Privacy Policy
Absolutely Travel is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy explains how we may collect and use information about you through our website and other means. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this web page. You should continue to review its contents to ensure that you are satisfied with any changes made. If you have any questions about this policy, wish to exercise your right to see a copy of the information we hold about you, or believe that the information we hold may be incorrect, you may contact our Data Controller privacy@absolulutelytravel.com
Data controller
For the purposes of any Data Protection Act (the Act), the data controller is the director of Absolutely Travel.
What we collect and how we use it
Absolutely Travel and its staff monitor visits to our website. We may collect your name and title, your contact details including your email address, or we may collect demographic information such as zip codes, preferences and interests. The information we collect is used to improve the services offered by Absolutely Travel so that you can benefit from them. The information we collect in this process may identify you as an individual, however, we do not seek to identify individuals unless they volunteer their contact details. In some circumstances, our records will identify organizations that visit our website and we may use that information to manage our relationships with those organizations, for example, when considering how to develop the services we may offer. We may also collect personal information from online forms, including but not limited to information about you, that you provide to us through login areas within our website. Further information about you is collected each time you send us an email with your details, which may include name, postal and email address, telephone numbers (work, home and mobile) and diversity monitoring information that we collect for the purposes of complying with our legal obligations. We monitor visitors to our website by logging the IP address (a unique number that identifies your computer and your location on the Internet) of visitors to our site. We may collect information about your computer, including your available IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information for internal use only. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual. This is primarily so that we can ensure that it is easy to navigate, identify areas that are of particular interest to visitors and generally improve the site and our services. The information we collect in this process will not identify you as an individual. We may also use and disclose other information in aggregate form for research, marketing and strategic development purposes. We may also ask you to complete surveys used for research purposes, which you are not required to complete but which will be completely confidential and analyzed anonymously. We may have reason to contact you by letter, telephone, email or otherwise in connection with the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. It is therefore of fundamental importance that you ensure that your records are kept up to date with us.
Sensitive personal information
We are committed to ensuring that Absolutely Travel is equally open to all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, age, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief and/or social and economic background. To achieve this, as well as meet our legal equality obligations, we need to monitor trends in Absolutely Travel applicant data so that we can better understand how people from diverse backgrounds can progress in their careers. with Absolutely Travel. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to submit this information when appropriate. We may ask you to submit sensitive personal information, e.g., your ethnicity or disability information. This information is requested to enable us to comply with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. By submitting such sensitive personal information to us, you explicitly consent to the collection and processing of your sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By submitting such sensitive personal information to us, you consent to our processing of such information for the purposes described.
Use of sensitive personal information
Your sensitive personal information:
It will only be used for purposes of monitoring Equality and Diversity and other legal requirements.
It will be kept confidential within Absolutely Travel and will not be passed on to third parties.
Not be disclosed in a manner that could result in the identification of individuals.
We will take all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with the Privacy Policy. We provide education and training to all our staff to remind them of their obligations. Our policies and procedures are reviewed periodically. All information you provide to us is stored securely.
Communication and Marketing
If we propose to use your information to send you information from Absolutely Travel and its services that we believe may be of interest to you (other than information you have specifically requested), we give you the opportunity to inform us that you do not wish to receive such information in the future.
We will not use your information for purposes that are not clear when you provide your information and we will not disclose it outside of Absolutely Travel, except in very limited circumstances, for example, with your agreement or when we are legally obligated to do so. Under no circumstances will your information be sold to or used by any other organization.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We may use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is deleted from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages are useful and which are not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Other web sites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other websites using the links provided, the operators of these websites may collect information from you which they will use in accordance with their own Privacy Policies, which may differ from ours. Therefore, if you use these links to leave our site and visit websites operated by third parties, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Changes - Website
We aim to update our site periodically and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site or close it indefinitely. Any material on our site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.
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This Policy will be kept under review and, if modified, a notice will be posted on this website.
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We are always happy to hear from our customers (even if it's a complaint!). We will always be grateful for the time you take to provide us with the knowledge we need to ensure our customers are completely satisfied. We want you to come back to our website and Absolutely Travel and recommend us to your peers. If you have any questions or comments about this statement, please feel free to contact us and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.