Privacy policy

Privacy Policy V1.1

Blue Mountains Picnics ABN: 93 634 637 246 (BMP) recognises and respects the importance of protecting the privacy and rights of individuals personal information. This document is our privacy policy and tells you how we collect and handle personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988.

Introduction

This privacy policy describes how BMP collects, handles, uses and discloses your personal information. By providing us with your personal information, you consent to us using and disclosing it for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will update this policy as required or when our information handling practices change. Any updated privacy policy will take effect when it is published on our website. This version of the policy was published on 7th October 2021.

What information we may collect

Typical personal information we may collect includes; your name, address, email, telephone numbers, age or birth date, occupation or job title and any additional information relating to you that you provide to us directly or indirectly through use of our websites or online presence, through our representatives or otherwise any information you provide to us. We may also collect information that is not personal information because it does not identify you or anyone else. An example of this is anonymous answers to surveys or aggregated information about how users use our website or social media.

How we collect personal information

How we collect your personal information will vary depending on our relationship with you, the circumstances of collection and the type of services you request from us. Typical ways we gather personal information include

  • BMP Website
  • Facebook and other social media
  • Telephone calls
  • E-mail or letters
  • Entering competitions, promotions or giveaways
  • Third parties such as your representatives, employer or publicly available databases where you have given your consent.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We collect, hold and use your personal information to enable us to perform our functions and activities and in return provide the best possible client experience. Examples of how we use your personal information include

  • To maintain our records and comply with regulations and legal obligations
  • To provide products and services to you such as luxury picnics, proposals and elopements.
  • To communicate with you as requested
  • To provide customer support including responding to enquiries, complaints and general feedback
  • To distribute our general communication relating to any booked Picnics
  • To conduct marketing activities to promote our products and services including direct forms of marketing such as email, facebook advertising and all other general forms of advertising. This also includes our sister business The Amazing Challenge which trades under the same entity as BMP.
  • To assess the performance of our website and marketing campaigns in order to improve their operations
  • To analyse data and perform general customer insights

How we handle your personal information

We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or exposure. We require all our Employees, Contractors and Agents (Representatives) to maintain the confidentiality of customer information. Access to information stored electronically is restricted to our Representatives whose job requires access to the information. Access to our computer systems is restricted through password protection. If we no longer need your personal information, we destroy or remove the identity information.

As our website and other systems are linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.

Use of cookies

We may use cookies and tools, such as pixels and analytics to collect, store and monitor visitor traffic information and actions on our website. Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer that allows our websites to “remember you” when you return to our websites. These cookies and tools are not used to record any personal information.

Third party services we utilise may also leave cookies in your browser. They may have their own privacy policies that govern their use of cookies. The information collected by these tools may include geolocation data, the IP address of the device you are using and information about websites that the IP address has come from, the pages accessed on our website and the next website visited. Third party services used by BMP include facebook advertising, google ads, google analytics and other similar services.

BMP may use and combine this information to maintain, secure and improve our websites, enhance your experience when using our websites, display and deliver relevant content, services and advertising and understand the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising (including direct marketing and online ads on external websites).

If you want to prevent cookies being used, you can change your browser settings to disable cookies. However, this might mean that your access to parts of our website is limited, or you may experience reduced functionality when accessing certain website functions.

Disclosure of personal information

We may disclose your personal information to our employees, contractors or other third parties that we use in the ordinary operation of our business. For example, if you provide us with personal information including your phone number, we may disclose it to our contractors who setup the Picnics and may need to contact you if there are any issues.

If your personal information is disclosed to third parties, these third parties are strictly prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose. We will only disclose to these third parties that information necessary for them to perform their services. Otherwise, we do not disclose personal information unless we are required to do so by law or regulation.

Access to your personal information

It is important to us that the information we hold about you is up-to-date, accurate and complete, and we will try to confirm your details through our communications with you and promptly add updated or new personal information to existing records when we are advised. If any of your details change, please notify us as soon as you can. If you believe we are holding information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, you can ask us to correct it or delete it altogether.

If you would like to access your personal information, or ask us to update, correct or delete it, you can do so by contacting us in writing and verifying your identity. We will do our best to respond to your request within 5 business days.

We will only refuse access in exceptional circumstances, and if this is the case, we will advise you of our reasons for doing so.

We may charge a fee for searching for, and providing access to, your information on a per request basis which will be advised before the information is given.

Privacy complaints and further information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, any concerns or feedback regarding the treatment of your privacy, please use the contact link on our website or contact us via info@bluemountainspicnics.com.au

We will treat your requests or complaints confidentially. Our representative will contact you within a reasonable time after receipt of your complaint to discuss your concerns and outline options regarding how they may be resolved. We will aim to ensure that your complaint is resolved in a timely and appropriate manner.