Privacy Policy

This policy applies to the websites at section6.io, section6.nz, section6.co.nz, section6.com.au and section6.au (the SECTION6 Website), our campaign landing pages, every form, download, page and enquiry on them, the SECTION6 LinkedIn page, and our use of LinkedIn services in connection with the SECTION6 Website.

1. Who we are

This policy is issued by two separate legal entities with the same ultimate beneficial shareholders, each trading as SECTION6 in its own country:

• SECTION6 Group Pty Limited, ABN 33 631 727 403 (Australia)
• SECTION6 Limited, NZBN 9429041532669 (New Zealand)

Our offices are in Australia (Sydney and Brisbane) and New Zealand (Wellington and Auckland):

• Sydney: Level 1, Bakehouse Quarter, 5 George St, North Strathfield, NSW 2137, Australia
• Brisbane: Level 38, Riparian Plaza, 71 Eagle Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Australia
• Wellington: Level 6 Aon Centre, 1 Willis Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
• Auckland: Level 10, Jarden House, 21 Queen Street, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Questions about this policy or your personal information can be sent to info@section6.io.

2. What personal information we collect

Information you give us through our forms

When you complete a form on our website, we collect the information you enter. This depends on the form:

• Contact form: your name, email address, phone number (optional), what you would like help with, and your message.
• Campaign landing page forms: your name, email address and your hard question.

We also record the page you submitted the form from, and any campaign tags in the link you followed (for example, which advertisement you clicked).

Information you give us when you contact us

If you email us or speak to us, we keep the information you share so we can respond.

Information about how you use our website

When you visit our website, our hosting, security and analytics tools record:

• your IP address,
• your browser, device and operating system,
• the language your browser uses,
• the pages you view and how long you stay,
• the page you came from, and
• the date and time of your visit.

Information from LinkedIn

If you interact with our LinkedIn page or advertising, LinkedIn may give us aggregated reports about the number of people who visited our LinkedIn page, saw or clicked an advertisement, and the job titles, company names and industries of those people, in summary form. We do not use LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms, so we do not receive contact details from LinkedIn.

3. Cookies and tracking technologies

Our website uses the following tools. Some of them set cookies or similar technologies on your device.

• Google Analytics 4 (Google), deployed through Google Tag Manager, records pages viewed, engagement and the campaign that brought you to the site, so we can measure how our content and campaigns perform. Data is kept for 14 months. Google signals is turned off, so Google does not link this data to your Google account.
• LinkedIn Insight Tag (LinkedIn), deployed through Google Tag Manager, records visits and conversions from our LinkedIn pages and advertisements, and may be used by us to build audiences for future advertisements. It measures the performance of our LinkedIn campaigns.
• Google reCAPTCHA (Google) runs on our contact page to tell people from automated spam. Google's privacy policy and terms apply to it.
• YouTube (Google) videos are embedded in some of our articles. YouTube may set cookies when a page with a video loads.
• Security logs (Amazon Web Services) record requests to the site (see section 2), so we can keep it running and block attacks.

When you submit a form on a campaign landing page, we record that a submission happened and pass that event to Google Analytics and LinkedIn, so we can count how many enquiries each campaign produces. LinkedIn also counts visits to our campaign landing pages. These events do not include your name, email address, organisation or the text of your question.

This section is our cookie notice. We do not show a cookie banner or ask for consent before these tools run, because the site is directed at visitors in Australia and New Zealand. You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the site works.

4. Why we use your information

We use personal information to:

• respond to the enquiries and requests you send us, and reply if you ask for a conversation with us,
• understand how visitors reach and use our website and campaigns,
• measure which messages and advertisements perform best,
• keep our website secure and working properly, and
• meet our legal obligations.

We will not use the details from your enquiry for marketing unless you tell us we can, and we will not add you to a mailing list without your consent.

5. Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with the following service providers, only so they can provide services to us:

• Hosting and infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, which hosts our website and its security logs, and sends the emails our website forms create.
• Analytics: Google, through Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager.
• Spam protection: Google, through reCAPTCHA.
• Advertising: LinkedIn, through the LinkedIn Insight Tag, for campaign reporting.
• Email: Google Workspace (Gmail), which handles our email, including the emails our website forms send us.

We may also share information where the law requires it. Analytics and campaign reports we receive or publish are aggregated, so they do not identify you.

6. Overseas disclosure

Our service providers may store or process personal information outside Australia and New Zealand, including in the United States and other countries. They do this under their own privacy and security commitments. Where information is held overseas, we take reasonable steps to make sure the recipient protects it in a way that is consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles and the New Zealand Information Privacy Principles.

LinkedIn says it stores and uses data outside the user's country, and processes data both inside and outside the United States. The countries where LinkedIn processes data may have laws that are different from, and potentially less protective than, the laws of the user's own country. See section 5.2 (Cross-Border Data Transfers) of LinkedIn's Privacy Policy.

7. How long we keep information

• Enquiries: 90 days from the date of the enquiry, then deleted or anonymised.
• Website analytics: 14 months.
• Security logs: 30 days.
• Advertising data: kept by LinkedIn and Google under their own retention settings.

8. How we protect your information

We use secure hosting, access controls that limit your information to staff who need to use it, and encryption in transit. No method of transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we experience a data breach that is likely to cause serious harm, we will notify you and the relevant regulator as the law requires.

9. Your rights

You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it where the law allows. To make a request, email info@section6.io. We will respond within 30 days.

If you are in Australia and you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

If you are in New Zealand and you are not satisfied with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

10. Links to other websites

Our site may link to other websites, including LinkedIn. Their privacy policies apply when you use them, and we are not responsible for how they handle your information.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The version on this page is the current one, and the date at the top shows when it was last updated. If we make a material change to how we collect or use personal information, we will tell you on this website before the change takes effect.

12. Contact

For questions or requests about this policy, email info@section6.io.