Privacy Statement
The Great Northern Hotel is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the The Great Northern Hotel website and governs data collection and usage. By using The Great Northern Hotel website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
The Great Northern Hotel collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. The Great Northern Hotel also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP/Post code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by The Great Northern Hotel. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by The Great Northern Hotel for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the The Great Northern Hotel website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Great Northern Hotel public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The Great Northern Hotel does not read any of your private online communications.
The Great Northern Hotel encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from The Great Northern Hotel so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Great Northern Hotel is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the The Great Northern Hotel and The Great Northern Hotel family of websites.
Use of your Personal Information
The Great Northern Hotel collects and uses your personal information to operate The Great Northern Hotel website and deliver the services you have requested. The Great Northern Hotel also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Great Northern Hotel and its affiliates. The Great Northern Hotel may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
The Great Northern Hotel does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Great Northern Hotel may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Great Northern Hotel may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Great Northern Hotel, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Great Northern Hotel does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
The Great Northern Hotel keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within The Great Northern Hotel, in order to determine what The Great Northern Hotel services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customised content and advertising within The Great Northern Hotel to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
The Great Northern Hotel website will not disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Great Northern Hotel or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Great Northern Hotel; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Great Northern Hotel, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Great Northern Hotel website uses “cookies” to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalise The Great Northern Hotel pages, or register with The Great Northern Hotel site or services, a cookie helps The Great Northern Hotel to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the The Great Northern Hotel website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the The Great Northern Hotel features that you customised.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the The Great Northern Hotel services or websites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
The Great Northern Hotel secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. The Great Northern Hotel secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
The Great Northern Hotel will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Great Northern Hotel encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Great Northern Hotel is protecting your information.
Contact Information
The Great Northern Hotel welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Great Northern Hotel has not adhered to this Statement, please contact
The Great Northern Hotel at manager@greatnorthernhotel.com.au. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.
