This privacy policy sets out how Wild About Travel uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website.
Wild About Travel is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Wild About Travel may change this policy from time to time by updating this page occasionally, so you can check it to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What information we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name
- contact information including email address, postal address and telephone number(s)
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- if you book a holiday with us it may be necessary for us to collect your passport details
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- To keep in contact with you if your request our Wild About Travel newsletter.
- For internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new itineraries or destinations we think you would find interesting.
You have our assurance that we never share your personal information with any other company. The exception to this is if you decide to book your holiday with us, we share your information with the ground agents concerned with booking your tour. In this case we only supply the necessary information to book accommodation and travel arrangements.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
If you wish to browse the website without storing any cookies please set your browser to “Private Browsing”, “Incognito” or “Secret” mode (or however it is referred to in the Browser that you use). Note this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Find more out about cookies on the ICO website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at info@wildabouttravel.co.uk
We will not distribute your personal information to third parties unless it is for the purposes listed above or are required by law to do so. We will not sell your personal information.
Under the GDPR, subject to you supplying appropriate evidence of identity, you may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Jo Thomas, Wild About Travel, 27, Reeve Way, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 2PH, UK. If at any point you wish to have all the information held on you to be deleted, again please contact us.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter you can click on unsubscribe at the bottom of each newsletter or email jo@wildabouttravel.co.uk and we will remove you from the list. Please contact Jo for further information or to amend your preferences for the way with contact you, or if you wish for us to remove your details altogether.
Updated May 2018