Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
1.1 This website is owned, managed and operated by Cruise Prices Compared Limited.
1.2 This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and store personal information about you and your use of this website.
2. What information do we collect and how do we use it?
2.1 We will not collect any information about individuals, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided, for example, if you enter competitions or register for promotions. We may also invite you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback. All this data is referred to in this policy as 'personal information'.
2.2 We collect personal information such as name and email address.
2.3 The personal information you provide to us or which we obtain through your dealings with us may also be used to review, develop and improve the services we offer and for statistical analysis.
2.4 We may also use the information we collect to occasionally contact you by post, email and/or telephone with news, information and offers about our services and for market research purposes. If you do not wish your personal information to be used in this way please e-mail us.
3. Will Cruise Prices Compared share the information it receives?
3.1 Your personal information may be passed to cruise lines or travel agents.
3.2 Contractors: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling requests, processing payments, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data and providing marketing assistance. Our contractors have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
3.3 We may share non-personal aggregate statistics about visitors to this site and traffic patterns with other parties.
4. Cookies
4.1 Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to identify your computer to our server. Cookies do not identify you personally, but the computer used, unless you have knowingly provided us with personal information.
4.2 Cookies enable us to monitor use of our website, by providing us with the following types of [anonymous] information:
- the number of unique users of, and visits to, our site
- the URL address you have left to come to our site
- which search engine and search words you have used
- whether you are a return visitor
- which browser you are using and the country in which your computer is located
- the pages on which you enter and leave our site
- which other pages of our site you visit and for how long
- the paths you use to navigate through our site
Over time, the information from these cookies, which is aggregated for all our site visitors, enables to build up a picture of what types of visitors our website is attracting, how visitors use our site, and which of our products and offers most interest our visitors. This, in turn, helps us to improve our website and provide content which is of more interest and relevance.
4.3 Some pages of our website have been coded with cookies called ?web tags' which will enable us to trace the ?thread' of use of our site for an individual visitor, from start to finish. Whereas the cookies mentioned above provide us with aggregate information for all our visitors, the web tags enable us to track individual usage - but still on an anonymous basis. We use a third party website analytics provider to track and analyse the information recorded by the web tags on our behalf.
4.4 Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to prevent this. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. For more information about cookies and how to stop cookies being installed or how to delete existing cookies from your hard drive visit the following website: www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. Links
5.1 We will from time to time establish relationships with other organisations that will enable you to access the web sites of such organisations directly from our site. Each individual organisation operates its own policy regarding the use and sale of personal information and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest or concern regarding the way your personal information will be used then you are advised to read the privacy statement on the relevant site.
5.2 We will try to provide you with links to high quality, reputable sites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you, but please note that such third party sites are not under our control and we do not contribute to the content of such sites. When you click through to these sites you leave the area controlled by us. We cannot accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with either the third party's use of your data, the site content or the services offered to you by these sites.
6. Security
6.1 As with any standard email, emails containing your personal data sent to or from us will not be encrypted.
7. Policy Changes
7.1 If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any changes to this policy made by us will be posted here and will take effect immediately. This policy was last updated 18th June 2008.
