Privacy And Terms
Step Ahead Shoes regards customer privacy as an important part of our relationship with our customers. The following privacy policy applies to all Step Ahead Shoes users and conforms to privacy standards.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Customer Care at info@stepaheadshoes.com.au
collection of information
In order to use the Step Ahead Shoes 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 Step Ahead Shoes is collected via correspondence from you or your company. This may be via the telephone, email, mail, fax or directly through our website (or other third party websites, such as Facebook).
use of collected information
Any details collected from Step Ahead Shoes customers are 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, you can email us at info@stepaheadshoes.com.au
access to collected information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at info@stepaheadshoes.com.au
orders
If you purchase a product or service 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.
cookies
A cookie is a small information file that is sent to your computer and is stored on your hard drive. If you have registered with us then your computer will store an identifying cookie which will save you time each time you re-visit our site, by remembering your email address for you. You can change the settings on your browser to prevent cookies being stored on your computer without your explicit consent. The Website will work with cookies disabled, but you will need to manually sign in each time you visit the Website.
communications
Step Ahead Shoes 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 emailing us at info@stepaheadshoes.com.au
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
Step Ahead Shoes 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. Step Ahead Shoes 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 Step Ahead Shoes 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.stepaheadshoes.com.au
changes to privacy policy
step ahead security policy
Step Ahead uses the PAYPAL, STRIPE and AFTERPAY Payments for its online credit card transactions. These credit card transactions provide a safe and secure means of collecting payments via the Internet.
All online credit card transactions performed on this site are secured payments.
- Payments are fully automated with an immediate response.
- Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by Step ahead Shoes or any outside party.
- All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSL Certificate.
- All transaction data is encrypted for storage within our merchants bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.
- Our merchants are an authorised third party processor for all the major Australian banks.