Privacy & Cookies Policy

Introduction

 

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") sets out how Nottingham Travel (UK) Ltd protects the privacy of your personal information. 

 

Nottingham travel (UK) Ltd is one the top travel organisations in the east Midlands. We need to collect, use and disclose personal information in order to perform our business functions and activities, including making and managing travel bookings on behalf of our customers. We are firmly committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of personal information and to maintaining various physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information in our care. 


By providing personal information to us (either directly or allowing another person to do so on your behalf), you agree that this Policy will apply to how we handle your personal information and you consent to us collecting, using and disclosing your personal information as detailed in this Policy. 

If you do not agree with any part of this Policy, you must not provide your personal information to us. If you do not provide us with your personal information, or if you withdraw a consent that you have given under this Policy, this may affect our ability to provide services to you or negatively impact the services we can provide to you. For example, most travel bookings must be made under the traveller's full name and must include contact details and appropriate identification (e.g. passport details). We cannot make bookings for you without essential information. 

2. What personal information do we collect?

Personal information has the meaning given under the local data protection law. Personal information generally means information which relates to an individual who can be identified using that information, or from that information and other information in a person’s possession.

The type of personal information we collect about you is the information that is needed to enable your travel arrangements and bookings and to arrange travel related services and/or products on your behalf. For example, we may collect details such as your name, residential/mailing address, telephone number, email address, credit/debit card details (including card type, card number, security number and expiry date), passport details, loyalty program / frequent flyer details, information about your dietary requirements and health issues (if any), and other details relevant to your travel arrangements or required by the relevant travel service provider(s) (e.g. airlines and accommodation or tour providers).

In some circumstances, we may collect personal information from you which may be regarded as sensitive information under the local data protection laws. Sensitive information may include (without limitation) your racial or ethnic origin, financial information and health information. We will only collect sensitive information in compliance with the local data protection laws, with your consent and/or where it is reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, one or more of our functions or activities (e.g. to make travel arrangements), unless we are otherwise required or authorised to do so by law. To the extent permitted or required under the local data protection laws, you consent to us using and disclosing your sensitive information for the purpose for which it was collected, unless we subsequently receive your consent to use it for another purpose. For example, if you provide health information to us in connection with a travel insurance application you would like to make, you consent to us using and disclosing that health information in connection with arranging the travel insurance on your behalf. An additional example is if you reveal your religious beliefs to us because you are interested in, for example, certain holiday packages, in which case you consent to us using and disclosing that information in connection with facilitating your request. We will not use sensitive information for purposes other than those for which it was collected, unless we subsequently receive your consent to use it for another purpose.

3. How do we collect personal information?

We will collect personal information directly from you unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so or you book with us via an agent or family member appointed by you. Generally, this collection will occur when you deal with us either in person, by telephone, letter, facsimile, email, when you book via our website or when you connect with us via social media. We may collect personal information about you when you purchase or make enquiries about travel arrangements or other products and services, when you subscribe to receive marketing adverts from us (e.g. e-newsletters); when you request brochures or other information from us; or when you provide information, or use our services, on social media. Unless you choose to do so anonymously, we may also collect your personal information (other than sensitive information) when you complete surveys or provide us with feedback.

In some circumstances, it may be necessary for us to collect personal information about you from a third party. This includes where a person makes a travel booking on your behalf which includes travel arrangements to be used by you (e.g. a family or group booking or a travel booking made for you by your employer). Where this occurs, we will depend on on the authority of the person making the travel booking to act on behalf of any other traveller on the booking. By providing your personal information to us, either directly or through a family member, employer or other agent or representative in connection with a travel booking or related service, you will be deemed to have consented to your personal information being collected by us and used and disclosed in accordance with this Policy.

Where you make a travel booking on behalf of another person (e.g. a family or group booking or a travel booking made for an employee), you agree you have obtained the consent of the other person for Nottingham Travel to collect, use and release the other person's personal information in accordance with this Policy and that you have otherwise made the other person aware of this Policy. You should let us know immediately if you become aware that you’re personal information has been provided to us by another person without your consent or if you did not obtain consent before providing another person's personal information to us.

4. When we act as agent for a travel service provider

When we book and otherwise arrange travel related services for you, we usually do so as agent for or on behalf of travel service providers. In this case, we usually collect personal information about you both for our internal purposes as described in this Policy, including the purpose of us processing your booking, and for the travel service provider for whom we act as agent for their internal purposes (e.g. to provide you with the booked services). As an agent, all bookings are made on your behalf subject to the terms and conditions, including privacy policy, imposed by these travel service providers. 

Accordingly, you are deemed to consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by us to the relevant travel service providers, and the use and disclosure of your personal information by the relevant travel service providers, for the purposes set out in this Policy and, to the extent permitted under your local data protection laws, for other purposes specified in their privacy policy. For example, if you book a flight through us, then under this Policy you consent to us collecting your personal information and disclosing that information to the airline to enable your flight to be booked and for the airline to provide the flight service to you, and, to the extent permitted under your local data protection laws, for other purposes specified in their privacy policy.

We act as agent for or on behalf of many thousands of travel service providers around the world, so it is not possible for us to set out in this Policy all of the travel service providers for whom we act or their locations. For more information about the disclosure of personal information to travel service providers located overseas, please refer to the section below titled “Is personal information transferred overseas”

5. How do we use and disclose your personal information?

Where you contact us in relation to a travel booking or query, the primary purpose for which we collect your personal information is generally to provide you with travel advice and/or to assist you with booking travel and/or travel related products and services. However, the purpose for collection may differ depending on the particular circumstances as disclosed in this Policy (e.g. collection of your personal information for the purpose of provision of feedback, etc).

By continuing to use our services and/or by providing us with personal information (or allowing another person to do so on your behalf), you consent to us using and disclosing your personal information for the purpose for which it was collected, and, where permitted by your local data protection laws, for any related secondary purpose which we believe you would reasonably expect.

The purposes for which we collect personal information, and those secondary purposes which we consider to be directly related, include:

·         Providing you with services and tools you choose to use (for example, saving travel preferences on our website(s) to a wish list or saving personal information to allow for pre-population of online forms);

·         Identification of fraud or error;

·         Regulatory reporting and compliance;

·         Developing and improving our products and services and those of our related entities;

·         Servicing our relationship with you by, among other things, creating and maintaining a customer profile to enable our brands to service you better or presenting options on our website we think may interest you based on your browsing and preferences;

·         internal accounting and administration;

·         To comply with our legal obligations and any applicable customs/immigration requirements relating to your travel.

·         Other purposes as authorised or required by law (e.g. to prevent a threat to life, health or safety, or to enforce our legal rights).

6. Is personal information disclosed to third parties?

We may disclose your personal information to third parties, as set out below, and in accordance with your local data protection laws. By continuing to use our services and/or by providing us with your personal information (or allowing another person to do so on your behalf), you consent to that personal information being processed, transferred and/or disclosed by us for the purpose for which it was collected and, where permitted by your local data protection laws, for any related secondary purpose which we believe you would reasonably expect. Note that, in this Policy, where we say “disclose”, this includes to transfer, share (including verbally and in writing), send, or otherwise make available or accessible your personal information to another person or entity.

Your personal information may be disclosed to the following types of third parties:

·         our contractors, suppliers and service providers including:

o    In each of the circumstances set out in the section titled “How do we use and disclose your personal information?”;

o    suppliers of IT based solutions that assist us in providing products and services to you (such as any external data hosting provider(s) we may use);

·         Our related entities and brands

·         Travel service providers such as travel wholesalers, tour operators, airlines, hotels, car rental companies, transfer handlers and other related service providers.

·         A person making your travel booking on your behalf, where you are travelling on a booking made on your behalf by another person (for example, a family member, friend or work   colleague);

·         Your employer, where you are an employee of one of our corporate, business or government clients and you are participating in an event or travelling for work purposes;

 A person who can verify to us that they have a relationship with you (e.g. a family member) where you are not contactable, the person correctly answers our required security        questions and the request is, in our opinion, in your interest (for example, where the person is concerned for your welfare or needs to undertake action on your behalf due to unforeseen circumstances);

·         As required or authorised by applicable law, and to comply with our legal obligations

·         Customs and immigration to comply with our legal obligations and any applicable customs/immigration requirements relating to your travel

·         Government agencies and public authorities, to comply with a valid and authorized request, including a court order or other valid legal process;

·         Various regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials and agencies, including to protect against fraud and for related security purposes

·         Enforcement agencies where we suspect that unlawful activity has been or may be engaged in and the personal information is a necessary part of our investigation or reporting of the matter.

For more information in relation to collection by travel service providers and their privacy practices and policies, see the section above titled, "When we act as agent".

Other than the above, we will not disclose your personal information without your consent unless we reasonably believe that disclosure is necessary to lessen or prevent a threat to life, health or safety of an individual or to public health or safety or for certain action to be undertaken by an enforcement body (e.g. prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution or punishment of criminal offences), or where such disclosure is authorised or required by law (including applicable privacy / data protection laws).

 

 

Cookies

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are and how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for more information. 
The following tables describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for.
Currently we operate an 'implied consent' policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage.
If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser's anonymous usage setting (called "Incognito" in Chrome, "InPrivate" for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc.)

1. Introduction

The www.nottingamtravel.co.uk website is operated by Nottingham Travel UK Limited (hereafter “we", "us", "our", "Nottingham travel"), a company incorporated in England. This page, with our Privacy Policy, details our use of cookies on our website. By using our website, you direct that you accept this Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy and you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these, please do not use our website.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.

2. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our website. Cookies save data about individual visitors to the website, such as the visitor's name, password, username, screen preferences, the pages of a website viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor.

3. What Do We Use Cookies For?

At Nottingham travel, we use cookies to identify a visitor’s browser, to anonymously track visits or to enhance the experience of the website.

We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. When a visitor revisits the website, we may recognize the visitor by the cookie and customise the visitor's experience accordingly. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

If you reject cookies, you may still have access to our website, but your ability to use some areas of our website, such as contests or surveys, may be limited.

Web Beacons / Gifs

We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons), that help us better manage content on our website by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personal information.

3rd Party Tracking

The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company or service providers is not covered by this Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our third party partners employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), images, and scripts that help them better manage content on our website. We do not tie the information gathered to our customers’ or users’ personal information.

Behavioural Targeting / Re-Targeting

We partner with third party ad networks to either display advertising on our websites or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our ad network partners use cookies, Web beacons and other technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. 

4. Third Party Cookies and Analytics

4.1 When you visit certain sections of our website and/or use our mobile application, third parties may place cookies on your computer’s browser and/or make use of web beacons to collect information. This information may include things such as your use of the website or mobile application, device and browser information and ad data. The information generated by the cookies and web beacons about your use of the website is transmitted to those third parties. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the site and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed; serving targeted advertising to you (including use to target advertising on other sites or applications based on your online activity); providing us with services and enhancing/improving our website, mobile application and the third party’s technology products and services.

4.2 Our current providers, and information regarding their data practices and how to opt out, include the following:

4.2.1 Google Analytics: When you visit certain sections of the website, Google Analytics, a website analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), will place cookies on your computer’s browser. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the website is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to the website and its pages, the average time spent on the site and the pages viewed. We will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Google Analytics to track or to collect any personal data of visitors to our website. We will not associate any data gathered via use of cookies with any personal data from any source as part of our use of Google Analytics. For further information about Google Analytics please visit www.google.com/analytics and for details of Google Analytics’ Privacy Policy, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en)ALL/privacypolicy.html. You may choose to opt-out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on which you may access at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

4.2.2  Criteo is a company specialising in targeted advertising.  For further information about Criteo, please visit www.criteo.com and for details of Criteo’s Privacy Policy, please visit www.criteo.com/us/privacy-policy. For information on how to disable Criteo services and/or to opt out of Criteo, you can visit http://www.criteo.com/privacy/ and use the opt-out feature.

4.2.3 Exponential is a company specialising in advertising intelligence. For further information about Exponential, please visit www.exponential.com and for details of Exponential's Privacy Policy, please visit http://exponential.com/en-au/privacy/. Exponential will include the following tracking cookie within your cookie settings unless you opt out: ANON_ID (cookie name) from the Domain tribalfusion.com. You may choose to opt out from Exponential tracking by visitinghttp://exponential.com/privacy/opt-out/.

4.2.4 Sizmek provides targeted advertising services. For further information about Sizmek, please visit www.sizmek.com and for details of Sizmek’s privacy policy and cookies policy, visit https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy and https://www.sizmek.com/cookie-policy/ respectively. For information on how to disable Sizmek tracking and/or to opt out of Sizmek, you can click on the opt-out link at https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy/.

5 .Managing Cookies Usage

5.1 You may block the installation of cookies by certain settings provided by your browser software; we would like to inform you however that in this case you may not be able to have full access to all website functions. Furthermore, you can prevent the compilation of data (including your IP address) through cookies and website use by downloading and installing the browser plug-in.

5.2 If you have any concerns about material which appears on the Nottingham Travel website, please contact us at admin@nottingamtravel.co.uk