Sunshine Self Storage Privacy Policy 
IMPORTANT - Please Read

About This Document

This privacy policy outlines:

  • the policy of Sunshine Self Storage Pty Ltd

Address: 15 Carrington Drive, Albion VICTORIA 3020

  • how and why we need to collect and retain your personal information, and how we handle, protect, use, and disclose that personal information.

Collection of Infomation

We need to collect, retain, and use information about you, including your personal information, to provide you with storage and do business with you. Generally, this information is collected directly from you, but we may collect information about you that is publicly available, for example, from public registers or social media or made available by third parties. Information we collect may include:

  • your name
  • licence number and details
  • date of birth
  • passport number
  • telephone number(s)
  • email address
  • physical address
  • CCTV footage and/or audio; and
  • any other information reasonably necessary.

We may also need to collect payment information from you, including credit card or direct debit information, and we collect and retain information about your ongoing storage and payment history.

When you use our website or mobile applications, we may collect information about your physical location and/or web activity, including your IP address, your telephone number(s), and whether you’ve accessed or been referred to us via a third-party site. We collect some of this website information using Cookies.

You may choose not to provide us with any of this information, but not doing so may affect our ability to provide you with storage.

Primary Purpose of Collection

We need to collect information from you for various purposes, including providing storage and doing business with you. We also need to collect information from you to:

  • ensure the security of the facility and the goods and people within the facility;
  • establish your identity and assess your application for storage;
  • be able to contact you during the storage relationship;
  • provide you with information about your account, including billing and provision of notices;
  • provide you with information about our business and related entities, including promotions;
  • be able to answer questions from you about your account and our services;
  • manage our risk, including enabling us to undertake a search of the StorerCheck database or any relevant credit history entity;
  • assist other storage facilities manage their credit risk by uploading your information to the StorerCheck database;
  • undertake appropriate searches, including a PPSR search, if your account goes into default;
  • cooperate with enquiries from government and law enforcement bodies and comply with our legal obligations;
  • enforce our agreement with you.

Disclosure

We may disclose any information we have about you, including your personal information, as is reasonably necessary or as is permitted by law, including but not limited to the following:

  • our employees, including temporary workers or externally contracted staff;
  • service providers engaged by us, such as data storage, IT, software management, insurers, and financial services;
  • third parties engaged to perform specific functions within our business, such as auctioneers, secondhand dealers, building contractors, and maintenance services
  • government departments and agencies;
  • law enforcement agencies, including the police;
  • investigators;
  • any person who can demonstrate to our satisfaction a legal or equitable interest in the goods stored;
  • liquidators, administrators, or other persons appointed to administer your financial affairs;
  • debt collection services;
  • your Alternate Contact Person (ACP);
  • the StorerCheck database (and, in effect, other storage facilities/members of the Self Storage Association of Australasia that may, at their discretion, search the StorerCheck database to verify whether you are a credit risk);
  • Storers or third parties who reasonably believe you have caused damage or injury to that Storer or third party;
  • agents for any of the above.

We may send your information overseas. Some Self Storage Association of Australasia members, some of our service providers or other third parties, including data storage providers, may be located, operate, or hold data outside of Australia. When information is sent or disclosed outside of Australia, we make reasonable efforts to ensure that appropriate data handling and security arrangements are in place.

We utilise service providers in several countries outside Australia, including New Zealand, the UK, and the USA.

Please note that Australian laws may not apply to some of these entities in those countries.

Alternate Contact Person

You make the following authorisation regarding your Alternate Contact Person:

As you have provided us with personal information identifying your nominated Alternate Contact Person (ACP), you must ensure that you have the right to disclose information about your ACP, including their personal information. You must take reasonable steps to ensure your ACP is aware that:

  • you have made this disclosure;
  • we may use this information as we would personal information collected about you
  • they may access and correct the information we hold in the same way you may correct your personal information.

Marketing

We may use your contact details, including email and telephone numbers, to contact you for marketing purposes. You may withdraw this consent at any time. We may share your information with our related entities. We will not share your contact details with third-party enterprises and will never sell your personal or contact details. If you wish to opt out of direct marketing, please contact us at support@sunshineselfstorage.com.au.

Storer Check

For credit and risk management purposes, we use the StorerCheck database. By applying to store with us, including making a web or telephone enquiry, you agree to the following:

  • We may search the StorerCheck database for information that has been reported by other users of the StorerCheck database about you.
  • We may communicate with other users of the StorerCheck database and discuss your information with them.
  • We may choose to refuse you storage or terminate your storage agreement if you are listed on the StorerCheck database.
  • We may release or update any details and personal information listed on the StorerCheck database about you, including but not limited to your name, address, previous addresses, email addresses, licence number and details, passport number and details, date of birth, storage history and account payment history.
  • Your details and personal information will be uploaded on the StorerCheck database if you breach your storage agreement or engage in illegal or threatening behaviour, including but not limited to not paying for storage, dumping or abandoning goods, being chronically late with payments, being abusive or threatening to staff or other stores, eliciting the involvement of law enforcement agencies, such as law enforcement enquiries regarding your storage activities and the execution of search warrants against you, this facility or your storage space or any other breach of the storage agreement.

We may use the information you provide during this application, including web or telephone enquiries, or information provided at any other time to update any listing currently about you on the StorerCheck database. If you do not consent to these terms, you should not apply for storage with us.

By applying to store with us you consent to the terms and conditions set out in this document and on-line at www.storercheck.com, including our right to search StorerCheck for your details, and to upload your information and details to the StorerCheck database in certain circumstances. For further information about the StorerCheck database go to www.storercheck.com.au.

Security

We keep your information provided to us in both hard form and electronic form. We take steps to secure this from misuse, loss, unauthorised modification, unauthorised disclosure, and access. We employ physical security such as locks on filing cabinets and restricted access to hard files, and other security measures, including password-protected computers and internet firewalls.

We do not keep hard copies of any information. All our data is stored in password-protected online servers protected with 2FA. We regularly ensure that staff and managers are trained in data protection and security.

We take reasonable care when engaging third parties to provide services to us where those services may necessitate the third party handling your information, including data storage, file destruction, enforcement of the agreement in any way, and debt collection.

Accuracy of Information we hold about You, Your Right to Access and Your Right to Correct

You may view and correct your personal information by:

  • giving us reasonable notice in writing that you wish to view your personal information and;
  • attending at our Facility at the agreed time, and
  • paying reasonable costs for the provision of access.

If we refuse access, we will provide you with a written reason for the refusal.

To correct inaccurate information we hold about you, you may advise us in writing that your personal information is incorrect and provide us with written corrections. We will endeavour to update you within a reasonable time.

Eligible Data Breach

Where there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been an eligible data breach, we will, within 30 days of when we first become aware of the suspected breach, undertake a reasonable and expeditious assessment of the potential breach.

Where it is determined that an eligible data breach has occurred, we will report the breach to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and you.

Your Rights - How to Contact Us about your Privacy

If you believe we have breached the Privacy Act 1988 or Australian Privacy Principles and wish to complain, please contact us at support@sunshineselfstorage.com.au. We will endeavour to resolve your complaint within 21 days.

If you do not believe your complaint has been satisfactorily handled or resolved, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. For more information visit: www.oaic.gov.au

This page was last updated : 24th October 2024.

Need storage? Click here to book your container now!




    Convenient, drive-up storage

    Sunshine Self Storage uses safe, secure, watertight shipping containers to store your valuables. You can drive right up to
    your container and you have access whenever you want.

    We are a family-owned business and have the best prices in
    Melbourne. You can book space online now, or call our office:

Call Sarah in our office for the
Fastest Response: 03 9010 6147

Ned Coten 0433 136 832 | Hilary Coten 0402 435 143

Click here for a map of our location


Sunshine Self Storage, 15 Carrington Drive, ALBION Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


Back to Self Storage Home

Site Guide   |   Terms of Use   |   Privacy Policy   |   Contact Us



Member number 51399 of the Self Storage Association

Sunshine Self Storage is a full member of the Self Storage Association of Australasia (SSAA) and have been since 2004! Our Membership Number is 51399 and our current membership certificate is show below.

You can see all our membership certificates since 2004 here.

The SSAA is the Industry Association for Self Storage in Australia and New Zealand. You should never book self storage with any company that is not a member of this group. The SSAA provides legal protection for storers and self storage owners and ensures that every transaction is fair and equitable.