The following is the privacy policy for the check-in.com.au web site. In this policy, we describe what personal information we collect on our site, how we use it, who we disclose it to, how we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date and your options regarding information we may collect about you.

Should you have questions about this policy, please feel free to contact us.

Information Collected From All Visitors

While you are browsing the check-in.com.au web site, anonymous information will be gathered in log files, containing information such as which pages are requested. Because this information is anonymous, it cannot be linked to you. We use this information to administer our site and learn, for example, which areas of our web site are the most popular and which may be having performance problems.


How we Use and Disclose Information Collected from You

The way we use information collected from you is set out in the “Terms and Conditions” of use of the Web Site, under the heading “Privacy” (paragraph 6).

In particular, but without limiting the Terms and Conditions (of which this privacy policy forms a part) we may keep a record of any information that you have placed on the site.

We may also use your email address to inform you of important changes (such as changes to terms of service). We do not use your email address for general marketing purposes without your authority. There are opt-in mailing lists for these purposes available on registration or booking.

Be assured that we will not disclose or share your personal information with other companies or business entities except where necessary to facilitate your use of the Web Site.


Security

We believe it is important to keep the personal information we hold about you secure from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

We take great care to protect personal information, which include the following:

Credit card security

To ensure client security all credit card transactions are transmitted with the protection of using 128 bit encryption methods.

Check-in.com.au has also obtained a digital certificate from "Thwate" a world leader in the protection and management of data transmission and storage. To view this site certificate on each secured page, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key on the bottom bar of your browser window. A small frame displaying site security information will pop up. For Internet Explorer users: Click on the word "Subject" to verify that you are on the Web site www.check-in.com.au. Click on "Issuer" to verify the site certification authority. For Netscape Communicator users: Click on "View Certificate" to verify that you are on the Web site www.check-in.com.au and to verify the site certification authority. Should this reveal a party other than www.check-in.com.au or Thwate, do not progress with your booking and please contact us immediately.

Accessing Your Information

You may request us to send you the information we hold about you (for security reasons, this information will only be sent to the same email address given for the account as this is the only email account we can be sure belongs to the account owner). We may charge a small fee to cover our reasonable expenses in meeting your request. We will promptly respond to your request.


Updates to This Policy

As our web site evolves over time or our data handling policies change, we will update this privacy policy. Changes made to this policy will be effective ten days following the posting of the new policy on the web site. If we make significant changes to our data handling practices, we will make efforts to notify our active customers in other reasonable ways that may include an administrative email or other notice. This privacy policy will be governed by the laws of the Australia.