RCM Hot Water

Privacy Policy

What happens to the information you give us through this website. Written to describe this site specifically, not adapted from a template for an online store.

DRAFT FOR REVIEW. This policy is being reviewed by a qualified Australian privacy professional and is not yet final. If you have a question about your information in the meantime, please contact us and we will answer it directly.

RCM Hot Water is a hot water plumbing business on the Sunshine Coast. This website exists so you can find out what we do and get in touch. It does not sell anything, it has no customer accounts, and it takes no payments.

What we collect

When you submit the quote form we collect your name, phone number, suburb and what you need. If you fill them in, we also collect your property address and postcode, your property type, how urgent the job is, your current system type, brand and rough age, anything you write in the description, your email address, and how and when you prefer to be contacted. Only your name, phone number, suburb and what you need are required.

If you attach photographs of your hot water system, we hold those too, and they are sent to us as attachments on the enquiry email. Photographs occasionally show more of a property than intended, so send only what you are comfortable sharing.

We also record where your visit came from: the page you arrived on, the page you sent the form from, and any campaign or advertising identifiers in the link you followed. This tells us which of our own pages and advertising are working. It is not used to identify you personally and it is not shared with anyone for their own purposes.

When you call us, we hold the number you called from and whatever you tell us about the job, in the ordinary course of running the work.

Like most websites, this one records basic technical information about visits, such as the pages viewed and the general type of device used. This is not used to identify you personally.

What we use it for

To answer your enquiry, quote on the work, carry it out, and keep the records a plumbing business is expected to keep, including warranty records for the systems we install.

To contact you about the job, by phone, email or SMS, using the details you gave us.

We do not sell your information, and we do not pass it to anyone for their own marketing.

Who else handles it

Your enquiry is delivered to us by email through a third-party email service, and this website is hosted by a third-party hosting provider. Both hold the information in the ordinary course of providing those services.

TO BE COMPLETED BY RCM: the specific analytics, advertising and call-tracking tools in use, if any, and the customer-records system where job information is kept. Each needs naming here before this policy is published.

How long we keep it

Enquiries that do not become jobs are kept for a reasonable period and then removed. Records relating to work we have carried out are kept longer, because warranty and compliance obligations require it.

You can ask us to delete an enquiry that did not become a job at any time.

Your rights, and how to reach us

You can ask what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it if it is wrong, or ask us to delete it where we are not required to keep it. We will not charge you for asking.

The fastest way to reach us about any of this is to call 0415 611 356.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a privacy question, you can raise it with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.