Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 2026

Business Direct Sales ("BDS", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when using our platform.

BDS is an online platform that helps business owners and prospective buyers connect, communicate, and manage business sale enquiries. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how it may be shared, and how you can contact us about your information.

Information We Collect

We may collect personal information and platform information when you create an account, use our services, submit a listing, make an enquiry, upload content, or communicate through the platform.

This information may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Account details
• Business listing information
• Enquiry information
• Messages sent through the platform
• Uploaded documents
• Uploaded photos
• Uploaded videos
• Device and browser information
• IP address
• Cookies, analytics, and usage data

Facebook Login Information

If you choose to sign in using Facebook Login, we may receive information from Facebook that is required to create or access your BDS account.

This may include:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your profile picture, if requested and provided by Facebook

We use this information to create your account, authenticate you, and provide a smoother sign-in experience.

How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Authenticate users and manage sign-in
• Operate and maintain the BDS platform
• Create, manage, and display business listings
• Facilitate enquiries between business owners and prospective buyers
• Facilitate platform messaging
• Send account, listing, enquiry, and platform notifications
• Provide support and respond to requests
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and security
• Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, misuse, or unauthorised activity
• Maintain auditability, traceability, and platform records
• Comply with legal, regulatory, or operational obligations

Sharing Your Information

We may share information with trusted service providers where required to operate, secure, maintain, or improve the platform.

These service providers may include:

• Hosting providers
• Cloud storage providers
• Email providers
• Analytics providers
• Authentication providers
• Monitoring and security providers
• Payment or subscription providers, if payment features are used in the future

We do not sell personal information. We only share information where reasonably necessary for platform operation, legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, support, or service delivery.

Cookies and Analytics

BDS may use cookies, analytics tools, logging, and performance monitoring technologies to understand how the platform is used, improve reliability, maintain security, and diagnose technical issues.

You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Some platform features may not work correctly if cookies are disabled.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Certain information may be retained for legal, audit, fraud-prevention, security, dispute-resolution, operational, backup, and compliance purposes.

Because BDS includes platform messaging, listings, uploads, logs, backups, and audit records, deletion of information may not always be immediate or complete in all systems at the same time.

Account Deletion and Data Requests

You may request deletion of your account and associated personal information by contacting us at:

support@businessdirectsales.com.au

We may need to verify your account ownership before processing a request.

Deletion requests will be processed in accordance with applicable legal obligations. Certain information may be retained where reasonably required for legal, audit, fraud-prevention, security, dispute-resolution, backup, or compliance purposes.

Security

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

However, no online platform, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Third-Party Services

BDS may integrate with third-party services such as authentication providers, hosting providers, email providers, analytics providers, storage providers, and future payment providers.

Your use of third-party services may also be subject to their own privacy policies and terms.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or account deletion, please contact us at:

support@businessdirectsales.com.au