Privacy Policy

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Introduction

At DispatchMe, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit our website or use our services.

About DispatchMe

DispatchMe is a roadside assistance, towing, delivery, and dispatch management platform used by organisations including clients, vendors, service providers, contractors, drivers, and other authorised users.

Personal information may be collected directly from users or provided to DispatchMe by an organisation using the platform to create, dispatch, manage, verify, support, or complete a job.

Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal information, including:

  • Identity Information includes first name, last name, username, company name, role, or similar identifiers.
  • Contact Information includes billing address, service address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Information includes IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, platform, and other technology on devices used to access our website, portal, dashboard, or apps.
  • Usage Information includes information about how users interact with our website, products, services, portals, dashboards, and apps.
  • Communications Information includes communication preferences, support requests, notifications, and records of communications with us or through the platform.
  • Device Information includes information about devices used to access our apps, including model, operating system, app version, and mobile network information.
  • Location Information includes service locations, destination locations, driver location data, and other location information required to provide, dispatch, track, verify, audit, or support a job or service.
  • Job Evidence includes images, notes, forms, signatures, attachments, uploaded files, job status updates, timestamps, and other job-related records provided through the platform.

How We Use Your Information

We use personal information where reasonably necessary to operate DispatchMe and provide our services, including:

  • To create, dispatch, manage, track, support, verify, and complete roadside assistance, towing, delivery, and related jobs.
  • To communicate with users, including sending job updates, service alerts, operational notifications, and support responses.
  • To provide access to portals, dashboards, mobile apps, and other DispatchMe services.
  • To maintain operational records for audit, dispute resolution, quality assurance, contractual compliance, safety, and support purposes.
  • To protect the security, integrity, and availability of DispatchMe and prevent unauthorised access, misuse, or fraud.
  • To comply with legal, regulatory, contractual, insurance, accounting, and record-keeping obligations.

Location Information

DispatchMe may process location information for customers, jobs, vendors, service providers, and drivers. This may include service locations, destination locations, and live or recent driver location data where required for dispatch, tracking, safety, verification, operational support, audit, or service delivery purposes.

Driver location information is used to support job dispatching and visibility while drivers are using DispatchMe for operational purposes. Customer service and destination locations may form part of the operational job record.

Images, Attachments and Job Evidence

Some jobs may include images, notes, forms, signatures, attachments, uploaded files, or other job evidence. This information is used for job completion, verification, quality assurance, dispute resolution, audit, contractual compliance, and operational support.

Sharing of Information

We may share personal information where necessary to provide our services, including with clients, vendors, service providers, contractors, drivers, and authorised users involved in creating, dispatching, managing, supporting, or completing a job.

We may also share personal information with trusted service providers who assist us with hosting, storage, communications, analytics, monitoring, payments, security, support, or other platform operations.

DispatchMe does not sell personal information. We do not use operational job records to create unrelated customer marketing profiles, and we do not sell or share personal information with third-party advertisers or ad networks.

Payments

Where payments are processed through DispatchMe, payment transactions may be handled by third-party payment providers. DispatchMe does not intentionally store full payment card numbers or complete card credentials.

Overseas Service Providers

DispatchMe may use trusted service providers to host, store, process, monitor, or support the platform. Some service providers may process information outside Australia. Where this occurs, DispatchMe takes reasonable steps to ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are in place.

Data Security

We use appropriate security measures to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure.

DispatchMe uses organisational access controls so that users can only access job records and information associated with the organisations, vendors, clients, or roles they are authorised to access.

We limit access to personal information to employees, agents, contractors, service providers, and authorised users who have a business or operational need to know.

Data Retention

DispatchMe retains personal information only for as long as necessary to provide its services, comply with contractual and legal obligations, resolve disputes, and maintain appropriate business records.

DispatchMe primarily stores operational job records rather than long-term customer profiles. Personal information collected is limited to that required to facilitate the requested service, such as contact details, service locations, timestamps, communications, job history, job evidence, and job-related information.

Operational records are generally retained for up to seven (7) years from completion of the associated service unless a different retention period is required by law or contract.

Archived and backup data is encrypted and maintained on a controlled rolling retention schedule for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes.

Your Legal Rights

Subject to applicable laws, you may have rights in relation to your personal information, including the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
  • Raise a privacy concern or complaint.
  • Withdraw consent where consent is relied upon.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section.

Cookies

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify users by posting a notice on our website or app, or by other means as appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@dispatchme.net.au.