Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
Introduction
The Polished Horse Rider regards customer privacy as an important part of our relationship with our customers. The following privacy policy applies to all The Polished Horse Rider users, and conforms to Internet privacy standards. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us on 0409 602 443.
Collection of Information
In order to use The Polished Horse Rider website, we may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible. All correspondence may also be collected and stored, particularly in regard to sales, support and accounts, including email.
Any information collected by The Polished Horse Rider is collected via correspondence from you. This may be via the telephone, email, mail or directly through our website.
Use of Collection Information
Any details collected from The Polished Horse Rider customers is required in order to provide you with our products, and a high level of customer service.
Correspondence is recorded in order to provide service references, and to assist in our staff development.
Storage of Collected Information
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). When credit card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete credit card details.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
If you have any questions about security on our website, please contact us.
Access to Collected Information
If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by contacting us.
Orders
If you purchase a product from us, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. You may be required to provide contact information (such as name, email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Communications
The Polished Horse Rider uses personally identifiable information for essential communications, such as emails, accounts information, and critical service details. We may also use this information for other purposes, including some promotional emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence, they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by using the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any such emails, or by contacting us.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Third Parties
The Polished Horse Rider may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
The Polished Horse Rider does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.
Legal
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Links
Links on The Polished Horse Rider site to external entities are not covered within this policy. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of www.thepolishedhorserider.com.au.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.
The Polished Horse Rider Security Policy
The Polished Horse Rider uses the Stripe Payment Gateway, Afterpay and PayPal for its online credit card transactions. Stripe, Afterpay and PayPal process online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet. All online credit card transactions performed on this site using the Stripe, Afterpay and PayPal gateway are secured payments.
- Payments are fully automated with an immediate response.
- Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by The Polished Horse Rider or any outside party.
- All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate.
- All transaction data is encrypted for storage within the payment gateway's bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.
- The payment gateways at no time touch your funds; all monies are directly transferred from your credit card to the merchant account held by The Polished Horse Rider.
For more information about Stripe, PayPal and Afterpay online credit card payments, please visit www.afterpay.com, www.stripe.com or www.paypal.com.au.
Delivery Policy
Physical goods
After ordering online, you will receive an email confirmation from your selected payment gateway containing your order details (if you have provided your email address). We will normally confirm receipt of your order within a few minutes of ordering. We will attempt to send your goods the next business day, with delivery via Australia Post within 5-10 working days; however if goods are unavailable delivery will take a little longer.
If you wish to query a delivery please contact us.
Refund & Returns Policy
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with your purchase we will give you fourteen days from the time you receive the goods to get them in the mail back to us. Please contact us within that time if you are not satisfied with your purchase so that we can resolve any problems and organise a refund or exchange.
This refund policy does not apply to goods which have been worn or used, damaged after delivery, or if any attempt has been made to alter the product or if they have been marked or broken. All products must be returned in their original condition. All postage and insurance costs are to be paid by the buyer. We recommend that you return the product via registered post or post with tracking, and that you pre pay all postage.
You assume any risk of lost, theft or damaged goods during transit; therefore you may wish take out postage registration or insurance with your postal carrier. The Polished Horse Rider will not be responsible for parcels lost or damaged in transit if you choose not to insure.
Please refer to our Return/Exchange page for more information on our policy and instructions on how to complete a return or exchange.