Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy – Gaming Gear Shop
Gaming Gear Shop

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 17/04/2026  |  Last Updated: 17/04/2026  |  ABN: 24 160 249 463
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Gaming Gear Shop ("Gaming Gear Shop", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information in a transparent manner.

This Privacy Policy is intended to apply to individuals in Australia and, where applicable, internationally. Depending on where you are located, you may have additional privacy rights under local law, including rights relating to access, correction, deletion, objection to marketing, portability, restriction, and opt-out of sale or sharing of personal information.

1

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, hold, use, disclose, sell, share, store, and otherwise process personal information when you:

  • Visit our website
  • Create an account
  • Place an order
  • Subscribe to our emails or SMS
  • Interact with our advertisements
  • Communicate with us
  • Enter promotions, surveys, or competitions
  • Otherwise, use our products or services
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Who We Are

  • Business: Gaming Gear Shop
  • ABN: 24 160 249 463
  • Email: info@gaminggearshop.com
  • Address: 2207 4 Sterling Circuit Camperdown, NSW, Sydney, Australia 2050
  • Website: gaminggearshop.com

If you have privacy questions or requests, you can contact us using the details in the "Contact Us" section below or by email.

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What Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information.

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

This may include:

  • Full name
  • Username or account name
  • Email address
  • Mobile number
  • Billing address
  • Shipping address
  • Payment-related information
  • Purchase history
  • Order preferences
  • Customer support messages
  • Survey responses
  • Review content
  • Competition or giveaway entries
  • Communication preferences
  • Any other information you choose to provide
3.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you use our website or services, our service providers and we may automatically collect:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Device identifiers
  • Operating system
  • Referral URLs
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Session activity
  • Search terms
  • Approximate geolocation
  • Time spent on pages
  • Cart activity
  • Purchase behaviour
  • Ad interactions
  • Cookie and tracking data
3.3 Information From Third Parties

We may collect information from:

  • Advertising networks
  • Analytics providers
  • Payment processors
  • Logistics and delivery partners
  • Social media platforms
  • Affiliate and referral partners
  • Marketplaces and eCommerce platform providers
  • Identity or fraud prevention providers
  • Data brokers, list providers, audience partners, and marketing partners where permitted by law
3.4 Sensitive Information

We do not intend to collect sensitive information unless necessary and lawful. If sensitive information is provided to us, you consent to our handling of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

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How We Collect Information

We may collect information when you:

  • Browse our website
  • Accept cookies or similar technologies
  • Add items to the cart
  • Place an order
  • Subscribe to our mailing list
  • Open or click our emails or SMS
  • Contact support
  • Respond to advertisements
  • Use referral or discount codes
  • Connect with us on social platforms
  • Enter promotions or surveys
  • Interact with pixels, SDKs, cookies, tags, APIs, or similar tracking tools
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Why We Collect and Use Information

We may collect, use, and process personal information for the following purposes:

5.1 To Provide Products and Services
  • Create and manage accounts
  • Process payments
  • Fulfil orders
  • Ship products
  • Provide support
  • Handle returns, exchanges, and refunds
  • Communicate about orders or service-related matters
5.2 To Improve Our Business
  • Operate and administer our website
  • Troubleshoot issues
  • Maintain security
  • Prevent fraud
  • Analyze performance
  • Improve customer experience
  • Develop new products or services
  • Carry out business planning and reporting
5.3 For Marketing and Promotional Purposes
  • Send promotional emails, SMS, push notifications, and other communications
  • Promote our products, services, events, bundles, and offers
  • Recommend products based on browsing or purchase behaviour
  • Retarget you with ads on third-party platforms
  • Build customer audiences and lookalike audiences
  • Personalize website content and offers
  • Measure campaign effectiveness
Australian spam rules require consent for commercial electronic messages and require a functional unsubscribe facility, and businesses remain responsible even when third parties send messages on their behalf.
5.4 For Advertising, Profiling, and Recommendations

We may use personal information and behavioural data to:

  • Infer interests and preferences
  • Segment audiences
  • Generate product recommendations
  • Personalize website experiences
  • Optimize pricing or promotions
  • Improve advertising relevance
  • Conduct attribution and measurement
  • Support affiliate or partner marketing
  • Create commercial insights
Where required by law, we will provide appropriate notice, consent choices, and opt-out mechanisms for profiling, targeted advertising, or similar processing.
5.5 For Data Sharing, Commercial Cooperation, and Monetization

Subject to applicable law, we may disclose, license, rent, exchange, share, or sell personal information or aggregated/commercial audience data to or with:

  • Related companies
  • Affiliates
  • Marketing partners
  • Analytics partners
  • Advertising platforms
  • Data enrichment providers
  • Business partners
  • Sponsors
  • Marketplace or platform partners
  • Prospective purchasers or investors in a corporate transaction
For California residents, the CCPA/CPRA gives consumers the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, including via recognised mechanisms such as the Global Privacy Control, where applicable.
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Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on where you are located, we may rely on one or more of the following legal grounds:

  • Your consent
  • Performance of a contract
  • Compliance with a legal obligation
  • Our legitimate interests
  • The legitimate interests of our partners
  • Another lawful basis available under applicable law
Under the GDPR framework, direct marketing may be pursued on legitimate-interest grounds in some cases, but individuals have a specific right to object to processing for direct marketing.
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Cookies, Pixels, and Similar Technologies

Our partners and we may use cookies, pixels, tags, beacons, SDKs, APIs, and similar tools to:

  • Remember preferences
  • Keep you signed in
  • Measure traffic and conversions
  • Track behaviour across pages and devices
  • Personalise ads
  • Build audiences
  • Retarget visitors
  • Detect fraud
  • Improve site performance

You can often control cookies through your browser settings, device settings, or consent tools on our website. Some features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

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When We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information to:

  • Payment processors
  • Fulfilment providers
  • Shipping carriers
  • Cloud hosting and technology providers
  • CRM and email/SMS providers
  • Customer support tools
  • Analytics providers
  • Ad networks and social platforms
  • Business partners and affiliates
  • Fraud and cybersecurity vendors
  • Accountants, auditors, lawyers, and insurers
  • Regulators, courts, law enforcement, or government authorities where required
  • Buyers, investors, lenders, or advisers in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructure, or asset sale
Under Australia's APP framework, personal information generally may only be used or disclosed for the primary purpose of collection unless an exception applies, such as consent or a reasonably expected related secondary purpose.
9

Overseas Disclosure and International Transfers

Because we operate online, your personal information may be stored or processed in countries outside Australia, including by service providers and partners in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and other jurisdictions.

By using our services and providing your information, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred internationally. Where required by law, we will take reasonable steps or use appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.

Australia's APPs specifically address overseas disclosure of personal information, and international laws such as the GDPR impose requirements on cross-border transfers and accountability.
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Data Sales, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We may use personal information for commercial data practices, including:

  • Selling personal information
  • Sharing personal information with advertising or analytics partners
  • Combining information with third-party data
  • Using identifiers for targeted advertising
  • Building audiences
  • Measuring ad campaigns
  • Generating tailored recommendations and personalised offers

Where required by law, opt-out rights include:

  • California residents may have rights to opt out of the sale or sharing and to limit certain uses
  • EU/UK individuals may have rights to object to direct marketing and certain profiling
  • Australian residents may have rights to complain, access, and correction, and must be given clear privacy information
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Direct Marketing

We may send marketing communications by email, SMS, social messaging, telephone, push notification, or other lawful channels. These communications may include:

  • Special offers
  • New arrivals
  • Discounts
  • Cart reminders
  • Product recommendations
  • Loyalty messages
  • Restock notices
  • Referral promotions
  • Surveys
  • Brand content
  • Partner or affiliate offers

You can opt out of direct marketing at any time by:

  • Using the unsubscribe link in an email
  • Replying STOP to an SMS, where available
  • Changing account settings
  • Contacting us directly
Australian Spam Act rules require consent and an unsubscribe facility for commercial electronic messages. EU rules also recognise a right to object to direct marketing.
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User Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

  • Request access to your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of certain information
  • Object to direct marketing
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Request portability of certain data
  • Withdraw consent
  • Opt out of sale or sharing
  • Request details about categories of information collected, used, sold, or disclosed
  • Complain to a regulator

Rights by region:

  • California (CCPA/CPRA): Rights to know, delete, opt out of sale/sharing, and non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights
  • EU/UK (GDPR): Rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, including objection to direct marketing
  • Australia (Privacy Act): APP entities must maintain a clearly expressed privacy policy and provide access/correction mechanisms
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How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise privacy rights, please contact us using the details below and include:

  • Your full name
  • The email address used with us
  • Your country/state of residence
  • The nature of your request

We may need to verify your identity before processing a request. We may refuse or limit requests where permitted by law.

If you are a California resident and we "sell" or "share" your personal information as those terms are defined by law, you may direct us to stop by contacting us or using any "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" mechanism we make available.
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Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for:

  • The purposes set out in this Policy
  • Legal and regulatory compliance
  • Fraud prevention
  • Recordkeeping
  • Dispute resolution
  • Enforcement of our agreements

We may retain de-identified, anonymised, or aggregated information for longer where permitted by law.

15

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, and disclosure. Measures may include:

  • Access controls
  • Secure hosting
  • Encryption where appropriate
  • Vendor controls
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Backup processes and internal procedures
No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
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Children's Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to children under the age required by applicable law to provide valid consent. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without appropriate authorisation where required, we may delete it.

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Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, plug-ins, or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. You should review their privacy policies separately.

18

Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, insolvency event, restructure, sale of assets, or other corporate transaction, your personal information may be disclosed to counterparties, advisers, financiers, or successors as part of that process.

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Regional Disclosures

19.1 Australia

We aim to handle personal information consistently with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, including maintaining a clearly expressed and up-to-date privacy policy.

19.2 European Economic Area / United Kingdom

If applicable, we will process personal data in line with relevant data protection laws, including providing lawful bases, required notices, and rights such as objection to direct marketing.

19.3 California and Other U.S. States

Where applicable, residents may have rights regarding access, deletion, correction, and opt-out of sale or sharing of personal information.

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Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect operational, legal, or regulatory changes. The updated version will be posted on our website with a revised "Last Updated" date.

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Contact Us

For privacy questions, complaints, or rights requests, contact:

  • Business: Gaming Gear Shop
  • ABN: 24 160 249 463
  • Email: info@gaminggearshop.com
  • Address: 2207 4 Sterling Circuit Camperdown, NSW, Sydney, Australia 2050
  • Website: gaminggearshop.com
If you are in Australia and are not satisfied with our response, you may be able to complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Australian privacy law requires transparent privacy management and a clear policy.

Your privacy matters to us.

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, contact us at info@gaminggearshop.com. We are committed to handling your personal information with transparency and care.