We thank you for your interest in our services. Protecting your privacy and data is very important to us. We only collect and use your data in accordance with applicable provisions regarding data protection. In the following, we as the controller will explain to you what data we collect and how we process these data.
1. Personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Personal data will only be saved if it is necessary for providing the booked services, adhering to legal guidelines or for purposes explained in the following.
All credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.
The Website Policies and Terms & Conditions may be changed or updated occasionally to meet the requirements and standards. Therefore the Customers’ are encouraged to frequently visit these sections in order to be updated about the changes on the website. Modifications will be effective on the day they are posted.Some of the advertisements you see on the Site are selected and delivered by third parties, such as ad networks, advertising agencies, advertisers, and audience segment providers. These third parties may collect information about you and your online activities, either on the Site or on other websites, through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in an effort to understand your interests and deliver to you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. Please remember that we do not have access to, or control over, the information these third parties may collect. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this privacy policy.
2. Anonymised data / log files / IP address
You can visit our website without providing any personal data. However, certain anonymous data will be saved each time our website is visited, e.g. which page or which offer was called up. This data is not personal, however, and thus is not subject to the legal guidelines regarding data protection.
The website operator or site provider collects data about visits to the site and store these as server log files. The following data are logged in this manner:
Website visited, time of access, quantity of data sent in bytes, source/link from which you reached the site, browser used, operating system used, IP address used.
The data collected is used for statistical analysis and to improve the website. The website operator reserves the right to examine the server log files at a later time should there be specific indications of unlawful use.
Anonymous data is only collected for statistical evaluation in order to improve our services. For further information, please take note of the figure "Right to information / revocation rights".
3. Purpose of collecting personal data
Personal data must however be provided if you make a travel booking or other booking via our website, contact us, subscribe to our newsletter or use other services on our website that require personal data to be given. These include the management of your data in a personal customer account with a login function, voucher purchases, participating in competitions or amending existing bookings or orders.
In accordance with legal provisions, we will normally only collect data necessary for the service you require. If our forms ask you to provide further information, this is always voluntary and will be marked as such.
The temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary in order to enable the delivery of the website to the user’s computer. To do this, the IP address of the user must be stored for the duration of the session. This is also stored in log files in order to ensure the functionality of the website. The data is also used to optimise the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. In this connection, the data will not be analysed for marketing purposes. Our legitimate interests in data processing.
If a travel booking is made or another service is booked, the data collected will be used to process this booking and used for advertising and statistical purposes, within the scope of legal provisions.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we also store and use the data you provided about yourself and your orders and travel services when booking or registering in order to give you optimum service as a newsletter subscriber.
We also use the personal data that we have collected to improve customer relations and to provide better customer care (e.g. information about the trip), to carry out our own advertising and marketing initiatives (e.g. sending out catalogues or other advertising within the scope permitted by law, feedback on customer satisfaction) and to process your order.
4. Legal basis for the processing of personal data
For the processing of personal data required for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, the legal basis is our legal obligation to fulfil the contract. This also applies to processing that is required to perform pre-contractual measures.
If the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, the legal basis shall be protection of legitimate interests.
5. Transfer of personal data to third parties
We will only transfer your personal data in accordance with the applicable competition and data protection regulations.
Your data will also be transferred to our subcontractors or other service providers related to your booking (e.g. processing newsletters to be sent by post or email, payment processing, customer service) if this is necessary for us to fulfil our legal obligations, to provide you with the services we owe you and to enhance your holiday experience.
Data will also be transferred to persons or companies in order to process your order or booking, particularly for travel services to airlines, tour operators, hotels, travel agencies, incoming agencies, car rental companies, cruise operators, authorities etc. Ensure that the privacy provisions at the domicile of these persons and companies may differ from those at our location
Your data will also be disclosed and sent to third parties if we are obliged to do this by law or on the basis of a final court ruling.
You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without being hindered by the controller to whom the personal data was provided.
6. Storage and erasure of data
Your personal data will be stored in accordance with the purposes listed under "Purpose of collecting personal data". The personal data of the data subject will be erased or blocked once the purpose ceases to apply. Data may also be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in Union ordinances, laws or other regulations to which the controller is subject. The government has set down various storage periods for data. The data will also be blocked or erased if the retention period prescribed by the standards mentioned, unless it is necessary to continue storing the data for the conclusion or performance of a contract.
7. Use of cookies
We use cookies (small computer files with text information sent by the web server to your Internet browser) in order to improve your experience when visiting our website. For example, some notices will only appear once if you allow us to use cookies. Cookies also have an expiry date. If you delete your cookies manually before their expiry, you will receive a new one upon your next visit to the site if you do not block the storage of cookies.
The technical specifications only allow cookies to be read by the server that sent them. We assure you that no personal data will be stored in cookies.
Unfortunately, you will only have limited use of our services if you do not agree to the use of cookies. We therefore recommend you permanently activate the cookies when using our website. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can, however, deactivate cookies and set up your internet browser to inform you as soon as cookies are sent.
8. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
The Google tracking codes of this website use the _anonymize () function, which means that IP addresses are only processed in a shortened form in order to prevent direct personal identification. You may object to the collection and storage of data at any time for the future. Clicking on the “deactivate” button will completely stop tracking. In order to make a permanent objection, the browser used must accept cookies. Alternatively, the data collection can be refused by using a Google browser plug-in which prevents the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to Google Inc. and used by Google Inc. You can find the relevant plug-in on the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
9. Facebook Social Plugins
This website uses Social Plugins (“Plugins”) of the social website facebook.com, which are operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins can be identified by the Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue tile or a “Like” button), or by the words “Facebook Social Plugin”. The list and appearance of the Facebook social plugins can be viewed here: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
If a website of this online presence that contains such a plugin is called up, the browser used will establish a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugins is transmitted directly by Facebook to the browser used which then integrates this in the website. We have no control over the data that Facebook collects via this plugin and would therefore like to clarify how we believe the system works: by embedding the plugin, Facebook receives the information that the corresponding pages of our Internet presence has been accessed. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can associate your visit with your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins (such as when pressing the “Like” button or making a comment), the relevant information is transmitted directly from your browser to Facebook and stored there. If you are not a member of Facebook, there is still the possibility that your IP address will be revealed to Facebook and stored there. To see the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook and the associated rights and settings available for the protection of your privacy, please see Facebook's privacy policy: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member and do not wish Facebook to collect data about you via our website and link to your member data in Facebook, you must log out from Facebook prior to visiting this online presence. It is also possible to block Facebook Social Plugins with add-ons for the browser used, such as the Facebook Blocker.
10. Use of LinkedIn social plugins
This online presence uses plugins of the social network LinkedIn, which is operated by the LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“LinkedIn”). The LinkedIn plugins can be identified by the corresponding logo or the “Recommend button” (“Recommend”). Please note that the plugin will establish a connection between your relevant Internet browser and the LinkedIn server when visiting our Internet page. LinkedIn will be informed that this online presence was visited with your IP address. If you click on the LinkedIn “Recommend button” and you are also logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link content from our Internet pages to your profile page in your LinkedIn profile. This will allow LinkedIn to associate your visit to our Internet page and your user account. You must know that we do not receive any knowledge of the content of the data transmitted and the use thereof by LinkedIn.
You can find further details on the collection of the data and on your legal options and the settings available from LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/
11. YouTube
This website uses a link to YouTube provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. When embedding, we use the “Extended data protection mode” so that a transfer of usage information only takes place when starting the video. In this case, it will be transmitted which specific pages of our Internet presence you have visited and which videos are viewed. When you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to associate your page access directly with your personal profile. You can find further information on the collection and processing of your data by YouTube in the corresponding privacy policy http://www.youtube.com
If you would like to ensure that none of your data is stored by YouTube, do not click on the embedded videos.
12. Right of access / revocation; other rights of data subjects
You have the right:
- to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed. In particular, you can obtain information on the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data, categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned duration of storage, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or to object, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of the data, if this has not been collected by us, and on the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and any meaningful information on the details.
- to obtain the immediate rectification or completion of the personal data concerning you stored by us;
- to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you stored by us unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
- to obtain the restriction of processing of your personal data, where the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose the erasure of the personal data, or we no longer need the data, but you require them or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected
- to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or request the transmission to another controller;
- to withdraw the consent you once provided to us at any time. This will mean that we will no longer be able to continue the data processing relating to this consent in the future, and
- to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Generally, you may contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our registered office.
In order to withdraw your consent to data usage, to exercise your right of access, or request the rectification, blocking or erasure or to exercise your other rights as a data subject, please contact:
Meeting Point Youtravel LLC
IBN Battuta Gate
Ground Floor Office 2
P.O Box 51783
Dubai
Email: dataprotection@youtravel.com
These rights are of course available to you free of charge, without you incurring higher transmission costs for your request than for the base rates.
13. Security, questions and remarks, controller
Security also depends ultimately on your system. You should always treat your access information as confidential, never allow your browser to save passwords and close the browser window when you leave our website. This makes it more difficult for third parties to access your personal data.
Use an operating system that can manage user rights. Always set up different user profiles, including amongst family members, and never use the internet under administrator rights. Use security software such as virus scanners and firewalls and always keep your system up to date.
The controller for this online presence as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation and other national data protection laws of Member States as well as other data protection regulations.
Meeting Point Youtravel LLC
IBN Battuta Gate
Ground Floor Office 2
P.O Box 51783
Dubai
Email: dataprotection@youtravel.com
14. Newsletter - unsubscribing
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or our advertising emails, click on the link: "Unsubscribe from newsletter " which appears at the bottom of every email from us.