Privacy Policy for Travel Plans Pro
Greetings, readers. This page was designed to inform you about our privacy policy. Here we will tell you all about the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of travelplanspro.com.
In no way will we jeopardise the information you entrust us with and will only use the information for improving the website. By using the site, you agree to the collection and usage of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use As Per the Privacy Policy
When you use our site, we might ask you to provide us with certain basic personal information that can be used to identify and contact you. The information may include but isn’t limited to your name, email address, and other information.
Log Data
Like many other site operators, whenever you visit our website, we collect the information that your browser sends (Log Data). This Log Data may include information like your computer’s Internet Protocol or IP address, browser type and version, as well as the pages of our website that you visit along with the time and date of your visit and how much time you spent engaging with the website. The Log Data may include other statistics as well that will in no way put you in harm’s way but will help us improve the site, to provide you with the best experience.
Communications
Travel Plans Pro might use your Personal Information to contact you with marketing, newsletters, or promotional materials.
How long we retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purpose
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Cookies
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is of utmost importance to us, but keep in mind that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Even though we strive to use commercially acceptable means to keep your Personal Information safe, we cannot guarantee its absolute safety.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 7th, October 2023 and will remain in effect concerning any changes in its provisions in the future, which after being posted on the page, will be in effect immediately. We at Travel Plans Pro reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time, therefore, it is vital that you check this Privacy Policy periodically. After we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy, your continued use of the Service will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
GDPR Policy
Travel Plans Pro strictly adheres to the GDRP policy as stated below:
Data protection principles
If you process data, you have to do so according to seven protection and accountability principles outlined in Article 5.1-2:
- Lawfulness, fairness and transparency — Processing must be lawful, fair, and transparent to the data subject.
- Purpose limitation — You must process data for the legitimate purposes specified explicitly to the data subject when you collected it.
- Data minimization — You should collect and process only as much data as absolutely necessary for the purposes specified.
- Accuracy — You must keep personal data accurate and up to date.
- Storage limitation — You may only store personally identifying data for as long as necessary for the specified purpose.
- Integrity and confidentiality — Processing must be done in such a way as to ensure appropriate security, integrity, and confidentiality (e.g. by using encryption).
- Accountability — The data controller is responsible for being able to demonstrate GDPR compliance with all of these principles.
Accountability
The GDPR says data controllers have to be able to demonstrate they are GDPR compliant. And this isn’t something you can do after the fact: If you think you are compliant with the GDPR but can’t show how, then you’re not GDPR compliant. Among the ways you can do this:
- Designate data protection responsibilities to your team.
- Maintain detailed documentation of the data you’re collecting, how it’s used, where it’s stored, which employee is responsible for it, etc.
- Train your staff and implement technical and organizational security measures.
- Have Data Processing Agreement contracts in place with third parties you contract to process data for you.
- Appoint a Data Protection Officer (though not all organizations need one)
Data security
You’re required to handle data securely by implementing “appropriate technical and organizationalmeasures.”
Technical measures mean anything from requiring your employees to use two-factor authentication on accounts where personal data are stored to contracting with cloud providers that use end-to-end encryption.
Organizational measures are things like staff trainings, adding a data privacy policy to your employee handbook, or limiting access to personal data to only those employees in your organization who need it.
If you have a data breach, you have 72 hours to tell the data subjects or face penalties. (This notification requirement may be waived if you use technological safeguards, such as encryption, to render data useless to an attacker.)
Data protection by design and by default
From now on, everything you do in your organization must, “by design and by default,” consider data protection. Practically speaking, this means you must consider the data protection principles in the design of any new product or activity. The GDPR covers this principle in Article 25.
Suppose, for example, you’re launching a new app for your company. You have to think about what personal data the app could possibly collect from users, then consider ways to minimize the amount of data and how you will secure it with the latest technology.
When you’re allowed to process data
Article 6 lists the instances in which it’s legal to process person data. Don’t even think about touching somebody’s personal data — don’t collect it, don’t store it, don’t sell it to advertisers — unless you can justify it with one of the following:
- The data subject gave you specific, unambiguous consent to process the data. (e.g. They’ve opted in to your marketing email list.)
- Processing is necessary to execute or to prepare to enter into a contract to which the data subject is a party. (e.g. You need to do a background check before leasing property to a prospective tenant.)
- You need to process it to comply with a legal obligation of yours. (e.g. You receive an order from the court in your jurisdiction.)
- You need to process the data to save somebody’s life. (e.g. Well, you’ll probably know when this one applies.)
- Processing is necessary to perform a task in the public interest or to carry out some official function. (e.g. You’re a private garbage collection company.)
- You have a legitimate interest to process someone’s personal data. This is the most flexible lawful basis, though the “fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject” always override your interests, especially if it’s a child’s data.
Once you’ve determined the lawful basis for your data processing, you need to document this basis and notify the data subject (transparency!). And if you decide later to change your justification, you need to have a good reason, document this reason, and notify the data subject.
Consent
There are strict new rules about what constitutes consent from a data subject to process their information.
- Consent must be “freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.”
- Requests for consent must be “clearly distinguishable from the other matters” and presented in “clear and plain language.”
- Data subjects can withdraw previously given consent whenever they want, and you have to honor their decision. You can’t simply change the legal basis of the processing to one of the other justifications.
- Children under 13 can only give consent with permission from their parent.
- You need to keep documentary evidence of consent.
Data Protection Officers
Contrary to popular belief, not every data controller or processor needs to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). There are three conditions under which you are required to appoint a DPO:
- You are a public authority other than a court acting in a judicial capacity.
- Your core activities require you to monitor people systematically and regularly on a large scale. (e.g. You’re Google.)
- Your core activities are large-scale processing of special categories of data listed under Article 9 of the GDPR or data relating to criminal convictions and offenses mentioned in Article 10. (e.g. You’re a medical office.)
You could also choose to designate a DPO even if you aren’t required to. There are benefits to having someone in this role. Their basic tasks involve understanding the GDPR and how it applies to the organization, advising people in the organization about their responsibilities, conducting data protection trainings, conducting audits and monitoring GDPR compliance, and serving as a liaison with regulators.
People’s privacy rights
You are a data controller and/or a data processor. But as a person who uses the Internet, you’re also a data subject. The GDPR recognizes a litany of new privacy rights for data subjects, which aim to give individuals more control over the data they loan to organizations. As an organization, it’s important to understand these rights to ensure you are GDPR compliant.
Below is a rundown of data subjects’ privacy rights:
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.
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