This privacy collection statement applies to Ingenia Communities Group and its related companies collectively “Ingenia”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
By entering your details into the form, subscribing, entering this competition or participating in the survey you will be providing personal information to Ingenia Communities and their partners. Please also see our Disclaimer, Terms & Conditions & Privacy Policy.
The methods of collection:
- On internet users based on interaction with websites and social media accounts owned or managed by Ingenia Lifestyle, Ingenia Holidays, Ingenia Communities or our partners, but not limited to ingenialifestyle.com.au, Ingeniaholidays.com.au, ingeniagardens.com.au, Ingeniarentals.com.au and ingeniacommunities.com.au.
- On consumer data provided to our partners by the individual, a third party such as a content partner, travel agent, property portals, third party data providers, data from industry partnerships or from a marketing organisation.
- Visitors to our websites may supply additional personal information when: participating in web forms, online forums, quizzes, surveys, posting information on social media, making a holiday park booking, making a booking with an online travel agent partnered with Ingenia Communities, completing nomination forms or via requesting information via email.
- Information is collected and stored when a user accesses a website managed by Ingenia Communities. This will include but is not limited to:
- The identity of the internet browser;
- The user’s operating system;
- The users IP address and domain name of their Internet Service Provider
- Pages accesses and downloaded by the user;
- The users interaction with Ingenia Community webpages and functions;
- The path of the users through Ingenia Communities webpages and their activity;
- The date and time of visits to the site; and
- The address of the last site the user visited
Purpose of collection:
The information collected by Ingenia Communities is only for purposes related to its core functions and activities. Ingenia Communities core function is to market and sell it’s products such as holiday park bookings, sell and rent property in it’s communities and other related services. To see Ingenia Communities full product offering: see ingeniacommunities.com.au.
- For your travel bookings: Ingenia Communities and their partners may collect your personal information in connection with travel bookings (made with us direct or through our partners), where you have made a booking or someone else has made the booking on your behalf (such as a family member, friend or organisation). We collect this information so that we can make and manage your booking, communicate with you, provide information and products and services related to your booking, process loyalty program information, investigate and respond to safety incidents, feedback, complaints or claims and ensure the safety of our team members and guests.
- Direct marketing & market research: Ingenia Communities and their partners may use personal information to contact the individual for direct marketing or market research purposes.
- Direct marketing & personalised content: Ingenia Communities and their partners may use personal information to provide direct communication through email, targeted and retargeted advertising, targeted personalised digital content, social media contacts or other means. Ingenia Communities will use information on users website usage for the purpose of targeting specific content to users for the purpose of marketing their products.
- Statistical: Ingenia Communities uses personal information for statistical purposes. Where information is used for statistical purposes, all information capable of identifying an individual user will be removed.
- Understanding customer: Ingenia Communities and their partners uses personal information to learn more about people using its websites and social media. Ingenia Communities may collect, collate and analyse this information to better understand and target its users and audience. Ingenia Communities may use this information to specifically target messages to users.
- Loyalty and customer service: Ingenia Communities and their partners, collects personal information to maintain record of customer purposes to reward, manage loyalty marketing programs and to provide a better customer experience.
- IP addresses: Ingenia Communities use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ interaction and gather broad demographic information for aggregate uses.
- Cookies: Ingenia Communities websites use ‘cookies’. Cookies are text files that a website transfers to a user’s computer hard drive. Using cookies allows Ingenia Communities to customise web content for individual users. If users submit personal information to Ingenia Communities, the information may be linked to data stored in the cookie.
- Third party cookies: Some of Ingenia Communities’ partners also use third-party cookies on your device when you visit Ingenia Communities’ Ingenia Communties and our partners use third-party cookies to provide more relevant advertising, to understand users better, to keep website functionality reliably and to help deliver our services.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties for these purposes, such as:
- Ingenia Communities owned or managed companies
- Australian government tourism or government organisations
- Advertisers and content partners
- Booking technology partners
- Marketing, digital and ICT partners
- Travel industry partners such as airlines, online travel agents and booking websites.
- Property industry partners such as Domain.com.au, Realestate.com.au, Downsizing.com.au, Villages.com.au or similar
- Cooperative marketing partners
- Third parties under contract with Ingenia Communities
We may also disclose your information to our contractors who provide services to us, our professional advisers, our related companies, and other third parties as required by law.
Where you have opted in to receive marketing communications from us, including via our newsletter, we may use your personal information to send you promotional offers and other direct marketing material about events, products and services we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving these communications at any point in time via the opt out function included as part of the communication or by emailing us at [email protected].
Direct marketing – SMS and Email:
You can control the direct marketing you’re getting from us by:
- Using the unsubscribe facility in the emails or SMS text messages
- Emailing to ask to opt out of direct messaging:
- Ingenia Holidays: [email protected]
- Ingenia Lifestyle: [email protected]
- Ingenia Gardens: [email protected]
- Ingenia Rental: [email protected]
Online targeting & advertising cookies:
Where you have opted in to receive targeted advertising on social media and search platforms, we may provide your personal information to these platforms. You can opt-out from online targeting and advertising cookies:
- http://www.youronlinechoices.com.au/
- http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
- https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices
How to manage your cookies:
You can use browser settings to disable or delete cookies. If you disable cookies in your browser, some areas of our websites may not function properly or be accessible. If you delete your existing cookies: we will no longer know what you’ve opted out of online behavioural advertising, so the banners from third-party advertisers will reappear when you visit other selected websites. Ingenia Communities will no longer automatically remember some information that you have provided and you may be asked to provide this information again. Find out how to clear, enable and manage cookies on your preferred browser:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
- Internet Explorer / Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d#ie=ie-11
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop?redirectslug=enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences&redirectlocale=en-US
- Safari on OSX: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8519795?language=en
- Safari on IOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
We may disclose your personal information overseas to our service providers, who are located around the world. We will not otherwise disclose your personal information to recipients overseas without your consent or where required or permitted to do so by law.
If you do not provide the requested personal information, we may be unable to manage your booking, provide information you have requested or enter you into the competition relevant to the request on the page.
Our privacy policy contains information about how you may seek access to, or correction of, personal information that we hold about you, how you can complain to us if you believe your privacy rights have been breached, and how we will handle your complaint.
Privacy Polices:
https://www.ingeniaholidays.com.au/privacy-policy/
https://ingenialifestyle.com.au/about-us/privacy-policy
https://www.ingeniacommunities.com.au/privacy/
https://ingeniarental.com.au/privacy/
https://www.ingeniagardens.com.au/privacy-policy/
If you would like further information please contact Ingenia’s Privacy Officer on [email protected]