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This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains in general terms how Slow Tours Pty Ltd ("Slow Tours", "we" "our" or "us") protects the privacy of your personal information. We are firmly committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information and maintain robust physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information in our care.
Personal information is information or an opinion, in any form (whether true or not) about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion. How do we collect personal information? Where practical we will collect personal information directly from you. Generally, this will be collected by us when you deal with us either in person, by telephone, letter, facsimile, email or when you visit our website or other social media applications. We may request information about you when you purchase or make enquires about our products and services; when you enter competitions, register for promotions or when you request brochures or other information. We may also collect information when we invite you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback.
Generally, the type of personal information we collect about you is the information that is needed to facilitate your travel arrangements and bookings and to provide travel services and products to you. For example, we may collect details such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, credit card number and expiry date, passport details, dietary requirements (if any) and health issues relevant to your travel arrangements. We also collect information that is required for use in the business activities of Slow Tours, including for example, financial details necessary in order for us to process various transactions and any other information you may elect to provide to us. We are required by law to obtain your consent to the collection of sensitive information. We will assume that you have consented to the collection of all information which is provided to us for use in accordance with this Policy, unless you tell us otherwise.
We will use your personal information to provide you with travel and travel related products and services. We may use and disclose your personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, or for a related or ancillary purpose such as any one or more of the following purposes:
We may disclose your personal information:
Where we engage third party contractors to perform services for us those third party contractors may be required to handle your personal information. Under these circumstances those third party contractors must safeguard this information and must only use it for the purposes for which it was supplied, although we are not responsible for ensuring this. Other than the above, we will not disclose your personal information without your consent unless disclosure is either necessary to prevent a threat to life or health, authorised or required by law, reasonably necessary to enforce the law or necessary to investigate a suspected unlawful activity.
In providing our services to you it may be necessary for us to forward personal information to relevant overseas third party service providers. Please let us know if you have any objections to such transfers.
Slow Tours has implemented appropriate physical, electronic and managerial security procedures in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We will regularly review security and encryption technologies and will strive to protect information to the fullest extent possible.
Under the Act you have a right of access to the personal information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right, please submit a request in writing to: Slow Tours Pty Ltd., PO Box 1265, Blackwood S.A 5051 Australia
Requests by telephone, fax, or e-mail cannot be accepted.
In accordance with the Act, Slow Tours is not obliged to comply with your request unless the prescribed fee is paid, and sufficient security information is provided to establish the requestor's identity, and locate the appropriate information. Please enclose the following with your request:
You will receive an acknowledgement of your request quoting the date by which you will receive your information pack. Further correspondence regarding your request should only be made in writing to the above address. We may recover from you any additional reasonable costs of supplying you with access to this information.
Should you no longer wish to receive information on direct mail promotions and services we think may be of interest to you or participate in market research, kindly advise us. If you would like to unsubscribe from the email newsletter, please e-mail 'unsubscribe’ at [email protected]
A cookie is a small piece of text that is placed within the memory of a computer and can be later retrieved by web page servers. We use cookies to enhance your interaction and convenience with our website and do not use cookies to record any personal information.
Slow Tours has partnered with reputable third parties to offer our site visitors a variety of products and services. This means that our website may contain links to, or framing of, external web sites. Although we only work with reputable third parties, our business partners may have different privacy policies and practices from ours. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites and therefore, make no warranties and accept no liability in relation to material contained on these. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of any linked or framed web site before submitting any personal information.
We welcome your inquiries or comments about our Policy. Should you have any comments or complaints please contact us at [email protected]
From time to time it may be necessary for us to review and revise this Policy. We reserve the right to change our Policy at any time, should this occur the amendment would be posted on our website.