INTRODUCTION
The Golden Sands Motor Inn regards customer privacy as an important part of our relationship with our customers.The following privacy policy applies to all Golden Sands Motor Inn users, and conforms to Internet privacy standards.
If you have any question or concers regarding this statement, you should first contact the Golden Sands Motor Inn at 02 65546222.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
In order to use the Golden Sands Motor Inn web site, we may require information from you in order to provide the best service possible.
All correspondence may also be collected and stored, paticularly in regard to sales,support and accounts, including Email.
Any information collected by Golden Sands Motor Inn is collected via correspondence from you or your company. This may be via the telephone, Email, fax or directly through our website.
USE OF COLLECTION INFORMATION
Any details collected from the GoldenSands Motor Inn customers is required in order to provide you with our products and/or services, and a high level of customer service.
Correspondence is recorded in order to provide service references, and to assist in our staff development.
STORAGE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers) on our website, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology SSL. When Credit Card details are collected, we simply pass them on in order to be processed as required. We never permanently store complete Credit Card details.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can email us at bookings@goldensands.net.au
ACCESS TO COLLECTED INFORMATION
If your personal identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at bookings@goldensands.net.au
ORDERS
If you purchase a product or service from us, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you.You may be required to provide contact information ( such as name,Email, and postal address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
COMMUNICATIONS
The Golden Sands Motor Inn uses personally indentifiable information for essential communications, such as Emails, accounts inforamtion. and critical service details. We may also use this inforamtion, including some promotional Emails. If at any time a customer wishes not to receive such correspondence.they can request to be removed from any mailing lists by emailing us at bookings@goldensands.net.au
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to wheather or not to share your information with that party.
THIRD PARTIES
The Golden Sands Motor Inn may at its discretion use other third parties to provide essential services on our site or for our business processes. We may share your details as necessary for the third party to provide that service.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally indentifiable information for any other purpose.
The Golden Sands Motor Inn does not share any information with third parties for any unknown or unrelated uses.
LEGAL
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website.
LINKS
Linls on The Golden Sands Motor Inn site to external entries are not covered within this policy. The terms and conditions set out in this privacy statement only cover the domain name of Golden Sands Motor Inn Website.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to the privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it , and under what circumstances, if any , we disclose it. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here , by Email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
GOLDEN SANDS MOTOR INN SECURITY POLICY
The Golden Sands Motor inn uses eWAY Payment Gateway for its online credit card transactions. eWAY processes online credit card transactions for thousands of Australian merchants, providing a safe and secure means of collecting payment via the Internet.
All online credit card transactions performed on this site using eWAY gateway are secured payments.
Payments are fully automated with immediate response.
Your complete credit card number cannot be viewed by The Golden Sands Motor Inn or any outside party.
All transactions are performed under 128 Bit SSl Certificate.
All transaction data is encrypted for storage within eWAY's bank-grade data centre, further protecting your credit card data.
eWAY is an authorised third party processor for all the major Australian banks.
eWAY at no time touches your funds: all monies are directly transferred from your credit card to the merchant account held by The Golden Sands Motor inn.
For more information about eWAY and online credit card payments, please visit www.eWAY.com.au
CUSTOMER TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You must be at least 18 years of age to make a booking of any accommodation displayed on our site.
You must make payment for accommodation booked on the site at the time of booking and you agree to make payment via a debit to your nominated credit card. The amount debited will be the amount shown on our booking page. Depending upon the currency of the booking, your credit card's currency and the country in which your card was issued, your credit card provider may impose foreign exchange fees and other fees which are in accordance with your arrangements with that credit card provider.
If you wish to change any deyails of your booking, you must contact our Customer Service Centre. Email bookings@goldensands.net.au We will do our best to assist you but cannot guarantee that changes will be made.
You may be required to provide to provide a credit card imprint or equivalent at check in to cover incidental charges.
The person registering at check in must be at least 18 years of age.
In addition, to eliminate identity fraud the Golden Sands Motor Inn may ask you to provide photo ID at check-in to ensure that your identity matches the booking identity. A record and/or copy of this photo ID may be retained by the Golden Snda Motor Inn to minimise the risk of fraudulent credit card usage and for verification purposes with your credit card provider in the event of disputation.
We always try to settle any issues or complaints quickly and fairly. Any correspondence should be sent to Attention: Customer Service, Golden Sands Motor Inn, 6 Head St Forster, 2428, NSW, Australia, or by facsimile +61 2 6554 6222, or by email bookings@goldensands.net.au
Images and content on the Golden Sands Motor Inn website may not be copied, saved or used in any format other than as incidental to your permitted use of the site.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations must be made 48 hours before check-in time (which is 2pm) on the day of check-in or one nights accommodation will be charged.
During the Christmas School Holidays cancellations must be made 96 hours (4 days) before check-in or a minimum of one nights accommodation will be charged.