Customer Privacy

Last Updated: 20th MAY, 2026

CUSTOMER PRIVACY POLICY:

This website is owned and operated by Maureen Hayes T/as the Early Childhood Resources Market - ECEC Events Calendar - and will be referred to as “We”, “our” and “us” in this Internet Privacy Policy. By using this site, you agree to the Internet Privacy Policy of this website (“the website, platform or ecec events calendar”), which is set out on this website page. 

  • The Internet Privacy Policy relates to the collection and use of personal information which you may supply to us through your interactions on the website. 

  • We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or remove portions of this Internet Privacy Policy at any time.

  • This Internet Privacy Policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the website.

  • We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors/customers to our website, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”).

  • This Internet Privacy Policy governs the manner in which your personal information, obtained through the website, will be dealt with.

  • This Internet Privacy Policy should be reviewed periodically so that you are updated on any changes.

  • Please refer to the date listed at the top of this policy, for the latest version of our Privacy Policy.

  • We welcome your feedback and comments at anytime about our Internet Privacy Policy.


PRIVACY ACT 1998

We understand the importance of protecting the privacy of your personal and business information. In handling this information, we comply with the Australian Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988 No 133.(Privacy Act), as amended from time to time, and with the 13 Australian Privacy Principles.

We collect, use, disclose, store and otherwise handle your personal and business information in accordance with our Internet Privacy Policy, a copy of which can be found on our website or otherwise made available to you upon request.

For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Australian Federal Privacy Commissioner’s web site: https://www.oaic.gov.au

The NSW Information and Privacy Commission- external site administers the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW)- external site


Personal Information

  • Personal information about visitors/customers on our website is collected only when knowingly submitted.

  • For instance, we need to collect such information to be able to provide you with further services, such as replying to an enquiry or question.

  • It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any other way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.

Use of Information

  • Any personal information that visitors/customers submit to our platform is used only for the purpose for which it has been submitted.

  • We do not on-sell your information to anyone or anything, it is simply not our style.

  • Copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and back-up purposes only.

Collecting information from visitors

  • As part of subscribing to our website or ECEC Events Calendar, we collect personal information about you in order for you to take full advantage of our services. To do this it may be necessary for you to provide additional information to us as detailed below.

  • Registration is required for you to receive website newsletters and ECEC Events Calendar updates. 

  • Registration may include submitting your full name, optional workplace, email address, address, telephone numbers, option on receiving other promotional material and other information.

  • You may access this information at any time by logging in and going to your account. You may withdraw your subscription consent at any time.

Payment Details

  • No customer credit card details are held on our website platform as all event sale transactions are finalised offsite directly between the event Host/Sellers and customers.

  • If you are unsure at all how the event booking platform works, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at calendar@ecresourcesmarket.com.au so we can assist you further.

Disclosure

  • Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

  • Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.

  • We may at times, engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.

Security

  • We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal and business information submitted to our website, and we update and review our security measures in light of current technologies.

  • Unfortunately, no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure.

  • However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online platform and services.

  • Once we do receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

  • In addition, our employees, contractors or third parties who may provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

  • However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal and business information.

Collecting Information from Users

IP Addresses

  • Our web servers gather your IP address to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services.

  • Again, information is gathered in aggregate only and cannot be traced to an individual user.

Cookies and Applets

  • We use cookies to provide you with a better experience.

    These cookies allow us to increase your security by storing your session ID and are a way of monitoring single user access. 

  • This aggregate, non-personal information is collated and provided to us to assist in analysing the usage of the site.

Access to Information

  • We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep secure any information which we hold about you, and to keep this information accurate and up to date.

  • If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect, you may contact us to have the information corrected.

  • In addition, our employees, contractors or third parties who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.

Questions or problems

  • If we become aware of any ongoing concerns with our website, we will take proactive steps to address the areas of concern. We take website security and privacy seriously, if anyone is effected they will be contact personally by ECRM to discuss the situation in further details.

Contact details

Should you have any questions about the way we implement our privacy policies and procedures or about this Privacy Policy itself, please do not hesitate to contact us at the details listed below:-

Maureen Hayes
ECEC Events Calendar
Early Childhood Resources Market
P O Box 149
WARNERS BAY, NSW, 2282
AUSTRALIA
PHONE:  (02) 4040-5365 or (0478) 609425
EMAIL:  calendar@ecresourcesmarket.com.au
WEB:  www.ececevents.com.au