This privacy policy (together with any other documents referred to within this policy) describes how Luxury Travel Studio collects and uses the personal information you provide (“personal data”) to us through our website or offline.
We have a legal duty to protect any personal data that we collect from you as a “controller” of that personal data under the data protection legislation. Luxury Travel Studio safeguards your personal data and maintains security standards
WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?
We require to collect your personal data when you register on our website or offline, place an order, respond to a survey, fill out a form or contact us.
Any of the personal data we collect from you is processed by us as necessary for the purposes of delivering travel agent services under our contract with you or for taking steps to enter into a contract with you to deliver travel agent services. In order to do this, we may use your personal data in the following ways:
– to fulfil your booking, including: processing your booking, sending you a booking confirmation, assessing your needs to determine suitable products of services, sending you requested product or service information,
sending you product updates or warranty information,
administering your account
– to notify you of any changes to your booking or our services
– to allow us to consider your comments, questions and suggestions and respond, if necessary; and
– to enable or facilitate the exercise of our rights under our website terms and conditions and booking terms and conditions.
We will also process your personal data in pursuit of our legitimate interests to improve and promote our services:
– to administer competitions, promotions or surveys that you have entered, and notify you if you won
– to personalise your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs), including displaying content based upon your interests; where you have given permission for a location-based service through your browser or App: displaying content based upon your location, checking you in to a store or other location to enable you to earn loyalty rewards or let know where you are, providing you with local search results,
providing you with special local offers, enabling designated to track your location, mapping routes and provide directions to locations that you specify;
enabling you to share your location with friends
– to improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
– to improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs), including by conducting research and analysis; and
– to display advertising on our website / App or manage our advertising on other websites / Apps with our ad network partner who uses technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this website / App and other websites / Apps to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
We may also be required to process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations under ABTA membership / ATOL membership.
Failure to provide your personal data when making a booking will mean that we will not be able to process your booking.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
We may collect the following personal data from you through our website / App:
– contact information, such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number
– billing information, such as credit card number and billing address
– usage activity, about how you interact with us such as purchase history, what content you viewed, and which areas of our website / App you visited
– device information, such as your IP address, browser type, referring / exit pages, operating system, mobile device ID, device type, cookies and mobile service carrier
– location-based data, where permitted by you through your browser [such as information about the wi-fi routers closest to you and the mobile phone IDs of the towers closest to you]
– information about your business, such as company name, company size and business type; and
– demographic information, such as household income, age, education, gender, interests and post code.
However, you may visit our website anonymously by changing the settings on your browser.
DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?
Acting as a travel agent, we will pass your personal data onto any third party tour operator / travel company as necessary to complete your booking.
Your personal data may be accessed by or given to our staff, contractors and agents who assist us or act on our behalf:
– to operate our website / App, conduct our business as a travel agent, including delivering services to you
– to protect the rights, property and safety of Luxury Travel Studio, our customers or others, including for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction, or responding to a government request
– in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case, we may disclose personal data held about our customers to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
– in respect of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of Luxury Travel Studio assets, in which case personal data held about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; or
– as required by law to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our website terms and conditions, service agreement or other agreement.
Your personal data, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
Your personal data is held on our computer records and paper records in the [UK / EU].
Your personal data may be transferred outside of the EU for the purpose of providing you with the travel products you are booking, depending on the supplier whom you are booking with.