Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd Privacy Policy

This policy sets out how Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd uses your personal information.

Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd owns and operates www.holidaystays.com.au.

www.holidaystays.com.au operates web forums for property owners, tour operators and renters to exchange information online for the purpose of arranging and transacting property rentals and tours. To facilitate this exchange, www.holidaystays.com.au maintains a database of property owner, tour operators and renter information.

All information collected by www.holidaystays.com.au is subject to the www.holidaystays.com.au Privacy Policy. This policy applies to all sites that form part of the network of www.holidaystays.com.au sites. For a list of all such sites or to find out more about these sites, visit www.holidaystays.com.au.

Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd is bound by the National Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

www.holidaystays.com.au may, from time to time, review and update this privacy policy statement to take account of new laws and technology and changes to www.holidaystays.com.au operations. Please visit this page periodically, to check for updates.

All personal information held by www.holidaystays.com.au will be governed by its most recent policy, posted on www.holidaystays.com.au websites.

What kind of personal information www.holidaystays.com.au collects and how it is collected

www.holidaystays.com.au collects personal information from a renters, tour operators and property owners.

If you are a property owner or tour operator we collect the following information:

• property name or tour
• contact name
• your email address
• your username and password for administration of your property
• the location and street address of you and your property
• your contact telephone numbers
• the accommodation or tour type
• the url of your website if you have one
• authority type ; i.e. are you an owner or a manager
• images and descriptions of the property, tour operation you supply (material)
• statistics about what numbers of people look at your property, tour operation and booking requests you receive
• A database is maintained that will print this out for you.

If you are a renter or tour enquiry we collect the following information:

• your first and last name
• your date of birth and gender
• your email address
• your street address, location and post code
• your home, work and mobile phone number
• the number of adults and children staying or going
• tour information requested
• any comments or questions
• any travel preferences you choose from the options provided

Personal Information you provide: We store the personal information you enter on www.holidaystays.com.au or give to www.holidaystays.com.au in other ways. We obtain most personal information through www.holidaystays.com.au membership registration process. You may provide information when you request or acquire a product or service from www.holidaystays.com.au or its related companies, provide a product or service to www.holidaystays.com.au, complete a survey or questionnaire, enter a competition, participate in forums or when you communicate with www.holidaystays.com.au by e-mail, telephone or in writing (for example if you contact customer service or provide feedback).

Automatic collection: Cookies: We may use a feature of your browser called a cookie to assign your computer a 'User ID'. Cookies contain information by which www.holidaystays.com.au can identify your computer to our servers. You may configure your browser so that you are notified before a cookie is downloaded or so that your browser does not accept cookies. www.holidaystays.com.au may use information contained in cookies to make assumptions about the user of the computer and to provide users of that computer with focused advertising that www.holidaystays.com.au believes may be of interest, based on that information. In some cases a web page might contain more than one cookie; the information gathered from these different cookies are used to build statistical and demographical information which does not identify you personally to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional purposes.

To disable your cookies, please refer to the help menu within your Internet browser.

Indirect collection: www.holidaystays.com.au endeavors to collect personal information about an individual only from that individual. In some circumstances www.holidaystays.com.au may obtain personal information from a third party. If you provide personal information about another person to www.holidaystays.com.au, www.holidaystays.com.au requires that you inform that person you have done so and provide them with a copy of this policy.

How www.holidaystays.com.au uses the information you provide

www.holidaystays.com.au may use information it collects from you for the primary purpose for which it is collected and for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose of collection.

www.holidaystays.com.au generally uses personal information to:

• provide you with products or services you have requested
• personalize and customize your experiences on www.holidaystays.com.au ;
• help www.holidaystays.com.au manage and enhance its services;
• communicate with you;
• provide you with ongoing information about opportunities on www.holidaystays.com.au in which www.holidaystays.com.au believes you may be interested;
• give you the opportunity from time to time to receive e-mail from www.holidaystays.com.au

In most cases where www.holidaystays.com.au asks you to provide information about yourself, if you do not provide www.holidaystays.com.au with that information, www.holidaystays.com.au will not be able to provide you with the requested product or service.

Disclosure

www.holidaystays.com.au may also provide your information to:

• third parties engaged by www.holidaystays.com.au to perform functions on its behalf, such as processing credit card information, mail outs, debt collection, marketing, research and advertising;
• third parties authorized by you to receive information held by Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd;

How www.holidaystays.com.au treats sensitive information

"Sensitive Information" means information relating to a person's racial or ethnic origin, membership of political bodies, religion, membership of a trade union or professional or trade association, sexual preferences, criminal record and health. www.holidaystays.com.au may use and disclose Sensitive Information only for the purpose for which it was provided or a directly related secondary purpose or as allowed by law unless you have agreed otherwise.

Management and security of personal information.
www.holidaystays.com.au has appointed a Privacy Officer to oversee the management of personal information in accordance with this policy and the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).

www.holidaystays.com.au protects the personal information www.holidaystays.com.au holds from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure by various means including firewalls, pass word access, secure servers and encryption of credit card transactions.

Updating personal information
www.holidaystays.com.au endeavors to ensure that the personal information it holds is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

You can generally update personal information that is not membership information on the website of www.holidaystays.com.au where you submitted that information. Where personal information is no longer required by www.holidaystays.com.au, it will be destroyed or de-identified.

Seeking access to the personal information www.holidaystays.com.au holds about you
you have the right to seek access the personal information held about you and to advise www.holidaystays.com.au of any inaccuracy. There are some exceptions to this right set out in the Privacy Act.
If you make an access request, www.holidaystays.com.au will ask you to verify your identity and specify what information you require. www.holidaystays.com.au may charge a fee to cover the costs of meeting your request.
Membership information: www.holidaystays.com.au Members can access the membership information www.holidaystays.com.au holds about them at any time via the "Change Details" section on any of the sites within www.holidaystays.com.au.

How to contact Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd

If you have enquiries or wish to provide feedback about this policy, please mail to the Privacy Officer Accommodation @ Australia Pty Ltd at 12 Leadale Street Wynnum West Brisbane Qld 4178.