Privacy policy (draft)

Draft of 11 November 2026 (AEST). This draft is for review before the site is published. It is written to reflect the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (including the Australian Privacy Principles) and the Spam Act 2003. It is not legal advice.

Who we are

JALS Pty Ltd ATF Castano-Andersen Family Trust (ABN 60 560 698 208), providing JALS Ventures Tender Alerts (“we”, “us”), sends email alerts about Queensland civil and transport tenders. Contact: jals.ventures.au@gmail.com.

What we collect

Depending on how you use the service, we may collect:

• your name, work email address, firm name and, if you provide it, a telephone number;
• filter preferences (TMR CFEP categories, levels and regions);
• billing details needed to run a subscription, including payment-card data handled by Stripe (we do not store full card numbers), invoice address and ABN if you give us one (we are registered for GST and issue tax invoices);
• records of your consent, unsubscribe requests, and emails we send you;
• limited technical data from the website or email service (for example, that an email was delivered or a link was opened), if the mailing platform provides it.

We do not need, and do not seek, government-issued identity documents from subscribers (Stripe may collect identity information from us as the seller when we open a payments account).

Why we collect it (APP 3 and 6)

We collect this information so we can provide the alert service, process payments, send you the emails you asked for, improve tagging and filters, meet tax and accounting obligations, and respond to enquiries. We will not use your email to send commercial messages other than the service you subscribed to, related service notices, and (if you agree) occasional product updates. We will not sell your contact details.

Spam Act 2003 — consent, identity and unsubscribe

We only send commercial electronic messages with consent. The free weekly brief and any paid alerts are sent only after you opt in (we intend to use double opt-in for the free brief). You can withdraw consent at any time.

Every commercial email will:

• identify the sender as JALS Pty Ltd ATF Castano-Andersen Family Trust, providing JALS Ventures Tender Alerts, ABN 60 560 698 208, with a contact email (jals.ventures.au@gmail.com) and, once we have a stable one, a postal address; and
• include a functional unsubscribe method. We will honour an unsubscribe request within five business days and will not send further commercial email to that address, other than a brief confirmation if needed.

We do not buy marketing lists. If we ever write to a business address that was conspicuously published, we will only do so where the Spam Act’s inferred-consent rules appear to be met, the message is relevant to that firm’s work, and we include identification and an unsubscribe option.

Who we disclose it to (APP 8)

We use service providers to run the product. These may include:

• a payments provider (intended: Stripe), to process subscriptions and invoices;
• an email-list provider (intended: Brevo or similar), to send digests and manage unsubscribes;
• a website host (intended: Cloudflare Pages), to serve this site.

Some of those providers store or process information outside Australia (for example in the United States or the European Union). If we disclose personal information overseas we will take reasonable steps consistent with APP 8. You may contact us for current provider locations before you subscribe.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to our professional advisers under a duty of confidence.

Security and retention (APP 11)

We take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We keep subscriber and billing records for as long as the subscription lasts and then for a period required for tax, accounting and dispute purposes, after which we delete or de-identify them where practicable.

Access, correction and complaints (APP 12, 13 and 1)

You may ask to access or correct the personal information we hold about you by emailing jals.ventures.au@gmail.com. If you have a privacy complaint, please write to us first and we will try to resolve it. You may also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will update this page and, where the change is material, notify subscribers by email.