HOTELS CONNECT PRIVACY POLICY
 

1.    PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

1.1.    In registering as a User, You may provide Hotels Connect with Personal Information. When Hotels Connect does collect Personal Information for the purposes of generating a User account, such information will be provided by that User and may include the User’s name, postal address, telephone number and email address. 
1.2.    You must have all necessary consents to disclose and/or provide any Personal Information, and you warrant that you have procured those consents.
1.3.    Hotels Connect’s computer servers may record details about any computer which is used to access the System (such as the IP address, operating system and browser type), the date and time of access, and details of the information downloaded.
1.4.    Hotels Connect will comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act with respect to your Personal Information. 
1.5.    Hotels Connect will not provide your Personal Information to government agencies, organisations or anyone else unless:

(a)    you have consented to Hotels Connect providing such information;
(b)    Hotels Connect has notified You that it will be providing such information;
(c)    the provision of such information is required or authorised by law;
(d)    the provision of such information will prevent or obviate a serious and imminent threat to a person’s life or health; or
(e)    the disclosure is reasonably necessary for law enforcement.
1.6.    You may request that Hotels Connect remove your Personal Information from its database by emailing Hotels Connect or using the contact form on the Website.

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2.    YOUR INFORMATION

2.1.    You own and will continue to own at all times all of the rights, title and interest in and to Your Information and you are solely responsible for the legality, reliability, integrity, accuracy and quality of Your Information.
2.2.    You continually warrant that You are the owner or licensee of all Your Information; that You have all rights and consents required to provide Your Information to Hotels Connect; and that Hotels Connect’s use of Your Information in accordance with this these Terms will not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights or any other rights of any third party or of any of Your directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents.
2.3.    While you remain a User, Hotels Connect may analyse the way in which you use the System, the Application and the Website for the purposes of developing the System or assessing its business operations. You acknowledge that any Insights created by Hotels Connect in doing this is the sole and exclusive property of Hotels Connect.
2.4.    You grant to Hotels Connect a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully transferable, sub-licensable right to access and use Your Information for the purpose of providing access to the System and undertaking an analysis of the use of the System.

3.    DEFINITIONS: 

Application means the mobile software providing an interface into the System;

Australian Consumer Law means Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and the corresponding provisions of State fair trading legislation;

Intellectual Property Rights means all intellectual property rights (whether created before, on or after the date of this Agreement and whether registered or unregistered) in respect of copyright, any patents, trademarks, logos, designs, software, domain names, business or trade name, together with marketing concepts and designs, product knowledge, training systems and materials, protection of confidential information, circuit layouts, inventions, know-how, product or business concepts, details of product development, and any other identifiable result of intellectual endeavour, whether arising under statute or otherwise or any similar industrial property right or any right to, or application for registration of, any of them;

Force Majeure means any act or event caused by any factor that is not within the reasonable control of Hotels Connect, including without limitation, act of God; war; national emergency; cyber-attack; explosion; damage to telecommunications infrastructure or internet services or Hotels Connect’s failure or delay;

Insights means the derived results from insights and analytics of the System including your use of the Application, Website and System as compiled by Hotels Connect or its agents or contractors;

Personal Information has the meaning given to it in the Privacy Act;

Privacy Act means Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) as amended from time to time;

System means the software known as “Hotels Connect” and all of its associated services and/or functionality and which is accessible through the Application together with all of Hotels Connect’s Intellectual Property Rights attaching to or in respect of it;

Virus means anything or device (including any software, code, file or programme) which may: prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect the operation of any computer software, hardware or network, any telecommunications service, equipment or network or any other service or device; prevent, impair or otherwise adversely affect access to or the operation of any programme or data, including the reliability of any programme or data (whether by re-arranging, altering or erasing the programme or data in whole or part or otherwise); or adversely affect the user experience, including worms, trojan horses, viruses and other similar things or devices;

Website means the website with the designated URL www.hotelsconnect.com.au and its associated services and/or functionality;

Your Information means all documents, data, records and information relating to You provided by You to Hotels Connect in connection with the System, including without limitation any Personal Information.