Travel Made Simple is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of anyone using our site and the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use any personal information that we may obtain from you.
This privacy policy sets out to give you information about Travel Made Simple and how we collect and process your data. We collect your data through various means which include but may not be limited to the creation of customer accounts on our website, newsletter sign ups and promotions. To use this website you must be over 18.
As part of the GDPR regulations, businesses can opt to have a data controller within the company if they choose to. Travel Made Simple as an entity is responsible for the use of your data and we aim to comply with all GDPR regulations and any relevant other legislation that may apply to us and you the consumer.
Travel Made Simple may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every third-party website that you may visit.
We collect a range of data through the Travel Made Simple website which includes identity information, contact information, transaction data, technical data, usage data and marketing information.
As part of our reporting package we may also use Google Analytics which uses cookies to collect aggregated data which includes sessions on our websites, pages visited, conversion rates, demographic information, gender information. This data isn’t considered to be personal data as its not identifiable. If you wish to purchase from our site there is a minimum amount of personal data that Travel Made Simple requires to be able to complete the contract between ourselves and the customer which includes, name, address and card details which are processed through a 3rd party payment gateway which is secure and encrypted.
We will only use your personal data in cases where the law enables us to. We comply with the GDPR regulations and any other associated laws.
Cookies
We collect information directly from you in a number of ways. One way is through our use of ‘cookies’. Most websites use cookies in order to make them work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. They help us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout, content and function of the site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They save and retrieve pieces of information about your visit to the website – for example, how you entered the site, how you navigated through the site and what information and documentation was of interest to you. This means that when you go back to a website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about you on your last visit.
Some of our cookies are used to simply collect information about how visitors use our website and these types of cookies collect the information in an anonymous form.
Where there is a login process relating to buying products or services from us we also use cookies to store personal registration information so that you do not have to provide it to us again on subsequent visits.
The rules about cookies on websites have recently changed. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in the preferences or options menu in your browser. You can set your browser to reject or block cookies or to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. You can also delete any cookies that are already stored on your computer’s hard drive. However, please be aware that if you do delete and block all cookies from our website, parts of the site will not then work. This is because some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of our website to operate. Likewise, you may not be able to use some products and services on other websites without cookies.
To find out more about cookies, including seeing what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, please leave this site immediately and then delete and block all cookies from this site. Alternatively, you may opt out of receiving information from us by e-mail, travelmadesimple@outlook.com
Security
We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data that you disclose online and we will not be responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will aim to inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes or we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purpose. You can exercise your right to prevent this happening by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
This version was last updated on 11th February 2020.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is up to date and accurate. Please notify us should your personal data change during your relationship with us.
General
You have the right to see personal data (as defined under the Data Protection Act) that we keep about you upon receipt of a written request and payment of a fee of £10. Any request should be sent to: travelmadesimple@outlook.com Any such requests will be processed within a reasonable time frame.