Effective Date: 1 day of October 2022
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY
THIS STATEMENT PROVIDES GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIVACY STATEMENT OF THIS WEBSITE AND ITS RELATED APP. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT WITH YOUR PARENTS OR GUARDIAN AND ASK THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
YOUR USE OF THIS SERVICE CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE BY YOU OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT.
BOOK SURF ADVENTURES (collectively, “BOOK SURF ADVENTURES”, “we”, “our” and “us”.) has created this privacy statement (“Statement”) in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to the privacy of the details that you provide to us when booksurfadventures.com (“collectively “the website”), as the data controller for the purposes of the applicable United States data privacy laws – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), The California Online Privacy Protection Act, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA )and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
At BOOK SURF ADVENTURES, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of all visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that the website is not in the business of selling, renting, or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.
We believe your business is no one else’s. Your Privacy is important to you and to us. So, we’ll protect the information you share with us. To protect your privacy, BOOK SURF ADVENTURES follows different principles in accordance with worldwide customer privacy and data protection practices.
Therefore, to provide you with our services we need (and sometimes are obliged by the law) to collect your personal data. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) informs Users (a "User", or "You") of our policies regarding the processing of Personal Information we receive from Users of the website.
In this Privacy Policy, we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.
We take your privacy seriously and take measures to provide all visitors and users of the website with a safe and secure environment.
The Personal Information on the website is collected, controlled, and processed by the data controller collected on behalf of:
BOOK SURF ADVENTURES
UAE
Telephone: +353 83 837 6001
EMAIL: support@booksurfadventures.com
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND OBTAIN
We do obtain personal information directly from the User, only when the user has given consent to BOOK SURF ADVENTURES to do so via registration. When a User signs up through a Google or Facebook account, the user’s personal information on either his/her Google or Facebook page is stored on our database. For schools - we will collect info about their name, contacts, pictures, what courses they provide, accommodation and other services. We obtain personal information about you from a variety of sources. This includes personal information we obtain from other sources and information we gather through automated means.
Information you provide to us. When you visit the website or participate in certain services, seek access to certain content or features, or directly correspond with us, we may collect certain types of information from you:
Information obtained from other sources. We may obtain personal information about you in connection with the Services from publicly and commercially available sources and from our affiliates and/or business partners (such as advertising networks or social networking services), including:
Information Collected by Automated Means through Our Services. We may gather by automated means (such as cookies, web beacons, web server logs, JavaScript and other similar technologies) certain information through our Services:
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small files that we or others send to and store on or with your computer so that your computer, browser, mobile app or other application can be recognized as unique the next time you access, visit, use or otherwise take advantage of the Services or other media. Cookies may also reflect demographic data pertaining to you or other data linked to the information you submit. One use or consequence of cookies is to enable you to receive customized ads, alerts, content, services, or information. You are always free to decline any cookies we use by adjusting the settings of your browser, as your browser may permit, however, some products, services, or features might not be available or operate properly if cookies are not enabled. Some of our advertisers and third-party service providers may also utilize their own cookies.
In addition, we, our service providers, and others sometimes use data-gathering mechanisms on the Services, including without limitation “web beacons”, “clear GIFs”, “pixels” and/or “tags”. These perform statistical and administrative functions, such as measuring site and page traffic, verifying advertising paths, better understanding user interests and activity, gathering related information (such as information relating to a particular browser, device or IP address) and positioning images, and typically do so without detracting from your online experience. Such mechanisms are not necessarily designed to collect Personal Information. In addition, if you have provided your email address, we might use a non-human unreadable form (or “hash”) of your email address to deliver, or facilitate delivery of, relevant advertisements and information to you on or by way of the Services or on or by way of other websites or media, including, for example, popular social media sites and features.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE OBTAIN
We or service providers acting on our behalf, may use the information collected from and about you to:
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to selected third parties, including:
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use, our Terms and Conditions, and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of BOOK SURF ADVENTURES, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud detection and protection and credit risk reduction.
HOW WE HOLD AND PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be carried out by third parties over encrypted connections using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password or API key that enables you to access certain parts of our site, or you have invited team members to access parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password or API key confidential. We ask you not to share a password or API key with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site, and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
OUR RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The periods for which we keep your information depend on why your information was collected and what we use it for. We will not keep your personal information for longer than necessary other than for our business purposes or legal requirements.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR DATA?
All Your Personal Information we collect will always belong to you. However, we are a collector and a processor of Your Personal Information. That implies our obligations to respect your rights to Personal Information and facilitate the exercise of your rights thereto. In order to use any of your rights at any time please contact us and we will facilitate the exercise of your rights free of charge. We will inform you of the actions taken by us under your request as soon as practically possible, but in any case, not later than 30 (thirty) calendar days.
In accordance with effective regulations, you have a significant number of rights related to your Personal Information, such as e.g.:
DO – NOT – SELL INFORMATION
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives California consumers the right to say no to the sale of personal information. The term “sale” is broadly defined by the CCPA and includes sharing personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration, but does not cover all sharing of personal information.
We do not sell information that personally identifies our customers or other consumers such as name, telephone number, or email address. We may share that type of information with directory publishers and for caller ID purposes, as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We also allow third-party advertising companies to collect information about your activity on our websites and in our apps, for example through cookies and similar technologies, mobile ad identifiers, pixels, web beacons, and social network plugins.
These ad entities use the information they collect to help us provide more relevant BOOK SURF ADVENTURES advertisements and other advertising purposes. This activity may be considered a sale under the CCPA.
This page gives you information about your choices regarding cookies and other technology, as well as additional privacy choices offered by BOOK SURF ADVENTURES. For more details about the information Verizon collects, how that information is used and shared, and your choices, please visit our privacy policy.
ANALYTICS
When someone visits the website, we use a third-party service, Google, Tag Manager, Yandex Metrics, FB pixel, & Mailgun Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to track things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site and interactions with the site. This information is processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of visitors to our website.
SECURING PRIVACY
To transfer data between our websites, our applications, and backends, communication is encrypted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. We protect the systems and processing by a series of technical and organizational measures. These include data encryption, pseudonymization and anonymization, logical and physical access restriction and control, firewalls and recovery systems, and integrity testing. Our employees are regularly trained in the sensitive handling of personal data and are obliged to observe data secrecy in accordance with legal requirements.
MINORS
We do not knowingly gather or otherwise process the personal data of minors under the age of 16. If we notice that one of our users/visitors is a minor we’ll immediately take steps to remove their information. If you believe we have processed or still hold information on minors, please send us an email at support@booksurfadventures.com and we’ll remove it A.S.A.P.
CHANGES IN THE PRIVACY STATEMENT
The effective date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Statement was last revised. We will notify you before any material change takes effect so that you have time to review the changes. Any change is effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement.