China Forest Products Supply Co., Ltd. is committed to protecting information that identifies you (your Personal Information) and ensuring that we deal with your Personal Information in accordance with the relevant privacy legislation.
This privacy statement (Privacy Statement) explains how we may collect, hold, use and disclose Personal Information.
If you would like to contact us in relation to this privacy statement or our use of your information, please email us at the details set out in the contact us section below.
Application of This Privacy Statement
Please read this privacy statement carefully. It applies to any Personal Information that you provide to us, or authorise us to collect, in accordance with this privacy statement.
This includes our website available at: www.forest.cn
Updates to This Privacy Statement
We may update this privacy statement at any time by posting an updated version of this privacy statement on our website. The updated version of this privacy statement will take effect immediately upon such notice. We may take additional steps to bring the changes to your attention, including by notifying you directly, in accordance with the applicable laws. You are responsible for reviewing this privacy statement regularly to ensure that you are aware of any updates.
Additional Rights and Obligations
You are not required to provide us with any personal information that we request. However, if you do not do so, we may not be able to provide certain services to you.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Collection of Personal Information
Generally, we collect personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so (in accordance with the Privacy Acts).
We may also collect such information from other sources, including:
Other related entities from time to time;
Credit reporters, if you submit an application for commercial credit or guarantee to us (please refer to further information about credit reporters set out below); and publicly available sources of information.
Cookies
We may also collect information through our website through cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on a user's computer. We may use cookies to personalise and/or improve your experience on the Website, including making it easier for you to navigate our website. If we develop log-in functionality, we will store your login details. Cookies can be disabled via your web browser; however doing so may limit your access to some of our website's content and features. We may use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information such as usage and volume statistics, for research purposes in order to further develop our website.
Types of Personal Information We Collect
The types of Personal Information we may collect and hold will depend on your relationship with us (for example, whether you are a customer or supplier or are browsing our Website). This may include:
Name, address and contact details;
Date of birth;
Driver's licence details;
Financial details including annual earnings, bank account details and trade reference details;
Details of the products and service provided; and information relevant to your credit worthiness, including credit history information.
Purpose of Collecting Personal Information
We collect, hold, disclose and use Personal Information:
To provide you with products and services;
To administer our relationship with you including responding to queries;
For internal administrative purposes, such as procedural assessment, risk management, staff training, accounting, billing, product and service reviews;
To exercise our rights under any application for credit or guarantee that we agree with you, including to determine whether to provide (or continue to provide) credit to you, to register security interests and to assist with the collection of overdue payments (please refer to further details relating to credit reporters set out below);
To monitor activity on our website;
To identify and inform you about other products or services and offerings that may be of interest to you, including by email and other electronic means (you can opt-out at any time by contacting us using the details in the Contact Us section below).
Disclosure of Personal Information
We understand the importance of keeping Personal Information private, and will only disclose such information to others in limited circumstances.
We may disclose personal information in connection with (or for reasons directly related to) any of the purposes set out in this privacy statement to the following parties:
Credit reporters, if you submit an application for commercial credit or guarantee to us;
Any third party associated with your application for commercial credit (such as a referee or guarantor);
Our professional advisers;
Government and regulatory authorities;
Our related companies, organisations and partners from time to time;
Any other party authorised by you or to whom we are required or authorised to disclose personal information in accordance with applicable law.
We may also disclose personal information to contractors and service providers (such as IT service providers) who provide services to China Forest Products Supply Co., Ltd. or who manage services provided to an individual on our behalf. Personal information is only disclosed to contractors and service providers to the extent necessary to enable them to provide these services.
Disclosure to Overseas Recipients
We may disclose your personal information to service providers who are located outside the country where you are based, such as cloud storage providers. Our service providers are located in the following overseas locations:
China
Australia
Europe
We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that personal information transferred overseas from the country where you are based is protected in accordance with this privacy statement and the Privacy Acts.
Credit Reporters
If you submit an application for commercial credit to us, you authorise us to use the services of a credit reporter to assess your credit worthiness. You acknowledge that you understand and agree to the following:
The credit reporter will give us personal information about you for the purpose of assessing your credit worthiness;
We will give your personal information to the credit reporter (including default information, if applicable) and that credit reporter will hold that information on its systems and use it to provide its credit reporting service (including to its other customers); and we may use credit reporting services in the future for purposes related to the provision of credit to you. This may include using the credit reporter's monitoring services to receive updates if any of the information held about you changes.
If you submit an application for commercial credit to us, you also authorise us to use the services of a credit reporter to assess the credit worthiness of your guarantors and directors (as applicable). You acknowledge that you understand and agree that the provisions set out above will also apply to your guarantors and directors (as applicable) and that they have authorised the collection of their information for this purpose (please refer to the section below on "Information about other people").
Store and Security
Storage of Personal Information
Personal Information that we collect is either held by us at our head office (refer to the contact us section below) or on our behalf. For example, some information we hold will be stored in "the cloud" in secure databases on our behalf by third parties based overseas. The use of these services, and the transfer of information overseas (if applicable) will not relieve us of our obligations under the privacy acts and this privacy statement.
Security
Security of your personal information is very important to us. We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to protect personal information that we hold. However, due to the inherent nature of the internet, we are not able to guarantee the security of any information that we hold or that you transmit to us.
Access to and Correction of Personal Information
Under the privacy ccts, you have the right to access and request correction of any personal information that we hold about you. Please refer to the contact us section below.
We rely on you to update us if your personal information changes.
General
Information About Other People
If you provide us with, or authorise us to collect, personal Information about another person (such as a guarantor), you confirm that they have authorised you to provide us, or authorised us to collect, their personal information in accordance with this privacy statement and that you have informed them of their rights to access and request correction of their personal information, as set out below.
Other Websites
Our Website may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy statement. If you access other websites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website.
Contact Us
If you have any queries about this privacy statement, would like to access or correct your personal information, or if you have a question or complaint about how we handle your personal information, please email our privacy officer at the details provided below
If you are making a complaint, we may request additional details from you and may need to engage or consult with other parties in order to investigate and deal with your complaint. We will investigate your queries and privacy complaints within a reasonable period of time, depending on the difficulty of your complaint. We will notify you of the outcome of the investigation.
This Privacy Statement was last updated on 1 Sep 2022.
China
Physical Address:
CHINA FOREST PRODUCTS SUPPLY CO., LTD.
Head Office: 8 floor, Zhongyu Center Pizhou City Jiangsu Province China 221300
Phone: +86 19352898999
Email: info@forest.cn
Compliance & Customer Commitment
As a leader in the China timber industry we take our corporate responsibility seriously and respect our commitment to customers to get it right. This means that product compliance is a cornerstone of our business.
Independent third parties regularly monitor and audit our production facilities. These third parties verify that our claimed structural properties are being met; that products are effectively treated; and that our plants comply with best-practice guidelines.
If you have a concern about any of our products please contact us here.
Internal controls and testing regimes often exceed the industry minimum requirements, and in conjunction with the third-party verification schemes, our systems and procedures can consistently deliver to customers, products that meet or exceed the industry standards.
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If you are interested in any of our products or would like to discuss a customized order, Please feel free to contact us.
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