Your Personal Information Is Important to Us
“Personal information” is information that identifies you or could identify you. The types of personal information we collect may include your name, address, contact phone number, email address, passport and visa information, health or medical related information, transaction information and financial details. We may also keep a record of products and services that you acquire from us.
Where the personal information requested includes an email address and/or mobile phone number, TMP will only contact you by email or SMS if you agree to being contacted in this manner.
TMP is committed to protecting your personal information and complying with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (APA) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). We believe that our privacy policy is both fair and represents industry best practice. From time to time, you may be able to deal with us anonymously or by pseudonym, but in some instances if you do not provide us with certain information, we may not be able to provide you with the information or services you want.
The Information We Collect About You
Generally, only information you provide about yourself to TMP directly will be collected, such as through enquiring about, or using, TMPs’ products & services or TMPs’ website, making a booking on TMP website or by phone or otherwise identifying yourself when requesting information to be sent to you. In certain circumstances, we may collect information about you from third parties. However, we will only do so if it is unreasonable or impracticable to collect the personal information directly from you and we will take reasonable steps to inform you if and when we do.
TMP only collects personal information which is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, one or more of its functions or activities. For example, TMP collects personal information from you in order to provide and charge for the hotel accommodation and other goods and services you purchase. We may also collect personal information about you to better understand your requirements and preferences and to improve our services. For example, when you fill out a contact form, we collect the details you enter to enable us to send information to you. When you answer questions about what you would like to see we keep this information so as to better serve you. If you do not provide the personal information we request from you for these purposes, we may not be able to carry on our business and provide our services to you.
There may be instances in which the personal information that you provide to us or that we collect is considered “sensitive information” for the purposes of the APA. The APA defines “sensitive information” to mean personal information from which we can determine or infer an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional association or trade union, sexual preferences or practices, criminal record and health, biometric and genetic information. We will only collect and process sensitive information about you in accordance with, and to the extent permitted by, the APPs.
TMPs’ Use of “Cookies”
TMP uses “cookies” to help enhance your experience on the website. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies as the default. However, if you do not wish to receive any cookies you may set your browser to refuse cookies. If you turn off cookies we cannot, for example, fill out forms automatically with details you have previously given us.
The use of cookies can enhance your experience on TMPs’ website, by remembering information that you have previously given to us. They can make it easier for you to fill out forms and book online. Cookies can also provide us with information on how our customers use our websites so that we can continually improve the design of the website.
Cookies themselves do not contain personal information about you. They simply operate as a unique identifier which helps us to know what our customers find interesting and useful on our website. TMP does not store any personal information inside cookies, although the cookie may identify the user’s browser.
Using & Disclosing Your Personal Information
TMP will not use or disclose any specific personal information about you without your consent, other than for:
- the main reason for which you have provided personal information (primary purpose)
- a purpose which is related to the primary purpose and which you would reasonably expect us to use the information for
- a purpose required, authorised or permitted by law including public health laws and reasons of public health interest.
- to reply to your queries or requests
- to compile and use statistical information regarding our customers; or
- to seek feedback from you and to monitor the quality of our products and services.
TMP recognises the trust you place in us when you give us personal information. For example, TMP may ask you questions to get a better understanding of what facilities and services would help you with your accommodation needs. We will use this information to recommend accommodation options and services which we believe will be of benefit to you. However, we will not disclose specific information about you to any other company.
TMP may from time to time outsource the processing of certain functions or information to third parties. Any personal information disclosed to our agents, contractors or third party service providers is only to the extent necessary for them to perform their agreed tasks and they are required to maintain the privacy of your information and keep such information confidential.
Storage & Security of Your Details
TMP will store personal information [electronically and in paper form].
TMP will take such steps as are reasonable to protect your personal information from unauthorised access or use, misuses, loss, modification or authorised disclosure, and to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate, complete and up to date. TMP also maintains computer and network security, for example we use firewalls and other systems such as user identifiers and passwords to control access to computer systems. In addition, TMP employees are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by TMP. Personal information will be de-identified or destroyed when no longer required by us. However, to the extent permitted by law, TMP will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information. We encourage you to play an important role in keeping your personal information secure.
Accessing, Changing & Deleting Information We Keep About You
Your trust in TMP is very important to us. If at any time you want to know exactly what personal information we are holding about you or update or correct any information at any particular time, please email us at reservations@themidpacific.com and we will respond to your request within a reasonable period. We will allow you access unless we consider that there is a sound reason under the APA or other relevant law to withhold the information. If we refuse to provide you with access or correct the personal information we hold about you, we will provide reasons for such refusal. If TMP and you disagree on whether the information is accurate, complete and up-to-date, you can make a statement about the requested changes and we will attach this statement to our records.
TMP & Links to Other Websites
TMP provides links to outside websites. These linked sites are not under the control of TMP, and we are not responsible for the conduct of companies linked to our website. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the privacy policies for those sites. Should you be concerned with the conduct of a site which you accessed via a link from TMP site, please help us to help you, by emailing us at reservations@themidpacific.com.
How We Handle Email
We will preserve the content of any e-mail that you send us, if we believe that we have a legal requirement to do so. Your e-mail message content may be monitored by our TMP employees for security issues including where e-mail abuse is suspected; our response to you may be monitored for quality assurance issues.
Complaints
If you have a complaint regarding the way in which your personal information is being handled by TMP, please contact us in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, you may choose to escalate your concern to the Australian Information Commissioner. If you would like to obtain further information about privacy issues in Australia, please visit the Australian Information Commissioner’s website: http://www.privacy.gov.au/.
You acknowledge and accept that your use of TMPs’ website and services or entering our premises indicates your acceptance of the TMPs’ Website Terms and Conditions and this privacy policy.
This is the current TMP privacy policy. It replaces any other privacy policy for TMP website published on the TMP website to date. TMP may at any time amend this privacy policy by publishing the changes on the TMP website.
