Privacy
Harvey World Travel is committed to the protection of your personal information. Harvey World Travel's Privacy Policy is based on the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (as amended by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (Cth) ) and on company policies to protect personal information. While information is the cornerstone of our ability to provide a superior travel service, our most important asset is our customers' trust. Keeping customer information secure, and using it only as our customers would want us to, is a top priority for all of us at Harvey World Travel. Harvey World Travel collects personal information that relates to travel bookings and associated purchases such as insurance and foreign exchange. Harvey World Travel will limit the collection and use of customer information in accordance with the National Privacy Principals issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner. Harvey World Travel will always maintain control over the confidentiality of our customer information. We may, however, facilitate relevant offers from reputable companies. These companies are not permitted to retain any customer information unless the customer has specifically expressed interest in their products or services. Whenever Harvey World Travel hires another organization to provide support services, we will require them to conform to our privacy standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance. Harvey World Travel will send an email newsletter to people who subscribe, by entering their email address in the 'Join Travel Talk' box. The newsletters are sent out weekly and contain the latest travel deals, news and promotional material. Occasionally a limited duration special deal is released and we may send a Stop Press email to alert members of this offer. Your individual email address is not used for any other purpose and will not be supplied to a third party. Should any recipient of our newsletter wish to unsubscribe they can do so by doing any of the following: 1. Clicking on unsubscribe at the bottom of the Home page When you visit our website, our Internet Service Providers make a record of your visit and logs your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. If you register as a user of our site, we track your visits as you interact with the site, we do this using 'Cookies'. Cookies are small files your web browser places on your computer's hard drive and they allow Harvey World Travel to know which pages on our website are visited, in what order and how often. You also have the option of using the Cookie to save your password on your computer so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the site. Cookies are not used to record any personal information. The user registration process also collects personal information about you such as birthday, address, travel preferences and frequent flyer details. None of these are mandatory except for name, email address, post code and telephone number. This information is required for the processing of bookings made on the site. Registration details are password protected and all personal information can be checked and/or changed at any time by logging in with your code and password from our Home Page. Harvey World Travel utilises a technology called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) including 128bit encryption. Your credit card details are used for the primary purpose of processing and completing your travel booking as well as associated purchases. This may involve disclosure of your credit card details by Harvey World Travel to third parties including but not limited to wholesalers, airlines, hotels, car rental companies that you have entered into a transaction with through the use of this website. By providing us your credit card details you authorise such disclosure in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Harvey World Travel has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We use the internationally accepted security system called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt all credit card payments over the web, this is automatic and you will receive instant notification if your browser does not support this. For more information please refer to our Security Policy. This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that harveyworld.com.au is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site. As a Harvey World Travel customer, you may, at any time, request further information about the way Harvey World Travel manages your personal information. You may also request removal from our contact lists or correct your personal information by contacting the Harvey World Travel Privacy Officer in writing: Privacy Officer |
