the personal information that we hold about you, please contact the Privacy Officer at the relevant address referred to below.

From time to time, this statement may be amended. An up-to-date version of the Privacy Statement will always appear on this page. If we make any material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this page or notify you by email, at our discretion. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our Privacy Policy.

Furthermore, you may request a copy of this Statement from either the addresses referred to above or by phoning or emailing:

Australia:
Ph. 1800 RECKON (1800 732 566)
Email: privacy@reckon.com

New Zealand:
Ph. 0800 447 292
Email: privacy@reckon.com

Last Update: 21 August, 2018

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