PRIVACY STATEMENT

Your privacy is important to us

The Beverley Bed & Breakfast has always upheld the standard for privacy protection and continues to be dedicated to protecting your personal information. From 21 December 2001, the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 1000 will give you certain rights in relation to how your personal information is handled. The National Privacy Principles governs the collection, use, storage and disclosure of personal and sensitive information. The following statement addresses the relevant privacy issues.

 Information we may collect

The type of information that we may collect from you will depend on what offers and services you acquire from the Beverley Bed & Breakfast. We may obtain personal information through our web site, by e-mail, by telephone, by written responses or when you stay at the Beverley Bed & Breakfast.  In a few areas on our web site we may ask you to provide information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. This information enables us to assist you with any enquiries, to enable you to download any information from our web sites or to follow up with you after your visit. 

Generally the information we ask you to provide is restricted to your name, your telephone numbers, your company name and address, and your e-mail address. It is optional for you to provide us with your personnel information. The Beverley Bed & Breakfast also may make limited use of cookies on its web site. We would only use cookies to improve the functionality of our web site, not to store any of your personal information. When cookies are used on this site, they are used to store information relating to your visit such as a unique identifier, or a value to indicate whether you have seen a web page and to distinguish your Internet Browser from the thousands of other browsers. The cookies help us develop the design and layout of the web site, improve applications and measure the effectiveness of our marketing activities. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of your browser to refuse all cookies or notify you each time a cookie is sent to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not.

 Use of information collected

As a standard practice, we do not give or share any personally identifiable or private customer information with third parties, unless they are acting as an intermediary. The personal information we collect is used only for the purposes stated to support your customer relationship with the Beverley Bed & Breakfast. Among other things, we want to help you obtain service and company information. We may use direct marketing to alert you to special offers and services. If at any time you do not wish to receive further marketing information, you have the option to ask us not to send it to you and not to disclose your information to our intermediaries for that purpose. You may do this by contacting our Privacy officer at The Privacy Officer or on telephone (08)9646 0073

 Data security

All stored customer information is retained on a secure server and is protected from unauthorized access through the use of, but not limited to any or all of, fire-walls, secure passwords, user logins or other security procedures. However, we wish to emphasize the fact that the internet is not a secure environment. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are on-line. If you post personal information on-line that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. While we strive to protect your personal information, the Beverley Bed & Breakfast cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet, and you do so at your own risk. We intend to destroy or de-identify the information you provided to us if it is no longer required for the purpose it was obtained for. Beverley Bed & Breakfast also cannot warrant that your email details or addresses may not fall into the hands of persons that send un-solicited emails, known as Spam, as often these details are obtained without our knowledge from other servers used in conjunction with the transmission of your email to us. We will not knowingly release any such email details to any third party for the use of Spam.

 Accuracy of information colleted

We aim to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is current and accurate. If you think that the information is inaccurate, please contact us at:

The Privacy Officer

or on telephone (08)9646 0073 and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.