AWAY Travel Advisors LLC understands and respects the importance of your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information. In providing our service to you, we must collect personal information from you and this policy outlines how we treat your personal data after it has been collected by any of our channels which include our website and any future digital services or channels as they evolve.

WHAT INFORMATION WILL WE COLLECT?

We may collect all or some of the following information relating to you or other members of your party:

Names and contact/address details including telephone number and email address.

Credit/ debit card or other payment details (including card number, cardholder name, expiry date) which is then stored on our system for future use and bookings.

HOW WILL WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?

We will only collect personal information from you by specifically asking for it:

When you apply to become a member of AWAY;

When you book services through our agents;

When we use cookies to see which website pages are the most popular.

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH IT?

We will also use your details to manage your booking, send you notifications and communicate with you generally about your Membership and your bookings.

For the purpose of providing you with the services, we may have to disclose some of your information to the providers of the services making up your arrangements (who could be located outside the US). We may also have to disclose some information to third parties in relation to customer services, credit card processing, or other services.

We may need to disclose your information where required by law, where such a request is made by a legal authority.

We may need to disclose our customer list including any personal information relating to you to a third party who acquires or attempts to acquire all or substantially all of the asset/stock in our company or our website.

We may also disclose information to organizations that act as “data processors” on our behalf, or to other organizations that perform business functions on our behalf, some of whom may be outside the US. These functions include administration, providing services (and contacting you where necessary), customer care, business management and operation, re-organization/structuring/sale of our business (or our group companies), risk assessment, security and crime prevention/detection, research and analysis, marketing, monitoring, measuring and assessing customer purchasing preferences and trends, dispute resolution, credit checking and debt collection.

We may from time to time contact you with information about special offers, brochures, new products, forthcoming events or giveaways. If you do not wish to receive such information, you may ask us in writing not to receive it.

We may pass your details to other parties who offer goods or services that we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to have your details passed on in this way, you may ask us in writing not to do so.

We have taken all reasonable steps to have appropriate security measures in place to protect your information. Outside the US, controls on data protection may not be as wide as the legal requirements in this country. The transmission of information via the internet is never completely secure. We exclude our liability for personal data lost in transmission to the website.

WHAT CAN I DO?

If you do not agree to our use of the information as set out above, you should inform us as soon as possible by writing to us at AWAY Travel Advisors LLC of 5030 Champion Blvd. Suite G11-150 Boca Raton, FL 33496 USA or by email at info@travelwithaway.com.

In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, you may ask us in writing for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge an administration fee) and to correct any inaccuracies in your information. We aim to respond to you within 21 days from the date of request.

You can also choose not to provide us with some of the information we request, however as a result we may not be able to complete your arrangements.

OPT-OUT POLICY

Subscribers can opt out of receiving further information from us at any time. You will also be given a fast and easy option of opting out on all communications. Email us at info@travelwithaway.com to unsubscribe.

COOKIES

Please note that in order for us to provide you with optimum service, we use ‘Cookies’ on our website.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this web site – session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies allow us to obtain information regarding users of our site which essentially helps us to provide you with a better user experience and tailor our services to your individual needs. We may collect information such as your IP address, online activity, web browser details and online activity. We will not however collect or store any of your passwords or other highly sensitive data.

By using our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept all cookies, we will take this to mean that you want to use our products and services, and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies as described in this Policy.

Browser settings: Most browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent. You may elect to reject cookies by adjusting your browser’s settings, but doing so will limit the range of features available to the visitor on our site and most other major websites that use cookies.

WE USE THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE

Category 1: strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Category 2: performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works. By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

FURTHER INFORMATION

To find out more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION

We take website security very seriously and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information. We take a number of administrative and technical steps to ensure the security of the information you provide to us.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Please note that our website contains certain literature and hyperlinks to websites owned by third parties. This privacy statement covers websites owned and controlled by us only. Links to other websites and any information collected by these sites are not covered by this privacy statement.

MONITORING

To ensure that we carry out your instructions accurately, to help improve our service and in the interest of security, we may monitor and/or record:

  1. your telephone calls; and
  2. member transactions and activities on our website.

All recordings are and shall remain our sole property.

UPDATES AND CHANGES

As our privacy statement may change due to developments in the law we encourage you to re read this from time to time so you are aware of any changes in how we gather and use your personal information. Any changes to this Policy will be either posted on our website, brochure and/or made available on request.