Privacy Policy

Collecting your personal information

As an awards group, personal information collected and maintained by Cannabis Industry Awards generally comprises:

• Personal details (eg. name, email, phone number);
• Business details (eg. company name, size, type); 
• Unique identifiers (eg. username and password).

This personal information is collected for the purpose of Cannabis Industry Awards’ dealings with its customers, running the awards process, and promoting/marketing Cannabis Industry Awards’ goods and services.

Cannabis Industry Awards does not collect information about a customer’s racial or ethnic background, political views or persuasions, membership of any political association, philosophical belief, sexual preference or practice, criminal record, or health information.

Use and disclosure of your personal information

Your personal information, as disclosed at the time of collection, is used by Cannabis Industry Awards for the primary purpose of conducting the awards process each year. This includes judging, sponsorship, gala, and promotion/marketing. It may also be used for ancillary purposes directly related to the Cannabis Industry Awards or its subsidiaries and partners.

Cannabis Industry Awards undertakes to you that it will not sell your personal information to third parties. Cannabis Industry Awards will not otherwise use or disclose your personal information unless such use or disclosure is authorised under the Australian Privacy Principles. Some examples of where such use or disclosure of your personal information would be authorised are:

• The use or disclosure is required or authorised at law;
• The use or disclosure is necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety;
• The use or disclosure is necessary to investigate suspected unlawful activity, to prevent or detect criminal offence or improper conduct;
• The use or disclosure is reasonably necessary for the preparation or conduct of court proceedings; or
• You have consented, either expressly or implicitly, to the disclosure of information about you.

Using Cannabis Industry Awards’ website

Cannabis Industry Awards uses cookies on its website to collect information. The information collected may contain personal information about you such as your browsing activities on the Cannabis Industry Awards website in order to provide targeted marketing based on your interests. If you do not wish to have information collected through the use of cookies, Cannabis Industry Awards recommends that you disable cookies in your browser. There are also web services that help you control what information is collected about you, such as Google’s ads preferences manager.

Accuracy of your personal information

Cannabis Industry Awards aims to ensure that all personal information held about you is collected and used in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles. This means that from time to time, Cannabis Industry Awards may contact you to see if there are any changes to your personal information. If you find your personal information as held by Cannabis Industry Awards is not accurate, complete or otherwise requires amendment, please do not hesitate to contact Cannabis Industry Awards.

Personal information security

Cannabis Industry Awards keeps personal information about its customers secure and takes reasonable precautions to minimise the likelihood of loss, misuse or unauthorised access, modification or disclosure or alteration of such information.

Intellectual Property

While we do our best to keep the business information you submit private, Cannabis Industry Awards takes no responsibility for any sensitive or valuable information you provide. As our judges and staff review your nomination we cannot guarantee confidential information will remain secure. If you are worried about submitting confidential or sensitive information - don’t. By submitting intellectual property to us, you grant us permission to use it in relation to the Awards.

Destruction of personal information

Cannabis Industry Awards takes all reasonable steps to ensure that personal information about its customers is destroyed when it is no longer required.

Access to your personal information

Cannabis Industry Awards will give you access to your personal information which it holds about you. Your right to access your personal information as held by Cannabis Industry Awards is subject to certain exceptions allowed by law and may be affected by matters such as:

• The information being commercially sensitive to Cannabis Industry Awards or one of its service providers or customers;
• Access being unlawful;
• A frivolous or vexatious request by you or some other person on your behalf; or
• The existence of a legal dispute or potential legal dispute.

If Cannabis Industry Awards denies you access to your personal information, Cannabis Industry Awards will provide an explanation for doing so. For most requests, your information will be provided free of charge, however Cannabis Industry Awards may charge a fee to cover its reasonable costs in relation to retrieving and supplying the information to you.

Opt-out in respect of direct marketing

Cannabis Industry Awards acknowledges and respects its customers’ choice to “opt-out” of direct marketing. If you do not wish to receive direct marketing from Cannabis Industry Awards, you can opt out by following the link appearing on any electronic direct marketing or by notifying Cannabis Industry Awards’ privacy officer that you do not wish to receive direct marketing communication.

Exemptions to this policy

This policy does not apply to information held that may be shared between Cannabis Industry Awards and any of its related entities. It also does not apply to information held by Cannabis Industry Awards about its employees.

Resolving your privacy concerns

If you have any questions about Cannabis Industry Awards’ privacy practices or wish to make a complaint about how your personal information is managed, please contact Cannabis Industry Awards via our website.

Changes to this policy

Cannabis Industry Awards reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be published on Cannabis Industry Awards’ website.