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Shark Watch South Australia Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 12, 2018

Shark Watch South Australia ("us", "we", or "our") operates the www.sharkalertsa.com website (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. 

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.sharkalertsa.com.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address

  • First name and last name

  • Phone number

  • Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Shark Watch South Australia uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service

  • To notify you about changes to our Service

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

  • To provide customer care and support

  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service

  • To monitor the usage of the Service

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Shark Watch South Australia Disclaimer (Updated on 7 January 2025)

Shark Watch South Australia was founded, and is still managed to this day, by the sole proprietorship of Anton Covino. Taking this into consideration, the name "Shark Watch South Australia" refers to the individual, Anton Covino and not a class of organization, or community of experts. Anton is a member of the public who has recreational and leisurely knowledge of South Australian coastal waters, however,  he has not obtained any formal qualifications related to marine or shark research itself. Rather, he sources information provided by members of the public as well as other organizations, who (like Anton) strive to improve shark attack mitigation measures. These sources are the primary references for content published on the Shark Watch South Australia sites. 

 

Shark Watch South Australia is widely used as a resource for potentially lifesaving information on shark sightings and shark education. To ensure that the content posted on the Shark Watch South Australia sites is not perceived in the wrong way, or is used against the core objective too improve the overall safety of beach-goers, its users must acknowledge the following terms and conditions before continued use of all Shark Watch South Australia outlets as well as other goods and services produced within the organization itself. The following terms and conditions are listed below.

 

 

  • Shark Watch South Australia does not, in any way, warrant or advocate the potentially dangerous interaction with sharks and/or recreational fishing activities targeting protected shark species. 

 

  • Shark Watch South Australia does not, in any way, act as a scare campaign that promotes fear, sensationalism, or a negative hysteria towards sharks found in the coastal and offshore waters of South Australia. 

 

  • As a second and sometimes third-party source of information for real-time shark sightings, Shark Watch South Australia cannot guarantee the authenticity or accuracy of information published on its sites. For this reason, Shark Watch South Australia does not accept any liability for unintentionally posting any false, inaccurate, or misleading information.

 

  • Information found on the Shark Watch South Australia sites subject to shark education has been sourced from other parties dedicated to the research of sharks and/or the marine environment. For this reason, Shark Watch South Australia cannot guarantee the authenticity or accuracy of such information and does not accept any liability for unintentionally publishing any false, inaccurate, or misleading information on its sites. 

 

  • Content published on the Shark Watch South Australia sites should not be used for definitive data collection regarding sharks found in South Australia.

 

  • Shark Watch South Australia does not accept any liability for trouble encountered in the surf zone or out at sea after the user has viewed content published on the Shark Watch South Australia sites. Trouble may relate to (but is not limited to) any harmful/unwanted experiences including shark encounters, shark attacks, becoming stuck in a rip current, drowning as well as other injuries and/or deaths occurring within the coastal/offshore environment. 

 

  • As a user of Shark Watch South Australia, you must respect all other person(s) found on any section of the Shark Watch South Australia social media accounts or the website. This means that no matter the circumstances, the user must never communicate hurtful/abusive or threatening language including any form of bullying or harassment and/or the spread of content that contains viruses or spy and malware.

  • Site users must not impersonate a certain identity or business and/or promote misleading or fraudulent content to another user. The failure to abide by these conditions will result in the termination of the users right to interact with the Shark Watch South Australia social media accounts. Their comments or content of interest published on the Shark Watch South Australia site may also be removed. The abuser may also be permanently banned from having access and/or interacting with the Shark Watch South Australia sites.

 

  • The admin of the Shark Watch South Australia sites will frequently review feedback in the comments section of each post it has access to and will try to take action in response to user requests relating to any of the unwanted activity mentioned above. At any time, the admin may act accordingly to protect the victim and/or to protect the Shark Watch South Australia organization itself by taking the appropriate action of either banning the antagonist or deleting their comments from the social media site at which the malicious content was spread.

 

  • As Shark Watch South Australia respects the intellectual property of every individual/organization, including those who choose to engage with Shark Watch South Australia by reporting information about shark sightings, the user must not re-broadcast content found on the Shark Watch South Australia sites without being granted the appropriate permission from the original owners of the content, themselves.

 

  • Shark Watch South Australia has a privacy policy in place to protect the personal information of members of the public as well as other parties who report information to Shark Watch South Australia. This policy states that Shark Watch South Australia will not grant any user the right to contact the person(s) of interest until Shark Watch South Australia has been granted the approval to do so by the content creator, themselves. 

 

  • Any media organization planning on re-broadcasting our content to a national audience must also consider the terms written above before doing so. 

Enquire

Established in 2014 by a passionate coastal water user, Shark Watch SA serves the public free information regarding community and authoritarian made shark sightings. Utilising social media, the Not-For-Profit operates on a real-time alerts based system and is partners with the Australia wide Dorsal Shark Reports app. With over 150,000 local and global users, Shark Watch has worked with the media as well as a number of pioneering organisations based in surf surveillance operations. We are constantly working towards the future and strengthening our relationship with the community, so enquire today!

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