Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 30, 2024 – Privacy Policy for hillarytravels.com
This Privacy Policy describes how Hillary Travels (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our website, hillarytravels.com (the “Site”). This policy is designed to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and other applicable European data protection laws.
Information We Collect
We collect two main types of information on our Site:
- Personal Information: When you leave comments, subscribe to our newsletter, or contact us through the Site, you may provide us with certain personally identifiable information (“PII”). This may include your name, email address, IP address, and any other information you choose to share.
- Non-Personal Information: We may also collect non-personal information about your use of the Site. This may include information such as your browser type, operating system, referral source, length of visit to the Site, pages viewed, and other diagnostic data.
Legal Basis for Processing
We will only process your personal information where we have a lawful basis to do so. The lawful basis will depend on the specific purposes for which we collect your information. The most common lawful bases we rely on are:
- Consent: In some cases, we may ask for your explicit consent to collect and process your personal information. For example, we may ask for your consent to subscribe to our newsletter.
- Contract: If you use our Site to contact us about a potential travel booking, we may need to process your personal information to fulfil that contract.
- Legitimate Interests: We may also process your personal information for our legitimate interests, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms. This could include processing your information to improve our Site, send you marketing communications (which you can opt-out of), or analyse how users interact with the Site.
Use of Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide and maintain the Site
- To personalize your experience on the Site
- To respond to your inquiries and requests
- To send you newsletters and other marketing communications (with your consent)
- To analyze how users interact with the Site
- To improve the Site and our services
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When we no longer need your personal information, we will securely delete it.