We take your privacy and protection of personal data very seriously
This Policy was last updated on 15 September 2025.
Welcome to Ignition! We hope you will enjoy visiting or using the website at https://www.ignitionapp.com or any subdomain thereof (the “Website”), or using or purchasing a subscription to our services (“Subscription” and “Services” respectively). The Website includes the Portal, as defined in our Terms of Use.
We want you to know that we take your privacy and protection of personal data very seriously. We are providing this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to tell you about who we are, what personal data we collect from you and about you, and what we do with your personal data, all while you visit the Website, use the Services or otherwise interact with us. The Policy also explains your privacy and data rights under various privacy laws, how you can contact us and which authorities enforce your rights.
We ask that you please read this Policy carefully, together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting and processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
References to “you” or “your” are to you as an individual using our Website and Services or otherwise contacting us (whether on behalf of yourself, or another individual, or organization).
Before we get started with the details, here are a few important terms we think you should know as you read this Policy.
“Data Protection Laws” refers to the laws that are designed to protect your personal data and privacy in the place where you live. These include: (1) the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (as amended, the “AU Privacy Act”); (2) the “GDPR”, the European data protection law which stands for “General Data Protection Regulation”, with the official name Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council; (3) “PIPEDA” (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act), which is the Canadian Data Protection Law that applies to our commercial activities in Canada; (4) the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which applies to our activities in the United States in certain circumstances; (5) South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPIA”) which applies to processing of personal data we do within the Republic of South Africa; (6) the “UK GDPR”, the United Kingdom’s retained version of the GDPR, which applies to our activities in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018; (7) the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) which also applies to our activities in the United Kingdom; and (8) the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 (as amended, the “NZ Privacy Act”). Please note that when this Policy refers only to the “GDPR”, this includes the UK GDPR as applicable. Ignition is committed to adhering to these Data Protection Laws, and any other applicable Data Protection Laws.
“Personal data” – under the GDPR, personal data is information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It can be as simple as your name or your email, or something more complicated like an online identifier (usually a string of letters and / or numbers) that gets attached to you. Personal data does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). Under the AU Privacy Act, NZ Privacy Act, PIPEDA, POPIA and the CCPA the equivalent concept is “personal information”, which is roughly the same. Any mention of “personal data” in this Policy shall also mean personal information.
Other terms and definitions used in this Policy may be found in our Terms of Use, and will have the same meaning in this Policy as they do there.
Ignition is made up of Practice Ignition Pty Ltd ACN 153 623 931, a proprietary limited company headquartered in Sydney (Surry Hills) Australia, together with its subsidiaries:
which together form the Practice Ignition Group.
This Policy is issued on behalf of the Practice Ignition Group so when we mention “Ignition”, “we”, “us”, or “our”, we are referring to the relevant company in the Practice Ignition Group responsible for processing your data. We will let you know which entity will be the controller for your data when you purchase a product or service with us.
Practice Ignition Pty Ltd is the controller and is responsible for this Website. Under the GDPR, Ignition is a “data controller”, and under POPIA Ignition is a “responsible party”. Either term means we determine the purpose and means of “processing” your personal data. “Processing” is a broad term that includes collection, use, storage, transfer or any other action related to your personal data; it is used in this Policy in that way.
We are the controller for your personal data, except where we process your personal data because you use our Services as a result of your relationship with a customer who we supply our Services to (for example, if you use our Services as a result of your being our customer’s employee or client).
Where we process your personal data because you use our Services as a result of your relationship with a customer who we supply our Services to, we are not the data controller as we would be processing personal data on behalf of our customer as a data processor on their instructions. In such cases, the privacy policy that you should be referring to for details about how they handle your information would be our customer’s privacy policy. Our customer’s privacy policy should inform you as to how your personal data will be processed.
Ignition is registered as a data controller in England and Wales with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold data protection rights. Our ICO registration number is ZA157905.
If you want to ask us anything about what’s in this Policy, or anything else privacy- or data- related, or exercise any of your available privacy rights, you can email:
Ignition Privacy Officer
privacy@ignitionapp.com
Here is the mailing address for you as well:
Ignition Privacy Officer
Level 7, 54-66 Wentworth Ave
Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia
In relation to our UK activities specifically, we have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Policy. Our data privacy manager is Jack Farrant contactable at jack@ignitionapp.com | +447 9432 91993.
If you have questions about the Website or Services themselves, please email support@ignitionapp.com.
Depending on the Data Protection Laws applicable in your location, including the GDPR where relevant, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal data. Specifically, under the GDPR, individuals subject to those laws have the following rights to:
You may also have other rights regarding your personal data, depending on the Data Protection Laws that apply in your location. For example:
These rights may be exercised without affecting the price you pay for any of the Services. Notwithstanding that, exercising certain of these rights may affect your ability to use some or all of the Services.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
In relation to our UK activities, you also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the ICO. Please refer to the ‘Supervisory authorities and complaints’ section below for further information. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
No fee is usually required to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or manifestly excessive.
We may need to request specific information to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally, it could take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
If you are in the Republic of South Africa, then we are processing such information received from third parties as an Operator and not as a Responsible Party (as those terms are defined in POPIA). As Operators, we are obliged under POPIA to process such information only with the knowledge or authorization of the Responsible Party (being the User who uploaded the personal data), and must not disclose it unless required by law or in the course of the proper performance of our duties. We also undertake to maintain and establish the security measures referred to in section 19 of POPIA when processing such information and to notify the User immediately where there are reasonable grounds to believe that the personal data of a data subject has been accessed or acquired by any unauthorized person.
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Under the GDPR, we will most commonly use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Under the GDPR, we generally do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data, although we will get your consent before sending direct marketing communication to you. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
In the table below, we have set out a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so under the GDPR and POPIA. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
We may process your personal data for more than one legal basis, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out below.
PURPOSE OF USE / DISCLOSURE | PERSONAL DATA CATEGORIES | LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING UNDER THE GDPR AND POPIA |
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To process and deliver your order including:
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Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested or withdraw your consent to us processing your personal data (where applicable), we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Please note that Financial Data collected and processed for billing and payment purposes is never stored on any servers or other equipment controlled by Ignition. While such data is collected through the Services, it is stored on servers and other equipment managed by the Payment Processors and Payment Facilitators, as described further in the ‘Who we transfer your personal data to’ section below.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason on the basis of legitimate interests and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
We may also collect, use and share anonymized data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose (as long as it is not possible to identify individuals). Anonymized data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under the UK and/or EU data protection regime (as applicable), so long as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may anonymize and aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect anonymized data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Policy.
We do not collect any of what the GDPR considers Special Categories of Personal Data, which includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data. Under the POPIA, such data is known as “special personal information”, and under the AU Privacy Act, such data is known as “sensitive information”.
We also do not ask you for any information about criminal convictions and offences.
You may choose to voluntarily provide us with Special Categories of Personal Data through your interactions with us, but we strongly encourage you not to do so.
For the purposes set out in the ‘How we use your personal data’ section above, we may share some of your personal data with certain third parties as set out below.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with applicable laws. We ensure that we have appropriate data processing agreements in place with our third-party service providers where legally required to, which only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We do not sell or rent your personal data to any third-party for direct marketing purposes or any other purpose.
The table below identifies the third parties we may share your personal data with, and what they do with the personal data.
WHO WE TRANSFER IT TO | PERSONAL DATA CATEGORY | EXAMPLES OF WHAT THEY DO WITH IT |
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We share your personal data within the Practice Ignition Group. This may involve transferring your data outside the EEA, UK or the country where you live.
Some of our external third parties are also based in many countries so their processing of your personal data may also involve a transfer and/or storage of personal data worldwide.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK and/or EEA (as applicable), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
The following safeguards are applicable to transfer of your personal data to the following limited countries:
We may send you marketing communications by email, telephone, SMS or mail. Under the GDPR, we are required to obtain your prior consent to do this (in almost all circumstances). However, we always strive to provide you with choices regarding marketing and advertising in any jurisdiction.
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant to you (we call this marketing).
You may receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. You can always ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us.
All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Ignition is continuously evaluating and modifying our use of various advertising networks, which may change from time to time. In this section you will find all the advertising networks that Ignition currently uses and instructions for opting out of them. If we do additional advertising in the future, this section will be updated.
We use the following advertising networks from time to time:
Please also see our Cookie Policy for further information relating to the use of cookies in advertising.
As described in the above sections, you can always ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing communications.
Where you opt out of receiving marketing messages, you may still receive transactional messages relating to products or services you purchase from us, or other transactional messaging necessary for the use of the Services. If you choose to object to the communications, unsubscribe or withdraw your consent, this will not make our processing of your personal data before you withdrew your consent unlawful.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies (except necessary cookies). If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies and other similar technologies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
As previously set out in this Policy, we automatically collect personal data, such as Technical Data and Usage Data, using service providers such as HubSpot, Google Analytics, Segment and Snowflake (“Third-Party Analytics Programs”) to help us better understand your needs and the needs of Website visitors and Services Users in the aggregate. We also process such data for statistical purposes to keep track of the number of visits to the Website, the specific pages of the Website, and Users with a view to introducing improvements to the Website and Services.
The Technical Data collected using these Third-Party Analytics Programs may also be used to trace any fraudulent or criminal activity, or any activity in violation of our Terms of Use.
Ignition uses HubSpot to manage our mailing list and send out our newsletter, and Postmark to send out emails related to various Services functions (HubSpot and Postmark, collectively the “Email Service Providers”). Personal data is transferred to the Email Service Providers in order to manage the mailing list and for the emails to be sent out properly. As described in the ‘Who we transfer your personal data to’ section above, Email Service Providers will only use your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
You may unsubscribe from Ignition’s mailing list at any time, by following the link at the bottom of all Ignition emails. Other types of emails, such as transactional, relational, and other emails related to certain Services functions will not have an opt-out option as they are necessary for the use of the Services.
Ignition’s practices in regard to its email are designed to be compliant with anti-spam laws, including Australia’s Spam Act 2003, New Zealand’s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007, the American CAN-SPAM Act, and the law unofficially called “CASL”, or Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (S.C. 2010, c. 23). If you believe you have received email in violation of these laws or any other anti-spam law, please contact us using the contact information further up in this Policy.
This Website may send you email notifications via Chatbot and/or HubSpot, to achieve the purposes outlined in this Policy.
You may opt-out of receiving email notifications by visiting your device settings.
We have implemented very strict technical and organizational procedures for ensuring that, by default, only the personal data which is necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed by us. These procedures prevent your personal data from being lost; or used or accessed in any unauthorized way.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable supervisory authority of a suspected data security breach where the Data Protection Laws requires us to do so, and within the time frame required by the applicable Data Protection Law.
Ignition uses only industry best practices (physical, electronic and procedural) in keeping any data collected (including personal data) secure. In addition, we use third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to operate the Website and Services, and these third parties have been selected for their high standards of security, both electronic and physical. For example, Ignition uses Amazon AWS, a recognized leader in secure data, for hosting of the Website and Services and related data, and storage of data including personal data.
All information, including personal data, is transferred with encryption using Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) or Transport Layer Security (“TLS”), robust security standards for internet data transfer and transactions. You can use your browser to check Ignition’s valid SSL security certificates on the Website.
Ignition uses Stripe for processing of secured credit card payments for payments of Subscription Fees and Professional Services Fees made through the Services. Stripe is certified as a PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) Service Provider Level 1, the highest-volume level for credit card transaction companies.
For more details about how we protect your personal data, please visit our dedicated security page.
Under the UK and/or EU data protection regime (as applicable), you have the right to make a complaint to the appropriate supervisory authority. If you are not satisfied with the response received or the actions taken by our Privacy Officer, or if you would like to make a complaint directly about Ignition’s data practices, we invite you to contact the supervisory authority in your country.
For example, if you are in the UK, you should contact the ICO. You can reach them in a variety of ways, including by phone (0303 123 1113 in the UK) and mail (Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF).
If you are in France, you should contact the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés who is the supervisory authority there. Their contact information can be found here.
The full listing of all Data Protection Authorities (the supervisory authorities) across the EEA can be found here.
If you are in Australia, you can make a complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner here. If you are in Canada, you can make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner here. If you are in the Republic of South Africa, you have the right under POPIA to make a complaint to the Information Regulator (South Africa), whose contact information can be found here.
If you are in New Zealand, and you feel that we may have breached our obligations to you under the NZ Privacy Act, please contact the Privacy Officer in writing at the details set out above and we will work with you to resolve the issue. If you are not satisfied with the actions taken by the Privacy Officer, you can make a complaint to the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner here.
Your personal data will only be kept for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
To ensure compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, tax, KYC, accounting or other regulatory obligations, we are required to retain certain personal and business information—including records related to business verification and transactions—even if your account becomes inactive, suspended, or closed. This information will be kept on file for a minimum of seven (7) years to comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. Please see the section on ‘Your legal rights’ above for further information.
In some circumstances we will anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Automated decisions are made by technological means, mostly based on algorithms subject to predefined criteria. Such automated decision-making is taken solely by technological means without any human intervention. Our automated decision-making processes do not have legal effects or similarly significant effects on you, nor do they significantly affect an individual’s rights or interests. Our services do not impact contractual rights, legislative benefits, or access to essential services. These decisions do not create, alter, or deny any rights or entitlements. As such, they do not reach the threshold of significantly affecting individuals, and we do not provide additional disclosures related to automated decision-making.
We may, from time to time, use automated decision-making in deciding what types of promotions to offer you. Our rationale for making automated decisions is so that we can deliver our Services to you efficiently, to enable or otherwise improve our decision-making process, and to reduce the potential harm derived from human error and/or personal bias.
Please contact us if you want to find out more about our making of automated decisions.
The date at the top of this page indicates when this Policy was last updated. Every now and then, we will have to update this Policy, and we will update it no less than once every 12 months. You can always find the most updated version at this URL, and we will always post a notice on the Website and Services if we make significant changes. If you have an account, we will also email you to tell you the Policy has been updated, and what the important changes are.
Historic versions of this Policy can be obtained by contacting us.
We reserve the right to make amendments to this Policy at any time.
Unless otherwise provided in this Policy, it is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
The Website and Services are not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect any personal data from a child under 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal data from a person under the age of 18 through the Services, we will delete such information from our records.
This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on third-party links or enabling third-party connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.