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Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information

Who We Are

MichelONE at Home Pty Ltd (ABN 98 651 267 373), trading as Michelone at Home, is a private chef and catering business operating across Sydney and NSW, Australia.

This policy explains how we handle your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).

Business: MichelONE at Home Pty Ltd
Privacy contact: privacy@micheloneathome.com
Phone: +61 422 252 948
Postal address: 141-143 McEvoy St, Alexandria, NSW 2015

Dealing With Us Anonymously

You can browse our website without telling us who you are, and you're welcome to make a general enquiry by phone without giving your full name. However, we can't quote for, plan, or deliver an event without your contact details and the information needed to cook for you safely.

What Information We Collect

When you submit an enquiry or make a booking, we collect:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Event details — type of event, number of guests, preferred date, venue or address
  • Any additional information you choose to include in your message

When you proceed to a booking, we may also collect:

  • The event address and access details
  • Guest dietary requirements, food allergies and intolerances
  • Payment and invoicing details for your booking (we do not take card payments online)

Automatically, when you browse our website:

  • Technical and usage data collected through cookies and tracking technologies — see "Cookies & Tracking" below

Sensitive Information — Dietary Requirements and Allergies

Food allergies, intolerances and medical dietary requirements are health information, and dietary requirements based on religious observance relate to religious beliefs. Both are "sensitive information" under the Privacy Act and receive additional protection.

  • We collect this information only with your consent, and only where you or your event host chooses to provide it.
  • We use it for one purpose only: planning your menu and preparing your food safely.
  • We share it only with the chefs and kitchen staff preparing your event, and only to the extent they need it to cook safely.
  • We do not use it for marketing, and we do not disclose it to any of the third-party services listed below.
  • You can ask us to delete it once your event has taken place.

If you are providing dietary information about your guests rather than yourself, please make sure they're comfortable with you sharing it with us.

How We Collect Your Information

We collect personal information directly from you — when you complete a contact or enquiry form on our website, email us, phone us, or discuss your event with us. We only collect information you voluntarily provide.

Where you provide information about other people (for example, guest dietary requirements), we collect it from you rather than from them.

Technical data is collected automatically through cookies and tracking scripts when you browse our website, subject to your cookie choices.

Why We Collect Your Information

We use your personal information to:

  • Respond to your enquiry — Chef Michele or our team will contact you to discuss your event and design a personalised menu
  • Provide our services — managing bookings, coordinating event details, catering your event, invoicing and payment
  • Meet our legal obligations — including food safety, tax and business record-keeping requirements
  • Improve our website — understanding how visitors use our site so we can make it better
  • Measure advertising performance — understanding whether our advertising reaches the right people and leads to genuine enquiries
  • Send you occasional marketing — only where you have opted in, and always with an easy way to opt out

We collect this information because it is reasonably necessary for our business functions and activities. We do not use your information for any purpose unrelated to those above without telling you first.

Who Has Access to Your Information

Within our business: Chef Michele, and the authorised staff and contract chefs who manage enquiries, plan menus, and deliver your event.

Our marketing agency: We engage a third-party marketing and web agency to manage our website, advertising campaigns, analytics and enquiry routing on our behalf. In the course of that work they may access enquiry records — including your name and contact details — in order to measure and improve campaign performance and to keep our systems working. They are bound by a written agreement that requires them to keep your information confidential, use it only for the purposes described in this policy, and not to use it for their own marketing or disclose it to anyone else.

Third-party services we use:

ServicePurposeData location
NetlifyWebsite hosting and form deliveryUnited States
FormspreeDelivers your enquiry from our website and routes it to our CRMUnited States
Make (Integromat)Workflow automation — routes your enquiry from our website to our CRM and other toolsEuropean Union
PipedriveCustomer relationship management — stores and manages your enquiry so we can respond, quote and follow upEuropean Union
CloseCustomer relationship management — stores and manages your enquiry so we can respond, quote and follow upUnited States
Google Analytics 4Website analytics — page views, user behaviour, traffic sourcesUnited States
Google AdsConversion tracking — measures whether ads lead to enquiriesUnited States
Meta (Facebook/Instagram)Conversion tracking and remarketingUnited States
Google Tag ManagerManages tracking scripts on the websiteUnited States
LinkedIn AdsAdvertisingUnited States
Google WorkspaceBusiness email (receiving and replying to your enquiry)United States
SiteGroundDomain and DNS hostingEuropean Union / United States

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to anyone. The services above process your data only for the purposes described, under their own privacy policies and our agreements with them.

We may also disclose your information where we are required or authorised to do so by law.

Cross-Border Disclosure (APP 8)

Some of our service providers are located overseas, principally in the United States (Netlify, Formspree, Close, Google, Meta) and the European Union (Pipedrive, Make).

Before disclosing your personal information to an overseas recipient, we take reasonable steps to ensure they handle it consistently with the Australian Privacy Principles — including by selecting established providers with published privacy commitments and by entering into their data processing terms.

We remain accountable under the Privacy Act for how these overseas providers handle your information. If you have a concern about an overseas disclosure, contact us using the details above and we will deal with it.

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. When you first visit you'll see a cookie banner, and you can change your choice at any time using the "Manage cookies" link in the footer.

Australian law does not require us to obtain your consent for cookies. We offer the choice anyway, and we explain honestly below what it does and does not change.

Loaded on every visit, regardless of your choice:

  • Essential cookies that keep the site working and remember your cookie preference.
  • Google Tag Manager — loads and manages the scripts below. GTM does not itself collect personal information.
  • Meta Pixel — records page views and form submissions, and enables remarketing (showing you our ads on Facebook and Instagram after you have visited our site). It runs for all visitors, not only people who arrived from a Facebook or Instagram ad, and it sets an identifier cookie (_fbp) on your device when the page loads. It does not send your name, email address or phone number to Meta.
  • A Google Analytics session identifier may also be set when the page loads.

Enabled only after you accept:

  • Google Analytics 4 — measures how the site is used: pages visited, time on site, traffic source. GA4 identifies your browser by a randomly generated identifier rather than by your name or email. That identifier is pseudonymous, not anonymous: it can tell your browser apart from someone else's.
  • Google Ads conversion tracking — records that a form submission followed a click on one of our ads. It records that a conversion happened. It does not send your name, email address or phone number to Google.

What your choice actually changes. If you decline, or before you choose, Google's tags do not collect analytics or advertising data about you and do not personalise advertising. They may still send anonymous, aggregated signals, for example that a page was viewed, with no identifiers attached. These are used only for statistical estimates of overall traffic and cannot identify you. This is implemented using Google Consent Mode v2. Accepting enables full measurement with cookies.

The Meta Pixel is not affected by the banner. If you would prefer it not to run, you can block it through your browser's cookie settings, by using a tracking blocker, or through the Facebook Ad Preferences link below.

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings, and opt out of personalised advertising through:

  • Google Ads Settings
  • Facebook Ad Preferences
  • Your Online Choices (Australia)

Direct Marketing

We may occasionally email you about seasonal menus, availability or offers — but only if you have opted in, or you are an existing customer and the message relates to services similar to those we've provided you.

Every marketing message includes a working unsubscribe link, and we act on unsubscribe requests promptly. You can also opt out at any time by emailing us. We comply with the Spam Act 2003 (Cth).

Enquiring about an event does not automatically sign you up to marketing.

How We Hold and Protect Your Information

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure:

  • Your information is transmitted over encrypted (HTTPS) connections
  • It is stored in established third-party systems that encrypt data at rest
  • Access is limited to Chef Michele, authorised staff, and our marketing agency, each only to the extent needed to do their job
  • Accounts holding customer data are protected by strong passwords and, where available, two-factor authentication
  • We select service providers with published security practices and review them periodically

No system is completely secure. If a data breach occurs that is likely to result in serious harm, we will respond in line with the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, including notifying you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner where required.

Data Retention

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it:

  • Enquiries that don't lead to a booking — up to 24 months from your last contact with us, then deleted
  • Booking and customer records — 7 years after the event, to meet tax and business record-keeping obligations
  • Dietary and allergy information — deleted within 12 months of your event, or sooner on request
  • Marketing subscribers — until you unsubscribe, plus a minimal record of your unsubscribe so we don't contact you again
  • Analytics data — according to the retention periods set in Google Analytics and Meta (typically 14–26 months)

When we no longer need your information and are not required to keep it, we delete it or de-identify it.

Your Rights

Under the Privacy Act, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal information — request a copy of what we hold about you
  • Correct your information — ask us to update or fix anything inaccurate, out of date or incomplete
  • Opt out of marketing — at any time, with no effect on the service we provide you
  • Complain — if you think we've mishandled your information

We will also delete your personal information on request where we are not required by law to keep it.

There is no fee to access or correct your information. We will respond within 30 days. If we can't give you access or make a correction, we'll tell you why in writing.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@micheloneathome.com.

Complaints

If you believe we have mishandled your personal information, please tell us first — we'd like the chance to put it right.

  • Email privacy@micheloneathome.com with the details of your concern.
  • We will acknowledge your complaint within 7 days.
  • We will investigate and respond within 30 days. If we need longer, we'll tell you why and when to expect an answer.

If you're not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC):

  • Website: oaic.gov.au
  • Phone: 1300 363 992

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or in the law. The current version is always available on this page, and we'll note the date it was last updated below.

Last updated: September 2026

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