Privacy Policy

Welcome to Australia Tourism. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Australia Tourism collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, use our contact form, or subscribe to our services.

This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Controller

Australia Tourism is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "Australia Tourism", "we", "us", or "our" in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us at [email protected].

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier.
• Contact Data includes email address, telephone number, and mailing address.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by mail, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • Subscribe to our newsletter or publications;
  • Request marketing to be sent to you;
  • Fill out a contact form;
  • Submit a travel inquiry;
  • Give us feedback or contact us.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
• Where we have your consent to do so.

Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data:

• To register you as a new subscriber
• To manage our relationship with you
• To enable you to receive our newsletter
• To respond to your inquiries
• To administer and protect our business and this website
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about services or content that may be of interest to you

5. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.

6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes outlined in section 4 above:

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
• Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
• Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

7. International Transfers

We may transfer your personal data to countries outside the Australia. Whenever we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use which give personal data the same protection it has in Australia.

8. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

10. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us:

By email: [email protected]

By phone: +61 2 1234 5678

By mail: 123 Tourism Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia