PRIVACY POLICY
OUR WEBSITE:
Our website address is: https://www.himachaltravelclub.com.
PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy applies to the securing and processing of personal data by Himachal Travel Club in connection with personal data provided by any person (“User”) who has purchased or intends to purchase or inquires about any product(s) or service(s) made by Himachal Travel Club through any of HTC’s interface channels including website or mobile site (collectively referred herein as “Sales Channels”).
For the purpose of Privacy Policy:
- References in this policy to “you” or “your” are references to ‘User’
- References to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to ‘Himachal Travel Club’
- References to “website” mean a reference to ‘website(s)’, ‘mobile site(s)’
We are committed to protect your privacy. Himachal Travel Club takes a proactive approach to user privacy and we ensure that all of the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of our users throughout their visiting experience to Himachal Travel Club and we ensure that we only use your information in the ways that we have explained below.
This privacy policy explains what information is collected on the Himachal Travel Club, how it is collected, what we use it for and how it may be used in the future.
Himachal Travel Club complies with all Indian national laws and requirements for user privacy, as well as the privacy protection law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR will be effective as of April 27, 2016).
INFORMATION COLLECTED:
Himachal Travel Club collects the details provided by you and from your use of our service, and your visits to our website. We may collect additional information that you provide when giving us feedback or other communications. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site use, which enables us to improve the service and products that we provide.
Please note that there may be instances where it may be necessary for us to communicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasons relating to our service.
Personal Data Gathered Through Our Online Booking Form
When you’ll be booking your trip through Himachal Travel Club’s website, we will ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to confirm your trip, contact or identify you (“Personal Data”).
Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City, Country
- Cookies and Usage Data
Unless you opt-in to our newsletter, we will only ever use your contact details to communicate with you regarding your booking or in replying to customer service enquiries, this may include booking status, and general customer service.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION:
We will never pass on your personal data to anyone else, except for any successors to our business or companies who work on our behalf. We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individual customers are personally identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES:
Our website may contain links to other websites that are outside of our control and therefore are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We can take no responsibility for their own terms or privacy policies, so you should read theirs if you’re concerned.
This website may also contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who have their own detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts that they serve. Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website.
USE OF COOKIES:
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer/device 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 computers/devices 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 cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Most browsers allow you to turn off the cookie function. If you wish to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your browser.
WEBSITE STATISTICS:
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 computer/device 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
EMAIL NEWSLETTER
This website operates an email newsletter program, used to keep its subscribers in the loop about news, events and services supplied by Himachal travel Club.
We use MailChimp to store and manage data on our subscriber lists, this data is only ever used by, and for Himachal Travel Club’s own email marketing, maintenance and customer service – and we only store the data you explicitly give to us. Users can subscribe to our newsletter through an online form found on the bottom section of homepage.
Other email newsletter subscriptions options include manual sign up forms at the time of trip bookings, which are processed through prior written agreement, and whereby the user must tick a check box and signature a form to opt-in to this service.
No personal details or email addresses are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the company that operates this website or those working on their behalf.
Email marketing campaigns published by Himachal Travel Club 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 information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based upon their activity. Subscribers are given the opportunity to change subscription settings, opt-out or unsubscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign.
PERSONAL DATA ACCESS RIGHTS & DELETION:
You have a right to access the personal data that is held about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information Himachal Travel Club holds about you, or to request that your data be deleted, please email hello@himachaltravelclub.com, and we’ll happily sort that out for you.
Himachal Travel Club reserves the right to make changes to the privacy policy in future with or without any prior notice to the users. Therefore in order to keep up to date with any necessary changes we encourage you to check back often.
If there is anything that you feel needs further explanation or you have any queries please send all correspondence to hello@himachaltravelclub.com.
Thank you for your interest in Himachal Travel Club.
