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