When you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools, or messaging, we or our authorised service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to store information that helps provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience, as well as for advertising purposes.
This page is designed to help you understand more about these technologies and how we use them across our sites and in our services, applications, and tools. Below is a summary of a few key things you should know about our use of such technologies. You can review the contents of our full User Cookie Notice below.
Our cookies and similar technologies serve different purposes. They are either essential for the functioning of our services, assist us in improving performance, provide you with additional functionalities, or help serve you relevant and targeted ads. We use cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device for as long as you keep your browser active (session cookies) and others that remain on your device for a longer period (persistent cookies). You are free to block, delete, or disable these technologies if your device allows. You can manage your cookies and preferences in your browser or device settings.
Where possible, security measures are put in place to prevent unauthorised access to our cookies and similar technologies. A unique identifier ensures that only we and/or our authorised service providers can access cookie data.
Service providers are companies that assist us with various aspects of our business, such as site operations, services, applications, advertisements, and tools. We use some authorised service providers to help serve you relevant ads on our services and other places on the internet. These service providers may also place cookies on your device via our services (third-party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as your IP address or other unique identifiers.
Like most sites, we use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a device) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, and to recognise you across devices.
The specific names and types of the cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and similar technologies we use to collect information (e.g. about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising or e-mail content) may change from time to time. In order to help you better understand this Policy and our use of such technologies we have provided the following limited terminology and definitions:
Cookies Small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognise a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.First-party cookies are set by the site you are visiting.Third-party cookies are set by a third party site separate from the site you are visiting.Cookies can be disabled or removed by tools that are available in most commercial browsers. The preferences for each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options.Web beacons - Small graphic images (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) that may be included on our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behaviour.Similar technologies-Technologies that store information in your browser or device utilising local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers, and in some instances may not be fully managed by your browser and may require management directly through your installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.
We may use the termscookiesor similar technologies interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.
We offer certain site features, services, applications, and tools that are available only through the use of these technologies. You are always free to block, delete, or disable these technologies if your browser, installed application, or device permits. However, if you decline cookies or other similar technologies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain site features, services, applications, or tools. You may also be required to re-enter your password more frequently during your browsing session. For more information on how you can block, delete, or disable these technologies, please review your browser or device settings.
Generally, these technologies allow our sites, services, applications, and tools to store relevant information in your browser or device and later read that information in order to identify you to our servers or internal systems. Where applicable, we protect our cookies and other similar technologies to help ensure that only we and/or our authorised service providers can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that is designed for interpretation only by us. We do not store any of your personal information on any of our cookies or other similar technologies.
Any personal information that we collect and store through use of these technologies is first obtained through notice and consent: We obtain your consent by providing you with transparent notice of use of the technologies and, to the extent described herein, providing you with the opportunity to make a choice to disable these technologies.
We offer you the ability to opt-out of our use of first-party advertising-related cookies through our Ad Choice program. To opt-out of the use of third-party advertising-related cookies and web beacons, see the section Ad Networks and Exchanges authorised by third parties below. Opting out of our first-party advertising-related cookies, or out of third-party advertising-related cookies and web beacons as described below, does not necessarily mean that you will not see our advertising - only that this advertising will not be targeted to you through the use of first-party or third-party cookies, web beacons or related technologies.
If you would like to opt-out of all other types of technologies we employ on our sites, services, applications, or tools, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits.
We may work with third-party companies, commonly known as service providers, who are authorised to place third-party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies for storing information on our sites or in our services, applications, and tools with our permission. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience.
These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver content and advertising, and compile anonymous site metrics and analytics. These service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions on their use or collection of any personal information. Third-party cookies are covered by the third parties' privacy policy.
You may encounter cookies and tracking technologies from our third-party service providers. Service providers that we cooperate with include Facebook and Google:
Facebook:We may transmit information about your usage of our services, including additional personal data about you (as described in detail in the advertisement settings), through Facebook Pixel and by sending data directly to Facebook via our servers. Facebook designates Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, for users in the European Economic Area (EEA), and Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, for all other users.
These data transmissions enable us to display personalised advertisements for you on Facebook's platforms, to measure their effectiveness and to report on them. The specific processing purposes and an explanation of the related data privacy responsibilities are described in the Facebook Business Tools Terms (Facebook Terms). The following applies to users in the European Economic Area (EEA): To the extent that we are solely responsible for the processing of your personal data (including the transmission of such data to Facebook) in accordance with the Facebook Terms (i.e., when Facebook provides comparison, measurement and analysis services to us), Facebook exclusively acts on our account on the basis of an applicable processing agreement (so called Data Processing Terms in addition to the Facebook EU Data Transfer Addendum). However, if we and Facebook assume shared responsibility for the collection and transmission of your personal data to Facebook (i.e., specifically for the processing of data about your usage of our services for the purpose of targeting our advertisements, the improvement and the measurement of the effectiveness of our advertisements), Facebook will subsequently process the data as an independently accountable party and assumes exclusive responsibility.
We have entered into an Agreement about Shared Responsibilities with Facebook in order to determine the mutual responsibilities for the fulfilment of data privacy obligations with regards to the shared processing. Pursuant to this agreement, it is Facebook's responsibility to safeguard the rights of the affected persons with regards to the personal data stored by Facebook under the mutual agreement. It is our obligation to provide the above information to the affected persons. The Data Policy of Facebook contains additional information about Facebook's processing of personal data, including the legal basis on which Facebook operates and the options for affected persons to exercise their rights against Facebook.
Google: We may transmit information about your usage of our services, including additional personal data about you (as described in detail in the advertisement settings), to Google. Google designates Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, for users in the European Economic Area (EEA), and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, for all other users.
These data transmissions enable us to display personalised advertisements for you in our own online listings as well as in online listings of third parties via the advertising products and the marketing platforms of Google (Google advertising products, such as Google Ad Manager, Google Ads), and to measure their effectiveness, to select and provide content, to provide reports about such content and to gain insights into target groups and product developments. You can find additional information in the Google Privacy Policy and an explanation of the data privacy obligations in the Google Ads Data Protection Terms: Service Information.
With the exception of the use of such technologies by our service providers or other authorised third parties, we do not permit any third-party content on sites (such as item listings, member-to-member communications, classified listings, comments, reviews, etc.) to include or utilise any cookies, web beacons, local storage, or similar technologies for tracking purposes or to collect your personal information for their own purposes. If you believe a listing or other third-party content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on one of our sites, please report it to outbackmarketplaceau@gmail.com.
TikTok: We may transmit information about your usage of our services, including additional personal data about you (as described in detail in the advertisement settings), through TikTok Pixel and by sending data directly to TikTok via our servers.
These data transmissions enable us to display personalised advertisements for you on TikTok's platforms, to measure their effectiveness and to report on them. The specific processing purposes and an explanation of the related data privacy responsibilities are described in the TikTok Business Product (Data) Terms (TikTok Terms). The following applies to users in Australia: To the extent that we are solely responsible for the processing of your personal data (including the transmission of such data to TikTok) in accordance with the TikTok Terms (i.e., when TikTok provides comparison, measurement and analysis services to us), TikTok exclusively acts on our account on the basis of an applicable processing agreement. However, if we and TikTok assume shared responsibility for the collection and transmission of your personal data to TikTok (i.e., specifically for the processing of data about your usage of our services for the purpose of targeting our advertisements, the improvement and the measurement of the effectiveness of our advertisements), TikTok will subsequently process the data as an independently accountable party and assumes exclusive responsibility.
The Business Product Data Terms of TikTok contains additional information about TikTok's processing of personal data, including the legal basis on which TikTok operates.
We may use third parties, such as advertising networks and exchanges, to allow us to serve you advertisements. These third-party ad networks and exchange providers may use third-party cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to collect information. They may also collect your device identifier, IP address, or identifier for advertising (IDFA). The information that these third parties collect may be used to assist us in providing you with more relevant advertising that we serve on our sites or elsewhere on the web, and as described above. Third-party cookies are covered by the third parties' privacy policy.