departuresXdean Privacy Policy

departuresXdean ("departuresXdean", “Personal Travel Management”, Mister Whistler Consulting Corporation”, ”us”, "we", or "our") operates the https://www.departuresXdean.com website (the "Service").

Here at departuresXdean we understand the concerns about how data may be stored, sent and used by companies. We are committed to complying with all data protection laws and want you to feel confident in the measures we are taking to uphold your data privacy rights.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. In all your dealings with us you must ensure that others you represent are aware of the content of our Privacy Policy and consent to your acting on their behalf.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically and informing yourself of any changes to this Privacy Policy.

Information we collect about you

Depending on the circumstances, in the course of providing a service to you, departuresXdean may collect and hold personal information such as:

• Details about you: Your first and last name, title, gender, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, meal and other travel preferences or dietary requirements.
• Payment details: Your bank details and payment card details when making a booking with us. Details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• Identification documents: If you are travelling on a route requiring advance passenger information, your passport details including your passport number, the country in which your passport was issued and the expiry date.
• Details about your booking with us: Details such as where you are flying from and to, your booking information (including anyone else on the booking), any onward travel details if relevant, details of experiences or excursions booked through us, baggage requirements, upgrade information, lounge visits, seat preferences, meal preferences or requirements, details of any special assistances required and any other relevant information so that we can provide you with the travel or other service you have arranged with us.
• Details from your interactions with us: Information about interactions or conversations with us and our staff, including when you make enquiries, comments, complaints or submit feedback to us. This could include your interests, marketing preferences and survey responses.
• Your use of our systems and services: This includes how you use our site, social media pages, IP addresses and information you may post on social media.
• Special types of data: In some circumstances we may need to collect information from you that is deemed sensitive. For example, we might collect data about your health. Knowing your dietary requirements and any medical conditions you have will ensure that the trip is suitable for you and any necessary adjustments are made.

We try to limit any sensitive personal data we collect to the minimum possible. Unless we have a specific lawful reason to use this information, we will ask for your consent to collect it.

How do we collect your data and why?

Depending upon your interactions with us, we might collect information in the following ways:

Direct Interactions: You may give us your identity, contact and financial data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone and email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provided when you:

• book or search for a holiday on our website;
• fill in part of the booking information on our site but do not complete the booking;
• sign up to receive email updates, participate in any of our competitions, promotions (for example via any social media channels, email or our site), surveys or market research;
• create an account on our website and enter information onto online forms;
• provide us with information about an accident, illness or incident that occurred or some other feedback;
• contact us via our call centres, social media, post, email or instant messenger. Our interactions with you may be recorded and monitored for the purposes of improving customer service, quality assurance, training, security and general business purposes; or
• attend any of our events.

Automated technologies or interactions

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

Third parties or publicly available sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
a) airlines, cruise lines, hotel providers or other parties we work with if you make a complaint to them;
b) analytics providers

What do we use your information for?

Under data protection laws we are allowed to use personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so such as:

• to fulfil a contract, we have with you or;
• when it is our legal duty or;
• when it is in our legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interested or
• when you consent to it

Generally, we do not rely upon consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending our own or third party direct marketing communications to you via e-mail or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

• To manage your booking with us: We will use your information to provide you with any travel or event services that you request or purchase. This entails booking your flights, cruise line tickets, accommodations, organizing tours, transportation and car hire and providing you with your tickets (on the basis of performing our contract with you) and providing you with any special assistance you require (where you give us your consent).
• To contact you with information about your bookings and support services: We will use your contact details to send you communications which relate to your booking or services you have requested. The types of information usually included would be: e-mails responding to inquiries, providing you with tickets, alerting you to changes in itineraries or responding to any complaints you have. We do these things in order to fulfil our contract with you and on the basis of our legitimate business interest of providing you with customer service.
• To provide assistance with online bookings: We may collect information when you enter it into forms on our websites but do not complete your booking. We do so in order to offer assistance in case you are experiencing difficulties using our websites.
• To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey: We do this to perform our contract with you or for our legitimate events of studying how customers use our services, develop them and grow our business.
• To send you marketing communications: We will use your information to contact you in order to keep you up to date with the latest news, offers, events, sales, brochures, promotions and competitions that we consider may be of interest or relevant to you. We will usually only do this when we have your consent to do so or on the basis of our legitimate interest to provide you with customer service. You may opt-out at any time.
• To personalize your customer experience and improve our service: We use your information to provide you with a more personalized service. This might include personalizing the communications we send to you with preferences, sending you only with advertising that we think you might like and/or enhancing your holiday experience (on the basis of our legitimate interests to present you with the right kinds of products and services). We may also record and/or monitor calls in order to improve our customer service.
• To optimize our site: If you use our site or apps, we will use your information to ensure that the content from our websites are presented in an effective manner for you and your device, to provide you with access to our site and app in a manner that is effective, convenient and optimal, and to provide you with content that is relevant to you, using site analytics and research and in certain circumstances combining that with other information we know about you (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate and present an effective and convenient website to our website users);
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences: This is necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
• To conduct research: We use your information to carry out aggregated and anonymized research about general engagement with our services and systems, or if you choose to participate in customer surveys and research (on the basis of our legitimate interests to improve our products, services and customer service); and
• To comply with our legal obligations: In certain circumstances, we will need to use your information to comply with our legal obligations, for example to comply with any court orders or subpoenas (on the basis of our legitimate interests to comply with a legal obligation).

Our Marketing Practices

When we will get in touch with you

One of the other reasons we sometimes collect your information is so that we can form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. With this information we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you and what marketing you may be interested in.

We keep you up to date with our latest offers, partnerships, sales, promotions, competitions that we think might be of interest/relevance to you. We will only contact you in this way if:

• You have signed up to receive marketing communications from us and have not later told us that you don't want to hear from us.
• You have made a booking with us and have not told us that you do not want to hear from us.

What if I don't want your marketing materials?

We never want to send our marketing to someone who isn't interested in receiving this content. If you have decided that you no longer wish to hear from us, you can unsubscribe from marketing by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe' link included in all of our e-mails or by contacting us.

Third parties and marketing

We do not pass your information to other parties for marketing purposes unless you agree to us doing so. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside of departuresXdean for marketing purposes.

Sometimes we may use 3rd parties to send the communication to you on our behalf. We use a third-party provider, Wix. to deliver our email marketing. However, these companies do not have the right to send marketing to you for their own purposes.
The marketing material we send to you we may occasionally also include information about selected business partners who provide services closely related to our own product.

Do we share your personal data?

In order to provide you with the services and on the lawful grounds described above, we may share your personal information with third parties such as:

• Third party suppliers we work with to provide your booking and our other services to you. We may share your information with parties such as airlines, cruise lines/companies, hotels, tour operators, transport companies, excursion providers, airport authorities, insurance companies, car hire companies, and ground handling agencies.
• Other suppliers that we work with in connection with our business. We share your information with third party suppliers that we use to provide services in connection with the experiences we offer to you. This might include marketing agencies and/or companies that run our marketing campaigns, IT developers, service providers and hosting providers, third parties that manage promotions or competitions, third party software companies ground agents, site analytics providers, medical service providers and credit card screening companies;
• Airports, immigration / border control and/or other government authorities. Sometimes we have to provide ‘Advance Passenger Information' about you to border or immigration authorities of the country of your travel destination. This would usually be the basic information contained in your passport, but the laws of certain countries may require additional information. We will provide this information when we are required to do so.
• Courts or advisors. We may have to share your information with other third parties (such as legal, accountants or other advisors, regulatory authorities, courts and government agencies) to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Your personal data rights

We want you to feel reassured that you have control of your personal information. With this in mind, we have explained below the rights you have in relation to the personal information we hold about you:

• The right to be advised of how we will use your personal information. This is set out in this privacy policy and we do our best to provide you with as much information as we can at the point at which you pass us your data.
• The right to ask us to correct any information you believe is incorrect.
• The right to ask us to not to use your information for marketing purposes.
• The right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you or to request that we transfer this to another service provider.
• In certain circumstances, the right to ask us to stop using information about you.
• The right to ask us to limit or cease processing or erase information we hold about you in certain circumstances.
• The right to withdraw consent that you have provided to us to use your personal information.

How can you exercise your rights?

You can exercise these rights over your data by contacting us or by checking the applicable boxes on forms where we collect your information or to tell us that you don't want to participate in marketing. You can also unsubscribe from any marketing at any time.

Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

How long do we keep your data for?

We will only keep your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose we collected it for, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal accounting or reporting requirements.

We operate a data retention policy and look to find ways to reduce the amount of information we hold and the length of time we hold it for. By law we have to keep basic information about booking and our customers for seven years for legal claims and tax purposes.

Other Privacy Information

Third-party Links

This website 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 notice of every website you visit.

Changes to this privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes. We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on [September 1, 2018].

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

What we use cookies for

• Collecting information: This means we can learn more about how you use our website, so we can improve our products and online experience.
• Tailoring your experience: Cookies allow us to provide you with information, products and services that we think you'll find interesting.
• Making our marketing relevant: We can show you relevant offers and promotions on our own websites and through our advertising networks.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by us. They let us identify the device you're using - but not you personally. This information is sent back to our systems as you move around our website. Cookies are unique to the web browser you're using - so if you're using a desktop computer as well as a mobile, different data will be collected for each.

How we use cookies

We may use cookies to find out more about how you use our website - like the searches you make and your preferences. We use this information to:

• Make it possible for you to use our website
• Show you information and offers that are relevant to you
• Find out more about how our customers use the site

For more information about our privacy practices, please contact us any time. Or email us at dean@departuresxdean.com

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