Privacy Policy
Travel Neutral is committed to protecting your privacy. Indeed, we attach particular importance to protecting the personal information that you share with us and we strive to maintain your trust in this regard.
When you do business with us, we need to collect some personal information about you such as your name, email address, passport number and payment details. This information is used only to process your booking. Your information is never shared with our trusted partners such as hotels and tour operators.
In this privacy policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) we explain how we collect, use and protect your personal information.
This Policy applies to all personal information we process about you when you do business with us, purchase or use our services, visit our website or otherwise interact with us. This Policy was developed to comply with the requirements of the privacy protection legislation in force.
Please refer to the “How to Contact Us” section if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding the Policy or your personal information.
Our full Policy can be accessed below.
We collect Personal Data about you when you use our Site(s) or in providing our Services to you. “Personal Data” consists of any information that relates to you and/or information from which you can be identified, directly or indirectly. For example, information which identifies you may consist of your name, address, telephone number, photographs, location data, an online identifier (e.g. cookies identifiers and your IP address) or one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Your “Personal Information”, and that of your travel companions, is provided to us directly by you, in order to provide the Services you have requested and typically consists of your full legal name, email address, mailing address, telephone number and credit card number or other payment information. We may also collect other Personal Information in order to assist you with your travel plans, including but not limited to, passport number, driver’s license or other government-issued identification number, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure locations and times, airline, known traveler and global entry number, and other related travel information.
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
To provide you with our services
We may use your personal information to process and manage your booking and to fulfil your travel arrangements and purchases. For example:
- To identify you in order to issue your ticket;
- To identify you in order to make booking reservations;
- To ensure you receive specified dietary requirements;
In case of non-provision, objection or restriction to processing or erasure of any information necessary to provide you with our services and those of our partners, or in the event you wish to withdraw consent previously given to us for the collection and use of your sensitive personal information, they as we may not be able to provide certain or all of our services to you. In such circumstances, cancellation fees may apply.
To communicate with you and keep you informed
We may need to contact you by email and/or by telephone for administrative or operational reasons. For example:
- To send you confirmation of your bookings and your payments;
- To inform you about your travel itinerary;
- To notify you when check-in is available or to advise you of disruption and changes to your reservations; etc.
We will also use your contact information for commercial prospecting and to send you marketing communications, if you agreed to receive such communications.
Your opinion is very important to us, so we may seek your feedback on our services via email, social media or surveys.
We will use the communications you exchange with us and the feedback you may provide in order to manage our relationship with you and to improve our services and experiences for customers.
To personalise and improve your customer experience
We may use the communications you exchange with us and information about how you use our website to improve our products and services and to ensure that you receive commercial communications from us that are relevant to you.
To send newsletters
The Travel Neutral newsletter is sent via email to those who explicitly request it by filling out the form on this page and consequently authorizing Travel Neutral, LLC to process their personal data. The provision of personal data is optional. However, refusal to provide such personal data makes it impossible to provide the newsletter service.
In case of legal necessity
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we reserve the right to disclose any information about you if we are required to do so by law, with respect to copyright and other intellectual property infringement claims, or if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a) fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or property, or our Site; or (d) in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our Site’s users or the general public.
Collection of Technical Information
We collect other information “Technical Information”, such as your IP address, search terms, and site pages you visit while on our Site, whenever you visit our Site, use our services, or view our online advertisements. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and log data.
You can learn more about how we use cookie data by reviewing our Cookie Policy which can be found in the Cookie Policy section of this Privacy Policy.
Whenever you use a website, mobile application, or other internet service, certain information is created and retained by the website or application. This happens with our Site as well. We collect Technical Information when you use our Site, or information that has been made anonymous, such as:
- Log data: Our servers automatically record information when you use our Site, such as your IP address, the type of browser you are using and its settings, the third party website you visited immediately prior to accessing our Site, the operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the search terms you use on our Site, the specific Site pages you visit, type of product selected, the brand, order, and product identifications, and the duration of your visits.
- Cookie data: A “cookie” is data that a website server stores on your computer. Cookies enable websites to recognize your computer and to “remember” your entries as you move from page to page, or even when you revisit the site from time to time using the same computer.
We may also collect information pertinent to the marketing of our products and services. This information may include marketing channels, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel.
We collect and analyze this Technical Information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our Site, to evaluate how visitors use our Site and to provide you with advertisements that are relevant and useful to you, unless you have told us not to. We also use the information we collect to understand customer needs and trends, to carry out targeted promotional activities, and to generally help us make our Site more useful to visitors.
We may use your Site data by itself or aggregate it with similar information we have obtained from others. We may share your Site data with our affiliates and other third parties to achieve these objectives. You may obtain a list of our affiliates and third parties with whom we share your Site data by contacting us via email.
We reserve the right to use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to identify a visitor when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Site’s terms and conditions, or to: (a) fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the requirements of the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or property, our Site, or other users; or (d) in an emergency to protect the health and safety of our Site’s users or the general public.
We will only keep your information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purpose it is being collected or processed for in accordance with this Policy or in order to comply with the law.
For example, your personal information related to your booking will be retained to fulfil the specific travel arrangements you have made. Afterwards, we will keep the information for a period of time which enables us to handle or respond to any complaints, queries, concerns or legal procedures relating to the booking.
We will actively review the information we hold and delete it securely or anonymize it, when there is no longer a legal, business or customer need for it to be retained.
We have implemented a combination of material, organisational and technological means to ensure the confidentiality of the personal information that we hold, to protect such information against loss or theft and to prevent any unauthorized access, transmission, reproduction, use or amendment thereof.
We use industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for the transmission of personal information on our website, for example when you pay by credit card online. You can verify this protection by looking for the padlock symbol on many browsers. SSL allows a secure connection between your internet browser and our internet server, using a private (or secret) key to encrypt the information.
When we share personal information with a third party, we take appropriate security measures to ensure such third party’s compliance with the undertakings and rules set forth in this Policy.
When our agency does business with people in Europe:
If you are a resident of a member state of the European Economic Area (hereinafter the “EEA”), your personal information may be accessed and processed outside of the EEA by our agency, whose servers are located in Canada, and/or by one of our trusted third party service providers. Except as provided for in article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation n° 2016/679 (hereinafter the “GDPR”), when your personal information is transferred outside of the EEA, we require that an adequate level of protection is in place according to the data protection legislation in force.
In this respect, we specify that :
- Canada has been recognized by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection;
- With regard to the transfer of data to the United States, your personal information will only be transferred to third-parties who undertook to provide guarantees as to the secure processing of personal data in accordance with the Privacy Shield (data protection shield) recognized by the European Commission as ensuring an adequate level of protection; for additional information, please refer to the website privacyshield.gov;
- For other countries, we have ascertained that the recipients of your personal information have put in place the appropriate safeguards in order to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected, the whole in accordance with the data protection legislation in force.
To make this Site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
A) What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
B) How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To assist you in navigation of our Sites;
- To help you provide feedback to us;
- To analyze your use of our products, Services or applications.
We use the following cookies and classify cookies in the following categories:
- Strictly necessary cookies;
- Advertising cookies;
- Analytics cookies;
- Performance cookies;
- Session cookies;
- Targeting cookies.
You can opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies).
C) Cookie Privacy Setting
When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies. However, blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience of the Site and the Services we are able to offer.
D) Types of cookies
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Site will then not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Advertising Cookies: Advertising cookies are placed on your computer by advertisers and ad servers in order to display advertisements that are most likely to be of interest to you. These cookies allow advertisers and ad servers to gather information about your visits to the Site and other websites, alternate the ads sent to a specific computer, and track how often an ad has been viewed and by whom. These cookies are linked to a computer and do not gather any Personal Information about you.
- Analytics Cookies: Analytics cookies monitor how users reached the Site, and how they interact with and move around once on the Site. These cookies let us know what features on the Site are working the best and what features on the Site can be improved.
- Personalization Cookies: Personalization cookies are used to recognize repeat visitors to the Site. We use these cookies to record your browsing history, the pages you have visited, and your settings and preferences each time you visit the Site.
- Security Cookies: Security cookies help identify and prevent security risks. We use these cookies to authenticate users and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
- Site Management Cookies: Site management cookies are used to maintain your identity or session on the Site so that you are not logged off unexpectedly, and any information you enter is retained from page to page. These cookies cannot be turned off individually, but you can disable all cookies in your browser.
- Third-Party Cookies: Third-party cookies may be placed on your computer when you visit the Site by companies that run certain Services we offer. These cookies allow the third parties to gather and track certain information about you. These cookies can be manually disabled in your browser.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our Site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the Site.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance. For example, a number of our pages use cookies to remember (i) your display preferences, such as contrast color settings or font size; (ii) if you have already replied to a survey pop-up that asks you if the content was helpful or not (so you won’t be asked again); or (iii) if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this Site. Some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the Site to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this Site may not work as intended. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
E) How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, click here. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Cookies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
- Your Contact Information. If you have previously emailed us and would like us to delete your contact information from our files, please contact us here.
- Other Information. If at any point you believe the Personal Information we hold about you is incorrect, you want us to correct or delete that information, or you no longer want us to hold that information or contact you, you can Contact Us at the email address below.
When our agency does business with people in Europe:
EEA residents Rights to data portability, to object, to restriction of processing and to erasure
In addition to the rights detailed above, if you reside in a member state of the EEA, you shall have the right, with regards to your personal information, to erasure, to restriction on processing, to object on legitimate grounds to processing as well as to obtain data portability, in circumstances described in the GDPR. A small fee may be required, upon notice from us, to cover the administrative costs of processing such requests.
You may also lodge a complaint with the competent Supervisory Authority in order to enforce your rights, notably under the GDPR.
In addition, if you are a resident of France, you have the legal right to direct generally or particularly how your personal information may be used after your death.
Furthermore, when your personal information has been collected in France and you do not wish to be contacted by telephone for commercial solicitation purposes, you can register, without cost, to a list of opposition to telephone solicitations on the website www.bloctel.gouv.fr.
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
To get more information about our privacy and information security practices, or if you (a) have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) wish to make corrections to any Personal Information you have provided; (c) want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including emails, from us or our affiliated companies; or (d) wish to withdraw your consent to sharing your Personal Information with others, contact us here.
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This Policy is subject to amendment in particular to account for the rapid evolution of the rules pertaining to protection of personal information and privacy. This version is based on the latest update dated 09/05/2021. Any new version will automatically come into effect as soon as it is published. Therefore, please visit our website regularly for any modifications.