Holiday Elite understands and respects the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us, in respect of your relationship with us as a customer or a potential customer. This information may be collected via our websites (“Sites”), our call centres, our networks of Sales Agents (defined below), or our social media channels (collectively, our “Services”). Please read the following information carefully. You are responsible for ensuring that the other members of your party are aware of the content of this Privacy Policy and you have checked with them that they agree to their personal data being passed to us too make a booking or other purchase on their behalf.
By making a booking/purchase or otherwise submitting your personal data to us, we will transfer, store or process it as set out below. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to the holidays, travel products and services offered by Holiday Elite’s Sales Agents in the UK. When we say ‘Holiday Elite’, ‘we’ or ‘us’ in this Policy, we’re generally referring to the separate and distinct companies that make up Holiday Elite (depending on the context of the Services you use). This Policy applies to personal data processed by the following companies, including data collected when you make bookings, purchases and enquiries with them:
For the purpose of this Policy, the independent travel agents and self-employed contractors shall be collectively referred to as “Sales agents”.
Each independent travel agents may publish its own supplementary privacy policy to explain how it will process and handle any additional personal data it collects from you. Any such supplementary policies apply in addition to this Policy.
To help us keep your information current, accurate and complete, please ensure you tell us if anything needs to be changed.
Personal data we collect and/or observe about youBased on how you have used our Services in the past and your activity on our website, social media channels, we collect the following personal data about you:
We might also receive your personal data from third party sources who collect information about you on our behalf. This includes:
When you provide your personal data to us, some of the personal data you provide will need to be passed to and processed and stored by relevant third parties, such as our technology partners to administer the services we provide, and airlines, airports, hoteliers, insurance companies and ground handling agents, so that they can provide you with the arrangements and assistance you require.
Some of these third parties may be based outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Organisations that are based outside of the EEA may not be subject to the same level of controls in regard to data protection as exist within the UK and the EEA. We aim only to transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA where either:
(a) your personal information will be subject to one or more appropriate safeguards set out in the law. These might be the use of standard contractual clauses in a form approved by regulators, or having our suppliers sign up to an independent privacy scheme approved by regulators (like the US ‘Privacy Shield’ scheme); or
(b) the transfer is necessary to enable your contract to be performed.
In order for you to travel overseas, we may be required to disclose certain of your personal data to government bodies or other authorities in the UK and in other countries, such as those responsible for immigration, border control, security and anti-terrorism. Even if it is not mandatory for us to provide information to such authorities, we may exercise our discretion to assist them where appropriate in the interests of detecting and preventing criminal activity .
Holiday Elite is part of the Thomas Cook Group. The Thomas Cook Group includes the Holiday Elite companies Holiday Elite Group and Freedom Personal Travel Advisors, our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may disclose your personal information to any member of the Thomas Cook Group for business purposes (those business purposes include holding your data on central/shared systems for administering bookings and supporting customers in destination countries).
We may pass your data to relevant third parties for the purpose of detecting and preventing fraudulent payments or bookings.
The following activities are carried out by us using your personal data because it is necessary in relation to a contract which you have entered into or because you have asked for something to be done so you can enter into a contract:
We may use and process your personal information as set out below where it is necessary for us to carry out activities for which it is in our legitimate interests as a business to do so:
To improve the customer experience:We may use and process your personal information as set out below where we consider that it is in your vital interests that we do:
We may use and process your personal information as set out below where we have your consent to do so:
We may use and process your personal information as set out below where there is a legal requirement for us to do so:
If you have made an enquiry on one of our Sites or through a Sales Agent, your personal data may be used by Holiday Elite and our Sales Agents in the ways the law allows, to contact you by post, electronic means (e-mail or text message) and/or by phone with information and offers relating to products or services that you can book/purchase from Holiday Elite. Holiday Elite and our Sales Agents will only do this if you did not opt out of such marketing at the point where we collected your contact details.
If you have not made an enquiry or purchase, Freedom Personal Travel Advisors and the Sales Agents will only send to you information and offers by email or text message only if you sign up (opt in) to receive such marketing, either directly through us or by telling a third party that you would like to receive marketing from us.
Travel and travel related services, insurance and gift cards are the types of products and services that can be booked/purchased through Holiday Elite. You will only receive marketing communications about those which we think are relevant to you.
We will not pass your contact details to a third party for them to send to you marketing communications unless you have expressly agreed that we may do so.
We may use your personal information to try to ensure any marketing communications we send to you are offering products or services likely to be of interest to you.
You have the right at any time to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by selecting the ‘no marketing’ option on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also unsubscribe from marketing communication by using the link on any email marketing you receive or by advising the Sales Agent that you booked through, or otherwise exercise this right at any subsequent time by sending an unsubscribe request to: Marketing, Holiday Elite, 4th Floor Cardinal House, 20 St Marys Parsonage, Manchester, M3 2LY.
You have the right to make a Data Subject Access Request in many circumstances. That is a request for access to the personal information that we hold about you. If we agree that we have to provide personal information to you (or someone else on your behalf), we’ll provide it to you or them free of charge.
We may ask for proof of identity and sufficient information about your interactions with us that we can locate your personal information. That may include information about your previous booking(s) or other purchases. We will ask you to provide this before providing a copy of any of your personal information we may be holding to you or another person on your behalf. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information.
Please see the section titled ‘How to Contact Us’ if you need to make a Data Subject Access Request.
Correcting and updating your personal informationThe accuracy of your information is important to us and we are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you.
In the meantime, if you change your name or address/email address, or you discover that any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let us know by contacting our customer experience team.
Withdrawing your consentWhere we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information, as set out in section above titled ‘How do we use your information when providing our services to you’, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you would like to withdraw your consent to receiving any direct marketing to which you previously opted-in, please see the section titled “What you need to do if you don’t want our marketing communications’ for further details. If you would like to withdraw your consent to us processing any information concerning dietary requirements, medical conditions, disabilities and special requirements, please contact our customer experience team. Please note if you ask us to stop processing this information, it may mean we won’t be able to provide all or parts of the services you have requested. If we have to cancel your booking/purchase as a result, you may incur a cancellation charge.
If you withdraw your consent, our use of your personal information before you withdraw is still lawful.
Objecting to our use of your personal information and automated decisions made about youWhere we rely on your legitimate business interests as the legal basis for processing your personal information for any purpose(s), you may object to us using your personal information for these purposes by emailing or writing to us at the address provided at the end of this policy. Except for the purposes for which we are sure we can continue to process your personal information, we will temporarily stop processing your personal information in line with your objection until we have investigated the matter. If we agree that your objection is justified in accordance with your rights under data protection laws, we will permanently stop using your data for those purposes. Otherwise we will provide you with our justification as to why we need to continue using your data.
Erasing your personal information or restricting its processingIn certain circumstances, you may ask for your personal information to be removed from our systems by emailing or writing to us at the address at the end of this policy. Provided we do not have any continuing lawful reason to continue processing or holding your personal information, we will make reasonable efforts to comply with your request.
You may also ask us to restrict processing your personal information where you believe it is unlawful for us to do so, you have objected to its use and our investigation is pending or you require us to keep it in connection with legal proceedings. We may only process your personal information whilst its processing is restricted if we have your consent or are legally permitted to do so, for example for storage purposes, to protect the rights of another individual or company or in connection with legal proceedings.
Transferring your personal information in a structured data fileWhere we rely on your consent as the legal basis for processing your personal information or need to process it in connection with your contract, as set out in section titled ‘How do we use your information when providing our services to you’, you may ask us to provide you with a copy of that information in a structured data file.
You can ask us to send your personal information directly to another service provider, and we will do so if this is technically possible. We may not provide you with a copy of your personal information if this concerns other individuals or we have another lawful reason to withhold that information.
How to contact us:Any subject access request can be made in writing to:
Compliance Dept
Holiday Elite
4th Floor Cardinal House
20 St Marys Parsonage
Manchester
M3 2LY
Alternatively you can make a subject access request by email to: customerexperience@freedomtravelgroup.co.uk.
Once you have made your request and provided us with the information we need to begin a search for the data we hold on you (including proof of identity), we will have 30 days to respond.
Making a complaintWe encourage you to contact us if you have a complaint and we will seek to resolve any issues or concerns you may have.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator where your legal rights have been infringed. The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the data protection regulator in the UK, are available on the ICO website, where your personal information has or is being used in a way that you believe does not comply with data.
If you wish to contact us about this Privacy Policy, you can e-mail or write to Holiday Elite Data Protection Officer using the contact details above.
Where you’ve made a booking or other purchase with us, your personal information will be retained to ensure we provide the best possible customer service to you. We also retain your personal data for legal and audit purposes.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Sites, therefore any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data secure and to try to prevent any unauthorised access to it. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.
Our Sites contains links to and frames of websites of our principals, suppliers, advertisers and other third parties. You can tell when a third party is involved in supplying a product or service you have requested because their name will appear with ours. If you follow a link or otherwise use any of these other websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or for these third party websites. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
We reserve the right to update or alter this Privacy Policy from time to time.
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