Cookie policy
Updated and Applicable as of 1.00 p.m. AEST 13 September 2021.
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This Cookie Policy applies to our website www.spandah.com (“Site”) operated by Spandah Pty Ltd of 4 Commonwealth Tce, Sandhurst, Victoria, 3977, Australia with ABN 23 104 743 393 (“Spandah”, “we”, “our” or “us”) acting as data controller.
This Cookie Policy describes and informs you about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies such as flash cookies, server logs, web beacons or pixel gifs.
Please make yourself aware of the content of this policy to understand how and why Spandah may use cookies and other appropriate tracking technologies, including how you manage their use.
Please note that third party websites, which may be linked to the Site, are not covered by this Cookie Policy. You must go to those third party websites to view their Cookie Policies.
If you do not agree to our use of cookies and similar tracking technologies in this way, you should set your cookie preferences or browser settings accordingly. You will always be able to withdraw your consent and change your choice by amending your cookie preferences or browser settings in the future.
If you disable cookies that we use, some parts of the Site may not work properly and some functionalities of the Site may be unavailable, depending on the type of cookie you have disabled.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files sent to your device by the Site. Cookies are uploaded onto your device, thus allowing the Site to recognize you and store certain information concerning you, in order to permit or improve the performance and service offered by the Site. A cookie will usually contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie (i.e. how long the cookie will remain on your device), and a value, which is usually a randomly generated unique number.
Cookies assist the visitor to navigate around a website efficiently and complete certain functions.
Cookies are commonly referred to as either "session cookies" or "persistent cookies", depending on their lifetime.
Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your browsing session.
Persistent cookies remain longer on your device, for the duration of each specific cookie, and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We may also use other types of tracking technologies, such as flash cookies, server logs, web beacons or pixel gifs in connection with our Website and services. These technologies are similar to cookies in that they are stored on your device and can be used to maintain information about your activities and preferences.
First and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are established directly by the visited website.
Third-party cookies are established by other parties (such as social media providers, search engines, and marketing networks).
What types of cookies does the Site use and what are they for?
We may use the following different types of cookies at any time.
We may use what we call “strictly necessary cookies” (also known as "required" cookies) to enable core Site functionalities. Strictly necessary cookies are important for the correct operation of our website. They contribute to the assembly of the webpages that are offered to you, enhancing your website navigation, and assist how you return to pages you have previously visited.
Specifically, these types of cookies may be used, for example, to:
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Identify that you are logged into a protected area on our website
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To detect unauthorised access to any user or admin account or secure area on our website
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Identify that you have agreed to the use of cookies
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Allow us to try out alternative designs on our website
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Complete an Order for Products.
These cookies do not collect personal information for marketing purposes and cannot be disabled.
Performance cookies allow Spandah to total the number of site visits and sources of traffic. This data provides us with valuable statistics to help us improve the performance of our website. Specifically, they allow Spandah to categorise the popularity of the pages contained in our website and determine how visitors browse the website.
Performance cookies may be used, for example, to:
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Provide statistical evaluation on how our website is used, such as the service in which you have shown an interest
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Evaluate the success of our advertising
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Enable us to monitor and improve our website by analysing your usage and actions
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Collect your opinions and feedback on your website experience.
Functional cookies provide more advanced functions and personalisation, such as remembering log-in details, remembering what is in your shopping cart and remembering your preferences such as language and country, analysing Site usage to measure and improve performance, recollect settings you've applied (such as colour, font size and other display preferences, remember the choices you made when searching for a service and their results, share data with suitable third-party providers to effectively provide services, facilitate the use of audio-visual content for playback and search functionality and/or share content with social media platforms.
Functional cookies do not collect information that can identify users.
Advertising cookies may be used to keep record of certain behaviours or preferences expressed by you, so as to present content that is more relevant to your interests, in compliance with the applicable data protection and privacy laws and upon collection of your express consent if required by law.
These cookies may also enable you to share some Site content through social networks such as (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
In any case, our cookies do not run programs on users' device nor upload viruses on it, and do not allow any kind of control over the device.
When you visit the Site, you may receive cookies from third party websites or domains. We do not control the placing of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information about these cookies. The relevant third party is responsible for providing you with information regarding the cookies they place and obtaining your consent before placing cookies on your device.
Links to third-party websites
You may notice hyperlinks on this site that we have included for your convenience. By clicking on a hyperlink, it will take you to a third-party website where you may be sent cookies from that third-party provider.
Please note that Spandah has no control over how third-parties use or set their cookies, so we recommend that you check specific third-party websites to understand how they use cookies and how to control their use.
How can you control cookies?
Your cookie preferences
By clicking the "cookie preferences" button on the Site's Cookie Banner, you may choose whether the Site will use “Performance” cookies, "Functional" cookies and/or "Advertising" cookies, as described above.
The "cookie preferences" function available on the Site's Cookie Banner will inform you of which functionalities are available to you or not depending on the types of cookies you choose to authorize the Site to use.
Browser settings and management of cookies
If you wish to withdraw your consent to our use of cookies on this Site, or if you wish to delete or control the placing of cookies on your computer, you can change your browser settings to block cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device.
There are a number of ways to manage cookies. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to adjust or modify your browser settings.
Most web browsers provide some form of control for the majority of cookies through the browser settings. The hyperlinks provided below to the most common web browsers will help you manage your cookies settings.
To learn more about how to manage cookies, including how to disable and delete them, please go to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please note that if you decide to block or disable cookies on our Site it may modify the functionality of our Site, and may impact your experience while on the Site. This response could mean that particular functions and features of the website may not operate as required. Hence, we would advise that you accept cookies.
You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer. Again, doing this may have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Changes to our Cookie Policy
Except to the extent limited by applicable law, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to update and amend all or parts of this Cookie Policy at any time, and from time to time, without prior notice to you. Spandah may also make revisions to this policy if there are changes to the cookies we use or for legal, regulatory, or other business purposes.
When we apply changes to this policy, we will post the revision here and revise the 'Effective Date’.
Please check this policy regularly to keep well-informed on our use of cookies.
The version published on the Site is the version actually in force.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about our use of Cookies, please send an email to legal@spandah.com.
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Effective Date: Updated 13 September 2021 1.00 pm AEST.