Privacy Policy
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Quo Vadis Travel & Services is committed to assuring high quality service and aspects relating to the privacy of all clients and visitors to our site in compliance with EU- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, dated April 27th 2016, and processes personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA).
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INFORMATION PROTECTION
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This Privacy Policy applies to all users who browse through our website and interact with us to make a booking.
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Personal Information
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By interacting with us you understand that you are providing personal data to us voluntarily and there is a legitimate reason to retain this information for the period required to give you an offer and/ or make your booking.
Personal information data is requested from you when you interact with us in person, through correspondence, by phone, by email, by fax, through our website or through Associate websites to make a Portugal & Spain Golf Holiday booking.
We will collect from you your name, email, mobile number and your payment information.
Your personal data will be used exclusively for making the respective reservation and payment. Your contact information will also be used for sending you information regarding current promotions on our monthly Newsletter after you opt-in. You can change your personal data whenever you wish, simply by contacting us at quovadis@qvts.com.
When you return home, we may ask you for your opinion on the services that were provided to you, which will allow us to improve our services. Your comments on the golf courses may also be posted on our website to help other golfers.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 years of age and parents or legal guardians should not allow this without permission.
Your data will not be transmitted to third parties, except from what is described below:
- Once booking requirements are finalised, your booking details & name will be passed onto our trusted third party, through who bookings are made. They have contractual agreements with several Portuguese suppliers to provide you with this service.
- When you interact with us through associate websites and submit a booking request, both we and the Associate website will receive a copy. This will help us deal with the booking and the Associate website control how many requests their site is producing and understand the type of request are being made. They may also use your contact information to get consent to send you Newsletters or offer you their products. Please take the time to read their Privacy Policy to understand how they handle your personal data.
- We use service providers to process personal data on our behalf, like sending you Newsletters, which we can only access via a secure log in. These service providers are bound by confidentiality clauses and are not allowed to use your personal data for other purposes.
- We use payment providers to process your booking payment that are certified for these transactions. We may also have to share with them your details when payment transactions are question by your bank. These payment providers are bound by confidentiality clauses and are not allowed to use your personal data for other purposes.
- We will disclose your personal information if required by law or if we, as a company, reasonably believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our company’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process. However, we will do what we can to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
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Cookies & Beacons
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When you visit our site, a small text file (Cookie) is created and recorded on your computer disc. That file will enable you to have an easier experience, quicker access and a customization of the page in line with your online experience. Since cookies are text files, they cannot read information stored on your hard drive and are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. The majority of browsers automatically accept Cookies, but you may delete them or set them to be automatically blocked. You can find out how to define those settings by going to the “Help” menu on your browser. However, if you do not allow for the use of cookies there may be some functions you won’t be able to use on our site.
Web Beacons (‘Website Navigational Information’) are often used in combination with Cookies to track the numbers of visitors to our site, their behaviour and standard information such as browser type, browser language, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address but we do not collect any personal information or store IP address locally on our site, therefore, we cannot track or trace individual users or their physical addresses. Unlike cookies, you cannot decline Web beacons. However, setting your browser to decline cookies or to prompt you for a response will keep Web beacons from tracking your activity. We do not have any control over what the Web beacons do with this data. They will be the data controller for the data they collect.
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E-Mail Newsletters
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When you interact with our website or send a booking request, you may opt-in to our Newsletter and you will receive information about our promotions and highlights by email to the email address you provide. You are free to not give consent or withdraw your consent. When you opt-in you are accepting that your data is used to send you Newsletters. Should you no longer wish to receive Newsletters, you can remove your address from our mailing list by clicking on the link displayed at the bottom of each newsletter. If you are a registered client, you can modify your personal data at any time, by contacting us at quovadis@qvts.com.
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Links to and from Other Websites
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Quo Vadis Travel & Services do not control and is not responsible for the privacy policies or information gathering practices of other websites, including those to which we may link and those which may link to us. We recommend that you review privacy policies of every online service you use before submitting any personal data and direct any concerns to the site administrator of that website
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Security
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To guarantee the security of your data and maximum confidentiality, we treat all the information that you provided us in a fully confidential manner. Whenever your credit card information is requested, that communication takes place through a SSL (Secured Sockets Layer) safe line, considering you are using browsers that allow for SSL, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer & Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on all pages where personal information is requested from you, which means that your information will be sent via the Internet in an encrypted form. You can confirm that you are on safe mode when you see a padlock icon or key at the top right or left of your screen.
Your personal data will be retained for the period needed to interact with you during your booking and for as long as long as you return to book with us.
Credit card details are securely deleted after you return home from your Portugal golf holiday.
Your personal data is protected behind our appropriate business systems, along with website hosting provider’s firewall and email provider’s firewall. Nevertheless, please ensure you also use protection measures (antivirus, firewall, etc.) when you navigate online. If you feel this is not sufficient, then please do not provide any personal information or let us know and we will dispose of the information in a securely manner.
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Your Rights to your Personal Data
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- Have your data updated and amended if it is incorrect, out of date or incomplete.
- Restrict the level of processing or object to automated processing
- Know how long we keep your data
- Ask us to delete your data at any point and be forgotten under certain circumstances
- Ask us to provide details of your personal data that we hold about you
- Withdraw consent to personal data processing at any time, including receiving Newsletters
- You can ask for the data to be supplied to you in a portable format if appropriate
- You can object to the processing of personal data
- Request a restriction on further data processing, in case there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data
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Lawful Basis - Our legal basis for collecting personal data
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By communicating with us or asking us to contact you, you understand that you are providing this information to us voluntarily and there is a legitimate reason to retain this information for the period required. Without the contact information, we will not be able to get back to you.
Where we ask for Consent you will be asked to opt-in and you are free to not give or withdraw your consent. We also rely on lawful basis for processing your data, where you have expressed an interest in procuring our services or we need the information to provide services to you.
We use personal information for fulfilling our obligations related to bookings with clients, comments posted on our website and agreements with trusted third parties with who bookings are made.
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Changes to this Privacy Statement
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Quo Vadis Travel & Services reserves the right to amend this Privacy Statement at any time. We encourage you to check this Privacy Statement occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. If we make changes that significantly alter our privacy practices, we will notify you by email or post a notice on our website.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on the 24th of May 2018.
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Who we are
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Quo Vadis Travel & Services, originally established in Germany in 1998, provides a booking service for accommodation, cars, transfers and golf in Portugal from our website and through links from associates’ websites. Once requirements are finalized, bookings are made through PAG Serviços Golfs Lda (PAGS) in Portugal with Alvará Agência de Viagens No: 1001/1999, who take great care with the selection of suppliers and the standard of the service provided. All payments are made to PAG Serviços Golfs Lda who will meet you on arrival and give you your vouchers.
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Contact Us
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If you have any issues with our privacy policy or if you feel you data has been used unfairly, then please contact us at quovadis@qvts.com.
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