Privacy policy
Opera Australia respects your privacy. Our complete privacy policy is detailed below for your information.
Information Collection
Collection of information will occur at the time you purchase your tickets from Opera Australia. Tickets may be purchased by telephone, in person, by facsimile, email or post. Please note that for Internet bookings the Opera Australia website will link you to the Arts Centre site for all our Melbourne performances and the relevant Privacy Policy for that site will apply. To view this policy, please click on the appropriate links: the Arts Centre Privacy Policy
Use of your information
We collect information about you in order to deliver your ticket, process your payment arrangements, contact you in the case of cancellation or major disruption of a performance and/or to replace lost tickets.
When you book a ticket or tickets through any of Opera Australia's sales channels, or give Opera Australia information for any other purposes such as joining the mailing list, the personal information will be entered into a database. The database is a ticketing system which is shared by Opera Australia with other Australian (usually NSW based) arts organisations (Organisations) for the purposes of ticketing.
The current Organisations are Sydney Opera House, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Seymour Theatre Centre, The Brandenburg Orchestra, the Bell Shakespeare Company. Other similar arts entities may become Organisations in future, and they will also be able to view your contact details.
The Organisations are able to view your name and contact details and this helps ensure the speed and efficiency of any of your dealings with the Organisations. When you book your ticket(s), or otherwise provide us with personal information, you consent to your names and contact details, which are entered on the database, being disclosed to the Organisations for the purposes of ticketing only.
Unless you tell us otherwise Opera Australia may, in addition to the above, use this information to send you material about future Opera Australia related performances and events and to conduct market research. In order to facilitate these activities and research, Opera Australia may need to provide this information to organisations that provide services to Opera Australia such as mailing houses and research companies but will not otherwise share your information for research or marketing purposes with any other organisation.
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify an individual person.
You may gain access to the information Opera Australia holds about you by contacting Opera Australia's Privacy Officer:
PO Box 291, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012
Phone: +61 2 9699 1099
Fax: +61 2 9699 3184
Email: privacy.officer@opera-australia.org.au
Orders
We request customer information including contact information and financial information (credit card number and expiration date) on our ticket or subscription order form. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill ticket orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. When you visit our site, our host records your server address, domain name, the date and time of the visit and the pages viewed. This information does not personally identify you, but it does tell us that your computer has visited our site and what areas of the site have been browsed. If a user disables the use of cookies, they may still use our site, but they may be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies enable us to anonymously track the interests of our users, enhance their experience and may be used for statistical and website development reasons.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We may outsource some administrative and Customer Relations functions to outside companies, These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Opera Australia is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name, address and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time Opera Australia requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and each customer has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and delivery address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving our products and services
Refer-a-Friend
Opera Australia maintains a refer-a-friend service to enable customers to tell others about our site and e-newsletters. When the customer enters their friend's name and email address into the system is to stored for the sole purpose of sending a single email inviting them to visit the site. To become a part of our regular email updates, the friend will need to opt-in to receive our e-newsletter. The friend may contact Opera Australia at privacy.officer@opera-australia.org.au to request the removal of their information from our database.
Security
Opera Australia's payment system transmits your credit card details directly to its server via industry standard SSL encryption. This means that your data is only visible to our authorised order processing personnel. Your data is encrypted so any unauthorised third party intercepting your data will not be able to make sense of it.
Your browser and internet connection will need to support SSL encryption and Javascript to utilise our online payment system. Your browser is able to transmit encrypted data if a padlock icon appears on the bottom status bar of your browser window when you enter the purchasing area of our website, or if the beginning of the web page URL "https://".
If an error appears when purchasing tickets from Opera Australia's site, your internet connection may not support SSL encryption. Please contact Opera Australia Ticketing Services at the numbers detailed below.
Sydney Ticketing Services:
+61 2 9318 8200 / ticketing@opera-australia.org.au
Melbourne Ticketing Services:
+61 3 9685 3700 / melbourne.ticketing@opera-australia.org.au
Email newsletter and special offers
Opera Australia sends a monthly e-newsletter plus occasional emails on our products, services, and special offers as required to our email database. To receive this newsletter, please opt-in using the links on our website. You may elect to opt-out of receiving these communications using the unsubscribe links contained in each message, or through the sign-in pages on our website.
Customer Service updates
When required we communicate with our customers to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your postcode), or if a user no longer desires our service, they can correct, update or remove their personal data on our database by emailing privacy.officer@opera-australia.org.au
Notification of Changes
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, particularly as new industry codes are introduced. This statement was last updated in March 2008.
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