Privacy Policy

The Silent Rave is committed to protecting any personal information we collect.  We will always comply fully with the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (the Act), as they apply to us. We will only collect, use or disclose personal information in accordance with the Act and this privacy policy.

This privacy policy covers all “personal information” we hold, that is, information, or an opinion, about an individual, whose identity is apparent, or can be reasonably ascertained, from that information or opinion.

Last updated: 18/04/2024

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, or the content or practices of our website, you can contact us at info@silentrave.com.au

This Privacy Policy describes how The Silent Rave (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from www.silentrave.com.au (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us (collectively, the "Services"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use or access any of the Services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect and have collected over the past 12 months personal information about you from a variety of sources, as set out below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses set out below, we may use information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information", we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

When you place an order with us, we will ask you for the following personal information:

  • your name, date of birth, beer and communication preferences, email, billing address, delivery address and any special delivery instructions, phone number.

This information is provided to our delivery agents so we can send you your order.  We collect date of birth details to verify that you are over 18 years and send you birthday offers. We have some integrated platforms on our website; EventBrite for events and Shopify for purchasing products from us. You are covered by EventBrites and Shopify’s privacy policy’s in these instances.

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information that you directly submit to us through our Services may include:

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email.
  • Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, phone number.
  • Account information including your username, password, security questions.
  • Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart or add to your wishlist.
  • Customer support information including the information you choose to include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services.

Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide us with certain information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.

Information We Collect through Cookies

We also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services ("Usage Data"). To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies ("Cookies"). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address and other information regarding your interaction with the Services.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including from vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:

  • Companies who support our Site and Services, such as Shopify.
  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information (e.g., bank account, credit or debit card information, billing address) to process your payment in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with products or services you have requested, in order to perform our contract with you.
  • When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we, or third parties we work with, may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.

Any information we obtain from third parties will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible or liable for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party's policies or practices. For more information, see the section below, Third Party Websites and Links.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We will only collect information that is necessary for one or more of our functions or activities.

  • Providing Products and Services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to perform our contract with you, including to process your payments, fulfill your orders, to send notifications to you related to you account, purchases, returns, exchanges or other transactions, to create, maintain and otherwise manage your account, to arrange for shipping, facilitate any returns and exchanges and to enable you to post reviews.
  • Marketing and Advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send marketing, advertising and promotional communications by email, text message or postal mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better tailor the Services and advertising on our Site and other websites.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate or take action regarding possible fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We highly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
  • Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interests in order to be responsive to you, to provide effective services to you, and to maintain our business relationship with you.

Cookies

Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site. For specific information about the Cookies that we use related to powering our store with Shopify, see https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use Cookies to power and improve our Site and our Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to run analytics and better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interests to administer, improve and optimize the Services). We may also permit third parties and services providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor the services, products and advertising on our Site and other websites.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to set your browser to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some of the Services, including certain features and general functionality, to work incorrectly or no longer be available. Additionally, blocking Cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners.

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:

  • With vendors or other third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
  • With business and marketing partners, including Shopify, to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices.
  • When you direct, request us or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship you products or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations, with your consent.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including to respond to subpoenas, search warrants and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

We have, in the past 12 months disclosed the following categories of personal information and sensitive personal information (denoted by *) about users for the purposes set out above in "How we Collect and Use your Personal Information" and "How we Disclose Personal Information":

Category Categories of Recipients
  • Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information
  • Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information
  • Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
  • Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as Internet service providers, payment processors, fulfillment partners, customer support partners and data analytics providers)
  • Business and marketing partners
  • Affiliates

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about you.

User Generated Content

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user generated content to any public area of the Services, this content will be public and accessible by anyone.

We do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make available to others, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information that you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you disclose or receive from third parties.

Third Party Websites and Links

Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on these sites. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children’s Data

The Services are not intended to be used by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information about children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out below to request that it be deleted.

As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” In addition, any information you send to us may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, to provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Right to Access / Know. You may have a right to request access to personal information that we hold about you, including details relating to the ways in which we use and share your information.
  • Right to Delete. You may have a right to request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right to Correct. You may have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
  • Right of Portability. You may have a right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
  • Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent.
  • Appeal: You may have a right to appeal our decision if we decline to process your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
  • Managing Communication Preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you may opt out of receiving these at any time by using the unsubscribe option displayed in our emails to you. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or orders that you have made.

You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Site or by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before providing a substantive response to the request. In accordance with applicable laws, You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required under applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using the contact details set out below, or lodge your complaint with your local data protection authority.

International Users

Please note that we may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including Australia and the United States. Your personal information is also processed by staff and third party service providers and partners in these countries.

If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, or any equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority of the UK, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Contact

Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of the rights available to you, please call 0435378224 or email us at info@silentrave.com.au or contact us at 680 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.

The Silent Rave is committed to protecting any personal information we collect.  We will always comply fully with the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (the Act), as they apply to us. We will only collect, use or disclose personal information in accordance with the Act and this privacy policy.

This privacy policy covers all “personal information” we hold, that is, information, or an opinion, about an individual, whose identity is apparent, or can be reasonably ascertained, from that information or opinion.

Access to records

You can request not to receive a particular type of communication from us[, or you can withdraw from our mail and order database altogether at any time]. Please use the contact information above if you wish to do this.

We are also happy to provide you with details of all your personal records at your request.  There are certain exemptions that may apply to the provision of that information. We may charge an administration fee for granting access to information.

To contact us regarding your personal information, please use one of the methods above. We will ask you to confirm your identity before providing your information.

Personal information will be managed confidentially and securely and destroyed appropriately when no longer required.

Website security

Our goal is to protect the security of the personal information we collect. All communications through our website occur in a secure environment using the latest technology.

We will also monitor and implement appropriate technical advances or management processes in order to safeguard your personal information.

We use ‘cookies’ (a small amount of information sent from our server to your computer) to enhance the performance of the website.  These are mostly ‘session-based’, and do not stay on your computer permanently, although they can be used to retrieve certain information you previously provided to us, so that you do not need to re-enter this information every time you use our website.

We track our customers movement around the website for our own website research and improvement purposes only. No other personal details are collected from this research. This is not used to create customer profiles. 

Other Websites

Where our website contains links to other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Silent Disco?

A Silent Disco, also known as a Silent Rave, is an event where participants dance to music using wireless headphones instead of a traditional speaker system. Each person wears a pair of headphones, and can choose between multiple channels, each offering a different genre or playlist.

How does a Silent Rave work?

Participants receive wireless headphones that connect to transmitters broadcasting the music. You can switch between channels to find the music that suits you best.

What are the unique benefits of a Silent Disco?

Silent Discos offer noise control, personalized music experiences, enhanced social interaction, and are generally healthier for your ears. The Silent Rave have created unique activities that can be done with the equipment.

How long do the headphones last on a single charge?

Our headphones are rechargeable and typically last around 9 hours on a full charge.

How far is the range of the system?

Our transmitters have a range of up to 800 metres.

Can I rent the equipment for multiple days?

Yes, we offer daytime, overnight as well as multi-day rentals and include chargers at varying rates.

How does the music work?

We provide three transmitters and Aux cables which simply plug into the headphone jack of any device, such as a DJ deck, laptop, iPad/tablet, phone, iPod, etc. You provide the music devices! Please note, if you have a new iPad or iPhone without a headphone port, you will need to have your own Apple Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter to plug into your phone, to enable connection to our Aux cable. While we often have these in our kit, we canot gurantee it will work with your device models.

Can I use my own music?

Absolutely! You can connect your own devices to our transmitters, as long as they have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack or RCA output.

Do you provide staff or entertainers for the event?

Yes, we can book DJs, MCs, and other entertainers to enhance your event.

What is the service area for The Silent Rave?

We cover events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra. Different delivery fees may be included in your quote due to distances.

How do I book The Silent Rave for my event?

You can book online through our website or contact us directly for a custom quote.

What is your environmental policy?


We are committed to minimal environmental impact by using solar-charged equipment and running leave-no-trace events.

What are your pick-up and delivery options?

All equipment can be picked-up from and dropped back to Silent Rave’s pickup location in North Beach. We offer a delivery service for bookings over 50 headphones for a fee based on your location. For this option, please get in contact with us before booking.

How do I set up the silent disco equipment?

Our system is extremely quick and easy to set up – it’s literally ‘plug in and play’. You can find our Setup Guide online and can offer a demo of how to set-up at the time of pick-up or delivery. Set-up options are available for community and corporate events on request.

What type of headphones do you supply?

Our wireless headphones offer up to three different channels simultaneously, each channel with its own LED color (green, blue, and red). The beauty of three playlists of music at any one time means each person can change the music they are dancing to as they please – as well as personal control of their own volume.

What do I do after the event?

To ensure we can continue providing everyone with awesome Silent Rave disco equipment, we simply request that all equipment is checked and packed back into the Silent Rave storage crates provided. You must be available on your nominated phone number to confirm collection of equipment or delivery back to Silent Rave. An agreed timeframe will be provided by Silent Rave ahead of your event.

What happens if a headphone is lost or damaged?

There is a standard fee of $65 per headphone that is lost or damaged.

What happens if the equipment is damaged during hire?

We understand that accidents sometimes happen, however if headphones or other equipment is damaged making them unusable or lost during your event you will be liable for the replacement cost.

What precautions are in place due to COVID-19?

We ensure all equipment (headphones, transmitters, and crates) have been cleaned prior to each hire. Our staff have also completed the AHA Hospitality and Tourism COVID-19 Hygiene course and follow these guidelines in the preparation of all equipment. A COVID Safety Plan is also emailed with each booking with further information and advice.

Can I extend my hire period?

Yes, you can extend your hire period, subject to availability. Just get in touch with us as soon as possible to check if the equipment is available for the extended period.

Is there a minimum or maximum number of headphones I can hire?

There is no strict minimum, but we recommend hiring at least 10 headphones to get the best experience. Our packages start at up to 20 headsets. We can cater to events of most sizes, from small parties to large festivals, with hundreds of headphones available.

Can I hire additional equipment, like lights or a smoke machine?

Yes, we offer additional equipment like lights, smoke machines, microphones, mixers and photo booths to make your event even more memorable. Please let us know your requirements when booking.

How do I handle technical issues during the event?

We provide a comprehensive guide with troubleshooting tips along with your equipment. Our support team is also available by phone to assist with any technical issues during your event.