Our privacy commitment
Curtin Springs (P A Severin & Co) (ABN 65 020 093 397) (“we”, “us” and “our”) will endeavour to handle your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the Australian Privacy Principles.
This Privacy Policy summarises how we handle your personal information. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this page. The revised Privacy Policy will take effect when it is posted on our website.
What is personal information?
Personal information means information about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
• whether the information is true or not; and
• whether the information is recorded in a material form or not.
The types of personal information we collect may include your name, date of birth, gender, contact information, credit/debit card information, health information and other information that may be considered important in delivering a service to you.
Whose personal information do we collect?
We collect personal information from people who are connected to our operations and activities – including employees, guests, participants in tours or workshops, suppliers, volunteers and service providers.
How do we collect your personal information?
Where possible, we will collect your personal information directly from you. This may be in person (for example, when you arrive onsite and book into your accommodation or on a tour), on the telephone (for example, if you call us to make a booking or enquiry), or online (for example, if you make a booking or enquiry online).
We may also obtain personal information from third parties such as other service providers who are combined with us to deliver a service (eg travel agents or your office when making a booking on your behalf). If we collect personal information about you from a third party and it is unclear that you have consented to the disclosure of your personal information to us, we will take reasonable steps to contact you and ensure that you are aware of the circumstances surrounding the collection and purposes for which we collected your personal information.
Any social media interaction or reference to us on any social media platforms gives us access to the information posted and details linked to that submission in a way we can use without your direct permission.
Why do we collect your personal information?
We may collect your personal information for a number of purposes, including:
• Marketing: to communicate with you about products, services, campaigns and events.
• Bookings: to facilitate your booking for accommodation, meals and activities included in our tours or workshops.
• Communication: To communicate with you about your booking or enquiry or request or compliment or complaint.
• Manage our business: To be able to undertaking ongoing improvement and review of our business activities, including marketing, training, marketing, and viability, operate our website, direct marketing, enforce our Terms and Conditions, to administer our accounts, including collection of payments
Where we collect your personal information for a specific purpose not outlined above, we will provide you with details as to the purpose of the collection.
Sensitive information
As part of administering our services, we may collect health information and other sensitive information. For example, we may collect medical history/information or dietary requirements from you if you are participating in a walking tour or paper workshop. We will limit the collection of sensitive information to the minimum amount required to perform our services.
What happens if you don’t provide all this information?
If you do not provide some or all of the personal information requested, we may not be able to offer you services.
Website usage information and cookies
When you access our website, we may use software embedded in our website (such as Javascript) and we may place small data files (or cookies) on your computer or other device to collect information about which pages you view and how you reach them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you.
A cookie does not identify individuals personally, but it does identify computers. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie and this will provide you with an opportunity to either accept or reject it in each instance.
We may gather your IP address as part of our business activities and to assist with any operational difficulties or support issues with our services. This information does not identify you personally.
Opting out of direct marketing communications
Where we use your personal information to send you marketing and promotional information by post, email or telephone, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of receiving such information. By electing not to opt-out, we will assume we have your implied consent to receive similar information and communications in the future. We will always ensure that our opt-out notices are clear, conspicuous and easy to take up.
If you do not wish to receive direct marketing communications from us, please contact us at Curtin Springs Via Alice Springs or email at enquiries@curtinsprings.com
To whom does Curtin Springs disclose your personal information?
We may need to disclose your personal information to others in order to carry out our activities. This may include staff, contractors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, police and other government agencies at their request.
Where is your personal information stored
We take all reasonable steps to protect all of the personal information we hold from misuse, interference and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Your personal information will be stored on a password protected electronic database, which may be on our database, a database maintained by a cloud hosting service provider. Backups of electronic information are written to external drives..
Hard copy information is generally stored in our offices, which are secured to prevent entry by unauthorised people. Any personal information not actively being used currently is archived, usually for 7 years.
Access to your personal information
We will, upon your request, and subject to applicable privacy laws, provide you with access to your personal information that is held by us. We will deal with your request to provide access to your personal information in a timely manner and you agree we may charge you our reasonable costs incurred in supplying you with access to this information.
Your rights to access personal information are not absolute and privacy laws dictate that we are not required to grant access in certain circumstances. If we refuse to grant you access to your personal information, we will provide you with reasons for that decision (unless it is unreasonable to do so) and the avenues available for you to complain about the refusal.
Updating your personal information
You may ask us to update, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you at any time. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making any corrections to or deletion of your information. We also have obligations to take reasonable steps to correct personal information we hold when we are satisfied that it is inaccurate, out- of-date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading for the purpose for which it is held.
Complaints
If you have any queries or would like to make a complaint regarding relating to our Privacy Policy or the manner in which we handle your personal information, please contact us at Curtin Springs, Via Alice Springs or by email at enquiries@curtinsprings.com. We endeavour to respond to complaints and queries within fourteen days of their receipt. If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may refer the matter to the Australian Information (Privacy) Commissioner (see www.oaic.gov.au).

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