Please read all of this Privacy Policy as well as the Terms and Conditions very carefully prior to commencing use of this website and on each and every occasion that you use this website in the future to check for updates.
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Around Travel WILL process personal information only in strict compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (as amended), the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and other associated data protection legislation. Your visiting this website constitutes acceptance of and consent to the practices set out in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of the terms as set out in this Privacy Policy then you should cease using this website immediately.
Around Travel reserves the rights to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting an updated version on the website. The date that the website was last updated is shown at the bottom of this web page. Your continued use of this site after an updated version is posted constitutes your acceptance of and consent to the practices set out in this Privacy Policy as modified.
This notice applies to:
This notice applies to you whether you act in your personal capacity or as an employee or agent of an organisation.
We collect both non-personal and personal data on an ongoing basis. Personal:
Non-personal:
Web browser details, operating system data, date and time stamps, clothing & accessory size information
We maintain appropriate organisational and technological safeguards to help protect against unauthorised use, access to or accidental loss, alteration or destruction of the personal data we hold. We also seek to ensure our third-party service providers do the same. However, the transmission of data over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be completely secure and failsafe. As such, Around Travel is not able to warrant or guarantee the complete security of any personal information that you provide and it is important that you are aware that providing any such information is done so entirely at your own risk
Your personal information is not collected from you automatically, simply as a result of your accessing this web site other than some information about your device or IP for identification to ensure correct tracking and analysis and to combat fraudulent activity.
If you choose to register, Around Travel will request information such as your name, email address, address, telephone number or other contact details as required. This information will then be held by us as it is necessary for us to carry out the services for which you registered. We also use this information to improve the function of the web site and to prevent any abuse to the web site.
In connection with some elements of the services, we also receive additional personal data about you from other organisations who have collected personal data from you, such as our commercial partners.
We use personal data collected through our sites and apps only when we have a valid reason and the legal grounds to do so. We determine the legal grounds based on the purposes for which we have collected your personal data. The legal ground may be one of the following:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
All the information that Around Travel sites collect via the web site or correspondence is used to help Around Travel understand more about who uses the web site and to help improve the web site and the services that it offers. It will also help Around Travel to send communications to you that may be of interest.
We do share information about users with third parties order to promote, sell or enhance the products and services we provide but we only disclose such information in an aggregated or anonymised form so that the information is incapable of identifying you as an individual, unless you have given us prior consent to do so. We take the privacy of our users very seriously, we do not rent, sell or share your personal data with other people without gaining your consent to do so. However, in limited circumstances, your personal data may be passed to a third party in any one of these circumstances without explicit consent:
Around Travel may use the personal information that you have provided to contact you by any of the methods which you input. If you have provided us with your email, you will be added to Around Travel newsletter database and you will receive content, news and additional information about new services, features or products from the site your signed up via in the Around Travel group and other sites within Around Travel group. If you do not want to be contacted in this way then please click where indicated when you are completing any of the online forms where you initially input your personal details, by changing your personal details on the ["personal details"] page when you are logged on to the web site, or by contacting Around Travel via the contact page at any time after submitting your personal details.
As the Internet is a global network, there may be instances when your personal data travels across international borders. This may include transfers outside the EU and the EEA. If you do voluntarily input any personal information via this web site or send correspondence, then in doing so you are authorising Around Travel to transfer your personal data in this way.
We will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes listed above (section 6.) or longer, as may be required by law. Generally, we will keep your personal information for 6 years from collection. However, in practice the retention period will likely be shorter if the information is no longer needed or longer if required for lawful purposes.
After the retention period, your personal data will either be securely deleted or anonymised and it may be used for analytical purposes. You must back up your data if you wish to keep it for longer.
Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing a website. We uses cookies for a number of reasons:
These are essential to the running of a Around Travel owned website. They include Session cookies, which enable you to carry out essential functions on Around Travel owned websites like maintaining login details for the session or a transaction. Session cookies are not stored on your computer and the information these cookies collect is anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other website. These cookies will expire when you close your web browser session.
Cookies defined, as 'Functionality' will not be used to target you with adverts on other websites.
These cookies allow you to move around our websites and use essential features like secure areas and shopping baskets. These cookies do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
Cookies defined, as 'Strictly Necessary' will not be used to target you with adverts or remember your preference or username beyond your current visit.
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you, as all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve our websites, understand what interests you and measures how effective our advertising is.
Cookies defined, as 'Performance' will not be used to target you with adverts or target adverts to you on other websites, or remember your preference or username beyond your current visit. We use these cookies to understand how our website is performing to enable us to make improvements to enhance your browsing experience.
These cookies are linked to services provided by third parties. We use these cookies for social media sharing; providing advertising agencies with information on your visit so that they can show you adverts that you may be interested in when you return to the website or visit other third party websites and deliver content and marketing communication which are tailored to your interests based on you your visit. We also enable some advertising partners to set cookies specifically to enable them to analyse advertising campaign performance.
We may also use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with adverts based on your location, offers you click on, and other similar interactions with our websites and apps.
Some third party sites may drop cookies on your device with consent or with legitimate interest
Cookies set by Around Travel and its partners
Cookie Group |
Cookie Type(s) |
Purposes |
Cookie Info |
WordPress - *wp* *wordpress* |
Strictly Necessary, Functional |
Logging into the website, sessions and commenting |
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Google Analytics |
Performance, Analytics |
Tracking impressions and user behaviour |
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/cookie-usage |
Google Ads |
Advertistings, Analytics, Targeting |
Ad targeting, personalisation, tracking and analytics |
|
Sourcepoint |
Performance, Analytics |
For Consent management platform and user options of GDPR and CCPA |
https://documentation.sourcepoint.com/implementation/general/cookies-and-local-storage |
Hubspot |
Performance, Analytics |
Website usage and tracking |
https://knowledge.hubspot.com/reports/what-cookies-does-hubspot-set-in-a-visitor-s-browser |
Lotame |
Performance, Analytics, Targeting |
User targeting, behaviour tracking, and audience matching. |
|
JEENG |
Performance, Analytics |
Push notification analytics tracking |
|
Parsley |
Performance, Analytics |
Website analytics tracking for impression information |
|
Quantcast |
Analytics, Targeting |
For Consent management platform and user options of GDPR and CCPA |
|
Xenforo |
Strictly Necessary, Functional, performance |
Logging into forums, settings and personalisation |
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PhpBB |
Strictly Necessary, Functional |
Logging into forums, settings and personalisation |
|
Prebid |
Performance, Analytics, Targeting |
Headerbidding cookies to record preferences for advertising and vendor tracking |
If you use any of our apps on your mobile device, we will process the following information:
We use an advertising service called online behavioural advertising (OBA). This allows us to deliver targeted advertising to the visitors of our websites. It works by showing you adverts that are based on your browsing patterns and the way you have interacted with the website. For example, if you have been reading a lot of car articles, you may be shown more adverts for cars.
With consent, we use data to:
We facilitate the above functions by using advertising technology providers:
LOTAME - data management platform, for the purpose of gaining audience insights and enabling consented audience data to be activated through our advertising platforms. Lotame uses cookies and other identifiers to track online behavioural, demographic and technographic data; they don't receive information such as your name and email. Lotame can also receive anonymous data segments that Around Travel sends, such as user IDs associated with people who have been registered members for a certain length of time. Lotame stores data on average for 9 months, and in special cases for up to 18 months. Lotame's privacy policy:
https://www.lotame.com/about-lotame/privacy/lotames-products-services-privacy-policy/.
Liveramp - When you log into our website, we may share information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with our partner LiveRamp. LiveRamp uses this information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognizing you on your device. This code does not contain any of your identifiable personal data and cannot be used to re-identify you. We place this code in our cookie and allow it to be used for online and cross-channel advertising. It may be shared with our advertising partners and other third party advertising companies globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or targeted advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. web, email, connected devices, and in-app, etc). These third parties may in turn use this code to link demographic or interest-based information you have provided in your interactions with them. You have the right to express a choice regarding our sharing of this data with LiveRamp for the above purposes, of the creation of this code, or of our sharing of the code with our advertising partners.
When you use our website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with our partner, LiveRamp Inc and its group companies ('LiveRamp'). LiveRamp may drop a cookie on your browser or directly in our emails and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. Similarly, when you use our mobile apps, we may also share hashed and de-identified email addresses, mobile device ID, location data, and advertising identifiers with LiveRamp, which uses that information to create a link between your mobile device and its databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email and in app etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. You have the right to exercise your rights under GDPR including opting out of LiveRamp's Cookie or Mobile Identifiers and can easily do so by clicking on this link: https://your-rights.liveramp.uk/home
If you would like more information regarding OBA and how to opt out, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/
If you login to our sites using a Facebook login or a Google login, you are granting permission to Facebook and/or Google to share your user details with us. This will include your name, email address, date of birth and location which will then be used for identification. This will also allow us and Facebook and/or Google to share your networks, user ID and any other information you choose to share according to your Facebook and/or Google account settings. If you remove the any of our Facebook apps from your Facebook and/or Google settings, we will no longer have access to this information.
Video Streaming Service
For certain video streaming technologies we use 3rd Party APs like YouTube, its API and Google. Please refer to the YouTube Terms of service here https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms for usage of YouTube on our pages with YouTube embeds. Personal information may be shared on with this providers where consented to. For more information on Google's privacy policy and information on how it uses personal data please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you receive a marketing email from us, you will have the option to "opt-out" by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the bottom of each Around Travel message we send you.
If you wish to stop all marketing communications from Around Travel, please email [email protected]
Push Notifications
We work with a number of Push Notifications services to send you via your internet browser if you select the option to "Subscribe" via the popup message that appears when you visit the site.
We will only send you messages about relevant content, products and services available from the site. Please follow your browser's guidance on how to stop push notifications for the site in question.
Links on Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
Link for Safari
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri40734/mac
Promotions, Competitions and Events
If you choose to enter a competition and promotion on a website owned and operated by Around Travel which co-branded with another brand/partner, we will also provide the data to that brand/partner. In this case we make it known to you at the point you submit your personal data and you withdraw your consent at any point after.
From time to time, our marketing communications may feature content from third party brands. We will not share personal data with these brands, without your explicit consent.
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