At Cheapfarefind, we are committed to giving enough priority and value to the customer's privacy to the best of our interest. Please note that the privacy policy covers the relevant information about you, when you visit the cheapfarefind.com website through this we store, use, and also discloses the information when one is using our platform of services. Below you can learn about the rights that are determined how and what we do with the data or say hold about you and would also tell how to reach us out.
In Detail Privacy Policy
Read through the detailed 'Privacy Policy' to ensure that you are aware about the policy in detail.
- How and What we are using when collecting your personal data?
- With whom are we sharing your information?
- How one can change and have full access to one's personal data?
- What choices does one have about our way of collecting, using, and sharing the personal data?
At what points do we collect your personal data, and how do we utilize it?
When you contact us via our website, such as signing up for mentioned coupons or other information, or when you book a ticket through us, you give your personal information. We also gather your personal information using automated technology, such as cookies, which are stored on your browser when you visit the website. We also collect personal data from our affiliated companies, business partners, and other third parties, which only helps us improve our platform and associated services, maintain accurate records, potentially detect, and investigate any type of fraud act, and modify our marketing services in a more effective manner.
In What Situations Is Your Personal Information Shared with Others?
Your personal data might be shared for many reasons out there firstly to help one with their flight bookings, talk with you, like when we share the details with you through the product/services, or when one gives the right to talk with the airlines and also complying with the set law. The complete privacy policy in detail below shares the informations as which will let you know that how we share the personal informations.
Rights and Choices That You Have
As per the Privacy Policy, the data can be used in various other ways. For example one can opt for the marketing contents just by clicking on the unsubscribe button shared on the email, or one can directly connect with the customer care executive. Our well-stated Privacy Policy contains all the informations about the many data protection rights and the options that are available to you. Even one can easily control the 'use' of non-essential cookies by following the guidance on the Cookie Statements. The rights are as listed below:
- You can inquire about any particular deletion or know about the personal data at any given time. For which one has to either by log-in into their account or by contacting us directly.
- Unsubscribe easily by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
- When you unsubscribe from marketing content, we will still share important data like transactional and account-related communications from which you cannot unsubscribe.
- If you wish to update your personal information, one has to reach us out.
- We process your information with your consent (permission), in any case you can change your mind at any time, just get in touch with us. Please note that removing your consent will not affect the legality of any processing that occurred before you did so, nor will it alter how we process your personal data if we are relying on a legal basis other than consent.
Information Usage As Per Country
There are some nations and countries that has no problem in granting certain rights that are correlated with personal informations. Here are the rights that totally depend upon the nation's permission. Read through
- One can request a copy of the personal information that is requested.
- 'Reason Behind' the process of the personal information can also asked.
- Can request to delete the personal informations.
- You can easily object to how users or say can disclose your data.
- Can request for not to sell your informations.
- Request information on the logic behind our automated decision-making process or the outcomes of those decisions.Since entirely automated decision-making, including profiling, has major legal consequences, request a manual decision-making procedure instead.
- Question a choice that was made only by digital processing.
When Data Transfer is International
We help in accessing, processing, or transferring personal information abroad, other than the country from which you basically belong. Do note that the countries may have data protection laws that are different from those in your country's laws and regulations. Know that the cross-border transfer of your personal data is essential for processing your transaction with us and for fulfilling the other purposes described in this Privacy Statement.
Your personal information may be transferred to third parties in nations other than the one where you currently reside. In line with this Privacy Notice and the relevant data protection laws, we have implemented the necessary measures and safeguards to ensure that any access, processing, and/or transfer of your personal data is kept secure. No matter where your data is accessed from, processed, and/or transferred to, these safeguards give it a level of protection that is at least equal to that provided by the comparable local law in your nation. We will fulfill our responsibilities regarding the cross-border transfer of personal data in accordance with the data protection laws, rules, and guidelines established by the relevant authorities.
This could entail executing contracts with foreign recipients in line with the standard contract set by the appropriate authorities and completing duties, including security evaluations and/or certifications.
Some of the regulations are as mentioned below
EU - U.S. Data Privacy Framework
All wholly-owned U.S affiliates of Cheapfarefind are certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF). Please be mindful of the fact that we at Cheapfarefind follow the regulations of the DPF Framework Principles of Notice, Choice, Accountability for Onward Transfers, Data Integrity, Purpose Limitation, Recourse, Access, Enforcement, and Liability for personal data from the EU, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over such Cheapfarefind. Affiliates' compliance with the DPF Frameworks. In addition, we examine intra-group Standard Contractual Clauses, which are applicable to cover the transfer of EU personal data to the U.S. in the event that any of our certifications to the DPF Frameworks cease to be a valid safeguard for a relevant transfer.
And in accordance with the DPF Frameworks, Cheapfarefind U.S. is committed to cooperating and complying respectively with the advice of the panel established by the E.U. data protection authorities (DPAs), the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority (GRA), and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) with regards to unresolved complaints regarding compliance with the DPF Frameworks not resolved by any of the other DPF Frameworks mechanisms.
Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules
The Global Cross Border Privacy Rules are subject to Cheapfarefind privacy policies as outlined in this 'Privacy Policy' only. The organizations can utilize the framework provided by the Global CBPR system to ensure the security of personal information transmitted across the participating economies. The Global CBPR framework is described in more detail here.
12-14 years
The children who are under 12-14 years of age are prohibited from sharing any information on the website. But the children who are 2-12 years old are eligible to get a regular seat on the plane. But make sure that you are familiar with the unaccompanied minor policy before booking your tickets. We here do not permit the children to use our services, nor do we have any intention of the same. Here, we do not consciously or even knowingly collect information from children under 14 years of age.
We shall remove all the personal information that we may find has been collected or was received from a child under the age of 14 years without the child's consent. And if by chance you came across, your child or some other child has shared information without your consent, then do reach out to us as soon as possible.
Safety and Security
We ensure to take the necessary precautions to protect the data that we collect from you. Also, we want you to feel confident and comfortable while using our platform with all the relevant tools. We solely take steps to establish technically accurate, organisational, and physical safeguards to protect the personal data that is collected and processed. Be mindful of the fact that no company can guarantee complete security.
We make sure to do responsible storage, collection, and sharing of the personal data in accordance with its level of confidentiality. Here, our cyber security team helps to develop, create, and enforce robust technical security controls and processes. We are committed to regularly enhancing our security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, alteration, or destruction. We also hold our data-handling partners to equally high standards.
We have implemented an information security protection system based on industry best practices and are capable of conducting routine reviews and certifications, including PCI-DSS certification. In compliance with our information classification and processing criteria, we have implemented appropriate security measures that can be simply deployed throughout the data collection, processing, storage, transfer, and sharing lifecycle. Also, to ensure the security of systems and services, we at Cheapfarefind have implemented technological and administrative measures such as VPN, SSL encrypted transmission, multifactor authentication, and verifications.
Employees who have access to your information can be effectively managed and approved by us. We periodically teach our members on information security. You will be notified in accordance with applicable data protection rules and regulations in the event of a personal data security incident that may affect our rights and interests, respectively. In addition, if required by applicable laws and regulations, we will alert the proper regulatory authorities about the dubious situation.
Retention of the Data
Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will keep your personal information in accordance with all applicable laws for as long as it is necessary to achieve the goals outlined in this Privacy Policy. For example, if we intend to use your personal data for research or trend analysis over an extended period of time, we will identify, aggregate, or even anonymize it.
We ensure to use industry-standard procedures for deleting your personal data and make sure that it cannot be retrieved or recovered in any way. Also, to guard against the unauthorized loss of our systems, we might retain a backup of the copies of your personal information. Our retention is based on the following criteria:
- The length of our association with you, including any active accounts you have with Cheapfarefind and any recent reservations or transactions done through our website, will determine how long we keep your information.
- We may also retain your personal information as required by law or to meet any legal or regulatory responsibilities.
- Ongoing legal issues, such as statutes of limitations, contractual commitments, litigation holds, or regulatory inquiries, may also affect the retention term.
- Your personal information may also be retained as part of secure system backups to ensure data integrity and safety.
Get in Touch With Us
Please go through the Privacy Policy to reach us, and if you have any doubts, concerns, questions, or any queries about how we use your personal data, you would like to exercise your rights to access, request, or update your personal data.
Know that Cheapfarefind in charge of the website that you are using is the primary data controller, and they also make sure to work in tandem. Please click here for further information about the Cheapfarefind data controller(s) (and joint controllers, where applicable) and/or Representative for the personal data we manage.
What information do We Collect About You, and how do we collect it?
We gather any information that may be used to readily identify you online or offline, such as your email address, complete name, phone number, credit card number, or other websites and applications, from users who visit our websites and apps. Know that something is relevant to you, but it does not expressly name you. Learn about your tools for accessing our website or app, your internet connection, and your usage history.
Additional information may be gathered to help you with your trip plans, such as mileage program numbers from airlines or rental car companies, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure times, and your passport or other government-issued identity number.
We Collect the Data:
- When you share with us.
- Also, it will happen automatically when you browse the website. Use data, information that was received by cookies, IP addresses, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, as well as this is an instance of automatically acquired information.
- From various outside sources and from our business partners as well.
Listed Categories of Personal Data Collection And its Usage
Category 1- Booking Purpose and Platform Use
- Proceed with your booking process, ensuring you cross-verify your identity and get the travel insurance as soon as possible.
- As with the services related to booking and/ or account.
- And as further detailed in this privacy policy statement, we will store the data of the history of search and travel, travel preferences, and all other related information pertaining to your use of Cheapfarefind's platform and services.
- For confirming a reservation, one has to allow the traveler partner that is us to verify the validity of your payment details, cross-check your shared information's, speed up the check-out the process, or say handle the applicable fees, payments, or refunds that you must enable and facilitate the acceptance and processing of the payments such as gatherings or validating your details for your payment models, coupons and all other transactions.
You can always connect with us for the online booking services of Cheapfarefind. Our team of experts ensures that it is easier and quicker for you to use our services.
Collect all the booking reviews.
Monitor loyalty and rewards from time to time.
Category- 2 Communications and Customer Service Concerns
You can contact the customer care department via phone call, email, or text messages for direct assistance with booking updates, travel booking confirmations, emergencies, or other matters as described in the Privacy Policy section.
To get answers to your inquiries, process the information choices, and provide relevant information.
Category 3 - Marketing Prospects
- Connect with us through phone calls, email, push notifications, or other communication channels for marketing purposes.
- To measure the effectiveness of our marketing.
- Use the data analysis, such as browsing and or purchase history, to customise marketing and advertising to your interests and choices.
- Direct your ads to a target audience depending on their characteristics. In our cookie statements, we go into more information about how we use cookies and other tracking technology.
- Also, to administer promotions for the website from time to time.
Category- 4 Security and Other Compliance Purposes Is to
Promote security, authenticate our customers' identities, prevent and investigate fraud, approve operations to defend against claims and liabilities, and manage risks.
Adhere to all relevant regulations, including those governing tax information exchange, while protecting the rights and interests of both our users and our company. We may also take steps to defend our legal position and react to queries or demands from law enforcement, courts, government agencies, public authorities, and other legal bodies as part of a formal legal procedure.
Fulfill your obligations under applicable security laws and regulations governing anti-terrorism, anti-bribery, customs, immigration, and other due diligence requirements.
For quality assurances, dispute resolutions, training, and all other purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, we may also monitor or record conversations, calls, and other interactions with the customer care support members, along with platform communications between or among the partners and various travelers.
You can also send in your approval for your data that has to be shared with other website users or third parties, which are published or shown in public places on the website. And when you submit the user contributions to others and then upload them, you do so at your own risk. And please note that no security is 100 per cent perfect or say impenetrable, despite the fact that we restrict access to particular pages. Plus, we have no control over how the other website users might behave, even if you only agree to share the user contributions with them. However, we are unable to guarantee that the user's Contributions won't be read by an unauthorised person.
When you download and visit the websites, they may also use technology to automatically gather the following information:
Using Details - While using the website of our Cheapfarefind, we may automatically collect details about access and usage, which include location data and traffic statistics. Additionally, the logos, along with other communication data, as well as the resources you access and use on or via the app.
Shared Information and Files - Our website may also have access to metadata and all other data connected to files on the device. Like images, videos, and music, contacts from the address books are some of the few examples.
Device Data and Files- We may collect data from your mobile device and internet connection, such as the phone number, IP address, operating system, and browser type. We may also collect details about your mobile network.
We Collect Data & Use It Accordingly
Through the website, we may use the process of an automatic data collection technology to collect the information, such as your choices, patterns, and your device.
Details like the website visits, traffic, location data, logs, along with all other communication details, along with all the data about the many resources that one accesses and uses.
The IP address, browser type, operating system, and all other information about your machine and internet connection are also included.
We will retain or collect the entire data set and then combine it with personal data that was automatically collected, received from third parties, or otherwise obtained. It is done to grow the website and give consumers a more personalised experience because it allows our team to:
- Discuss audience size and conduct.
- Be aware that your interactions with the website will be saved in order to give a better experience.
- We can recognise you if you return to our website.
Techniques that We May Use to Collect Data:
Cookies
It is a little file containing information that is stored on your computer's hard drive as well as in your smartphone's memory. You can even decline to accept browser cookies by making the necessary settings on your browser and mobile phone. Keep in mind that if you disable this option, you may be unable to access the websites. When you visit our website, our system will automatically transmit cookies to your computer unless you have set your browser to refuse cookies.
Flash Cookies
Some sections of the website may collect and store data about your choices and also how you have accessed, utilized, and navigated the website by using some local saved objects. Do note that, unlike browser cookies, Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings.
Web Beacons
They are small digital files that allow the company to track website analytics and record the number of visitors as well as who has read emails.
Third-Party Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some applications, content, and features on the website are provided by third parties, including payment processing, advertisers, content providers, analytics firms, and others, without limitation, ticket assurance, your phone manufacturer, and ad networks.
When you visit the site, third parties may collect information about you using cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies. This may link the data that is gathered to the personal information that one already has about you, or it may collect on your online habits across various other websites and online services over time. Depending on your settings, the information may be used to share content with you that is based on your interests or to target you with other advertisements.
The monitoring devices and the way in which the third parties use them are not under our company's control. So, in case if you have any concerns or inquiries related to advertising or other content, you can easily connect with the relevant service provider directly. One can choose not to receive targeted advertising from various sources by following the instructions in the Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Data: here below:
Using Your Information
- One can get a general idea of the website and what it contains.
- To complete your bookings and to be able to communicate with you for any type of travel-related concerns, and to provide any details relevant to the products/services that you have asked for.
- Any other objective that one may have created.
- In accordance with all the obligations and to uphold the rights under any contracts that we might have with you, which include payment processing and billing.
- To make sure that you are aware and have knowledge about the modifications that we make on our website, or with any of the goods/services that we provide to you.
- For the purpose of enabling you to get engaged with all the interactive features on our website Cheapfarefind.
- To sell the goods and services by sending you marketing and advertising materials that we create for you to be interested in.
- We may also utilize the description that we find appropriate to convey the information that you shared.
- For any other reason, but with your permission.
Also, we might use the information we've gathered about you to display advertisements to audiences targeted by our advertisers. Do note that we never reveal your personal data for these many purposes without your consent for the same. Note that the advertiser might assume that you have met its targeted needs if you have clicked on or is engaged with an advertisement.
Your information will Be Shared
Remember that there are no such restrictions on the sharing of information that does not belong to a specific individual or data that is collected about multiple users. And, as stated in the Privacy Policy section, we only reserve the right to distribute any of your submitted information, including your personal data.
- The shared information will be shared with our network of companies.
- By sharing the information we will be able to leverage our business operations or say the provisions of our services to the customers, which covers like payment processing, flight service related communications, analytics, compliances, and the most important thing is to give protection from any kind of fraudulent act, along with the customization of our shown advertisements to your interests and preferences.
- For the various travel arrangements, we might share your information to the agents, airline websites, and third parties who all assist us in running our business. Many times, to complete your bookings, we will be required to process your personal information via a third party like airlines, passport, and visa authorities.
- If Cheapfarefind.com ever has to merg, dissolute, reorganise, restructure, divestiture, or say for all other sale or transfer of the same or of all the assets, whether as a ongoing concern or some bankruptcy, similar proceedings, liquidation, and the personal data of the website's users is also one of the transferred assets - all will be handed over to the new acquiring company or to the another successors.
- They are going to make every effort to sell their business to you.
- Your information will be shared for all the other purposes about which you will be told when you share with us the details.
For the Legal Compliance, We May Release Your Personal Details With Your Permission
- To provide an active reply to any request from the government or regulatory bodies, subpoena, legal requirements, or legal procedure.
- To administer, enforce, or implement our Terms of Conditions and all other associated agreements, which include the billing and collections.
- If we think, in good faith, that revealing the information is required to comply with the law, stop or investigate fraud, protect your safety, the Company's, or our client's rights, property, or safety, or any combination thereof. To reduce credit risk and prevent fraud. This necessitates exchanging data with other businesses and organizations.
Data Security
Keeping your data and information safe is our main concern. To prevent the loss, theft, use, unauthorized access, changes, and disclosure of your shared information, we have some strong security measures. Our safe and sound servers are protected by firewalls and are located where we store all the data you have shared with us. Also, the use of SSL Technology will encrypt all the financial transactions.
The internet is safe and secure for sharing data. Know that the security of any personal detail shared cannot be guaranteed in any way, despite the fact that we make sincere efforts to protect the information through various security measures. While sharing your personal information when done at your own risk; we are not liable for any unauthorized use of the security or privacy settings on the website.
If we discover that your personal information has been compromised, we will tell you via the email address you have provided to us as soon as possible under the circumstances or as required by relevant law. Nonetheless, we maintain the right to delay disclosure for as long as necessary to assess the severity of the breach, strive to restore our system's reasonable integrity, and cooperate with law enforcement.
Using Your Information
By using the Cheapfarefind website, you give permission to transfer, store, access, and process your data in the United States and in all other countries globally. Most countries may have data protection laws that are different from, and potentially less strict than, those in your own country. You acknowledge and agree that your details can be shared with our facilities and trusted third parties. All under the outlined Privacy Policy Section, regardless of where they are located.
Modifications/Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy details, along with the other data protection policies, are changeable for several reasons, including the many adjustments to our services, changes to the applicable laws, and all other considerations. The 'Company', therefore, has the freedom to change this Privacy Policy statement whenever it is required.
We ensure that all updates to this page are posted whenever we make changes to our privacy policy. You are responsible for keeping your shared email address active and deliverable, ensuring that we regularly send you updates on both your privacy and our website.
The Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. Visit the Changes to our Privacy Policy section for details. It is assumed that you have accepted all the changes that one made to this particular policy when you keep using the website. Henceforth, kindly keep checking the website for such updates.
What are the Reasons Which We Can Update the Privacy Policy?
- For making it more understandable, one.
- Complying it as per the regulatory, legal, and/tax requirements.
- Making changes to our services and operations for better experiences.
- Security-related. Except that the changes are urgently required to meet security, regulatory, or tax requirements, we will give you a reasonable amount of advance notice if we intend to make changes that would significantly alter your rights or obligations.
- The "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Statement indicates when it was last updated.