Privacy Policy:
Travelcation PTY LIMITED ABN 46 619 808 392 Trading as Australia & New Zealand Holidays
This Privacy Policy explains how we deal with and protect your personal information. It will outline how you may request access to correct your personal information and if there has been a breach, how you may also complain about the breach of your privacy. We may amend it from time to time and suggest that you review this policy regularly.
This policy covers Travelcation PTY Limited ABN 46 619 808 392 and its associated entities and related bodies refer as Travelcation Group (including but not limited to Travelcation, Australia & New Zealand Holidays and Vagaytion)
Use of Personal Information
We may use your personal information to:
Geo-location information, Cookies and Pixel Tags
When you access our website, we may place cookies, pixels or other code on your computer to collect information about your usage of our website and information about the device you are using to access our website (Session Data).
We use Session Data to help us recognise you when you visit our website again and better understand how our website is navigated to and used, so we can improve our website content and ease of use, personalise and improve your individual viewing experiences on our website and provide information that may be of interest to you.
We may use service providers to collect Session Data on our behalf. Unless you specifically inform us of your identity (e.g. by registering with us or making a booking through us), we will not know who you are.
A cookie is a small file on your computer which contains information that will enable us to recognise your browser next time you visit our website.
If you do not wish to use a cookie, you can adjust your browser settings to reject cookies or notify you when they are being used. You may opt-out of certain Session Data being collected while you are using a mobile device.
We also use pixel tags to monitor the open rate of our communications. This helps us understand the effectiveness of communications we send. We do not use this information for any other purpose.
When accessing a Travelcation Group site or application, you may search for products and services in the area in which you are located. If you do so, we may collect your geo-location information to search for the applicable products and services or to personalise and improve your individual viewing experiences on our website and provide information that may be of interest to you. You may at any time disable our collection and use of your location information by turning location services off at the device level.
Google Analytics
When you visit certain sections of our website, Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google, Inc (“Google”), will place cookies on your computer’s browser. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to our website and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Google Analytics to track or to collect any personal data of visitors to our website.
How we collect your personal information
We collect personal information about you that is relevant to your travel arrangements or that will enable us to provide you with our goods and services. We may also collect information about you for you to register as a member, complete a travel profile, participate in a survey or promotion, ask a question or initiate a transaction on our website, over the phone and or through one of our designated applications.
We may collect details such as your name, telephone number, email address, credit card number and expiry date, and home address.
We are giving this access by you authorises us to collect your personal information directly from you while providing a product or service or when you have other dealings with us. The interpretation of dealings could be over the telephone, via a letter or email, whilst visiting our website and completing an online registration form, which allows us information to complete a booking or subscribe to a service provided by us.
We may also collect your personal information from others who make a booking on your behalf. For example, making a booking through a registered travel agency, that deals directly with us to provide you with a service, tour, activity, youth hostel accommodation, car or campervan hire arrangements.
How and when we disclose your personal information
We may disclose your personal information to:
Cross-border data flows
The third parties we disclose your personal information to (our suppliers, call centre operator, website manager, cloud infrastructure and data centre providers) may be located overseas. This information may be shared between Travelcation Group entities, located globally. We will only disclose your personal information to these overseas entities in connection with facilitation of your travel booking and/or to enable the performance of administrative and technical services by them on our behalf.
Accessing and updating your personal information
Subject to some exceptions contained in the Privacy Act, 1988 (Cth) you can find out what personal information we hold about you. You can contact our Privacy Officer, to enquire about and discuss the personal information we hold about you. Before releasing such information and or giving you access to that information, we will verify your identity. Travelcation Group reserves to right to charge a fee for this information on a per request basis.
Information about other travellers
If you provide us with information about other people travelling with you (for example, family members), you should make them aware of this Privacy Policy and any privacy collection notices we provide you.
Storage and security of personal information
We store personal information in a combination of secure computer storage facilities, paper-based and other records. If you have registered on our website, we store your personal information (and any personal information of individuals for whom you have made reservations) in databases and email servers.
We will endeavour to take all reasonable precautions to maintain the security of the information in our systems. We use a combination of security measures to prevent the unauthorised access of our servers and regularly review our security policies. Your personal information will be stored in secured locations and on our servers, located either at our offices or at the offices of our service providers.
The payment pages on this website are encrypted using the internationally accepted security system SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt all credit card payments over the web. This means that the information from these pages are sent back to our server in a secure fashion and adequately protected against known interception schemes. We are PCI Compliant. You can find out more about PCI Compliance at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
Monitoring
We may from time to time monitor and review any information transmitted or received through our website, or through telephone or e-mail communications, for quality assurance and other purposes. We reserve the right to censor, edit, remove or prohibit the transmission or receipt of any information that we deem inappropriate or in violation of our terms and conditions. During monitoring, the information may be examined, recorded or copied.
Links and social plug-ins
When you click on a third party’s link from our website, or from an ad for a third party served by one of our service providers, you will enter that third party’s site, over which we have no control. We are not responsible for third party sites. You should carefully review the privacy statements of any other sites you visit because those privacy statements will apply to your visit to such other sites and may be very different from this Privacy Policy.
Our website includes social plug-ins, such as the Facebook or Twitter button, and gives you the option to post information about your activities on our Site to your social media accounts. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social plug-ins are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
Privacy complaints
Travelcation Group welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to complain about our handling of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer using the details below.
We will investigate all complaints and respond to you in due course. If we find a complaint justified, we will resolve it. If necessary, we will change our policies and procedures to maintain our high standards of performance, service and customer care.
If your complaint is not satisfactorily resolved, you may lodge a complaint with the Federal Privacy Commissioner, or you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC’s) hotline service on 1300 363 992.
Contact our Privacy Officer
If you have a privacy complaint or wish to correct, update or access the personal information that we hold about you, please contact our Policy Officer using the following details:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1300 962 924
If you’d rather chat, give one of our Travelcation Experts a call today to begin crafting your bespoke holiday experience.