Privacy and Data Protection Policy

Updated January 2023

This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for The Message Group ("MOHA") for all your dealings with us including:

MOHA is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service experience. MOHA is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals.

MOHA includes Messages On Hold Australia Pty Ltd, The Message Group Pty Ltd ATF Golden Sands Trust, Digisound Messages On Hold ATF The TAG Family Trust.

Collection of your personal information

We collect information about you if it is:

We may also:

MOHA will hold your personal data securely in accordance with the Act. MOHA complies with all requirements of the law on protection of personal data held on computer or in manual records.

Information we collect online

We collect information on website usage. Collection of this information includes, but is not limited to, the use of cookies. Cookies allow us to assign a unique reference number to each visitor which allows one visitor to be distinguished from another. We also use cookies to track some activities and provide a desirable experience for our visitors. We may also use Google Adwords Remarketing and use cookies to assist us in displaying ads that are relevant to your needs. We treat any data that we collect with a cookie with the same high respect that we treat other data. You can restrict the use of cookies or delete them from your browser at anytime by configuring your browser settings.

Continuous logs are kept of requests received by the Website's web servers as it is accessed. These logs are used to analyse usage of the Website. Logs are maintained both by MOHA and third parties contracted by MOHA including Google Inc. ("Google") - who specialise in monitoring and analysing website usage. We use Google Analytics to analyse use of the Website.

Each log entry includes the internet protocol (IP) address of the client used, the type of client used, the URL of the page (or object) requested, the URL of the previous page (or object) requested (known as the 'referrer' and could relate to this Website or another), and the reference number stored in a cookie created by the Website (if one exists).

MOHA logs additionally contain the username used to access restricted areas of the Website. This username is not collected by nor shared with Google.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Website, compiling reports on Website activity for MOHA and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. If you would like to receive more information on Google Analytics, and the kind of information that they collect and process, we refer you to Google Analytics's website (see: http://www.google.co.uk/analytics/en-GB/index.html).

We do not currently collect personal information about you from other sites.

Sharing of your personal information

We do not share information about you with other organisations beyond what is necessary to deliver the goods and services you have requested from us. Your data may be shared with information technology services providers (including offshore cloud computing service providers).

We use data hosting facilities and third party service providers to assist us with providing our goods and services. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside Australia, including but not limited to the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

MOHA takes reasonable steps to ensure that any organisations we share information with are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.

Use of your personal information

For each visitor to reach the site, we expressively collect the following non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to browser type, version and language, operating system, pages viewed while browsing the Site, page access times and referring website address. This collected information is used internally for the purpose of gauging visitor traffic, trends and delivering personalized content to you while you are at this Site.

Where you give us information about your experiences with products or services this may be interesting to others and we may publish this. If you wish for your communication to remain private and not be published you have the right to request we do not publish this or to request anonymity. From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will use for these new purposes only, data collected from the time of the policy change forward will adhere to our updated practices.

Links to other websites

MOHA may provide links to other websites when we consider you may be interested in the content on those sites. This is no way constitutes an endorsement of those sites or their content and MOHA has no control over the conduct of the companies or organisations operating those sites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

MOHA reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use the Site or deal with us.

Accessing Your Personal Information

You have a right to access, and if necessary correct, your personal information, subject to exceptions allowed by law. If you would like to do so, please let us know. You may be required to put your request in writing for security reasons. MOHA reserves the right to charge a fee for searching for, and providing access to, your information on a per request basis.

Contacting us

MOHA welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and would like further onformation, please contact us -

If you wish to make a complaint about the way MOHA has handled your personal information please contact MOHA's Privacy Officer in writing to the postal or email address set out above. We will respond to your complaint within a reasonable period of time.