This Privacy Statement explains in general terms how
Tas Vacations protects the privacy of your personal information
under the National Privacy Principles. It will apply
to any personal information you provide to us:
- When making a booking with Tas Vacations
- Under any other
agreement or arrangement.
This Privacy Statement will also apply to any information
about you that is provided to us by someone else such
as a travel agent.
This Privacy Statement does not apply
to Tas Vacations' employee records, which are generally
exempt from the legislation.
What Information Do We Collect?
The types of personal
information that we collect from you will depend on
the circumstances of collection and on the type of service
you request from us. For example, when you request
us to make your travel arrangements, we may collect details
such as your name, address, flight and other travel
details, credit/debit card number and expiry date, billing
address, telephone numbers, Frequent Flyer number or
other loyalty program membership details, dietary requirements
(if any) and health issues relevant to your travel arrangements.
As we are required by law to obtain your consent
to the collection of "sensitive information" we
will assume that you have consented to the collection
of all information which is provided to us for use
in accordance with this Statement, unless you tell
us otherwise.
How We Collect Information
We may collect personal information
about you when you deal with us over the telephone,
send us correspondence (whether by letter, fax or email),
visit our web sites or when you have contact with us
in person. As well as collecting information directly
from you, there may be occasions when we collect information
about you from a third party. For example:
- From people making travel or freight bookings on
your behalf;
- Other service providers who collect information
on our behalf;
- From market research companies contracted
by us to obtain information so that we may improve
and market our products and services;
- From third party
service providers on TasVacations.com that collect
your personal information when providing you with
a service and disclose it to us;
How We Use Your Personal Information
We generally collect
your personal information for the following purposes:
- To
process your travel and freight arrangements and
other transactions;
- To facilitate
your participation in the loyalty programs of Tas
Vacations and other organisations;
- To conduct marketing activities
and to conduct market research; and
Some of the personal information we collect is essential
for us to be able to accurately identify who is using
the service. Other types of personal information we collect
help us to profile who is using our services and what
their interests are.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We
may disclose your personal information to third parties,
for example, to our contractors to whom we contract
out certain services, program for use in the operation
and marketing of those programs, other carriers,
travel providers, data processing companies (including
operators of global distribution systems and payment
clearing houses) for the purpose for which the information
was collected or for related purposes, for example to
complete a transaction on your behalf or provide you
with a service that you requested.
We may also disclose your personal information to various
law enforcement agencies and governments around the world
for security, customs and immigration purposes.
We engage third party contractors to perform services
for us which involves the contractor handling personal
information we hold. For example, we currently engage
third party contractors to:
- Provide email and mail handling services;
- Provide electronic
funds transfer services, credit card account processing
and related services;
- Collect commissions payable to
us;
- Operate some corporate travel sales and fulfilment
functions;
- Process travel bookings made via TasVacations.com
and other online sites;
- Conduct market research;
In these situations, we prohibit the third party contractor
from using personal information about you except for
the specific purpose for which we supply it.
Other than
the above, we will not disclose your personal information
without your consent unless disclosure is either necessary
to prevent a threat to life or health, authorised or
required by law, reasonably necessary to enforce the
law or necessary to investigate a suspected unlawful
activity.
Access & Correction of Information About You
We will,
on request, provide you with access to the information
we hold about you, unless there is an exception
which applies under the National Privacy Principles,
including for the purpose of correcting or updating that
information.
We may recover from you our reasonable costs of supplying
you with access to this information.
Your request to provide access to this information will
be dealt with in a reasonable time.
If we refuse to provide you with access to the information,
we will provide you with reasons for the refusal and
inform you of any exceptions relied upon under the National
Privacy Principles.
In light of the new legislation we are putting in place
systems and procedures to facilitate access to all information
we hold about you on request. For information which we
collected prior to 21 December 2001, we may not be able
to provide you with access to this information where
to do so would place an unreasonable administrative burden
on us or cause us unreasonable expense.
Keeping Your Personal Information Up To Date
We take
reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information
is accurate, complete, and up-to-date whenever we collect
or use it.
If the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate,
incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us and we will
take reasonable steps to either correct this information,
or if necessary, discuss alternative action with you.
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