Welcome to Porters
Last updated: 15/09/2025
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOLD
Information considered as personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) includes information or an opinion about a person who is identified or reasonably identifiable.
Protecting your personal information is important to us.
Baranagar Pty Ltd ATF The Plainland Hotel Holdings Family Trust trading as Porters Plainland Hotel and all its related bodies corporate (The Plainland Hotel, we, us, our) is committed to conducting our business in a manner which is safe, ethical, professional and compliant with the law.
We may collect and hold personal information about you, which may include your name, postal or email addresses, date of birth, image, video recordings and in some circumstances, sensitive information.
1.1 Sensitive Information
It may be necessary in some circumstances for us to collect some forms of sensitive information about you. Sensitive information includes information about a person's race, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, political opinions, health, religious or philosophical beliefs, biometric information obtained by facial recognition technology used for automated biometric verification or identification purpose, biometric templates and criminal record. Porters Plainland Hotel will only collect sensitive information where:
We use facial recognition technology to identify patrons who have been banned from the Hotel's premises for misconduct issues or who have been excluded from gambling in accordance with Queensland law.
Facial recognition technology involves the extraction, digitisation and comparison of spatial and geometric facial data and then comparing the image of the face with an image stored in a database to identify a match.
We use and store data collected from the Hotel's use of facial recognition technology for the purposes described above and for any other purpose permitted by law.
By entering the Hotel's premises, you expressly consent to your facial image being recorded by the facial recognition system in operation at the Hotel for the purpose stated above.
Under certain circumstances, the Hotel may be required to disclose your facial recognition data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency), and in those circumstances, your consent may not be required.
We will inform you (including by posting notices in our premises) where we are using facial recognition technology, should we decide to implement the use of that technology in our premises. If you do not consent to our use of facial recognition technology in our premises and to the use of that information in accordance with this policy, then you may elect not to enter or to leave our premises.
1.3 Third party website and applications
Please be aware that if you access a website or application of a third party when using one of our goods or services or via our website, your personal information will be dealt with in accordance with that party's Privacy Policy. We suggest that you review the Privacy Policies of any linked sites that you may access from our website before disclosing your personal information on them.
1.4 Anonymity
In some instances, you may desire to remain anonymous. We will make every effort to assist with any such request, however we are not required to provide this option if:
2. HOW WE COLLECT AND HOLD PERSONAL INFORMATION
We generally collect information directly from you when you use our products and services, when you visit our premises or via business arrangements.
In some instances, we may collect personal information from third parties.
2.1 Information Collected from your Computer or other Electronic Devices
When you visit our websites, or use our other online resources, we may use cookies, single pixels tags and similar tracking technologies, including a range of tools provided by third parties such as Facebook and Google, to collect or receive information and then use that information to:
If you use a mobile device to access our websites or online resources, we may collect information about your device, such as your device ID and device type, as well as usage information about your device and your use of our mobile websites and other mobile resources.
Most internet browsers and mobile devices can be set to inform you when tracking technologies are being used or sent to your device. They also provide you with the option of refusing the use of tracking technologies, however, this may negatively impact the display or function of certain areas or features of our services.
2.2 Security of Personal Information
Porters Plainland Hotel will take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold about you and monitor that it is accurate, up-to-date and, when that personal information is used or disclosed, relevant to the purpose for which the information is being used or disclosed. Your personal information is held on secure servers or in storage located in controlled environments.
Our team members and service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
3. THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING, RETAINING, USING AND DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information to provide you with goods and services, to manage your membership to our rewards program, and where it is legally required to be made available to all staff, such as exclusion nominations.
Sometimes, we are required to share information that we hold about you with government regulators or law enforcement bodies.
Porters Plainland Hotel uses and, in some instances shares, personal information (including in some cases, sensitive information) for reasons including:
We may collect and use your personal information to promote and market our own or an affiliate of ours' products and services, promotions and upcoming events (including for example by way of direct mail, telemarketing, targeted digital advertising, SMS, MMS messages, and notifications and alerts to your mobile device).
We will only send you this information if you have indicated your consent to receiving such information.
We will send this information to keep you informed of our new products and services and special offers. You may opt out of receiving direct marketing communications by following the directions in our direct marketing material, for example by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email communication you have received, or at any time by contacting us (see contact information below).
Marketing may be undertaken by one or more of the Porters Plainland Hotel brands using your personal information. We may use external service providers to assist us in these marketing activities.
3.2 Security
We may collect, use and disclose personal information about you for security purposes, including:
Details of suspected or actual illegal and undesirable activities and other security-related information may be shared with industry bodies and forums, law enforcement bodies and regulatory bodies such as the Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing in Queensland and AUSTRAC, Australia.
This may include both disclosure of your personal information by us, and the receipt of your personal information by us.
3.3 Excluded Persons
When you visit our premises we may collect, use and disclose personal information about you, including your facial biometric information, for the purpose of verifying whether you are an excluded person or a person whom we may otherwise lawfully deny access to the premises. We may also collect your image or facial biometric information from law enforcement bodies or Gambling Help Services for this purpose.
If we identify such a person we may exclude or remove them from our premises in accordance with our policies and our legal and regulatory obligations.
4. SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS
There are circumstances in which we may disclose personal information to another organisation for purposes that are important to help us to operate our business.
We will not sell your personal information to organisations outside Porters Plainland Hotel.
We will only give another organisation access to your personal information when:
Organisations include those that assist us:
We may also share personal information with an organisation where we have obtained your consent.
5. SENDING INFORMATION OVERSEAS
Your personal information may be accessed and used by our service providers located outside Australia who assist us to send marketing communications to you.
When we disclose personal information overseas we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas entity complies with the Australian Privacy Principles, unless an exception applies under those principles such that we are not required to do so. We will take reasonable steps to put in place suitable confidentiality protections in relation to personal information we provide to an overseas entity.
6. ACCESS TO, CORRECTION AND DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY HOLD ABOUT YOU
6.1 How you can contact us to seek access to information we may hold about you
You are welcome to ask for access to personal information that we hold about you. To do so, please attend the relevant property from which you want to request the information and complete a request for information form, including your full name, address, account or membership number (if relevant), and signature.
If you are unable to attend our properties to make a request, you can obtain a copy of the request for information form from the relevant property's website and send the completed form (along with a copy of your photo identification) to Porters Plainland Hotel's Privacy Officer.
A copy of your information will usually be made available to you within 30 days. However, there are circumstances under the Australian Privacy Principles in which we are not required to give you access to personal information. We shall advise you if one of these exceptions applies to your request.
If we intend to charge you a fee for us to find the information you have requested, we will inform you of this cost before we provide the information to you.
6.2 How you can contact us to seek correction of information we may hold about you
If you find that your personal information is inaccurate or out-of-date, please let us know using the contact details below.
6.3 How you can contact us to seek deletion of your Membership information
If you have a Membership account you may email us to request that we delete your personal information associated with your account.
We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request subject to any technical limitations, legal requirements we may have to retain information and reasonable business requirements we may have to retain information (for example for security purposes, to help us resolve any complaint or dispute between you and us or where the information is needed in relation to our provision of other goods or services to you).
Deletion of this information may limit your ability to use your Membership account.
6.4 Verification of your identity
We may require evidence of your identity before fulfilling your request to access, correct or delete any of your personal information.
7. QUERIES AND COMPLAINTS
If you have a question in relation to your personal information, please email us or write to: Privacy Officer
Porters Plainland Hotel
66 Laidley-Plainland Road
Plainland QLD 4341
For more information about privacy issues and the protection of privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's website at www.oaic.gov.au
Should you wish lodge a privacy related complaint, please email us or write to: Privacy Officer
Porters Plainland Hotel
66 Laidley-Plainland Road
Plainland QLD 4341
Privacy complaints will normally be assessed, reviewed and responded to within 30 days. If necessary, the Privacy Officer shall investigate the matter and advise of any corrective or other action taken by the business to address the matter.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
8. ADMINISTRATION OF THE POLICY
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOLD
Information considered as personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) includes information or an opinion about a person who is identified or reasonably identifiable.
Protecting your personal information is important to us.
Baranagar Pty Ltd ATF The Plainland Hotel Holdings Family Trust trading as Porters Plainland Hotel and all its related bodies corporate (The Plainland Hotel, we, us, our) is committed to conducting our business in a manner which is safe, ethical, professional and compliant with the law.
We may collect and hold personal information about you, which may include your name, postal or email addresses, date of birth, image, video recordings and in some circumstances, sensitive information.
1.1 Sensitive Information
It may be necessary in some circumstances for us to collect some forms of sensitive information about you. Sensitive information includes information about a person's race, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, political opinions, health, religious or philosophical beliefs, biometric information obtained by facial recognition technology used for automated biometric verification or identification purpose, biometric templates and criminal record. Porters Plainland Hotel will only collect sensitive information where:
- we have obtained your consent and the information is reasonably necessary for one or more of our functions or activities;
- we are required to do so under a law that applies to our business; or
- we are otherwise permitted by law to do.
- where it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain a person's consent to the collection, and the APP entity reasonably believes the collection is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to the life, health or safety of any individual, or to public health or safety;
- where the APP entity has reason to suspect that unlawful activity, or misconduct of a serious nature, that relates to the APP entity's functions or activities has been, is being, or may be engaged in and reasonably believes that the collection is necessary in order for the entity to take appropriate action in relation to the matter; and
- where an "enforcement body" reasonably believes that collecting the information is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, one or more of the body's functions or activities.
We use facial recognition technology to identify patrons who have been banned from the Hotel's premises for misconduct issues or who have been excluded from gambling in accordance with Queensland law.
Facial recognition technology involves the extraction, digitisation and comparison of spatial and geometric facial data and then comparing the image of the face with an image stored in a database to identify a match.
We use and store data collected from the Hotel's use of facial recognition technology for the purposes described above and for any other purpose permitted by law.
By entering the Hotel's premises, you expressly consent to your facial image being recorded by the facial recognition system in operation at the Hotel for the purpose stated above.
Under certain circumstances, the Hotel may be required to disclose your facial recognition data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency), and in those circumstances, your consent may not be required.
We will inform you (including by posting notices in our premises) where we are using facial recognition technology, should we decide to implement the use of that technology in our premises. If you do not consent to our use of facial recognition technology in our premises and to the use of that information in accordance with this policy, then you may elect not to enter or to leave our premises.
1.3 Third party website and applications
Please be aware that if you access a website or application of a third party when using one of our goods or services or via our website, your personal information will be dealt with in accordance with that party's Privacy Policy. We suggest that you review the Privacy Policies of any linked sites that you may access from our website before disclosing your personal information on them.
1.4 Anonymity
In some instances, you may desire to remain anonymous. We will make every effort to assist with any such request, however we are not required to provide this option if:
- it is impracticable for us to deal with unidentifiable individuals; or
- we are required or authorised by law or a court or tribunal order to deal with identified individuals.
2. HOW WE COLLECT AND HOLD PERSONAL INFORMATION
We generally collect information directly from you when you use our products and services, when you visit our premises or via business arrangements.
In some instances, we may collect personal information from third parties.
2.1 Information Collected from your Computer or other Electronic Devices
When you visit our websites, or use our other online resources, we may use cookies, single pixels tags and similar tracking technologies, including a range of tools provided by third parties such as Facebook and Google, to collect or receive information and then use that information to:
- provide better online experiences;
- deliver more relevant and targeted advertising; or
- develop reports on matters such as usage trends and visitation data which may be shared with third party marketing partners and providers.
If you use a mobile device to access our websites or online resources, we may collect information about your device, such as your device ID and device type, as well as usage information about your device and your use of our mobile websites and other mobile resources.
Most internet browsers and mobile devices can be set to inform you when tracking technologies are being used or sent to your device. They also provide you with the option of refusing the use of tracking technologies, however, this may negatively impact the display or function of certain areas or features of our services.
2.2 Security of Personal Information
Porters Plainland Hotel will take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold about you and monitor that it is accurate, up-to-date and, when that personal information is used or disclosed, relevant to the purpose for which the information is being used or disclosed. Your personal information is held on secure servers or in storage located in controlled environments.
Our team members and service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
3. THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING, RETAINING, USING AND DISCLOSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information to provide you with goods and services, to manage your membership to our rewards program, and where it is legally required to be made available to all staff, such as exclusion nominations.
Sometimes, we are required to share information that we hold about you with government regulators or law enforcement bodies.
Porters Plainland Hotel uses and, in some instances shares, personal information (including in some cases, sensitive information) for reasons including:
- identification;
- provision of requested products or services and benefits gained in relation to that product or service;
- management and administration of ongoing products and services, including gaming and other activities;
- promotion of safety, security and patron welfare in Porters Plainland Hotel property;
- employment of our personnel and engagement of contractors and sub-contractors;
- for our business purposes;
- for analytics purposes to develop our understanding of our customers and the market in which we operate;
- to seek to prevent illegal or undesirable activities;
- complying with obligations that we may have under laws that apply to our business or to meet reasonable requests from regulatory bodies which regulate our business, such as preparing player activity statements and monitoring the responsible provision of gambling services, including the exclusion of patrons from our venue or gaming room; and
- to otherwise assist law enforcement.
We may collect and use your personal information to promote and market our own or an affiliate of ours' products and services, promotions and upcoming events (including for example by way of direct mail, telemarketing, targeted digital advertising, SMS, MMS messages, and notifications and alerts to your mobile device).
We will only send you this information if you have indicated your consent to receiving such information.
We will send this information to keep you informed of our new products and services and special offers. You may opt out of receiving direct marketing communications by following the directions in our direct marketing material, for example by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of the email communication you have received, or at any time by contacting us (see contact information below).
Marketing may be undertaken by one or more of the Porters Plainland Hotel brands using your personal information. We may use external service providers to assist us in these marketing activities.
3.2 Security
We may collect, use and disclose personal information about you for security purposes, including:
- biometric information about you including your photograph or facial biometric information; or
- collecting information from your driver's licence or other identification document/card when you enter our properties; or
- collecting your car number plate details when you park in the car park of one of our properties; or
- using information from your driver's licence or other identification document/card or from your car number plate details, to match with personal information we hold about you.
Details of suspected or actual illegal and undesirable activities and other security-related information may be shared with industry bodies and forums, law enforcement bodies and regulatory bodies such as the Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing in Queensland and AUSTRAC, Australia.
This may include both disclosure of your personal information by us, and the receipt of your personal information by us.
3.3 Excluded Persons
When you visit our premises we may collect, use and disclose personal information about you, including your facial biometric information, for the purpose of verifying whether you are an excluded person or a person whom we may otherwise lawfully deny access to the premises. We may also collect your image or facial biometric information from law enforcement bodies or Gambling Help Services for this purpose.
If we identify such a person we may exclude or remove them from our premises in accordance with our policies and our legal and regulatory obligations.
4. SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS
There are circumstances in which we may disclose personal information to another organisation for purposes that are important to help us to operate our business.
We will not sell your personal information to organisations outside Porters Plainland Hotel.
We will only give another organisation access to your personal information when:
- it is in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
- the other organisation is providing services to us that help us to operate our business or to provide a service to you;
- we are required or permitted by law to provide your personal information to that organisation.
Organisations include those that assist us:
- to provide, manage or administer the products and services that we offer. This includes service providers (such as mail house providers, printers and advertising agencies), postal services, call centres, customer research agencies and our advisers;
- to maintain, review, and develop our business systems, procedures and infrastructure, including testing or upgrading our computer software;
- with reviews of our business operations and structure;
- to analyse data to provide insight into our business practices;
- to collect outstanding debts; and
- with developing and planning new products and services.
We may also share personal information with an organisation where we have obtained your consent.
5. SENDING INFORMATION OVERSEAS
Your personal information may be accessed and used by our service providers located outside Australia who assist us to send marketing communications to you.
When we disclose personal information overseas we will take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas entity complies with the Australian Privacy Principles, unless an exception applies under those principles such that we are not required to do so. We will take reasonable steps to put in place suitable confidentiality protections in relation to personal information we provide to an overseas entity.
6. ACCESS TO, CORRECTION AND DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY HOLD ABOUT YOU
6.1 How you can contact us to seek access to information we may hold about you
You are welcome to ask for access to personal information that we hold about you. To do so, please attend the relevant property from which you want to request the information and complete a request for information form, including your full name, address, account or membership number (if relevant), and signature.
If you are unable to attend our properties to make a request, you can obtain a copy of the request for information form from the relevant property's website and send the completed form (along with a copy of your photo identification) to Porters Plainland Hotel's Privacy Officer.
A copy of your information will usually be made available to you within 30 days. However, there are circumstances under the Australian Privacy Principles in which we are not required to give you access to personal information. We shall advise you if one of these exceptions applies to your request.
If we intend to charge you a fee for us to find the information you have requested, we will inform you of this cost before we provide the information to you.
6.2 How you can contact us to seek correction of information we may hold about you
If you find that your personal information is inaccurate or out-of-date, please let us know using the contact details below.
6.3 How you can contact us to seek deletion of your Membership information
If you have a Membership account you may email us to request that we delete your personal information associated with your account.
We will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request subject to any technical limitations, legal requirements we may have to retain information and reasonable business requirements we may have to retain information (for example for security purposes, to help us resolve any complaint or dispute between you and us or where the information is needed in relation to our provision of other goods or services to you).
Deletion of this information may limit your ability to use your Membership account.
6.4 Verification of your identity
We may require evidence of your identity before fulfilling your request to access, correct or delete any of your personal information.
7. QUERIES AND COMPLAINTS
If you have a question in relation to your personal information, please email us or write to: Privacy Officer
Porters Plainland Hotel
66 Laidley-Plainland Road
Plainland QLD 4341
For more information about privacy issues and the protection of privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's website at www.oaic.gov.au
Should you wish lodge a privacy related complaint, please email us or write to: Privacy Officer
Porters Plainland Hotel
66 Laidley-Plainland Road
Plainland QLD 4341
Privacy complaints will normally be assessed, reviewed and responded to within 30 days. If necessary, the Privacy Officer shall investigate the matter and advise of any corrective or other action taken by the business to address the matter.
If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you can refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
8. ADMINISTRATION OF THE POLICY
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
