TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE RINNAI HOME APP
Please read these Terms and Conditions of Service (the Agreement) carefully. By clicking or
tapping “Accept,” “OK” or “Agree” (or a similar term) in connection with this Agreement, or by
using the Service (as defined below), you agree to be bound by this Agreement. We
recommend that you retain a copy of this Agreement for your reference. If unable to do so,
you may request a copy from us by emailing rinnaihome@rinnai.com.au
This Agreement is between you and Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 74 005 138 769) (the
Company) concerning your use of (including any access to) the Rinnai Home Application
(together with any materials, information and services available in connection with such
application, and any successor application(s) (the App). The App, together with the embedded
software installed in selected Company products for the purpose of controlling, operating and
monitoring such products using the App (the Product Software), are referred to collectively
in this Agreement as the Service. This Service is fully accessible only where the mobile or
other device and the relevant Company products are connected to the same WiFi network and
are operating within working range. This Agreement incorporates any additional terms and
conditions with respect to the Service that are made available by the Company through
the Service, or otherwise made available to you by the Company, in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement.
By clicking or tapping “Accept,” “OK” or “Agree” (or a similar term) in connection with this
Agreement, or by using the Service, you affirm that you are over the age of 18 and have the
capacity to enter into this Agreement.
If you are an individual accessing or using the Service on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any
corporation, partnership or other entity with which you are associated (an organisation”), then
you are agreeing to this Agreement on behalf of yourself and such organisation, and you
confirm that you have the legal authority to bind such organisation to this Agreement.
References to “you” and “your” in this Agreement will refer to both the individual using the
Service and to any such organisation.
1. Our Right to Make Changes. The Company may change this Agreement from time to
time, such as to reflect changes in the Services, relevant laws and regulatory requirements,
by notifying you of such changes by any reasonable means and by making available a revised
Agreement through the Service or App. Any such changes will not apply to any dispute
between you and the Company arising prior to the date on which we make available the
revised Agreement incorporating such changes, or otherwise we notified you of such
changes.
Your clicking or tapping “Accept,” “OK” or Agree(or a similar term) in connection with this
Agreement, or your use of the Service following any changes to this Agreement will constitute
your acceptance of such changes. The “Last Updated” below indicates when this Agreement
was last changed. We may, at any time and without liability, (a) modify or discontinue all or
part of the Service (including access to the Service via any third-party links) for valid reasons
(e.g. to reflect changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements, to protect security or to
implement reasonable technical adjustments and improvements); (b) charge, modify or waive
any fees required to use the Service where reasonably necessary; or (c) offer opportunities to
some or all Service users. We will seek to notify you by any reasonable means of (i) any
modifications to the Service that will have a material adverse effect on the use of the Service,
taken as a whole; and (ii) any material increase in the fees charged by us to use the Service.
We reserve the right to introduce new features or functionality for which the payment of fees
may be required and shall notify you of such fees by reasonable means. Such fees will not
apply to you unless you accept such new features or functionality.
2. Information Submitted Through the Service. Your submission of information through
the Service is governed by the Service’s Privacy Policy, (the Privacy Policy). You confirm
that any information you provide in connection with the Service is accurate and complete, and
that you will maintain and update such information as needed. You also acknowledge and
agree that we will have no liability associated with or arising from your failure to provide
accurate registration information.
3. Jurisdictional Issues. The Service is controlled and or operated by the Company as set
out in Section 17, below, and is not intended to subject the Company to any jurisdiction or law
except as set out in Section 17 below. The Service may not be appropriate or available for
use in some jurisdictions. You must comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations in
connection with your use of the Service. We may limit the Service availability at any time, in
whole or in part, to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction that we choose, for valid
reasons (e.g. to comply with relevant laws and regulatory requirements, to protect security or
to implement reasonable technical adjustments and improvements).
4. Rules of Conduct. In connection with the Service, you must not:
(1) Post, transmit or otherwise make available through or in connection with the Service any
materials that are or may be: (a) threatening, harassing, degrading, hateful or intimidating, or
otherwise fail to respect the rights and dignity of others; (b) defamatory, libelous or fraudulent;
(c) obscene, indecent, pornographic or otherwise objectionable; or (d) protected by copyright,
trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right, without the
express prior written consent of the applicable owner.
(2) Post, transmit or otherwise make available through or in connection with the Service any
virus, worm, Trojan horse, Easter egg, time bomb, spyware or other computer code, file or
program that is or is potentially harmful or invasive or intended to damage or hijack the
operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment (each, a Virus).
(3) Use the Service for any commercial purpose, or for any purpose that is fraudulent or
otherwise unlawful.
(4) Harvest or collect information about users of the Service.
(5) Interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Service or the servers or networks used to
make the Service available, including by hacking or defacing any portion of the Service; or
violate any requirement, procedure or policy of such servers or networks.
(6) Restrict or inhibit any other person from using the Service.
(7) Reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works of, sell, rent, lease, loan,
timeshare, distribute or otherwise exploit any portion of (or any use of) the Service except as
expressly authorised under this Agreement, without Company’s express prior written consent.
(8) Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service, except where
such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.
(9) Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice from the Service.
(10) Incorporate any portion of the Service into any product or service, without the Company’s
express prior written consent.
(11) Systematically download and store Service content.
(12) Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic
device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine” or otherwise gather Service content, or
reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service, without the
Company’s express prior written consent.
You are responsible for obtaining, maintaining and paying for all hardware and all
telecommunications and other services needed for you to use the Service.
5. Registration, User Names and Passwords. You may need to register to use all or part
of the Service. We may reject, or require that you change, any user name, password or other
information that you provide to us in registering, in each case for any valid reason. Your user
name and password are for your personal use only and you should keep your user name and
password confidential. The Company is not responsible for any use or misuse of your user
name or password caused by your failure to keep your user name or password confidential.
In each case, you must promptly notify us of any confidentiality breach or unauthorised use of
your user name or password, or your Service account of which you become aware.
6. Submissions. Certain Service functionality may provide users with the ability to make
available certain data, information or materials (each, a Submission) through or in connection
with the Service, including in connection with use of the App, the Product Software and/or the
Company’s products. Except as set forth in the Privacy Policy, the Company has no control
over and is not responsible for Submissions, any use or misuse (including any distribution) by
any third party of Submissions or for any of your interactions with any other Service users. If
you choose to make any of your personally identifiable or other information publicly available
through the service, except as set forth in the Privacy Policy, you do so at your own risk.
7. Our Right to Use Submissions. For purposes of clarity, you retain all rights and ownership
of your Submissions. The Company does not claim any ownership rights in your content.
For each Submission that you make available through or in connection with the Service (each,
Your Submission), you grant to us a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-exclusive,
perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) licence,
without additional consideration to you or any third party, to reproduce, distribute, perform and
display (publicly or otherwise), create derivative works of, adapt, modify, store and otherwise
use, analyse and exploit Your Submission, in any format or media now known or hereafter
developed, and for any purpose (including promotional purposes, such as testimonials).
In addition, if you provide to us any ideas, proposals, suggestions or other materials
(Feedback), whether related to the Service or otherwise, such Feedback will be deemed Your
Submission. You agree that such Feedback is not confidential, and that your provision of such
Feedback is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction, and does not place the Company
under any obligation in respect of such Feedback.
You confirm that (a) you have all rights necessary to grant the licences granted in this section;
(b) Your Submissions are complete and accurate; and (c) Your Submissions and your
provision thereof to us (whether through and in connection with the Service or otherwise) and
are not fraudulent or otherwise in breach of any applicable law or any right of any third party.
You further irrevocably waive (and consent to us performing any acts or omissions in relation
to Your Submissions and associated materials that may be inconsistent with) any “moral
rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding
Your Submissions that you may have under any applicable law.
8. Monitoring of Submissions and Use of the Service. The Company may (but have no
obligation to) monitor, evaluate, alter or remove Submissions before or after they appear on
the Service, or analyse your access to or use of the Service. The Company may disclose
information regarding your access to and use of the Service, and the circumstances
surrounding the transmission of Submissions, and personal information regarding any users
who made Submissions available, in each case in accordance with any requirement under
applicable law, or any request by any law enforcement authority, court or other governmental
authority, or otherwise in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
9. Your Rights to Use the App and Product Software. The App and the Product Software
are licenced (not sold) to end users. Subject to your compliance with this Agreement and for
the duration of this Agreement, we permit you, on a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-
transferable, non-sublicensable basis, to install and use the App on a device that you own or
control, and to use the Product Software in connection with the Company product that you
own or control, in each case for your personal, non-commercial use. If you fail to comply with
any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement relating to your use of the App or the Product
Software, you must immediately cease using the App and the Product Software and delete
the App from your device.
10. The Company’s Intellectual Property (IP) Rights. We and our suppliers own the
Service, which is protected by proprietary rights and laws. Our trade names, trademarks and
service marks include Rinnai, Rinnai Home, and the associated logos. You agree that the
Service contains proprietary information and material that is owned by the Company and or
its suppliers, and is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, including but
not limited to copyright. You agree that you will not use such proprietary information or material
in any way whatsoever except for use of the Service in compliance with this Agreement. No
portion of the Service may be reproduced in any form or by any means, except as expressly
permitted in these terms. You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create
derivative works based on the Service in any manner, and you shall not exploit the Service in
any unauthorised way whatsoever, including but not limited to, by trespass or burdening
network capacity.
All trade names, trademarks, service marks and logos on the Service not owned by us are the
property of their respective owners. You may not use our trade names, trademarks, service
marks or logos in connection with any product or service that is not ours, or in any manner
that is likely to cause confusion. Nothing contained on the Service should be construed as
granting any right to use any trade names, trademarks, service marks or logos without the
express prior written consent of the owner.
11. Third Party Materials and Links. Certain Service functionality may make available
access to information, products, services and other materials made available by third parties,
including Submissions (Third Party Materials), or allow for the routing or transmission of such
Third Party Materials, including via links. By using such functionality, you are directing us to
access, route and transmit to you the applicable Third Party Materials.
We neither control nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, any Third Party Materials,
including the accuracy, validity, timeliness, completeness, reliability, integrity, quality, legality,
usefulness or safety of Third Party Materials, or any intellectual property rights in such Third
Party Materials. Certain Third Party Materials may, among other things, be inaccurate,
misleading or deceptive. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to be a representation or
warranty by the Company with respect to any Third Party Materials. We have no obligation to
monitor Third Party Materials, and we may block or disable access to any Third Party Materials
(in whole or part) through the Service at any time. In addition, the availability of any Third Party
Materials through the Service does not imply our endorsement of, or our affiliation with, any
provider of such Third Party Materials, nor does such availability create any legal relationship
between you and any such provider.
Your use of third party materials is at your own risk and is subject to any additional terms,
conditions and policies applicable to such third party materials (such as terms of service or
privacy policies of the providers of such third party materials).
12. Promotions. Any sweepstakes, contests, raffles, surveys, games or similar promotions
(collectively, the Promotions) made available through the Service may be governed by rules
that are separate from these terms and conditions of Service. If you participate in any
Promotions, please review the applicable rules as well as our Privacy Policy. If the rules for a
Promotion conflict with these terms and conditions, the Promotion rules will take precedence.
13. Disclaimer of warranties. To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, the
Service is made available to you on an “as is,” “where is” and “where available” basis, without
any warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied.
The Company disclaims all warranties with respect to the Service to the fullest extent
permissible under applicable law, including the warranties of merchantability, fit for a specific
purpose, non-infringement and title.
To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, and subject to any applicable terms and
conditions or policies applicable to the use of Third Party Materials as set out in section 11,
Third Party Materials are made available to you on an “as is,” “where is” and “where available”
basis, without any warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. The Company disclaims
all warranties with respect to the Third Party Materials.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the fullest extent permissible under
applicable law, the Company makes no representation or warranty that the Service will be
secure, that any user name, password or other security measure that you may use or allow
others to use in connection with the Service will prevent unauthorised access to your Service
account or related information, or that your service account or related information will not be
accessed or misused by any third party.
All disclaimers of any kind in this Agreement (including in this section and elsewhere in this
Agreement) are made for the benefit of both the Company and its affiliates and their respective
shareholders, directors, officers, employees, representatives, licensors, suppliers and service
providers, and their respective successors and assigns (collectively, the Related Parties).
While we will seek to undertake reasonable steps to maintain the timeliness, integrity and
security of the Service, we cannot guarantee that the Service is or will remain updated,
complete, correct or secure, or that access to the Service will be uninterrupted. The Service
may include inaccuracies, errors and materials that violate or conflict with this Agreement.
Additionally, third parties may make unauthorised alterations to the Service. If you become
aware of any such alteration, please contact us at rinnaihome@rinnai.com.au with a
description of such alteration and its location on the Service.
14. Limitation of liability. Nothing in this Agreement restricts, excludes or modifies or
purports to restrict, exclude or modify any mandatory statutory consumer rights under
applicable law.
In respect of any conditions, warranties or guarantees that cannot be excluded under
applicable laws, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our liability is limited (at our option)
to the resupply or refund of the cost of the relevant portion of the Service.
The Company will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or punitive
damages of any kind, or losses that were not foreseeable to you or the Company at the time
you entered into this Agreement, in each case arising out of or in connection with the Service
or this Agreement, and under any contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or other
theory (collectively, Indirect Losses). Loss or damage is foreseeable if either it is obvious that
it will happen or if, at the time the contract was made, both the Company and you knew it might
happen.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Company will not be liable for Indirect Losses of any kind
resulting from your use of or inability to use the Service or from any Third Party Materials or
products, including from any Virus that may be transmitted via the Service or any products or
Third Party Materials.
The Related Parties do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be
unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by the Company’s
negligence or the negligence of its employees, or subcontractors, or for fraud or fraudulent
misrepresentation.
The aggregate liability of the Company for all damages, losses and causes of action arising
out of or in connection with the Service or this Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including
negligence) or otherwise, will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount, if any, paid by
you to the Company to use the Service; and (b) ten Australian dollars ($10).
All limitations of liability of any kind in this Agreement (including in this section and elsewhere
in this Agreement) are made for the benefit of both the Company and the other Related Parties.
In respect of any conditions, warranties or guarantees that cannot be excluded under statute,
to the extent permitted under applicable law, our liability is limited, at our discretion, to the
resupply or refund of the cost of relevant Services.
15. Third Party Claims. In the event of any legal proceedings being brought against the
Company and or its Related Parties by a third party as a result of your breach of this
Agreement or your infringement of any third-party right (including any intellectual property or
data privacy right), you will indemnify and keep indemnified the Company and or its Related
Parties against all liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses and fees
(including reasonable solicitor fees) incurred by the Company and or its Related Parties.
16. Termination. This Agreement is effective until terminated. The Company may terminate
or suspend your right to use the Service and/or terminate this Agreement if you do not comply
with the terms contained in this Agreement. Where reasonable under the circumstances, the
Company will provide you with at least twenty-four (24) hours’ prior notice of any suspension
or termination of your right to use the Service, provided that if we reasonably believe that you
have materially breached this Agreement, we can immediately suspend or terminate your right
to use the Service. You can stop using the Service at any time.
Following the effective time of any such termination or suspension, your right to use the
Service will immediately cease, and the Company may, without liability to you or any third
party, immediately deactivate or delete your user name, password and account, and all
associated materials, without any obligation to provide any further access to such materials.
The Preamble and Sections 28 and 1023 shall survive any expiration or termination of this
Agreement.
17. The Governing Law and Jurisdiction. The applicable law with respect to which this
Agreement will be governed by and construed (without regard to such laws’ principles of
conflicts of law) whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other
legal theory and including non-contractual disputes or claims is the laws of the State of
Victoria, Australia.
The courts which have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes between you and the Company
arising out of or in relation to the Service or this Agreement is the Federal and State Courts of
Australia.
18. Filtering. We notify you that parental control protections (such as computer hardware,
software or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist you in limiting access
to material that is harmful to minors. Information identifying current providers of such
protections is available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_content-
control_software_and_providers. Please note that the Company does not endorse any of the
products or services listed on such site.
19. Information or Complaints. If you have a question or complaint regarding the Service,
please send an e-mail to rinnaihome@rinnai.com.au. You may also contact us by writing to
Rinnai Australia. 100 Atlantic Drive, Keysborough, Victoria 3173, Australia, or by calling us
at 1300 555 545. Please note that e-mail communications will not necessarily be secure;
accordingly, you should not include credit card information or other sensitive information in
your e-mail correspondence with us.
The Service is operated by:
RINNAI AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
Registered Address: 100 Atlantic Drive, Keysborough, VIC 3173, Australia
Place of Business: 100 Atlantic Drive, Keysborough, VIC 3173, Australia
Email Address: rinnaihome@rinnai.com.au
20. Copyright Infringement Claims. If you believe in good faith that materials available from
the Service infringe your copyright, you may send to the Company a written notice by mail to
100 Atlantic Drive, Keysborough, VIC 3173, Australia, by e-mail to rinnaihome@rinnai.com.au,
requesting that the Company remove such material or block access to it. If you believe in good
faith that someone has wrongly submitted to us a notice of copyright infringement involving
content that you made available through the Service, you may send to the Company a counter-
notice.
21. Export Controls. The Service is subject to the law relating to export controls in Australia
including any embargoes or other Federal rules and regulations restricting exports. We will
not knowingly make the Service available to you if you are, and you do not confirm that you
are not, (a) located in, or a resident or a national of, any country subject to a government
embargo or trade sanction; or (b) on any government lists of restricted end users.
22. Other Important Terms. This Agreement does not, and shall not be construed to, create
any partnership, joint venture, employer-employee, agency or franchisor-franchisee
relationship between you and the Company. Except as set forth in Sections 13, 14 and 23, no
one else has any rights under this Agreement (unless guaranteed by you). This Agreement is
between you and the Company. Except as set out in Sections 13, 14 and 23, no other person
shall have any rights to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement. If any provision of this
Agreement is found to be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, that provision will
be deemed severable from this Agreement and will not affect the validity and enforceability of
any remaining provision. You may not assign, transfer or sublicense any or all of your rights
or obligations under this Agreement without our express prior written consent. The Company
may assign, transfer or sublicence any or all of our rights or obligations under this Agreement
without restriction. No waiver by either party of any breach or default under this Agreement
will be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default. Any heading,
caption or section title contained in this Agreement is for convenience only, and in no way
defines or explains any section or provision. All terms defined in the singular shall have the
same meanings when used in the plural, where appropriate and unless otherwise specified.
Any use of the term “including” or variations of such terms in this Agreement shall be construed
as if followed by the phrase without limitation.” This Agreement, including any terms and
conditions incorporated in this Agreement, is the entire agreement between you and the
Company relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, and in the absence of fraud, and
supersedes any and all prior or contemporaneous written or verbal agreements or
understandings between you and the Company relating to such subject matter. Notices to you
(including notices of changes to this Agreement) may be made through the Service or by e-
mail (including in each case via links), or by regular mail. Without limitation, a printed version
of this Agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or
administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Agreement to the same extent and
subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated
and maintained in printed form. Neither party will be responsible for any failure to fulfill any
obligation due to any cause beyond its control.
23. Terms Required by Apple. In addition to Sections 1 to 22 above, and notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the following provisions in this Section 23 apply
with respect to your use of any version of the App compatible with the iOS operating system
of Apple Inc. (Apple). Apple is not a party to this Agreement and does not own and is not
responsible for the App. Apple is not providing any warranty for the App except, if applicable,
to refund the purchase price for it. Apple is not responsible for maintenance or other support
services for the App and shall not be responsible for any other claims, losses, liabilities,
damages, costs or expenses with respect to the App, including any third-party product liability
claims, claims that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement,
claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation, and claims with respect to
intellectual property infringement. Any inquiries or complaints relating to the use of the App,
including those pertaining to intellectual property rights, must be directed to the Company in
accordance with Section 19 (Information or Complaints) above. The license you have been
granted in this Agreement is limited to a non-transferable license to use the App on an Apple-
branded product that runs Apple’s iOS operating system and is owned or controlled by you,
or as otherwise permitted by the Usage Rules set out in Apple’s App Store Terms of Service.
In addition, you must comply with the terms of any third-party agreement applicable to you
when using the App, such as your wireless data service agreement. Apple and Apple’s
subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement and, upon your acceptance of the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, will have the right (and will be deemed to have
accepted the right) to enforce this Agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary of this
Agreement. Notwithstanding these rights of Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries, the Company’s
right to enter into, rescind or terminate any variation, waiver or settlement under this
Agreement is not subject to the consent of any third party.
PRIVACY POLICY RINNAI HOME APP
Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 74 005 138 769) (the Company) offers a mobile application to
allow you to control, monitor and operate selected Company products (App) subject to the
products and the mobile or other device being connected to the same WiFi network and are
operating within working range. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and want you to
be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information in connection with the App.
This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect
through the App and the embedded software installed in the Company’s products, as well as
through the services and content provided by the Company in relation to the App and software
(collectively, including the App, the Services). By providing Personal Information to us or using
the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Personal Information
The Company may collect the following information:
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information is information that identifies you
as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, including your name, email address,
residential address and telephone number.
If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers
in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and permit
us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Company may collect Personal Information the following way(s):
The Company and our service providers may collect Personal Information through the
Services, such as when you create an account, register your product(s) and or sign up for a
newsletter.
The Company may use the Personal Information collected for the following purpose(s):
(1) To enable you to use the Services and provide you with related customer service;
(2) To provide you with updates to the App;
(3) To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to create an account or
send you newsletters;
(4) To provide maintenance support for your product(s);
(5) To send notices and administrative information to you, such as information regarding
the Services and changes to our terms, conditions and policies; and
(6) For our business purposes, such as data analysis, sales analysis, audits, fraud
monitoring and prevention, addressing issues with our Services, developing new
products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends,
determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and
expanding our business activities.
The Company may disclose Personal Information in the following instances:
(1) To our parent company, Rinnai Japan, for the purposes described in this Privacy
Policy. The Company will remain the party responsible for the management of the
jointly-used Personal Information;
(2) To our third-party service providers who provide services such as app design,
development, interoperability and maintenance; data hosting; data analysis;
information technology and related infrastructure provision; customer service; email
delivery; auditing and other services; and
(3) To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture,
assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets
or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Other Uses and Disclosures:
The Company may also use and disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be
necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, which may include laws outside your
country of residence; (b) to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies,
regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include such
authorities outside your country of residence; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; and (d)
to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
Other Information
The Company may also collect:
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy Other Information is any information that does not
reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as
device information, App usage data, product usage data, IP address, physical location of your
product, demographic information and other information provided by you, aggregated
information.
If the Company is required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable
law, then we may use it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information
as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
The Company may collect Other Information the following way(s):
We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways,
including:
Through your device: Certain information is collected through your device or software, such
as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, screen resolution, operating system name and
version, device manufacturer and model, language, software type and version and the name
and version of the Services (such as the App) you are using. We use this information to ensure
that the Services function properly;
(1) Through your use of the App: When you download and use the App, we and our
service providers may track and collect usage data, such as the date and time the App
on your device accesses our servers and what information and files have been
downloaded to the App based on your device number;
(2) Through your use of your product(s): When you use the Services, we and our
service providers may collect information about your product(s), such as its model and
serial number. In addition, we may collect usage data, such as when and for how long
the product is on or off, operating mode, operating conditions and operating
parameters;
(3) IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the device
that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address may be identified
and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the
Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting
IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites,
applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating
usage levels, diagnosing server problems and administering the Services. We may
also derive your approximate location from your IP address;
(4) Physical Location: We may collect the physical location of your product(s) by, for
example, using WiFi signals. We may use the information to improve our products and
services and provide you with personalized location-based services and content;
(5) From you: Information such as your company name or country of residence is
collected when you voluntarily provide it; and
(6) By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally
identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate Personal
Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone
area code).
The Company may disclose Other Information in the following instances:
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required
to do otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information
with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your location). If we do, we will
treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
Third Party Services
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information
or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to
which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of
the linked site or service by the Company or by our related parties.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security
policies or practices of other organisations, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft or any other app
developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless
service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information
you disclose to other organisations through or in connection with the Services.
Security
The Company seeks to use reasonable organisational, technical and administrative measures
to protect Personal Information within our organisation. Unfortunately, no data transmission or
storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your
interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account
has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the Contacting
Us section below.
Choices and Access
Your choices in relation to the disclosure of your Personal Information:
If you would prefer that the Company not share your Personal Information with our related
parties in future, you may opt-out of this sharing by contacting us at
privacy@rinnai.com.au. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably
practicable.
How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information:
If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress or delete Personal Information that you
have provided to the Company, you may do so by editing your user account or by contacting
us as set out in this Privacy Policy. In your request, please make clear what Personal
Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal
Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would
like to impose on the Company’s use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we
may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the
particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your
identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as
reasonably practicable.
Records Retention
The Company may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes. There may
also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will
not be removed.
The Company will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the
purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or
permitted by law.
Use of the Services by Minors
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of eighteen (18), and we request
that they not provide Personal Information through the Services.
Cross-Border Transfer
The Services are controlled and operated by us from Australia and are not intended to subject
us to the laws of any other jurisdiction. Your Personal Information may be stored and
processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers,
including Japan, and, by using the Services, you consent to the transfer of information to
countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection rules that are
different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement
agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled
to access your personal information.
Sensitive Information
We ask that you not send the Company, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal
Information (e.g. information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other
beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background) on or through the
Services or otherwise.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy. The Last Updated” at the bottom of this page indicates
when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post
the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes
means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at
privacy@rinnai.com.au or Privacy Officer, Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd, 100 Atlantic Drive,
Keysborough, VIC 3173, Australia.
Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or
other sensitive information in your emails to us.
Last updated: 18 October 2022
Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd ABN 74 005 138 769