Privacy Policy

At Ted’s Technology Summit, we’re committed to transparency, accountability, and respect for your privacy.

By using our website, you agree to the terms and policies outlined here.

Effective from 1 January 2026

Who we are

Our website address is: https://tedsconference.com.au/

Ted’s Technology Summit respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the personal information of our sponsors, delegates, customers, and visitors. We comply with the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

What personal information is collected

Ted’s Technology Summit will, from time to time, receive and store personal information you submit to us via Humanitix, provided to us directly or given to us in other forms.

You may provide basic information such as your name, phone number, address and email address to enable us to send you information and provide updates about the invitation only Ted’s Technology Summit.

We may collect additional information at other times, including but not limited to, when you provide feedback, when you provide information about your personal or business affairs, respond to surveys, provide financial or credit card information, or communicate with our team.

Additionally, we may also collect any other information you provide while interacting with us.

We collect this information, including and not limited to, via our online ticket registration form (via Humanitix).

How we use your personal information

Ted’s Technology Summit may use personal information collected from you to provide you with information about Ted’s Technology Summit. We may also make you aware of new and additional opportunities available to you.

Ted’s Technology Summit will use personal information only for the purposes that you consent to. This may include to:

1. provide you with services during the usual course of hosting our annual Summit;
2. administer our Summit;
3. manage, research and develop our Summit;
4. provide you with information about the Summit;
5. communicate with you by a variety of measures including, but not limited to, by telephone, email, SMS or mail; and
6. investigate any feedback.

Marketing communications

We will only send you marketing communications with your consent. You may opt out of receiving such communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided in our emails or by contacting us directly.

Service-related communications may still be sent where reasonably necessary to deliver our services, administer events, or meet legal or operational requirements.

If you withhold your personal information, it may not be possible for us to provide you with our services or for you to fully access our website.

We may disclose your personal information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, warrant, legal proceedings or in response to a law enforcement agency request.

If there is a change of control in our business or a sale or transfer of business assets, we reserve the right to transfer to the extent permissible at law our user databases, together with any personal information and non-personal information contained in those databases.

Disclosure of your personal information

Ted’s Technology Summit may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

If we do disclose your personal information to a third party, we will protect it in accordance with this privacy policy.

Some of your personal information may be disclosed to organisations outside Australia. For example, Google Analytics data may be processed on servers located in the United States and other countries. Information collected via our event registration provider (Humanitix) may also be processed on servers located outside of Australia.

We take reasonable steps to ensure that such recipients do not breach the Australian Privacy Principles in relation to your information.

Website analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device
• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website (tedsconference.com.au), including:

• Clicks
• Internal links
• Pages visited
• Scrolling
• Searches
• Timestamps

Our website (tedsconference.com.au) also uses Google Analytics for website analytics. We use website analytics data to help us make the website better by understanding how our website is used.

Google Analytics does not identify individual users, and IP addresses are anonymised before being stored.

Google Analytics transmits website traffic data to servers offshore.

In using our website, you should also refer to and ensure you understand the Google Analytics terms of use and how Google safeguards data.

You may opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing a browser add-on if you choose to do so.

Cookies

We may from time to time use cookies on our website. Cookies are very small files which a website uses to identify you when you come back to the site and to store details about your use of the site. Cookies are not malicious programs that access or damage your computer. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can choose to reject cookies by changing your browser settings. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website. Our website may from time to time use cookies to analyse website traffic and help us provide a better website visitor experience. In addition, cookies may be used to serve relevant ads to website visitors through third party services such as Google AdWords. These ads may appear on this website or other websites you visit.

Security of your personal information

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. This includes both electronic and physical security measures such as password protection, secure servers, and restricted access to authorised staff.

Third-party sites

Our site may from time to time have links to other websites not owned or controlled by us. These links are meant for your convenience only. Links to third party websites do not constitute sponsorship or endorsement or approval of these websites. Please be aware that Ted’s Technology Summit is not responsible for the privacy practises of other such websites. We encourage our users to be aware, when they leave our website, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personal identifiable information.

Access to your personal information

You may request details of personal information that we hold about you, in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). 

Correction of your personal information

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us. We will take reasonable steps to correct that information within a reasonable time.

Contact us

If you have any queries, problems or complaints relating to your privacy or would like to access your personal information held by Ted’s Technology Summit, please contact us:

Ted’s Technology Summit
Summit Organiser: Beverley Wood
On Targett Communications Pty Ltd  (ABN: 37 002 801 694)
PO Box 20187 World Square NSW 2002 Australia
info@ontargett.com.au
+61 411 790 777

If you are not satisfied with our response to a privacy complaint, you may contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au