PRIVACY POLICY & SECURITY POLICY
Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd is committed to protecting the privacy and security of any personally identifiable information you provide us, namely your name, address and e-mail address. It is optional as to whether you place your telephone number and fax number on your property listing for display to the public, but this is not a requirement of the listing.
Persons contacting members through the website, will do so by selecting the ”e-mail member” button. Once the member receives the e-mail, he/she may choose to respond to the e-mail (in which case they will most likely voluntarily provide the respondent with their e-mail address and possibly other details such as their name, telephone number etc.) The website does not monitor or record emails between individuals.
Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd collects information regarding the member, so they can enquire from the member regarding any information published by the member onsite, to keep members informed of any changes to the website, to facilitate any communications or to receive our (optional) newsletter that will contain important website information or news. Members provide their personal information when they subscribe to the website, make queries, subscribe to newsletters, enter competitions or provide new listings to the site.
Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd will not disclose your personal information to any person or organisation outside of Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd, unless legally required to do so. The names and contact information you provide us are not sold to anyone.
Unless as specified above, information about you will not be deliberately shared with third parties, without your express consent, and you will have opportunity to choose not to share that information.
This site includes third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites.
Holiday Homes Club follows the United States and European Union Safe Harbour principles for privacy protection.
To protect the confidentiality of your information and continuity of service, we employ leading security technology and procedures that are regularly reviewed and updated. Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd does not warrant and cannot warrant the security of any information sent to our website. Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd does not warrant that your access to or use of the site will always be continuous or uninterrupted (e.g. upgrades and maintenance are necessary from time to time). Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd, its directors or staff, will not be liable for any loss or damage (including without limitation, any consequential loss or damage) suffered by you from your inability to access the site, your operation of the site or in relation to any services offered through the site.
For any electronic payments, the services of PayPal are used, which is an industry and world leader in the protection and management of data transmission (consult www.paypal.com).
Use of PayPal
Payments are made over the Internet using PayPal. PayPal enables you to send payments securely without sharing your financial information. PayPal is the preferred electronic service for famous websites such as eBay.
You may use PayPal to pay Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd, pay prospective landlords or to receive payments from prospective tenants.
PayPal runs on Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 (SSL) or higher. Information is protected by SSL with an encryption key length of 128 bits (the highest level commercially available). PayPal stores your information on servers that are heavily guarded, both physically and electronically. To further shield your credit card and bank number, PayPal does not directly connect their firewall protected servers to the internet. Further information about PayPal can be found at www.paypal.com.
LINKS
The Holiday Homes Club website has links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users visitors to read the privacy statements of each and every site they visit that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Holiday Homes Club website.
It is up to the subscribing member to update and maintain the currency of their personal information, as well as the information published on their properties. Members may cancel their membership and have their personal details removed from the database, by contacting us through the
Contact Us
section of the website or removing their details through the
Member Login
section of the site. If you do not wish to receive future marketing or promotional material from Holiday Homes Club, you may contact us through the
Contact Us
section of the website to have your details removed from the database.
If you visit or use the Holiday Homes Club websites, you are subject to the
Terms and Conditions of Use, and
copyright
policies of the websites. Should you have any concerns about privacy on the Holiday Homes Club website, please contact us through the
Contact Us
section, and we will try to resolve them.
Holiday Homes Club Pty Ltd reserves the right to amend this policy at any time and for any reason. Any material changes to this policy will be sent out to members, prior to their implementation. The most current versions of a policy will be displayed on the website. We stand behind the promise that we will not make our policies less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Your continued use of the site, once notified of the changes, constitutes your acceptance of these changes.
DATE Policy was last revised: August 2008 |
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