addictedtotravel.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy note explains how we use the information we collect and the options you have in how the information is obtained and used. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties except for information that is transferred to the relevant travel expert, who is a member of the addictedtotravel.com community, to process your travel enquiry. We will only use the information we collect directly for the purposes of enhancing your experience with addictedtotravel.com and to improve the content of our site.
Security
addictedtotravel.com is registered with and operates in accordance with the legislation of the Data Protection Registrar. Personal information is stored on a secure server solely for the use of addictedtotravel.com that is only accessible by designated addictedtotravel.com employees.
Community
To get the best from the site, you may wish to register as a member of the addictedtotravel.com community. Registration will enable you to communicate and plan your travels directly with our local Travel Experts, post travel blogs, reviews, and photos, or join in on one of our chat forums. addictedtotravel.com reserves the right to edit any posts or reviews where necessary. On registering you will be asked to provide your personal information, such as your name, email address and password. This information is collected for personal identification and allows you to access your account.
Travel Enquiries
On making a travel enquiry communication will be directly to a local Travel Expert using our sites technology and your personal addictedtotravel.com address. Personal details will be needed by the Travel Expert to process your travel enquiry, but the information will be based on a standard enquiry template controlled by addictedtotravel.com. All Travel Experts have signed an agreement with us to adhere to the terms of our privacy policy; however we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies of our members.
Send to a Friend
addictedtotravel.com community members can forward a web page from the site to a friend. When doing this the name and email address of the recipient will be collected and periodically we may email these people with a newsletter or an update on the site. They can reply with an indication that they do not want to receive this information and the details of the person will no longer be used.
e-Newsletters
On registering you will be invited to sign up to the e-newsletter. As a member no additional information will be required to receive this e-newsletter, but for a non-member the minimum information required is a name and an email address. You may, at any time, decline to receive these e-newsletters by clicking the “unsubscribe” link that is included in each email.
Competitions and surveys
No further information will be required if a member enters a competition, promotion or survey, but if the competition, promotion or survey is open to non-members then we may ask for your name, address, phone number, e-mail address or other information so that we can administer the competition and inform the winners or follow up on the survey. Participation in all competitions, promotion or surveys on our site is purely voluntary and hence disclosure of this information is by your own choice.
Links
Our site links to other partner sites in some instances and in those cases addictedtotravel.com is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other sites. We suggest that our community members read the privacy policy for all sites requiring personal information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our site.
Third Party Advertising
We control all of the on-line advertising on our site directly so there are no issues with data being collected by third-party advertising companies. Whilst not disclosing any personal information, we may use the aggregated information from the site to identify trends or areas to advertise certain destinations or product so as to improve the choice to the traveller.
Cookies and IP addresses
Cookies are pieces of information that are stored on your hard drive, which can contain a user ID that the site uses to recognise the user. This is common practice and we use cookies to tell us how and when you use the site to understand ways we can improve our site for your use. addictedtotravel.com retains the right to use aggregated information for advertising, our members and other travel related third parties. addictedtotravel.com also collects the IP addresses used to access our site, and this information will be used to improve the site, monitor user's movement, and produce general trends of use - we do not track individual’s activities.
Notification of Changes
Any future changes to our privacy policy will be included in a revised version published on this page, accessible from our home page. If we decide to use your personal information in a way that is different than when we collected the data, we will notify you directly on email. For any further questions about our privacy policy or general security on the site, please contact us at info@addictedtotravel.com.