Privacy Policy

At Australian Leisure Media Pty Ltd we understand that privacy is important, and we’ve created this policy to give you information about how we collect and use personal information.

Our commitment to privacy in accordance with the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, which took effect in December 2001.

Please review this Privacy Policy before using this site and understand that by using our site and its services and features, you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use this site or its services and features.

This privacy policy covers all personal information that we collect from users or subscribers to the www.ausleisure.com.au website.

1. Collection of information

We may collect certain personal information from you such as your first and last name, email address and business name when you register to use our site or its services and features.

Depending on your activity on the website, we may also request additional personal information, including your employment details/status, physical address and general interests.

We may also collect certain non-personally identifiable information from users of our site, such as their Internet protocol address, the type of browser and operating system they use, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and the web pages, content and advertisements you may have visited, viewed or clicked on. We use various technologies to collect that information, including the following:

• Cookies – We may send 'cookies' (small files containing a string of characters) to your computer to identify you as a unique user and maintain a record of your visits. Cookies are text files placed in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies do not contain personal information, but if you choose to furnish us with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
• Web beacons – Pages of our site may contain electronic images known as web beacons (also referred to as single-pixel gifs) that permit us to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). Web beacons are not used to access your personal information on our site and are only used to compile aggregated statistics concerning use of our site.
• IP Addresses – Our computers may also collect your IP address, which is a numerical address that is used to identify a computer connected to the Internet. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site, to deliver web pages to you upon request, to tailor our website to suit your interests, and to measure traffic within our site.

2. What do we do with this information?

We may use your personal information to:

• Conduct and process transactions with you;
• Communicate with you, to send you e-newsletters, advise you of offers, or notify you of any changes to any legal terms applicable to our site or any changes to this Privacy Policy;
• Improve our site and the content and services offered on our website;
• Enforce legal terms that govern your use of the applicable to our website;
• Protect our website, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others; and
• For any other purposes for which the information is collected and maintained.

We may use your non-personally identifiable information to analyse the usage of our website, improve the design and content of our website, deliver relevant marketing messages and advertisements, personalise your Internet experience, and offer you products and services. In some cases, we may use your IP address to identify you in order to enforce any legal terms that govern our website or to protect our site, services, systems, information, employees, business partners, service providers, users, customers or others from injury or harm.

3. Information sharing

We may share your personal information with third parties including in the following instances:

• To assist us in providing our website and services (such as data storage providers) and processing transactions and communications on and through our website;
• Names of winners of our competitions as may be required by state law on our site and in winner’s lists;
• Law enforcement officials, to the extent we believe necessary to comply with laws, regulations, court or administrative orders, or other governmental authority or to prevent harm to yourself or others;
• Where you have specifically authorised us to do so; and
• Upon a merger, divestiture or transfer or sale of all or substantially all of our assets or upon any other corporate reorganisation.

We may also share non-personally identifiable information to third parties on an aggregate basis for purposes of analysing usages and trends, improving or enhancing our website, improving existing products and services, and developing new ones.

4. Information from children

This website is not intended for and does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 14. If you believe that your child has registered on our website or that we have collected information from your child, please contact us immediately so that we can remove that information from our database.

5. What security measures do we take with respect to your information?

We employ reasonable security measures to protect the security and confidentiality of your personal information that we collect and maintain. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information or that any communication or transmission of such information over the Internet will be entirely secure.

6. Third Party Websites

This website may contain links to websites or products and services offered by third parties. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the information collection practices of those third party websites. Your use of those third party websites is at your sole and entire risk. We encourage you to review those third party websites and their privacy policies before using them or providing them any of your personal information.

7. European Union/Territory Citizens

In compliance with European privacy laws, in particular the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Australian Leisure Media Pty Ltd provides specific additional rights for citizens of the European Territories such as the right to access, rectification, right to object, to complaint, erasure and blockage. More specifically:

• The right to request information about whether and which personal data is processed by us, and the right to demand that personal data is rectified or amended.
• Under certain circumstances, the right to request that personal data should be deleted.
• Under certain circumstances, the right to demand that the processing of personal data should be restricted.
• Withdraw your consent to the processing and use of your data completely or partially at any time with future application.
• Have the right to obtain your personal data in a common, structured and mechanically readable format.
• Contact our data protection officer if there are any questions, comments, complaints or requests in connection with our statement on data protection and the processing of your personal data.
• The right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority if believed that the processing of your personal data is in violation of the legislation.

In addition to the above, we reference certain rights for European Territory citizens throughout this Privacy Policy. Pursuant to the GDPR, citizens from 'European Territories' mean the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, the term 'European Territories' shall continue to include the United Kingdom, even after the United Kingdom leaves the European Economic Area following Brexit.

Please email leisure@ausleisure.com.au with any questions about exercising any of the above rights.

8. Amendments to this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to amend or revise this Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time in our sole discretion. Any such amendments will take effect when they are posted on our website or the date you are notified by email communication (at the email address provided in your account). Your use of our website or its products and services after such amendments have been posted shall constitute your agreement to and acceptance of said amendments.

9. Privacy inquiries

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any privacy related dealings with us or a possible breach of your privacy or would like further information about our information management practices, you can contact:

The Privacy Officer
Australian Leisure Media Pty Ltd
PO Box 478, Collaroy 2097
(102 Taiyul Road, Narrabeen 2101)
NSW AUSTRALIA

or email: leisure@ausleisure.com.au

Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We will post the new policy on this page, and, if the changes allow us to use personally identifying information in ways that are different from the ways specified at the time the information was originally collected, our website will contain a special notice about the changes.

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