Privacy Policy

This site is owned and operated by Big Planet Adventures Pty Ltd (ABN: 15154669360

Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us at Big Planet Adventures. We want to make your experience safe. Our Privacy Policy sets out the ways in which we collect, use, disclose and protect any personal information that you provide to us. It serves as an expression of our commitment to protecting your personal information, but is not a contract between you and us.

We respect your right to privacy, and we aim to ensure you have a trustworthy experience with us, including when using our websites, booking with us and participating in our tours. We understand that you care about how your personal information is used by us, and we want to share with you the policies and practices we have adopted. This way you can feel confident about how we handle your personal information that you entrust to us.

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Big Planet Adventures Pty Ltd in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. By using our websites and our social media channels, posting comments about us in any forum, providing any personal information to us, making enquiries with us, booking with us, or participating in our tours or any other products, you confirm that you agree to and consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our collection and use of your personal information, to the extent that your consent is required by any applicable law. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of our current practices in respect of the information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

“Personal information” is information or an opinion that is capable of reasonably identifying you, whether that information or opinion is true or not and whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not. Information such as passport details, name, address, phone number, signature, email account are some examples of this.

“Sensitive information” is a subset of personal information that is given a higher level of protection. Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information. We will only use sensitive information as required or authorised by law.

HOW WE COLLECT OR GENERATE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

By visiting and using our websites, you or your computer or device may provide personal information and other information. This includes: information which is automatically provided by your internet browser to our servers; information recorded on our web servers about your interaction with our website and pages viewed; geolocation data if your device is geolocation enabled; information we capture or place on your computer or generate using cookies, Facebook pixel or other technologies on our website; and information you input into forms and fields on our website.

Your personal information will include information you provide (or later amend), whether: from correspondence with you; verbally to us over the phone or in person; by filling in any field or form on a website; by posting on any of our social media channels; by posting on any forum referencing us; by filling in any printed form we provide you; by email; from documents you provide; and from updates to any information you provide from time to time. This includes when you:register or subscribe for any service, account, members, or loyalty program; purchase a gift certificate or make an enquiry or booking whether in person, by phone, through our websites or otherwise; send us your comments or suggestions; subscribe to any newsletter or other publication; and request sales and advertising information. If you do not provide us with your personal information, we may be unable to provide you with, for example, a tour booking.

We may obtain personal information concerning you from third parties, including from: people making enquiries or bookings on your behalf, providers of any meetings or event services which are enquired about or booked with us, and people referencing you in posts on our social media channels. Examples of third parties are provided below.
An online booking system provided by a third party travel booking platform. We collect the personal  information you provide in respect of a booking made via third party booking systems, including without limitation, your name, email address and phone number. We may also obtain personal information from a third party, which provides a location-based ustomer intelligence platform which enables us to see what is happening on our social media pages.

Cookies collect information that includes the server your computer or device is logged onto, your browser type and how you gained entry to our website. Therefore, when you visit our websites anonymously, details are recorded about your visit, such as time and date, pages accessed and time spent on the website, in addition to the matters described above.
This information is used in an anonymous form for statistical purposes and, as such, cannot be used to identify you individually. A cookie cannot retrieve any other information from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses or capture your email address or any other personally identifiable information. You should note that accepting cookies is required if you want to view our websites, because they are essential for our site administration and security.
You may disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do disable cookies, we may be unable to optimise your visit to our site and you may experience some errors. Refer to your browser instructions or help screens to learn about these functions. If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use our websites.

WHAT TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE PROCESS?

Personal information collected may include, for example, your name, age, photograph, gender, address, phone number, email address, social networking contact details and any other information provided to us by or in relation to you which concern you as an individual. Electronic newsletters & email campaigns– We offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
Big Planet Adventures gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter or campaign that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registering with any of our websites.

If you are an individual associated with a business or other organisation that is our customer, then your personal information may include the following information that we link to you: business or organisation details (such as name, address, telephone numbers, payment arrangements, financial information, etc.), your relationship with that business or organisation (such as owner, partner, director, shareholder, employee, or agent), and your contact details within that business (such as work address, work telephone and mobile numbers, work fax number, and work email address).

Information collected or generated out of any surveys we conduct.
Feedback and user-generated content (UGC).
Feedback or content submitted by you in relation to services we provide.

Information collected or generated out of any competitions or promotions we run. Our competitions and promotions are usually subject to their own terms and conditions, which may also address additional privacy matters.

Information concerning any accounts, registrations, or participation in any loyalty or discount program.

Correspondence, communications and messages, including between you and us, and between us and third parties, including relating to any booking or booking enquiry, or performance of any contract.

Any information (including your social media user details, feedback, comments and photos) you post on our social media channels or any forum which relates to us.

We may collect information about your visits to, browsing of, and use of our websites, unless your web browser blocks this. The range of information we collect will depend on how you interact with our websites.
This information may include: your IP address (a unique identifier allocated to your computer or device for your connection to the internet); your computer or device details (PC, tablet, smartphone, watch etc.); the make and version of web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) you are using; your operating system (e.g. Windows, Windows Phone, OSX, iOS, Android, Linux etc); your time-zone and geolocation data; your browser plug-ins; any web-page you came from, identified as the referrer web page address by your web browser; cookies; page response times; download errors; pages and parts of pages you visit; usage you make of our websites, including enquiries and searches undertaken, and registrations for accounts, forums etc.; services and products you viewed; length of visit to our websites and pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling, keys pressed, mouse clicks, touches, and mouse-overs). This will normally be collected and used anonymously, and aggregated for analysis, with your name and any characteristics identifying you remaining anonymous. Our Privacy Policy will apply to this information, and it will be treated as your personal information, if this information is in any way linked to you personally.
Additional website information which is collected may also include: information inputted into forms and field; registrations for any accounts, forum, feedback mechanism, social functionality, newsletters email campaigns or other features of our site; usernames and passwords, log-in / out history, and settings; actions taken within any account or other registration, including view and update and changes to settings; and posts to any forum, feedback, review or other social functionality on our websites.

Users of the site’s Message Boards and Forums such as Meetup must register separately for these services in order to post messages, although they needn’t register to visit the site. During registration, the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?

To operate and provide the search, booking, accounts, review, forums and other services, facilities and functions of our websites. This includes customising your online experience by providing you with more relevant online offers and updates, managing any accounts or registrations you have with our websites and making changes to your settings and profile at your request.

To provide information to you about our websites, systems and services, including to respond to booking enquiries and searches and to keep you updated generally.

To enable you to make bookings, redeem discounts & deals. To fulfil, provide, perform, administer, manage, and enforce all bookings and other contracts which relate to you. To process any transactions authorised or made with us which relate to you.

To collect and make payments due and administer our accounts.

To communicate with you concerning any enquiries, bookings, hospitality services provided, problems and complaints, and to respond to any submissions, enquiries or requests from you.

To keep internal records and maintain reasonable archives, including in respect of enquiries, bookings, contracts, hospitality services, and complaints.

To analyse, audit, provide, operate, administer, maintain and improve our business, websites, systems, and services; to carry out surveys and analyse the results; to run promotions and competitions; for security purposes; to prevent fraud and/or identify and investigate suspicious transactions; to undertake product or customer research/development; to assist us in and help us to improve our sales, editorial, advertising and marketing processes; to carry out other business development and improvement activities; and to provide training to our staff, sub-contractors and suppliers. For example,we may use your personal information to help us profile how our customers generally are using our websites. We may also use this information to ascertain interests so that we can better tailor our business offerings.

To carry out direct marketing to you.

Use of Reviews: By submitting UGC to our websites by electronic mail, posting on our websites or otherwise, including any reviews, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, photos or the like contained in any submissions (collectively, “Submissions”), you grant Big Planet Adventures a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised; and (b) use the name that you submit in connection with such Submission. Use of User Generated Content (UGC): By submitting UGC to our social media channels or websites you grant us a non-exclusive licence to use the Submissions you add to our websites. For example, we may use this information in any of our brochures or for our campaigning purposes or marketing materials.

To meet our legal obligations as a registered business and registered company in NSW Australia.

Any purpose for which we have obtained your consent.

We do not use or disclose your personal information for direct marketing purposes unless we have obtained your consent to this, such as through an opt-in tick box on any form or website of ours.

Where you have consented to this, we may use your personal information to carry out direct marketing and send you marketing messages, materials, adverts and promotions relating to hospitality services we provide.
You have the right to ask us to stop using your personal information to carry out direct marketing to you. To opt-out of receiving direct marketing from us, please follow the instructions detailed at the bottom of all our email marketing communications or email us at info@cuban-adventures.com . In any email you send, we would ask you to insert “unsubscribe” as the subject heading.

TO WHOM WILL WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Big Planet Adventures uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience’s demographics. We may disclose your personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy to: our employees and related bodies corporate; third party suppliers and service
providers including those who assist with the operation of our websites and/or in connection with providing our services to you. For example, your personal information may be shared with: third parties who provide us with data analytics, marketing and market research services that we use to shape our business strategies and marketing campaigns; suppliers of transport services, local service providers; our professional advisers, such as lawyers and accountants; payment system operators, for example, merchants receiving payments; our existing or potential agents or business partners, such as companies we enter into arrangements with for the operation of our tours and services; 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); specific third parties authorised by you to receive information held by use; and /or other persons, including government agencies, regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, or as required, authorised or permitted by law.

While we store personal information in Australia, where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia.

Big Planet Adventures operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.The personal information we collect from you online is stored by us and/or our service providers on databases protected through a combination of physical and electronic access controls, firewall technology and other reasonable security measures. While we are committed to security, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.

Our websites may contain links to websites operated and maintained by third parties over which we have absolutely no control. These third party websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy or our privacy standards and procedures. Any information you provide to third-party websites will be governed by the terms of the websites’ privacy policies. We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content, actions or policies of third party websites. The inclusion of third party links on our websites in no way constitutes an endorsement of such websites’ content, actions or policies.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?

We keep your personal information for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which we use it, and if longer, for any duration required by law, and for statutory claims limitation periods where your personal information may be relevant to any possible liability we may have to you.

- PRIVACY LAWS
We process your personal information in accordance with the following privacy law(s): the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 which regulates the handling of personal information about individuals. This includes the collection, use, storage and disclosure of personal information. Our regulator is the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) (http://www.oaic.gov.au/).
- OTHER LAWS
We also comply generally with the laws of Australia in relation to the processing of your personal information, and not any other laws.

Your choice: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you provide personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not it may affect our ability to provide our Services to you and your use of our Services.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Requests for Access and Correction: You are entitled to access and correct the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in the information corrected. However, in order to maintain the accuracy of your personal information, we rely on the quality of the personal information you provide to us. If you would like to access, update or correct any of the personal information we hold about you, you may do so using the Contact Details below and informing us that you wish to access or correct your personal information. There are some circumstances specified by law where we may refuse your request for access to and/or the correction of your personal information. However, if one of these circumstances applies, we will provide you with a written explanation of the reasons for refusal, unless it would be unreasonable to provide that notice.
Once we receive your request for access or correction, we will endeavour to respond to your request within a reasonable period after the request is made. We may also charge reasonable costs for responding to your request.
Complaints: If you have any concerns or a complaint about a breach of your privacy or the way we have handled your personal information, please contact us using the Contact Details below and inform us of the nature of your complaint. We will then investigate your complaint and endeavour to provide you with our response within a reasonable time. If, after receiving our response you still consider that your privacy complaint remains unresolved, you may then, for example, refer your concern to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at www.oaic.gov.au.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or about how we process your personal information, please contact us either by e-mail to assist@cuban-adventures.com

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without notice to you, including by publishing a new version on our websites. You should check this Privacy Policy for updates each time you visit our websites to be sure that you are aware of any changes. You should check the top of the document to see the latest version in force. Any change will be prospective only, and we will not make any changes that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.

This Policy is subject to the law of Australia. You may obtain further information regarding privacy issues in Australia by visiting the Australian Information Commissioner’s website at http://www.oaic.gov.au/.

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