This is Apex Travel's Privacy Notice.
Apex Travel respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or when you otherwise provide personal data to us via other means (such as over the telephone, via email or by text message) (regardless of where you provide it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Please also refer to the Glossary that we have set out at the end of the Policy if there is any terminology used in this privacy notice that you are unfamiliar with or that you don’t fully understand.
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Apex Travel collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide through this website or via any other means (such as over the telephone, online portals, via email or by text message) when you purchase travel services, when you sign up to our newsletter, when you take part in a competition etc.
This website is not intended for children and the only circumstances in which we collect data relating to children, is where you make a booking of travel services and you have children in your party.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Data Controller
Apex Travel is made up of different legal entities. This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the Apex Travel Group so when we mention “Apex Travel”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant company in the Apex Travel Group responsible for processing your data.
Apex Travel Group Pty Limited and Apex Travel Pty Limited are the controllers and are responsible for this website. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact Apex Travel using the details set out below.
We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.
Contact details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Apex Travel Group Pty Limited (ABN 99 641 225 354)
Name or title: Luke Hardaker - Director
Email address: info@apextravel.com.au
Postal address: Ground Floor, 191 Cleveland Street, Redfern NSW 2016
Telephone number: +61 2 8823 0680
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on 04.03.2021 and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if any of the details you provide to us should change, during the course of your relationship with us.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data
This includes data relating specifically to your identity, such as your first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data
This includes data relating to how you may be contacted, such as your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data
This includes data relating to your means and methods of payment, such as your bank account and payment card details.
Transaction Data
This includes data relating to the transactions you have carried out with us, such as details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data
This includes more technical data that we may obtain when you make use of our website, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data
This includes the data that we receive when you create a profile on our website and make use of that policy, such as your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data
This includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data
This includes your preferences in relation to whether you want to receive marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we will treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
Special Categories of Personal Data
We collect the following special categories of personal data about you. Details about your:
- dietary requirements which may disclose your religious or philosophical beliefs;
- health;
- race or ethnicity;
- genetic and biometric data.
We collect and process the above data only where it is strictly necessary to do so in order to deliver the travel service that you have purchased. Furthermore, we will only collect and process the above special categories of sensitive personal data where you have provided us with your explicit consent to do so.
You are not under any obligation to consent to us processing your sensitive personal data. However, without your consent, we won’t be able to make the necessary arrangements to provide the travel services that you have booked or are attempting to book.
As a result, if you do not provide your consent, we will be unable to proceed with your booking. If you are happy to consent to the use of your sensitive personal data, you will also be able to withdraw your consent at any time.
However, as this will prevent us from arranging the provision of the travel service you have booked, we will be required to treat any withdrawal of consent as a cancellation of your booking and inform the supplier, in which case the cancellation terms of the relevant supplier will become applicable.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or where we are acting as an agent and we need to collect personal data to enter you into a contract with the supplier of your chosen travel arrangements, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In other words, where we require details from you in order to arrange for the provision of your chosen travel services, if you do not provide us with the necessary details then we will not be able to arrange for the provision of the services you have booked or are attempting to book. In this case, depending upon when you fail to provide the necessary data, we may either not be able to arrange for the provision of your booking or we may have inform the supplier, who will be required to cancel your booking. We will notify you if we are unable to process a booking.
3. How your personal data is collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
• make a booking of travel services;
• where you register to attend an event organised by Apex Travel, whether on our behalf or on behalf of a client;
• create an account on our website;
• subscribe to our newsletter or other publications;
• request marketing to be sent to you;
• enter a competition, promotion or survey;
• give us some feedback; or
• contact us requesting further information about our services.
Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
Third parties We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
· Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.
4. How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
When we are acting as an agent, where we need to take steps to enter you into a contract with the supplier of your chosen travel services.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data except in certain circumstances to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message, unless we are able to rely upon our legitimate interest in doing so, or to process special categories of personal data.
You have the right to withdraw consent for either of these purposes at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal grounds we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity
To register you as a new customer.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Financial.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest Performance of a contract with you.
Purpose/Activity
To process and deliver your booking/event including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges;
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Financial;
(d) Transaction;
(e) Marketing and Comuniactions.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you;
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us.)
Purpose/Activity
Handle special category data, including biometric passport information to facilitate your travel related bookings.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Biometric.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you;
(b) the data subject has given explicit consent to the processing of those personal data for one or more specified purposes, except where Union or Member State law provide that the prohibition referred to in paragraph 1 may not be lifted by the data subject.
Purpose/Activity To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy;
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Profile;
(d) Marketing and Communications.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you;
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation;(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services).
Purpose/Activity
Providing Account Management services to your account, including reviews of travel spend and patterns for example.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Profile;
(d) Usage;
(e) Technical;
(f) Transaction;
(g) Financial.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest Performance of a contract with you.
Purpose/Activity
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey. Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Profile;
(d) Usage;
(e) Marketing and Communications.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Performance of a contract with you;
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business).
Purpose/Activity
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Technical.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise);
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
Purpose/Activity To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
Type of data
(a) Identity;
(b) Contact;
(c) Profile;
(d) Usage;
(e) Marketing and Communications;
(f) Technical.
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy).
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the Apex Travel group of companies for marketing purposes.
Opting out
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data that you have provided to us as a result of a purchase of travel services or other such transactions.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of Apex Travel websites may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.
Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International transfers
We share your personal data within the Apex Travel Group. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
In addition, many of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Where you have requested a booking for travel arrangements which are located or otherwise due to be fulfilled outside the EEA, we will have to transfer your personal data to the suppliers fulfilling or providing those travel arrangements outside the EEA in order to make your booking and for those suppliers to be able to provide you with the travel arrangements you have booked.
Where we are unable to rely on one of the safeguards outlined below when transferring data to those suppliers outside the EEA, we will rely on the derogation under Article 49 of the GDPR in order to transfer your personal data to countries outside the EEA (as the transfer relates to the performance of a contract for your benefit), and you hereby permit us to do so. You also acknowledge that where your personal data is transferred outside the EEA, controls on data protection may not be as wide as the legal requirements within the EEA.
For all other transfers of data, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.
For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.
They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our RPO.
No fee usually required.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. Glossary
LAWFUL BASIS
· Legitimate Interest
means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests.
We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
Performance of Contract
means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
Internal Third Parties
The companies in the Apex Travel Group as follows:
· Apex Travel Group Pty Limited (ABN 99 641 225 354)
EXTERNAL THIRD PARTIES
1. The affiliate companies in the TAG Group as follows:
The Appointment Group Limited acting as joint controller or processor and based in the UK, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
Leisure By Appointment Limited acting as joint controller or processor and based in the UK, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
· The Appointment Group (UK) Limited acting as joint controller or processor and based in the UK, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
· The Appointment Group (Australia) Pty Ltd acting as joint controller or processor and based in Australia, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
· The Appointment Group, LLC acting as joint controller or processor and based in the USA, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
· The Appointment Group Pte. Ltd. acting as joint controller or processor and based in Singapore, which provides IT and system administration services and undertakes leadership reporting.
· Other companies in the TAG Group acting as joint controllers or processors and who are based in the UK, Australia, USA and Singapore and provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
2. Suppliers of travel services acting as controllers, some of which may be based outside of the EEA, such as airlines, hoteliers & serviced apartment providers, private villa rentals, private charters, self-drive car rental, chauffeur services, visa and passport agencies, meet and assist airport agencies, concierge services, specialist activity/event provider and private venues.
3. Service providers acting as processors such as TAG Desktop (Majic Solutions Ltd), Travelport, The Hub (Igloo), NetHelpDesk, Agentivity, Navitas, Manticpoint, mTrip, e-Locate (Developer Connections), Stamp of Approval (Developer Connections), FareMine, Aviate, Mimecast, Citrix, Sabre, Tableau and Eventsforce, some of which may be based outside the EEA, who provide IT and system administration services.
4. Service providers acting as processors based outside of the EEA such as Salesforce and Pardot who provide sales and marketing services.
5. Independent contractors acting as processors based inside the EEA which act as relationship managers and take bookings on our behalf.
6. Service providers acting as processors based outside of the EEA such as Trainline, Concur, Locomote, KDS, Eventsforce.com, TAG Touring App (Majic Solutions Ltd) International SOS, Tramada and Air Refund, some of which may be based outside of the EEA, which provide booking tools.
7. Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers some of which are based in the USA (such as Travcom and SAP Business Objects) and others of which may also be based outside the EEA who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, financial and accounting services.
8. HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as processors or joint controllers based worldwide who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
9. Service providers acting as processors such as Google Analytics, Google Analytics for Firebase, Crashlytics (Google Inc), New Relic (New Relic),10. Mandrill (The Rocket Science Group,LLC), Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google Inc.),Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
• Request access
to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction
of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure
of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing
of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing
This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
· if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;
· where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
· where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
· you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Request the transfer
of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine- readable format.
Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
· Withdraw consent at any time
where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
