Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Environmental Encounters which operates at a regional level. We are based in Australia. Our principal activities are ecotours and adventure trips throughout Western Australia. Protecting your privacy and your personal data is an important aspect of the way we create, organise and implement our activities on-line and off-line.

This privacy policy covers ENVIRONMENTAL ENCOUNTERS AUSTRALIA and our website:

Privacy Support

If you have any enquiry about our privacy policy, please contact:

Name: Tom & Sylvia Grove
Address: Suite B8, 550 Canning Highway, Attadale 6156, Western Australia, Australia
Phone: (08) 9330 2060
Fax: (08) 9330 6077
Email: eea@environmentalencounters.com.au

Privacy Compliance

Our privacy policy is compliant with the following national instrument: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

We are committed to a compliance procedure that attests that our privacy policy respects the above privacy instruments. For more detail, please click here

Purpose Specification & Data Collection

You can access our website home page and browse our website www.environmentalencounters.com.au without disclosing personal data. We collect your personal data only with your knowledge or your consent.

We only collect the personal data that you volunteer when you join our email list, or by email.

Cookies

We do not use cookies on our website.

All our employees and processors who have access to your personal data and are associated with the processing of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

Visitor Choice

You may choose to receive promotional information from our website or organisation by sending an email to: eea@environmentalencounters.com.au,
by sending postal mail to this address: Suite B8, 550 Canning Highway, Attadale WA 6156
by calling this telephone number: (08) 9330 2060
by fax: (08) 9330 6077

You may choose not to receive promotional information from our website or organisation by sending an email to: eea@environmentalencounters.com.au,
by sending postal mail to this address: Suite B8, 550 Canning Highway, Attadale WA 6156
by calling this telephone number: (08) 9330 2060
by fax: (08) 9330 6077

Disclosure

We do not disclose your personal information to any third party.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Individual Partcipation/Access

You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you:

by sending an email to: eea@environmentalencounters.com.au,
by sending postal mail to this address: Suite B8, 550 Canning Highway, Attadale WA 6156
by calling this telephone number: (08) 9330 2060
by fax: (08) 9330 6077

Upon request:

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you.
We will provide the information almost instantaneously on-line without any charge.
We allow you to change the data that we hold about you, by erasure.

Security

We have implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorised access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction, accidental loss.

Privacy Compliance Details

The Privacy Principles of the OECD Guidelines

Collection Limitation Principle

There should be limits to the collection of personal data and any such data should be obtained by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the data subject.

Data Quality Principle

Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which they are to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete and kept up-to-date.

Purpose Specification Principle

The purposes for which personal data are collected should be specified not later than at the time of data collection and the subsequent use limited to the fulfilment of those purposes or such others as are not incompatible with those purposes and as are specified on each occasion of change of purpose.

Use Limitation Principle

Personal data should not be disclosed, made available or otherwise used for purposes other than those specified in accordance with Paragraph 9 [Purpose Specification Principle] of the
OECD Privacy Guidelines except:
a) with the consent of the data subject; or
b) by the authority of law.

Security Safeguards Principle

Personal data should be protected by reasonable security safeguards against such risks as loss or unauthorised access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure of data.

Openness Principle

There should be a general policy of openness about developments, practices and policies with respect to personal data. Means should be readily available of establishing the existence and nature of personal data, and the main purposes of their use, as well as the identity and usual residence of the Data Controller.

Individual Participation Principle

An individual should have the right:

a) to obtain from a data controller, or otherwise, confirmation of whether or not the data controller has data relating to him;
b) to have communicated to him, data relating to him within a reasonable time; at a charge, if any, that is not excessive; in a reasonable manner; and in a form that is readily intelligible to him;
c) to be given reasons if a request made under subparagraphs(a) and (b) is denied, and to be able to challenge such denial; and
d) to challenge data relating to him and, if the challenge is successful to have the data erased, rectified, completed or amended.

Accountability Principle

A Data Controller should be accountable for complying with measures which give effect to the principles stated above.

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