Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [emailholidays.com] and served by News Travel Ltd. and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email the submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe to you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through a prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].
This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are customs to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses].

Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Privacy and Data Protection are a huge priority to our company and we respect and understand the importance. We preserve your personal information when visiting our site or communicate electronically with us and we commit to safeguard your personal information.

We tend to collect information for the below:

  • Contact details & Full Passengers names including date of birth, telephone number, address and email address
  • Personal Information that is completed on our website when purchasing a product or service from us
  • Personal Information provided to us when you communicate with us through our contact forms or speak to our customer service agents
  • Personal information such as full names, address, contact numbers & email address for Job applicants who have applied for vacancies.
  • If you subscribed to our Newsletter to receive weekly updates & offers on our products
  • Details of your visits to our website to help gather information to provide an optimum service. We use cookies to track movement around our site such as traffic data, location data & also other communication data.

There are certain circumstances where we need to collect sensitive personal data. It is rare but in these cases, we need to oblige by the service provider rules & regulations. On notes like this, we act in your interest and only prepare this data having had your consent where necessary.

Please note that we may have to share data with our worldwide trusted partners, such as Airlines, Hoteliers, Car Hire & Airport Parking services & other suppliers in order to arrange and confirm your booking. We may also have to disclose information to third parties in relation to concluding your product purchased & support services where required. We take reasonable steps to ensure your data is secure and any transactions from our website will be encrypted to ensure the highest levels of safety. At times, we need to disclose your information required by the Law and a request is made by a legal authority. Other than this, we do not share any further information with any other companies.

The transmission of information via the internet which is not encrypted can at any time result in unsecured data,  therefore we cannot guarantee the security of this data and this will be at your own risk. Any relevant passwords related to your booking given to you by us, our partners or suppliers is solely your responsibility to keep this confidential.

On a weekly note, we send you our Email Newsletter which consists of special travel offers, product updates, competitions and forthcoming events. We use the email address you share with us for this newsletter and this is held on our secured database. If you do not wish to receive these newsletters, you may ask us in writing not to receive it or unsubscribe on the link provided on the Newsletter email. Your email address will automatically be removed from the list.

As per our general policy, we monitor and record telephone calls, customer transactions and activities on our website to help improve our service and meet customer satisfaction. All recordings remain our sole property.

In order to comply with the law & regulations, from time to time we update changes to our privacy policy which is reflected on this page. We highly suggest that you read this statement so that you are aware of how we use and gather information.

Cookies

We use cookies which are small text files that are downloaded to your computer (or another electronic device) to help us improve our website, develop new methods and our services. Cookies enable us to gather information, track movement on our site, carry out research and statistical analysis and show details of online activity to help improve our content and services. Please be assured that we do not collect or store any of your passwords or sensitive data in this process.

 

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