Portman Travel Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and
respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other
documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any
personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will
be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to
understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and
how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the
data controller is Portman Travel Limited registered in England and
Wales under company number 620104 and have our registered office at
Level 13, The Broadgate Tower, Primrose Street, London EC2A 2EW
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.portmantravel.com (our site). This includes
information provided at the time of registering to use our site,
subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further
services. We may also ask you for information.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited
to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or
otherwise and the resources that you access.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where
available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for
system administration and to report aggregate information to our
advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing
actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on
the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that
is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to
improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised
service. They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on
your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access
certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser
setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you log on to our site.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area
("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the
EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your
personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
Travelport International Limited who We use to manage our data and
they will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your
data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy
policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers. using SSL technology. Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Athough we
will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee
the security of your data transmitted to our site; 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
unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you
request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have
consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered
into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our
group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company
and its subsidiaries. The terms subsidiary and holding company have
the meanings given in sections 1159 Companies Act 2006 and include
parent and subsidiary undertakings as defined in section 1162
Companies Act 2006 (as amended from time to time).
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in
which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective
seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Portman Travel Limited or substantially all of its assets
are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by
it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data
in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to
enforce or apply our terms of use our terms and
conditions at /general/standard-terms-and-conditions.aspx
and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or
safety of Portman Travel Limited, our customers, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data
for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before
collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such
purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third
party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent
such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to
collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any
time by contacting us at info@portmantravel.com
.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the
websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.
If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that
these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not
accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to
these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about
you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the
Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our
costs in providing you with details of the information we hold
about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will
be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by
e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy
are welcomed and should be addressed to info@portmantravel.com
.