This Privacy Policy describes how Travarc and its network (Group) sites collect, use, process and share personal information. This Policy applies to visitors and users (individually, “you”) of Travarc’s websites including applications, social media accounts, and other services (collectively, our “Services”). Please note that your use of our Services is additionally subject to the Travarc Terms and Conditions.
As a travel search engine, Travarc connects travelers with travel services and products offered by third parties, such as flights, accommodations, rental cars, packages, and travel insurance. This involves sharing personal information with third parties, including online travel agencies, hotels, rental car providers, airlines, and others (collectively, “travel partners”). Please note that this Policy does not otherwise cover the use of personal information by third parties or their services, and we do not take responsibility for their privacy practices.
Information We Collect and Use: When you use or visit our Services, we collect information directly from you (e.g., when you make a booking or reservation). We may also generate information about you (e.g., information about your device while you use our mobile application). In some cases, we also obtain personal information from third parties (e.g., applications, and services, and others).
How We Use Your Information We use your information to provide our Services, tailor your experience, show you bookings and transactions made with our travel partners through TRAVARC and our group companies, send you marketing communications, provide you with more relevant advertising and offers that may be of interest to you, and for other purposes described below.
How We Share Your Information We share your information with our travel partners; with our group companies; with other business partners (including advertisers); with social networking services; with third-party services or applications you use to log into your TRAVARC account; with service providers; and others as described below. We share information to provide and improve our Services, for our own marketing purposes, to facilitate offers and advertising from others that may interest you, and for other purposes as described below.
How We Store and Protect Your Information
We maintain technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information. We may retain your information for as long as your account is active and for a period of time thereafter to allow you to re-activate your account without loss of information, and as necessary for purposes.
Cookies We use cookies and similar technologies to help provide our Services, offer you a more personalized user experience and market our and third parties' products and services to you.
Your Choices and Rights You have choices about your personal information, and in some circumstances, you may be able to opt out of receiving marketing communications, change your communication preferences, access and update your information, update location sharing options, exercise choices regarding cookies, and/or opt out of certain sharing of information with third parties (including our group companies, travel partners, and other business partners). These choices and other rights you may have are described in more detail below. International Transfers of Information We operate internationally, and information about you may be transferred to, or accessed by, entities located in countries outside of your home country. To protect your information, any such international transfers will be made in accordance with applicable law.
Links to Other Websites Our Services may contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Travarc, including links to websites of our travel partners, and other business partners (including advertisers).
Children Our Services are not directed at or intended for use by children, nor do we knowingly collect information from children under 16 years of age.
Changes to This Policy We update this Policy from time to time, and changes will be effective when posted (as identified in the Policy).
How to Contact Us If you have any questions about this Policy or the way your personal information has been used, please contact us from contact us page.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE “Personal information” is data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be used to contact, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you. For purposes of this Policy, there is no meaningful distinction between the terms “personal information” and “personal data.”
Personal Information We Collect Directly From You. As you visit or use our Services, we collect the following categories of personal information directly from you:
You may choose not to provide some of the personal information described above. Please note, however, that many of our Services require some personal information to operate, so if you choose not to provide the personal information necessary to operate and provide you with a particular Service or feature of that Service, you may not be able to use that Service or feature.
Personal Information Generated By Us. As you use our Services, we generate certain personal information about you, including through automatic data collection and by inferences based on the information we collect about you and your activity. We may automatically collect information about your interactions with the Services or communications you receive (such as email) using certain technologies, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies (see our Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising Policy for more details). We generate the following categories of personal information about you:
Device information. When you visit or use our Services, we automatically collect certain information about your device (e.g., your mobile device, computer, or tablet), including information about your hardware and software, device configuration, and nearby networks. Such data may include data about your device operating systems, browsers, and other software installed on your device; such as IP address or other device identifier; country of origin, region and language settings; and information about domain servers and wireless or network access points near your device.
Usage and performance information. We also automatically collect personal information about your usage of the Services, including information about your searches, statistics about the travel itineraries you share with us, how you interact with the features of our Services and the links you click, your preferences, access times, referring URL, and performance of our Services.
Location information. If you use our Services, we automatically collect approximate location information about you (such as your city) or, with your consent, precise geographic location data from your mobile device when the app is running and when it is not running, depending on the choices you make when you are asked to consent to our collection of location information. The technologies we use to determine your location may include IP address mapping, cell tower position, Wi-Fi position and GPS signals. We may use and store this information to provide and improve features of our Services, for example, to tailor our Services on a needs-based manner to better facilitate your requests (such as helping you find the hotel closest to you) and to provide you with more relevant content in the cities you visit (such as sending you marketing communications relating to goods or services in your current city, including local accommodations and travel options). Travarc does not have control over your device settings, but we do recommend enabling location services on your device so you can take advantage of the location-based features and functionality offered. Please see the Your Rights and Choices section below for more information about how to adjust your preferences, including those related to location information.
Inferences about you. We combine the information we collect, generate, or otherwise obtain to draw inferences about your preferences and interests in order to provide and personalize our Services and tailor the advertising we and our partners display or offer to you.
Personal Information We Obtain from Third Parties. We may also receive certain categories of personal information from third parties, such as third-party websites, applications, social media networks, and services (each, a “third-party platform”), our group companies, travel partners, and other third parties, including individuals who have shared their travel itineraries with you through our Trips service. If you are an existing Travarc user, we will combine this information with information we collect through our Services and use and share it for the purposes described below. The categories of personal information we may obtain from third parties includes:
Your name Email address or other contact information Social media data, if you connect to our Services using a social media third-party platform or interact with Travarc by liking or commenting on our social media pages or content, we may receive information from that social media third-party platform about those interactions and from your social media profile (e.g., name, age, gender, photograph, and other personal information related to that account) Browsing, purchase, usage and advertising details, including information about restaurant or travel accommodations and bookings you make through our group companies and travel partners (for example, if you book a flight through one of our group companies, we or our travel partners may receive the general location of your destination and use that information to provide recommendations for hotels or other accommodations or complementary services); how you use third-party websites, applications, and services; information relating to your interactions with our advertising and marketing materials; and demographic information about users of our Services.
Sharing with Other Service Providers. We share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services or functions on our behalf (e.g., hosting or operating our Services, data collection, manually parsing booking confirmations, reporting, ad response measurement, site analytics, data analysis, delivering marketing messages and advertisements, processing credit card payments, and providing fraud detection services). We do not authorize these third parties to use or disclose your information for purposes other than those for which it has been provided. We require these third parties to maintain and implement security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access or processing.
HOW WE STORE AND PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
Sharing Travarc maintains commercially-reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Sharing When your payment information is being transmitted to our Services or through our Services, it will be protected by cryptographic protocols. To be clear, Travarc only stores your payment information if you choose to save that information to your account. When you submit a booking or reservation, we transfer your payment information to the applicable travel partner to process the transaction. Our contracts with third parties that receive your payment information require them to keep it secure and confidential.
Sharing Retention. We may retain your personal information for as long as your account is active and for a period of time thereafter to allow you to re-activate your account without loss of information. We may also retain your personal information as necessary to:
Sharing Maintain logs and business records for analysis, security, and/or audit purposes Comply with record retention requirements under the law Deal with any complaints regarding the Services; and Comply with our legal obligations, protect or defend our rights, resolve disputes and enforce our contracts
Sharing COOKIES When you use or visit the Services, we collect information about your usage and activity using cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. Third parties may also view, edit, or set their own cookies. We and our third-party service providers, affiliates, and other business partners may also place web beacons for these third parties. The use of these technologies by third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Policy, except as required by law. See our Cookies Policy for more details.
Information We Collect and Use We collect and use personal information about you to respond to your request for products and services offered through the Sites. Specifically, we collect information provided by you in connection with obtaining price quotes or rates. For example, you may be asked to provide your name, address, telephone number, email, and other information in order to be matched to insurance carriers and agents who may provide you a quote for their insurance services. Or you may be asked to provide home and destination airports and travel dates so that we can show you flight and hotel options. /p>
We may also collect other information such as gender, zip code, or other demographic information that is not tied to your personal information. Included in this demographic information is your IP address, which is treated as personal information in some jurisdictions, but which we use only to identify your geographic area and for legal compliance purposes. /p>
In addition, we might receive information about you from other online or offline sources and may combine that information with the information you have provided.
Changes to this Privacy Policy We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. If there are material changes to this Privacy Policy or in how we will use your personal information, we will prominently post notice of such changes on the Sites. However, you should check this Privacy Policy whenever you use any of our Sites to ensure you are aware of our current privacy practices. Our Privacy Policy will indicate the date it was last updated. Your continued use of our Sites after we have posted any changes indicates your agreement to the changes, unless you notify us otherwise.Your Agreement By using this Site, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use any portion of our Sites.