Privacy Policy
We are a company Superior Choices with Choices Travel being a subsidary. Choices Travel website address is: https://www.choicestravel.co.za
SECTION 1 – WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT.
1.2 CONTACT FORM: If you use the contact form on our website you automatically have given consent to Choices Travel to respond to your query. Once the query has been dealt with, all personal information will be kept for administration, legal and security purposes only.
1.3 GOOGLE ANALYTICS: By using or viewing our website via your browsers cookies. Our website uses Google Analytics to help us learn about who visits our site and what pages are being looked at. (Privacy Policy)
SECTION 2 - DISCLOSURE
SECTION 3 – HOSTING AND DATA BREACH
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all security requirements and follow the best practices of website security.
If in the event that there is a data breach, we will notify all our website users and customers within 72 hours.
SECTION 4 - THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links
When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
SECTION 5 - COOKIES
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small fragment of text that websites send to the browser and that are stored in the user’s device, such as their personal computer, mobile telephone, tablet, etc. These files are used by the website to remember information about the visit, such as language preferences and other options, while helps to set things up for their next visit and make the website more useful by personalising its content. Cookies play a very important role improving the experience of using the website.
Types of cookie used
This website uses both temporary and permanent cookies. Session cookies only store data while the user is on the website, while persistent cookies store data on the user’s device so that it can be accessed and used in more than one session.
Depending on the purpose for which data obtained from cookies is to be used, the website can make use of:
Technical cookies
These cookies enable the user to explore the website or application to use the different options or services on it. They are used to track web traffic, for data communication, to access restricted sections of the website, to record the content of an order, to make requests to register for an account.
Personalisation cookies
These enable the user to access the service using certain general characteristics that are predefined in their device or that are user-defined. For example, language, type of browser used to access the service, design of selected content, geoposition of the device or regional configuration from where the service is accessed.
Language preference cookies tell us which language the user selected on their first visit to the website. These cookies are persistent and are not deleted when the browser is closed.
Statistical analysis cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how users interact with our website in order for the overall behaviour of all users to be analysed to help us to make improvements, and cannot be used to identify individual users. We use Google Analytics cookies.
Complementary cookies
These cookies are used to exchange social content that is integrally managed by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram. Our website integrates “social plug-in modules” that enable members of social networks to share and exchange content.
Cookies settings
You can decide whether you would like Choices Travel to store non-essential cookies on your machine. The non-essential cookies relate mostly to the tracking of content, Google analytics scripts. If you set your preferences to decline then these cookies will be removed from your machine and will not be stored in the future.
SECTION 6 - AGE OF CONSENT
SECTION 7 - CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our company is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that they may continue the companies services to you.
SECTION 8 - COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. (Privacy Policy) . After approval of your comment or review, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
SECTION 9 - HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you have signed up to receive our newsletter, your personal data will be retained indefinitely. You may at any time opt out and your personal data will be deleted.
If you have filled in a contact form, your data will be kept by the company administrator until such a time that the query has been dealt with. Personal details may be kept for administration, legal or security purposes. You may at any time request that your personal details be deleted via our Compliance Officer.
SECTION 10 - WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
SECTION 11 - QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at marianaw@choicestravel.co.za
or
Telephonically at +27 (0) 12 425 9960