Privacy Statement

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site:

Information collection and use:
This site is operated by Gold Coast Accommodation Directory of PO BOX 48, Robina  QLD  4226.
Gold Coast Accommodation Directory is bound by and complies with the National Privacy Principles in relation to the collection and disclosure of information regarding individuals. If you want more information regarding the way we manage your personal information you can do so by contacting Gold Coast Accommodation Directory.

We will require some personal information such as your
a) name
b) e-mail address
c) postal address
d) telephone number

We request this information from you on our enquiry form. You must provide contact information - name/email address/postal address/telephone number.  This contact information is used to get in touch with you. We use this contact information in order to reserve the required services, to send you details of confirmation and if necessary to inform you of updates or changes to your travel plans.  We may also use your contact details to inform you of our products including special offers that we think may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your contact information to send details of our products to you please let us know in an email to info@infomaps.com.au. We do not pass details of your personal information to third parties except as described in Sharing Information below.

Sharing Information

Information is shared with a) our bank and b) involved third parties.
1) When paying by credit or by debit card we pass your card details to our bank for authorisation of the transaction and for payment.
2) We may disclose your information to accommodation houses that will use your information in the ways described above in this privacy statement. We will provide only the information necessary to ensure the successful fulfillment of your travel arrangements. You should be aware that the hotel may not be subject to data protection laws.  Apart from sharing your information as mentioned above, we do not disclose your details to any other person without your consent unless there is an emergency situation that requires it or we are legally required to do so.
Cookies

We use cookies to monitor which parts of the site are most interesting to you - a cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive and usage is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information whilst on our site. You can always choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your Web browser to refuse cookies or prompt before accepting a cookie but by refusing to accept a cookie you may not be able to access many of the travel services offered by the Gold Coast Accommodation Directory.

Links

This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites - this privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.  To further protect the information you share with us we have a security system that includes firewall technologies; logical network segmentation to allow restricted access to stored profile information. Whilst SSL encryption is used to protect sensitive information online we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All your information is restricted in our offices and only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.

Changes to our Privacy Statement

Any material changes in the way we use personal information will be described in future versions of this privacy statement.  By booking with us you agree that our privacy statement, current at the time of your most recent booking, shall apply to all your information, whether given to us at the time of that booking or at the time of earlier bookings. If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in the privacy statement applicable to your information, we will notify you by way of an email and request your approval.

Contacting usIn using the Gold Coast Accommodation website, you consent to the collection and use of this information in the ways described above. If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, please email us at info@infomaps.com.au