travel-cart Privacy Policy
We request the user to read the Privacy Policy carefully before using or getting access to content, products and services offered by travel-cart.com. Access to and using the website is subject to acceptance of the terms and conditions, including the Privacy Policy. When you use, access or get content, products or services through travel-cart, you are agreeing to the terms and condition. In case you do not agree to a part or whole of the terms and conditions, you should not use the travel-cart website.
travel-cart reserves the right to alter any part of the terms and conditions without prior notice. The amendments will take effect the moment the terms and conditions are updated. By continuing to use the site after the amendments are made, you are agreeing to the revised terms and conditions. We request users to revisit this page on and off to review the changes, if any.
As a registered user of travel-cart, you have to right to enjoy savings and benefits on airfare, hotel booking, vacation packages and car rentals, besides other travel-related services. You also accept to receive monthly newsletters and exclusive promotions and special deals.
The Privacy Policy gives you information on how travel-cart collects, uses and protects personal information of users and anyone using the travel-cart.com website. Personal information pertains to any details associated with an individual, including name, address, telephone number, credit card details and email address.
We encourage users to read the Privacy Policy thoroughly and become familiar with it. travel-cart does not support or promote selling or renting customers’ personal details to third parties.
Definitions
Here are the definitions of the terms that are use in the Privacy Policy
Guest: Any website visitor who searches and books products or services through travel-cart without registering as a member.
Member: Any website visitor who registers with travel-cart.com using member ID and password.
Member ID: This refers to the email address that the member uses along with the password to log into travel-cart website.
travel-cart or We: Refers to travel-cart.com, INC, and its affiliates and subsidiaries.
Personal Information: This refers to any information in any form about a specific individual or whose identity can be discerned from the information. Examples include name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, billing and account information, and any other information that is provided while accessing products or services. It also covers details of individuals traveling with you.
Products or Services: Refers to travel by airline, hotel accommodation, ground transportation, car rental, tours, attractions, theatre tickets, travel insurance and/or any other travel related item available on the travel-cart.com website.
To Book: This means to reserve.
Session Data: This refers to usage information, like the internet browser or OS that the user is using along with the domain name of the site from where the individual came to the travel-cart website, time, date, duration, number of visits, average time spent on each webpage and the cookies collected during that period.
Site: Refers to the travel-cart.com website and the sub-sites with their respective content. It also refers to the products and services that form a part of the main travel-cart website and its sub-sites.
Subscriber: This refers to an individual who agrees to receive newsletters, offers, promotions and deals from travel-cart.com.
Consent
When you submit personal information at travel-cart and/or you use the travel-cart website, you agree that the site can collect, use or disclose the personal information in accordance with this policy and as required or permitted by law.
If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not provide any personal information at travel-cart. If you refuse or withdraw consent, or you do not provide personal information, travel-cart will be unable to provide the products and services offered by the website.
Minors
Minors are not eligible or authorized to use, book services and products offered by travel-cart. The site does not collect information from minors knowingly and will not use any information should the site discover that the information has been provided by a minor.
Other Travelers
If an individual books products and/or services of other travelers using their member ID and password or a third-party contact information is provided to Fare, the individual should ensure they are authorized to use the information. By providing another traveler’s personal information, it is deemed that the individual has the authority and consent from the traveler to let travel-cart collect, disclose or use the personal information as stated in the Privacy Policy.
What Personal Information Does travel-cart.com Collect
travel-cart collects just that information that is required to provide the customer products and services.
There are certain sections of the travel-cart website that a visitor can visit without the need to reveal their identity or sign in.
When it comes to registered members, we collect personal information that is required for providing products and services. Registered members have to provide name and email address, and they can choose their own password to gain access to sections of the site that are reserved for registered members. travel-cart may also request registered members to furnish their zip code.
Information like gender, activities, lifestyle preferences and preferred destination is optional and not mandatory.
When you book products and/or services as a member, payment details are mandatory and include billing details, driver information and similar details
When you book products and/or services for a third party using your member ID and password, travel-cart will collect the third party’s name, address and other information required to provide the products and services and complete the booking.
Visitors can use the travel-cart website as a guest user. When booking product or services as a guest user, it is mandatory to provide personal information to complete the booking. The guest user also needs to provide an email address where travel-cart can send the confirmation of the booking. Also, the site will provide a temporary password to facilitate checking and reviewing of the booking.
When an individual becomes a subscriber at travel-cart.com, the site collects the individual’s name and email address so that they can receive offers and promotions without becoming members or signing in as a guest.
When an individual participates in a promotion, contest, raffle or sweepstake, they need to provide personal information, like full name, mailing address and email address.
Periodically, travel-cart may invite an individual to participate in a focus group or survey. The individual has the freedom to participate or not to participate. The information provided during a survey or focus group is made anonymous before it is aggregated with the response of other participants. If an individual posts information on the blog, chatroom or bulletin board, the information can be read, collected and/or used by other users on that site and can be used to send unsolicited messages. Any information submitted on these forums is at the user’s own discretion and travel-cart.com cannot be held responsible for it.
Any site that the user visits that is advertised on the travel-cart website may result in the site placing cookies on the user’s computer. The information collected via cookies cannot identify the person individually.
When a person calls or writes to travel-cart customer service, the site collects contact information and any information relevant to the user’s booking as it may be needed to provide assistance.
When travel-cart.com sends emails and e-newsletters, they contain Tell a Friend feature to facilitate easy forwarding. The Tell a Friend feature is function in the following areas:
You inform your friend that you have booked a said itinerary through travel-cart. We will send your friend a one-time email. The name and contact details of the friend are not stored permanently and we do not use the contact information any further marketing purposes.Supplementation of Information
To provide certain services, travel-cart.com may at time supplement the information provided on the site with further information from third party, like the following:
Address Verification: travel-cart uses a third-party to verify address when the credit card authorization process is initiated
Enhancement of Profile Information: travel-cart uses third party marketing data to expand its user database, to laser target advertising, and to provide relevant offers. This information is connected to personally identifiable information to ensure we have a better profile of the users.
How the Information Collected is Used
To ascertain the person’s travel preferences, make reservations or communicate about their travel plans
To issue invoices, process payments and administer accounts
To offer tips and guidelines on how to use the travel-cart website
To inform users about new features added on the travel-cart website
To provide any other information that travel-cart believes will be of interest to the users
Contests, Promotions, Raffles and Sweepstakes
When a visitor participates in a contest, promotion, raffle or sweepstake, travel-cart uses the individual’s personal information to inform them if they have won.
travel-cart may send additional information only if the user specifically asks to receive newsletter, personalized offers, emails and other advertising and promotion materials when filling up the participation form.
travel-cart shares the information provided by the user with whom the website has collaborated for the promotion.
Session Data
Session data is collected through cookies to help under how a user navigates through the travel-cart website, how many visitors visit different webpages, the length and number of times they visit the website, the type of search they undertake on the website, the type of browser and computer OS they use, and the IP address that connects them to the travel-cart website.
The information collected through session data is used to improve navigation and site content, provide personalize viewing experience and offer information of interest.
Aggregated Information
Any information recorded about more than one individual when the identity of the individual is unknown is known as aggregated information. travel-cart uses this information to give details of the site to partners, investors, and advertisers, both existing and prospective. The information also is used to understand the market and respond appropriately to its needs and to make recommendations to other users of the travel-cart website.
What travel-cart Does NOT Do
travel-cart does request users for their credit card information, member ID, password or social security number through email or telephone.
travel-cart, however, may provide your personal information to third party travel service providers to complete your booking or reservation. This includes airline, hotel, car rental, travel insurance, and theater.
The website may also pass on your personal information to organizations that perform services on behalf of travel-cart. In such cases, just personal information that is required for the work is provided. Some of these service providers may be located overseas (outside USA and European Economic Area) and will receive your personal information only if they use it provided the services that travel-cart wants on the user’s behalf.
By submitting your personal information at travel-cart, the user agrees that the same can be shared with third party service providers located outside the US and the European Economic Area.
We may use a user’s personal information when travel-cart collaborates to offer the user additional products or services, like raffles, sweepstakes and promotions. The personal detail will be used only for this purpose and the Privacy Policy does not cover the user of personal information by these companies.
We also use personal information to protect the travel-cart website as per our terms and conditions of use and to protect the site and its subsidiaries from fraudulent activities and liability.
Personal information is used to complete a corporate transaction when there is a sale, merger, spin off or any other reorganization of the corporation. The information will be provided to the new controlling and managing entity during the course of business.
Users personal information is disclosed to insurers and regulatory agencies and when the said information is public.
Disclosure Without Consent
There may be instances where travel-cart may be required to share a user’s personal information without consent. These instances will be justified under law and may include:
Complying with subpoena, warrant or court order
Formal request to disclose a user’s personal information related to a legal action. In such as case, travel-cart will get in touch with the user using the email address used at registration
In good faith if law, regulation, guideline or rule requires disclosure
When monies are owed to travel-cart and it is necessary to collect them
National Security
For national security and travel security, the US government or other governments may request passenger name records, which include passenger name, flight origin, flight destination, flight time, seat number, form of payment, travel agent, travel itinerary, address, telephone number, credit card details and meal preferences. In such circumstances, travel-cart and its providers will make the information available to the government to and from the user is traveling.
Retention and Storage
Personal information is stored in travel-cart databases as per the applicable law and the Record Management Policy of the company. This storage may happen even after the user ends relationship with travel-cart, but only as long as it is deemed necessary to have adequate information about the user to handle any issue that may occur later on.
Certain information will also be retained to prevent fraudulent activity and to protect travel-cart from liability while pursuing available recourses and limit any damage travel-cart may sustain.
Users personal information will always be stored in a secured location and on servers under control of travel-cart.com. These servers can be located in travel-cart office or office of the site’s service providers.
How travel-cart Protects Personal Information
travel-cart makes use of physical, technical and administrative protect to keep personal information confidential and reduce the chances of loss, unauthorized access, misuse, disclosure or modification of the information.
When personal information is sent to travel-cart service providers, the contract stipulates that the providers protect the information in the manner stated in the Privacy Policy.
When a user contacts travel-cart through the site, they should be aware that any information transmitted might not be secure. Hence, travel-cart.com is not responsible or liable for information that is lost when transmitting it online. However, when a user makes payment using their credit card, the details are encrypted to ensure optimal protection during the transaction.
Emails are sent to users in unencrypted form and as plain text as subscribers, guests and members will not be able to access encrypted emails. This is primarily done for people’s convenience, but with security concern as the information can be read if misrouted or intercepted.
Opting Out of Receiving Promotional Emails
Users are free to unsubscribe at any time from our newsletters, promotions and other similar services. This can be done through the My Account link on the homepage of the travel-cart website.
As a participant in promotions, raffles, and sweepstakes, the individual may receive occasional emails about fare sales in their area, special offers, new services by travel-cart and other newsworthy information and details. While travel-cart hopes recipients find the information and updates interesting and helpful, they have the freedom to click the unsubscribe link in each email and then follow the instructions to stop receiving emails from travel-cart.
travel-cart has the right to limit membership and the members will be informed of the same via email before any action is taken.
What Other Information Should the User Know About Their Privacy
The travel-cart website has links to other websites. When a user clicks on those links, they will be leaving the travel-cart website. Hence, the site will not be responsible for this action. Users are encouraged to read the privacy statements of these sites as their privacy policy may be different from the Privacy Policy of travel-cart.
Users have the responsibility to keep their passwords and travel-cart membership details secure. This information can be misused and travel-cart will not be responsible for it.
travel-cart.com may disclose member information if required by law, court order or government or law enforcement request, and in good faith to protect the rights or property of travel-cart or its associates, employees, directors, officers and affiliates.
Monitoring
This policy is effective as of December 27, 2017 and any changes in the way travel-cart.com uses personal information will be appended in further versions of the Privacy Policy.
Users have the right to submit their concerns about the travel-cart Privacy Policy and practices via email to info@travel-cart.com. Please insert privacy policy in the subject line. travel-cart will make an attempt to respond the user’s concerns and enquiries within five business days of receiving the email.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
travel-cart has the right to change or add to the existing privacy policy. The company may undergo change in ownership. In such a case, the changes in Privacy Policy will apply to the information collected from the date the policy undergoes changes and is uploaded onto the travel-cart website.
When the Privacy Policy is changed, travel-cart will get the necessary consent as required by privacy laws if we collect, use or disclose personal information for any other purposes other than for what the consent was initially obtained, unless required otherwise by law. If any change in the Privacy Policy is unacceptable to the user, they have the right to request travel-cart.com to close their account permanently.