In this Privacy Policy, ‘us’ ‘we’ or ‘our’ means TravelbyBit Pty Ltd (ABN 88 621 527 357), its associated entities and any related bodies corporate.

We are committed to respecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, store and disclose your personal information when you access and use the services provided at members.travelbybit.com (the “Website”). We are bound by the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act.

By providing personal information to us, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any other arrangements that apply between us. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time by publishing changes to it on our Website. We encourage you to check our Website periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

Personal information has the meaning given under your local data protection law. We collect personal information about you in order to facilitate your travel bookings and arrangements, and to provide you with our goods and services.

We may collect the following types of personal information:

• name;
• email address;
• telephone number and other contact details;
• mailing or residential address;
• credit card information;
• your device ID, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
• details of the products and services we have provided to you or that you have enquired about, including any additional information necessary to deliver those products and services and respond to your enquiries;
• any additional information relating to you that you provide to us through your use of our Website, in person or through other websites or accounts from which you permit us to collect information;
• information you provide to us through customer surveys; or
• any other personal information that may be required in order to facilitate your dealings with us.

We may collect this information when you:

• register on our Website;
• communicate with us through correspondence, chats, email, or when you share information with us from other social applications, services or websites; or
• interact with our sites, services, content and advertising.

What Sensitive Information Do We Collect?

We do not collect any sensitive information from you when you use our Website.

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• to enable you to access and use the Website and services;
• to process your membership registration and membership fee;
• to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;
• to send you marketing and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information sent by, or on behalf of, our business partners that we think you may find interesting;
• to administer rewards, surveys, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners;
• to operate, protect, improve and optimise our Website, services, business and our users’ experience, such as to perform analytics, conduct research and for advertising and marketing; and
• to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any disputes that we may have with any of our users, and enforce our agreements with third parties.

To Whom Do We Disclose Your Personal Information?

We may disclose personal information for the purposes described in this privacy policy to:

• our related bodies corporate;
• our employees and agents;
• third party suppliers and service providers (including providers for the operation of our Website and/or our business or in connection with providing our products and services to you);
• payment systems operators (e.g. to process your membership fee);
• our existing or potential agents, business partners or partners;
• our sponsors or promoters of any competition that we conduct via our services;
• anyone to whom our assets or businesses (or any part of them) are transferred, or will potentially be transferred to;
• other entities, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

Using Our Website

We may collect personal information about you when you use and access our Website. While we do not use browsing information to identify you personally, we may record certain information about your use of our Website, such as which pages you visit, the time and date of your visit and the internet protocol address assigned to your computer.

Storage and Security

We may hold your personal information in either electronic or hard copy form. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, interference and loss, as well as unauthorised access, modification or disclosure and we use a number of physical, administrative, personnel and technical measures to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information due to inherent risks associated with the transmission of personal information via the internet.

Links

Our Website may contain links to websites operated by third parties. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. Unless expressly stated otherwise, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or any content on, those linked websites, and have no control over or rights in those linked websites. The privacy policies that apply to those other websites may differ substantially from our Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read those privacy policies before using those websites.

Accessing or Amending Your Personal Information

We respect your privacy and will provide you with reasonable access to the personal information you have provided to us through your use of our services. If we hold personal information about you that is not accurate, complete or up-to-date, you may request us to change that information.

Personal information provided by you must not be false or misleading. We assume that the information you provide to us is accurate and will be updated when the relevant personal information changes. We will respond to your request within 14 days. Please note we may need to verify your identity when you request your personal information.

We reserve the right to deny you access for any reason permitted under applicable law. If we deny access or amendment, we will provide you with written reasons for such denial unless it is unreasonable to do so and, where required by local data protection laws, will note your request and the denial in our records.

If you would like to access or amend any information we hold about you, please contact us on the details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Data Retention

If you are subscribed to the mailing list, the data we collect is retained until you opt out of the mailing list. If you are not subscribed to the mailing list but have provided personal information, data is stored for a limited period of time to fulfil the purposes for which the data was originally collected. The data will be used and retained as necessary to meet our legal obligations.

If you would like to opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, click ‘Unsubscribe’ contained within the footer of any of our emails or contact us on the details provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Privacy Complaints

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you have a complaint about our handling of your personal information, please contact us using the contact information below. We aim to resolve your query as soon as practicable.

Contact Us

For further information about our Privacy Policy or practices, to make a complaint, or to access or correct your personal information, please contact us using the details set out below:

Email: [email protected]