EASTORIES PRIVACY POLICY
Effective: OCTOBER, 2020
Eastories is committed to protecting your personal information. We want you to understand our Privacy Policy and what it means to you.
The Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of Eastories.
What is personal information and how do we use or disclose it?
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, and includes your name, contact information, travel itinerary and other information described below.
Booking Travel
Eastories may collect, use or disclose your personal information, either directly or through our agency and booking partners, for the purposes of offering or booking travel services on your behalf, such as your name, age, address, phone number, e-mail address, emergency contact information, passport information, travel medical information (where required), insurance details, ISIC information (where applicable), nationality, residency, nutrition preferences, trip evaluations, travel and accommodation preferences, comments you provide us, trip destination information, and payment-related information. This personal information enables us provide you with trip information, book flights, train tickets, accommodations, process payments, and provide similar travel services.
If you book an Eastories trip, Eastories may rely on local service providers. Please be aware that Eastories may be required to provide certain personal information to our service providers for the purposes of delivering your experience. For example, if you book flights through Eastories, we will be required to provide certain personal information to the airline for the purposes of securing your ticket. When you book travel services with us, you consent to collection, use and disclosure of your personal information by Eastories—and the corresponding collection and use by the relevant travel partners or suppliers—for the purposes of administering and delivering the travel services you requested.
Your personal information may also be used for the purposes of:
• Enabling us to better understand your needs as a customer and determine eligibility for our products and services;
• Informing you about our products and services, or those of our partners that we believe may be of interest to you (provided that we have received valid consent from you, if such consent is required);
• Providing ongoing service and support, including resolution of any issues with the services or products you request from Eastories;
• Ensuring the safety and security of our passengers and products;
• Carrying out internal accounting and administration of our business;
• Complying with laws, regulations, and immigration requirements.
Legal and Compliance
Eastories and our service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, to an investigative body in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. We may also disclose personal information where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspect loss or harm to persons or property.
How is your personal information protected?
We have implemented measures designed to help protect personal information in our custody and control. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure of personal information in our custody and control. Unfortunately, no collection or transmission of information over the Internet or other publicly accessible communications networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any such information. We have personal information retention processes designed to retain personal information of our customers for no longer than necessary for the purposes stated above or to otherwise meet legal requirements.
Website Policies and Cookies
Our website uses a technology called a “cookie,” which is a small element of data that our website can send to your browser to be stored on your computer so that we can recognize your computer when you return. If you have registered with our website, cookies may provide us and our service providers with information that we will use to personalize our website in accordance with your preferences. Most web browsers allow you to modify your settings to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject cookies entirely. If you decide not to accept cookies from our website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of its features.
Third Party Cookies
Third party vendors show Eastories‘ ads across the internet. These third party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. You can opt out of third-party usage of cookies for advertising purposes by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page available at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
We may also use a third party to help us gather and analyze information about the areas that you visit on the website to evaluate and improve the customer experience and the convenience of the website, and to help us evaluate some of the specific information related to your website visits.