Privacy Policy
We are International Travel Connections Limited of Concorde House, Canal Street, Chester, UK. CH1 4EJ
company registration number 01030986 trading as ITC Classics, ("we/us").
This privacy policy explains how we may collect information from you via our website and how that
information may be used subsequently. The purpose of this document is to inform you of the policies
that have been put in place to protect your interests in this respect. By browsing and using our website
you agree to this policy governing your use of the website. If you do not accept this policy, you must
not use our website. This policy applies only to this website and not to other websites to which we
provide links. We also enter into agreements with commercial partners whose websites may be co-branded
or framed by us and which you may visit directly through our website. These websites are not subject to
our privacy policy. You are advised to read the privacy policy of such other websites. ITC Classics,
its employees, contractors, agents, and owners are not responsible for the privacy policies or content
of any websites which it may link to. ABTA protection does not apply to any non-member ABTA websites to
which we link We may change our privacy policy from time to time without notification and you should
regularly review this policy when you visit our site.
Information-handling
We will process all the data we collect and hold in accordance with applicable law.
As further explained in this policy statement, we will ensure the quality and security of
your data and we will fully respect your rights, interests and fundamental freedoms with regard
to your data.
Legitimate Purposes
We will only collect, record, process and store data which is needed to book your holiday
and fulfill our contractual obligations towards our clients, our partners, and agents; to
ensure the booking of your holiday, ancillary requirements or to comply with legal requirements.
We may disclose to any other company or companies, and to third parties authorised by us, such
information as may be necessary to provide you with holiday and services you have requested or
for the purpose of verification of details relating to your data held by us for legitimate purposes.
Collection of Information
In order to provide the product(s) that you want, we need to know your requirements.
We find these out by asking you, by reading your comments and by looking at which are
the most popular areas of our site.
Collection of Personal Information
We will only collect personal information from you (such as name, address, telephone number,
email address, switch/delta ,credit card or banking information etc) which you have provided
voluntarily to us either by completing registration and booking form or sending emails to us.
Please do not submit your personal data to us if you do not wish us to collect it. We will only
use this data for the purposes you have expressly authorised or as set out in this privacy policy
and will not pass it to third parties without your consent. Please note that certain customs and
immigration authorities will require access to passenger information by airlines.
We will hold your details on file and may, from time to time, contact you either by brochure or
direct mail with information on products or services offered by companies within ITC Ltd. If you
do not wish your information to be treated in this way, please call 01244 355 400 and our team
will remove you from our mailing list. Alternatively, if you prefer to write to us, please send
a letter to International Travel Connections, Concorde House, Chester, Cheshire, CH1 4EJ.
Collection of Other Information
In addition to asking you to submit personal information, we may collect information about you
automatically when you visit the site. The collection of information may involve the use of cookies
and web beacons. The information collected by cookies and web beacons is not personally identifiable,
it includes general information about your computer settings, your connection to the internet
e.g. operating system and platforms, IP address, your browsing patterns and timings of browsing
on our website and your geographical location.
Use of Your Information
You agree that we may obtain, hold, correlate, merge and use your information (including personal
information) for the purpose of providing you with our holiday information and ancillary services
and for our internal business purposes.
Sharing Information
We may provide third parties, at our discretion, with certain aggregate statistical data about
your use of our websites, which data may include demographic data such as age range and/or geographic
location of groups of user. It will not include information that could personally identify you.
We shall be entitled to disclose to any other company or companies, or to third parties authorised
by us, such information as may be necessary to provide your requirements and requests or for the
purpose of verification of details relating to any requests for information or transactions on-line
you may make with ITC Classics. We may supply personal information to third parties to ensure the
booking of your holiday and ancillary services, your consent is required for this purpose, and is
consent is deemed to have been given by accepting the Terms of Use of our website. We reserve the
right to access and to disclose personal information to comply with applicable laws and lawful
government requests or requests by applicable regulatory bodies, to operate our systems properly
or to protect either ourselves or our other users.
Monitoring Procedure
We may monitor and keep records of email communications which you send to us and other
communications with you in accordance with this policy.
Security of Information
We will employ effective procedures and safeguards to ensure that the data we hold on you is adequate,
relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were obtained,
as well as accurate and up-to-date. Where we become aware of any inaccuracies in the data we hold,
we will correct and, where appropriate, delete incorrect data. Retention periods are in place to
ensure that data are only stored whilst they are required for the purposes in question or to meet
legal and regulatory requirements. Where data are no longer required, we will ensure that they are
disposed off in a secure manner.
We will only provide access to data on you to those of our employees, agents or partners, who need
such access in order to carry out any necessary processing. We have taken appropriate steps to ensure
the security of data, whether it is stored in computer systems, paper files or other storage media.
We expect the same high standards of security and confidentiality of any agents or sub-contractors
we employ to process data for us. No data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure,
and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of our sites.
However we use our reasonable endeavours to protect the security of your personal information from
unauthorised access or use. In addition to our safeguards your personal information is protected in
the UK by the Data Protection Act. This provides that the information which we hold about you should
be processed fairly and lawfully and should be accurate, relevant and not excessive. The information
should, where necessary, be kept up to date and not retained for longer than is necessary. Please help
us to keep your personal information accurate by updating your registration details on the website.
For more information on the Data Protection Act and the Information Commissioner please see
www.ico.gov.uk. We will maintain records relating to your use of this web site for
information and transactional purposes on-line (including information about you provided by yourself
or by third parties). We shall be entitled to process those data for the purpose of providing your
requirements ,requests and to keep you informed of further products from us, which may be of interest
(unless you write to us asking us to exclude you from such offers or alternatively telephone,
fax or e-mail us to that effect). (If you use more than one e-mail address to communicate with us,
please notify us of each e-mail account you use.)
We will not send you e-mails that you do not want, but we cannot guarantee that third parties to
whom your details are sent will not do so.
If at any time you feel that we have not adhered to these principles, please either notify us
in writing or by telephone, fax or e-mail and we will use all commercially reasonable efforts to
determine and correct the problem promptly. ITC Classics welcomes your questions and comments about
privacy.
Information to You
When we collect data from you, we will identify ourselves and inform you of the purpose(s) for which
we collect the data. If we have obtained data on you other than directly from you, we will inform you
of this as soon as practicable after we have entered the data in our files or computers
(unless you were already aware of the fact). We may also record or monitor telephone calls,
without notification, for staff training and quality control purposes.
Special Restrictions on the Use of Sensitive Data
When we do collect such data, it will be limited to data which are:
- required to be kept by law
- clearly and strictly necessary to fulfill a contract between you and us in order to book your
holiday and make the necessary travel arrangements.
Changing or Accessing Your Information
Should your personal information change (e.g. your postcode), or if you wish to review or
receive copies of the personal information we hold about you, or have any other queries please
contact:
ITC, Concorde House, Canal Street, Chester, UK, CH1 4EJ
Tel: 0870 7519 450, Fax: 0870 7519 449 including full details of your request.
Your Rights
You have the right to require us to cease the communication of advertising or marketing material
to you, and we will ensure that your request is complied with. This includes the right to withdraw
your consent to third-party direct-marketing use of your data, at any time. You have the right to
see all the data we hold on you. Should you wish to have access to all or a particular part of your
data, please contact us at the address above. The information will be forwarded to you within an
appropriate period of time in accordance with national legislation, but in any event no more than
40 days from the date of such request for access. Where any discrepancies are discovered following
your enquiry, we will take immediate steps to validate and, where appropriate, correct our records.
We will confirm the actions taken in writing to you within an appropriate period of time in accordance
with national legislation, but in any event no more than 40 days after receiving your request to
amend our records.
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