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This document states our privacy policy in respect of customer personal data, which will govern the way we process personal data you provide us. It serves as an expression of our commitment to protecting your private personal information, but is not a contract. By using our website, providing any personal data to us, or booking any travel services with us, you confirm that you agree to and consent to the terms of this document, to the extent your consent is required by any applicable law.
This document, and all content of our websites is Copyright© AMbTrip, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. We respect your right to privacy and we aim to ensure you have a trustworthy experience with us, including when using our websites or shops and booking with or through us. We understand many of our customers care about how personal data is used by us, and we want to share with you our policies and practices.
Our privacy policy sets out how we process personal data (including information) relating to individuals who book or enquire about booking travel services with or through us or who are the recipients of any travel services booked with or through us (e.g. you are the passenger for a booking or booking enquiry made by someone else for you), or who are customers or potential customers or recipients of travel services that can be booked with or through us.
We include in this privacy policy personal data we process relating to: (1) individuals who make an enquiry or booking with us or through us, and individuals in respect of whom any enquiry or booking is made (such as friends, family and tour group members, and officers and employees of businesses and organizations booking with or through us); (2) individuals in respect of whom an enquiry or booking is made with us by an agent; (3) where our customer is a business or organization, employees or individuals who act as representatives of that business or other organization, and individuals connected to that business or other organization, such as owners, partners, shareholders, and directors; and (4) individuals whose personal data comes from other companies in our group (such as where you consented to your personal data being disclosed to other group companies for marketing purposes).
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
When we refer to “processing” your personal data, this includes obtaining, recording, storing or holding your personal data, and anything we do with it, such as organizing, adapting or altering it, retrieving, consulting or using it, disclosing it or otherwise making it available to others, combining it with other data, and blocking, erasing or destroying it.
When we refer to “travel services” this covers all products and services which may be booked with or through us, such as accommodation, tours, transport and transfers, car hire, cruises, and charters. Travel services also include any services we or a third party provide in association with travel, such as obtaining visas, foreign exchange, and providing local representatives and support.
We process your personal data in accordance with the following data protection law(s): The Data Protection Act 1998 (which covers protection of personal data generally).
We also seek to comply generally with the laws of the United States in relation to the processing of your personal data.
Collection of personal information from site users of our Website
Where practical we will collect personal information directly from you. Generally this will be collected by us when you deal with us either in person, by telephone, letter, facsimile, email or when you visit our Website. Without limitation, we may collect your personal information as follows:
This includes name, age, photograph, gender, address, telephone, mobile, fax, e-mail, social networking contact details, proofs of identity and address, copies of passports, driving licenses, and utility bills, card and other payment details, and financial information, health information relevant to your planned travel, and travel insurances held, results of searches carried out about you (such as to verify your identity, address, and credit status), your preferences, frequent flyer or travel partner program affiliation and member number, and other information provided to us by or in relation to you which concern you as an individual.
If you are an individual associated with a business or other organization that is our customer, your personal data may include the following information that we link to you: business or organization details (such as name, address, telephone numbers, payment arrangements, financial information, etc.), your relationship with that business or organization (such as owner, partner, director, shareholder, employee, or agent), and your contact details within that business (such as work address, work telephone and mobile numbers, work fax number, and work e-mail address). Information concerning accounts, registrations, or memberships with us, or participation in loyalty programs. Correspondence, communications and messages, including between you and us, and between us and third parties, including relating to any booking or booking enquiry, or performance of any contract.
We may collect information about your visits to, browsing of, and use of our website. The range of data we collect will depend on how you interact with our website.
This information may include: your IP address (a unique identifier allocated to your computer for your connection to the internet); your computer device details (PC, tablet, smartphone, watch, etc.); web browser make and version (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome) you use; operating system (e.g. Windows, Windows Phone, OSX, iOS, Android, Linux, etc); time-zone; browser plug-ins; web-page you came from, identified as referrer web page address by your web browser; cookies; page response times; download error; pages and parts of pages you visit; usage you make of our website, including enquiries and searches undertaken, and registrations for accounts, forums etc.; services and products viewed; length of visit to website and pages; page interaction information (such as scrolling, keys pressed, mouse clicks, touches, and mouse-overs). This will normally be collected and used anonymously, and aggregated for analysis, with your name and characteristics identifying you remaining anonymous, but our privacy policy will apply, and it will be treated as your personal data, if this information is linked to you personally.
By visiting and using our website you or your computer may provide personal data. This includes: information that is automatically provided by your browser to our servers; information recorded on our web servers about your interaction with our website and pages viewed; information we capture or place on your computer or generate using cookies or other technologies on our website; and information you input into forms and fields on our website.
Your personal data will include data you provide (or later amend), whether: from correspondence with you; verbally to us over the phone or in person; by filling in any field or form on a website; by filling in any printed form we provide you; by e-mail; from documents you provide us; and from updates to information provided from time to time. This includes when you: register or subscribe for any service, account, members, or loyalty program, or make an enquiry or booking for a vacation or other travel services whether in person, by phone, through our website or otherwise; send us your comments or suggestions; subscribe to any newsletter or other publication; or request sales or advertising information, including brochures.
How we use collected information: analyze, audit, provide, operate, administer, maintain and improve our business, website, systems, and services; carry out surveys and analyze the results; run promotions and competitions; undertake product or customer research/development; assist us in and help us improve sales, editorial, advertising and marketing processes; carry out other business development and improvement activities; and provide training to our staff, sub-contractors and suppliers. For example, we may use your personal data to help us profile how customers generally use our websites and book travel services with (or through) us. We may also use this information to ascertain interests so we can better tailor our business offerings. Carry out direct marketing to you. See next section below for further information.
You will be free to withdraw your consent at any time, by contacting us as detailed in this privacy policy or as detailed in any direct marketing you receive. For example, our instructions may state that to unsubscribe, send us an e-mail stating “unsubscribe” in the subject heading.
We transfer your personal data to third parties in the following circumstances: we may disclose your personal data to third parties (including intermediaries) to carry out checks concerning you or enforce a booking or contract with you (including credit, security, fraud and identity checks). This may include credit reference agencies and other companies for use in credit decisions, for fraud prevention and to pursue debtors. We disclose your personal data to third parties (including intermediaries) to deal with a booking enquiry made by or for you, to make a booking requested by or for you, to perform and administer a booking for you or other contract with or in respect of you. This may include; to apply for visas on your behalf, collect payments to be made by you, investigate and respond to complaints, and enforce a booking or other contract with you. Such third parties may include suppliers or sub-contractors and their agents (e.g. airlines, coach, ferry or train companies, hoteliers, hire companies, cruise companies, tour operators etc.). We may disclose your personal data to any third party (e.g. supplier, contractor sub-contractor) we make enquiries with or engage or sub-contract to perform a booking or other contract, including to provide any travel, tour or other products or services we agreed to provide to you. We may disclose your personal data to suppliers with whom we make an enquiry concerning or book travel or other products and services for you as agent (whether as agent for you, someone representing you, or the supplier), such as a tour operator. Details of any third party tour operators or other third parties who will be responsible for or supply you travel services booked or enquired about, may be obtained from us on request, and may be stated in any tour or other brochure provided by us.
We may supply personal data to a government authority or regulator, police authority, court or party in litigation, where requested to cooperate with the authority or required to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, for purposes of customs, visas and immigration, or where reasonably required to protect your interests or enforce any booking or other contract. We may disclose your personal data where otherwise required by or permitted by law.
In some cases, your personal data may be held and processed by them on our behalf. Then we will remain responsible for what they do with your personal data, and your personal data will be held and processed by them in accordance with our instructions and this privacy policy. We encourage you to be careful about whom you give personal data to. Regarding sensitive personal data, such as payment card information, or passport numbers or log-in details, we will only ask you for such information in person or through our website, or by telephone in connection with a booking you make or made. If you are ever in doubt about who is contacting you, asking for information, or why, please do not provide the information. Instead, contact us directly to inquire about the request for information. Please let us know if someone purports to contact you in other circumstances, using our name.
Our privacy policy is not intended to create a contract or form part of any contract. You have certain non-contractual rights under the laws noted above, which we mention below. If you contact us about these rights, we may ask for proof of your identity before we act, and may refuse to act if you do not provide this or your identity is not established by you.
We may change this privacy policy at any time and from time to time without notice to you, including by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this privacy policy for updates each time you visit our website to be aware of changes. You should check the top of the document to see the latest version in force.