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Great Barrier Reef Online Privacy Policy | |||||||||
Great Barrier Reef Online is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.In regards to compliance with the new Australia privacy legislation, your implicit acceptance of this disclaimer is assumed - "The client acknowledges that he/she will provide the agent from time to time with information about the client of a personal nature ("Personal Information").The client consents to the Agent using any Personal Information for the purposes of making and completing airline bookings and travel related arrangements on behalf of the client"
This policy will let you know:
What personally identifiable information does Great Barrier Reef
Online collect from me?
Great Barrier Reef Online collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site.
Some personal information is gathered when you register for news-updates & for making a booking or enquiry. During registration, Great Barrier Reef Online asks for your name, email address, zip code, and personal interests.
If you contact Great Barrier Reef Online we may keep a record of that correspondence. Great Barrier Reef Online also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever Great Barrier Reef Online collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
What are cookies and how does Great Barrier Reef Online use
them?
Great Barrier Reef Online does NOT at this time use cookies on their site to identify visitors.
Great Barrier Reef Online does collect IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information for our own research.
How does Great Barrier Reef Online use my information?
Great Barrier Reef Online's primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a the requested services from our site & ballooning product.
Great Barrier Reef Online does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis. Great Barrier Reef Online may share this aggregate data with advertisers or business partners.
Who is collecting information?
When you are on Great Barrier Reef Online's site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Great Barrier Reef Online alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. For example, some Great Barrier Reef Online services, like Great Barrier Reef Online Package bookings, are offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to provide this co-branded service to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company - this will only include your name, accommodation details & other travel arrangements - not credit card or contact information. If you do not want your data to be shared, you should notify us by email and choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.
Promotions that run on Great Barrier Reef Online's site may be sponsored by companies other than Great Barrier Reef Online or may be cosponsored by Great Barrier Reef Online and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
Please be aware that Great Barrier Reef Online advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those web sites linked to Great Barrier Reef Online are not covered by this privacy statement.
With whom does Great Barrier Reef Online share my information?
As a general rule, Great Barrier Reef Online will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: Great Barrier Reef Online may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a Great Barrier Reef Online promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give Great Barrier Reef Online permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfil your request. In many instances, only your email address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Great Barrier Reef Online may match user information with third party data. Also, Great Barrier Reef Online discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Other: Great Barrier Reef Online may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Great Barrier Reef Online's Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Great Barrier Reef Online's rights or property, other Great Barrier Reef Online users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Great Barrier Reef Online may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.
What are my choices regarding collection, use, and
distribution of my information?
Great Barrier Reef Online may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from Great Barrier Reef Online and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Great Barrier Reef Online (or agents working on behalf of Great Barrier Reef Online and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily notify us that you no longer wish to receive such offers and mailings. You will need your Great Barrier Reef Online ID and Password in order to access your Great Barrier Reef Online Account Information.
On some types of Great Barrier Reef Online promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related email messages may include targeted advertisements.
Great Barrier Reef Online does not sell or rent user information to anyone. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.
You may request a copy of your Great Barrier Reef Online Account Information and your profile at any time by using your Great Barrier Reef Online ID and password and sending us an email.
Your Great Barrier Reef Online account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any members-only area of the Great Barrier Reef Online network, including your Great Barrier Reef Online Mail account (if you have one). Please contact privacypolicy@hotair.com.au for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your Great Barrier Reef Online account.
How does Great Barrier Reef Online protect my personal financial
and travel-related information?
Keeping your personal information private is vitally important to us. As with all information, Great Barrier Reef Online will never rent or sell your personal financial or travel-related information. This includes information kept in your Great Barrier Reef Online Portfolio or from any Great Barrier Reef Online communication.
Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial product or service usage on Great Barrier Reef Online are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.
Please note that there are several places on the Great Barrier Reef Online network of Web sites where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
What security precautions are in place to protect
the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?
Your Great Barrier Reef Online Account Information and Great Barrier Reef Online Profile are password-protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Great Barrier Reef Online will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Great Barrier Reef Online account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.
As a travel company Great Barrier Reef Online has international sites and users all over the world. When you give Great Barrier Reef Online personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the Australia, United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information. Whenever Great Barrier Reef Online handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, Great Barrier Reef Online takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Great Barrier Reef Online cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
What about children's privacy?
Naturally, the safety of children is very important to us. Great Barrier Reef Online will not link to any inappropriate site - should you wish to recommend that Great Barrier Reef Online remove any link from it site.
Great Barrier Reef Online is a general audience web site.
Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to anyone online. Great Barrier Reef Online does not share personal information about users under the age of 13 with third parties and we do not sell or rent personal information about any of our users, regardless of age. In addition, Great Barrier Reef Online will not send any direct email offers to users who indicate they are under the age of 13.
What else should I know about my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
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