Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy refers to the GDPR, that is Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46 / EC (General Data Protection Regulation). The document specifies what data and on what terms we process and how we care for their security and your rights.

1. The administrator of personal data

The administrator of your personal data is the Australasian Tea Association based at 107 Ryrie street, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia.
If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data and your rights, please contact us by email:

2. The scope, objectives and legal grounds for the processing of personal data

Due to the fact that through the australasianteaassociation.org website we enable contact in various matters, we process your personal data for various purposes, in various scopes and on different legal grounds. In order to accurately provide information about the processing of your personal data, we group them according to the purpose of data processing.
a. Recruitment of employees
Data scope: In order to recruit, we process personal data and documents sent using the application form: name and surname, telephone number, e-mail address, curriculum vitae, cover letter, photo.
Legal basis: Consent to the processing of personal data for the purpose of ongoing and / or future recruitment expressed by marking the appropriate check box or check boxes in the application form located on the subpage with the job offer.
b. Presentation of the offer of our services
Data scope: In order to prepare and present the offer of our services, we process personal data sent via the contact form: Name and surname, e-mail address, website address, telephone number, query content.
Legal basis: Processing is necessary to take action at the request of the data subject before concluding the contract.
c. Handling of other queries from the contact form
Data scope: In order to answer inquiries not being a request for presenting our services, we process data sent via the contact form: Name and surname, e-mail address, website address, telephone number, query content.
Legal basis: Our legally legitimate interest (processing at the request of the data subject).
In the case of personal data obtained in a different way than by the website australasianteaassociation.org (by phone, email, etc.), we also process it only for the purpose for which it was made available and for the time necessary to achieve this goal. In the case of a planned change of the purpose of processing, we always ask the owner of the personal data for consent and inform about the changing conditions of data processing.

3. Cookies

We use cookies to ensure proper operation of the website, in particular to adjust the content of the website to the user’s preferences and to optimize the use of the website. In particular, these files allow to recognize the basic parameters of the user’s device (such as: device type, screen resolution, country from which it comes to enter) and thus properly display a web page tailored to its needs.
We also use cookies to collect general and anonymous statistical data through analytical and marketing tools:
about Google Analytics (cookie administrator: Google Inc. with its registered office in the USA),
about Google AdWords (cookie administrator: Google Ireland Limited with its registered office in Ireland),
about Facebook (cookie administrator: Facebook Ireland Ltd. based in Ireland),

You can change your cookie settings yourself and at any time, by specifying the conditions for their storage and access to your device via cookies. Changes to the settings can be made using the web browser settings. These settings can be changed in such a way as to block the automatic handling of cookies or inform about every time cookies are placed on your device. Detailed information about the possibilities and ways of handling cookies are available in the web browser settings.
You can delete cookies at any time using the features available in the web browser you use.
Limiting the use of cookies may affect some of the functionalities available on the website.
In order to display personalized ads, we make profiling according to the rules set out below.
We use the Google AdWords remarketing feature, which allows us to display our company ads on the Google Display Network based on your behavior on the website – visiting specific subpages. Google uses cookies to display ads based on the visits of users to our site. You can opt out of personalized Google ads in the ad settings at this address: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.
We also use remarketing on Facebook.com, which on the basis of cookies collected by Facebook on our site displays ads to people who visited our website or are similar to such a group of people. Facebook to the purpose of creating similar groups of recipients analyzes the information made available by users on the portal, data from Facebook account and activity on websites and applications outside of Facebook. You can manage your advertising preferences on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/help/1075880512458213/
We use Gmail Promoted Promotions ads in Gmail. We direct them remarketing, to people visiting our website, and on the basis of keywords that the Google system matches to the interests of users and based on interests – to people who are actively seeking information about products and services. If you’d like to opt out of Gmail ads that are personalized based on personal information, please do so at: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
In all of the above-mentioned advertising systems, we also match ads based on demographic criteria and location.
For analytical purposes, we also use the Google Analytics tool, which via cookies collects information about your behavior on our website. You can delete your data related to cookies from our database by installing the browser add-on from this page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. We store data about users and events on our website on Google Analytics servers for 38 months.

4. Provision of personal data

Service providers
We provide your personal data to service providers that we use when operating the website. The service providers to whom we pass your personal data, depending on the situation, are either processors or administrators. The list of suppliers we use are listed here. The list is constantly updated. Processing entities. We use suppliers who process your personal data only on our instructions. They provide us with a hosting service, provide us with systems for online marketing, sending e-mails, for handling the blog comments system and for analyzing website traffic. Administrators. We use suppliers who do not act solely on our instructions and will set goals and methods of using your personal data. They provide advertising campaigns for us. Location. Our suppliers are based in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), e.g. in Ireland. Some of them are based outside the EEA. Due to the transfer of your data outside the EEA, we have made sure that our suppliers guarantee a high level of personal data protection. These guarantees arise in particular from the obligation to use standard contractual clauses adopted by the Commission (EU) or participation in the EU-US Privacy Shield program. You have the right to request us to provide you with a copy of standard contractual clauses by sending a request in the manner indicated in point 1 of the Privacy Policy.
a. State Authorities
We provide your personal data if we are approached by authorized state authorities. The Administrator stores Users’ personal data for a period not longer than it is necessary to prepare a personalized offer / process of recruitment / response to other queries and enabling the Administrator to fulfill his obligations. We remind you that users can delete data at any time.

5. Your rights related to the processing of personal data

You have the right to:
a. access to your personal data,
b. correcting personal data,
c. deletion of personal data,
d. restrictions on the processing of personal data,
e. transfer personal data,
f. object to the processing of personal data,
g. withdrawal of prior consent to the processing of personal data.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at email: info@australasianteaassociation.org
If you make a request to us for the execution of the above-mentioned rights, we will respond to your request without delay, but no later than one month after receiving it. However, if – due to the complexity of the request or the number of requests – we will not be able to meet your request within a month, we will meet them within the next two months informing you in advance about the extension.

6. Security of your data

As the Personal Data Controller of personal data, we make every effort to ensure the security of your personal data.
We undertake to:
for data protection against unauthorized access, unauthorized removal, alteration, damage or destruction, for allowing personal data to be processed only by persons holding the authorization issued by us, to ensure control over the correctness of personal data processing, to keep records of persons authorized to process personal data, to exercise special care so that persons authorized to process such data keep them secret, also after the completion of the Service, on keeping the documentation required by law describing the processing of entrusted personal data and technical and organizational measures ensuring protection of processing of such data, to ensure that the IT and telecommunications equipment and systems used to process personal data comply with the legal requirements.

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