Privacy

Our Commitment

Welcome to AccomNet.Au (accom.net.au), your online accommodation superstore for up-to-date information on hotels, resorts, hostels, backpackers and other accommodation and lodgings throughout the world. The Travel Around Company, the founders of AccomNet.Au, are also frequent internet users, so we understand how serious you are about protecting your private information – we’re serious about it, too!

To help you understand our privacy policies better, we’ve attempted to explain it as simply and plainly as we can. That way, you can feel comfortable that we are just as dedicated to your privacy as we are to ours.

Use Of Third Party Websites

AccomNet.Au does not sell accommodation. This website collects and streams data from many third party sources in order to bring you a wide range of accommodation deals and options from which you can choose to reserve your arrangements. These partners are listed on our partners page.

All information required and collected when making an online accommodation reservation through our links is collected securely and confidentially between yourself and our accommodation partners. All information collected when making an online accommodation reservation remains confidential between yourself and the relevant accommodation partner. AccomNet.Au does not receive or retain any personal information as a part of the online booking process.

Information Collected by AccomNet.Au

Our computers collect non-personally identifiable data (your IP address, how often you visit our site, which pages you visit, etc.) each time you visit AccomNet.Au. We use this information to make your experience on our website better – simpler and easier to use. Hopefully!

We will only collect personally identifiable data (your name, email address, phone number, etc.) on forms YOU complete when corresponding directly with us. This information might be used for promotions, specials, or to contact you when you have a question. YOU are in complete control of what personally identifiable information you give us.

The bottom line is that any information we may collect from you remains confidential unless you give us express permission to give it to another website. We do not knowingly collect private information from minors, and we don’t sell your information to any other websites for any reason. That’s it in a nutshell! If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us by email or at:

The Travel Around Company
PO Box 676
Moorebank NSW 1875
Australia

Use of Collected Information

We will never sell your information – either kind – to anyone else, including other websites or spammers. However, if we have another company help us perform some function of our website, we will give them only the information needed to perform the function, and they are prohibited from using the information in any other way.

Also, we might share your non-personally identifiable data with third party advertisers – that’s folks who want to advertise on our website in order to offer you products and services that, as a world traveler, you might like.

Finally, we may disclose personal information if required to by law or if we believe such disclosure is necessary to
a) conform to the requirements of the law,
b) comply with a legal process served on our Company or the website, and
c) protect and/or defend our Company, website, employees, and users.

Children

AccomNet.Au does not knowingly collect any information from children or minors.

Cookies

Cookies are a standard Internet technology. Cookies are a small text file that is put on your hard drive by the server that hosts a web page. They can’t be used to gain control of your computer or to put a virus on your computer. No one else can read our cookies, and we only use them to improve the quality of our service to you. Your Internet browser was probably originally set up to accept cookies, but you can always reset it to refuse them or to ask you each time a site tries to put one on your computer. Please note, if you don’t let us install our cookie on your computer, you can still use the website, but some parts of it might not work correctly.

Acquisition

That’s the fancy term meaning thatif we sell AccomNet.Au or The Travel Around Company or merge with another company or business. If we do, your information might be transferred to the new company.

Security

We are as committed to the security of your computer system as we are to your privacy. We use various types of standard Internet security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

Changes in Privacy Policy

AccomNet.Au might choose to update our privacy policy occasionally. If we do, we will post a notice on the website so you can review any changes and how they might affect you. Also, please review this page from time to time to make sure you haven’t missed any such notices. By continuing to use AccomNet.Au, you are agreeing to this privacy policy and any updates we make to it.

Effective Date

This Privacy Statement is effective as of 01 May 2010.