Privacy Policy

 

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy. This privacy policy outlines how we will treat your personal information.

When you use our website you will see a consent banner appear, please click the Accept link if you accept our use of your personal information and continue browsing our website normally. If you do not accept our use of cookies and personal information then please block cookies and tracking in your browser by changing your browser settings, use private mode, or other browser privacy plugins before using our website. You can also use a VPN to anonymise your IP address and location before browsing.

Information we collect

We collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a)        information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation).

(b)        information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us such as your name and e-mail addresses.

(c)       any other information that you choose to send to us.

We may ask you to complete user surveys, and to provide certain demographic information, such as age, gender, special interests, etc. You do not have to provide this type of information to use our service if you do not want to.

If we send you an email, we may include a marker that will allow to know when the email that is opened and viewed.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

(a)       administer the website and improve the functioning of the site.

(b)       improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;

(c)       enable your use of the services available on the website;

(d)       to process payments;

(e)       send you email notifications which you have specifically requested.

(f)        send you emails about special offers and promotions.

(g)        displaying personalised ads from Google

(h)       collect analytics data

You can inform us any time if you no longer wish to receive notification emails and you may opt out of any marketing emails at any time by following the instructions included in the email.

Disclosures

We may disclose information that we collect about you to any of our subsidiaries, employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

Third parties that we disclose user data to include Google which they use for the purpose of serving personalised ads and collecting analytics data. You can find out how Google use your personal data on Google’s Privacy & Terms site.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(a)        to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)        in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)        in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d)       to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e)        to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Cookie

A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We use the cookies to keep track of you whilst you navigate the website and enable our website to recognise you when you visit.

Cookies are also used by Google for personalised and non-personalised advertising.

Security of Your Information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted.

Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You must keep your password and user details confidential. We are not responsible for the security of your password and user details.

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information which you provide may be transferred to countries that we operate in. This includes countries in Asia which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website.  You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may notify you of such changes by email. However we are not obliged to do so.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to [email protected].

Data controller

The data controller responsible in respect of the information collected on this website is Travel Begins at 40.