Ocean Island Privacy Policy

Here at the Ocean Island Backpacker’s Inn, we understand that privacy is important to you and are committed to maintaining high standards for the protection of your personal information. We want your experience online to be as enjoyable and safe as possible. This policy describes how the Backpacker’s Inn handles your personal information generally and when you use the site.

The Ocean Island Backpacker’s Inn will not collect sensitive information about you such as details of your race, political beliefs, religion or health.

When making a reservation at the Ocean Island Backpackers Inn it is necessary to have information in order to identify you, contact you and to process your purchase and requests. This information usually includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date, and language preference.

From time to time, we offer packages or other services that involve third parties. If you wish to take advantage of such a package or service your personal information will be shared with that third party to the extent necessary to provide that service and process the purchase or request.

At Ocean Island, we provide comment cards for our guests to fill out with their comments on our services. Information provided to us in such a fashion will be used solely for the purpose of recording your comments, communicating with you in respect of them, reviewing them with the subject staff, for the purposes of recognizing employees for excellence of service delivery and for developing improvements in service.

Personal information will be disclosed only in a few limited circumstances: to a third party involved in supplying the guest with the services that they have purchased to the extent necessary to allow the supply of services and processing of the transaction; to an agent public authority when it is reasonably necessary to assist an enforcement body or to lessen or prevent a threat to individual or public health or safety.

We use “cookies” on our web site. Cookies are pieces of information that an internet set transfers onto your hard drive to aid in record keeping. Our web site uses these cookies for session management. These temporary cookies are stored in the user’s browser throughout the course of their visit to aid in the filling out of forms. No other use is or can be made of the information contained in these cookies and there is no trace of individual sessions.

This web site contains links to external sites, the use of information or privacy provided by the owner of the linked site is in no way subject to this privacy policy. The Ocean Island Backpackers Inn takes no responsibility for the practices and policies of any web sites accessible from our site.

Be assured that every reasonable step is taken to ensure the security of personal information from such risks as loss, destruction, unauthorized access or use, unauthorized modification or disclosure.