Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.vacation-hacker.com, and Vacation Hacker and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Vacation Hacker include www.vacation-hacker.com. The Vacation Hacker website is a travel consulting and travel booking site. By using the Vacation Hacker website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Vacation Hacker may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- First and Last Name
- Mailing Address
- E-mail Address
- Phone Number
- passport, drivers license and other required information for travel booking
If you purchase Vacation Hacker's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
We collect your personal information (and that of your travel companions) that is provided to us either directly by you, your employer, or your travel sponsor, as applicable, in order to provide you with the products and services you have requested. In most cases, it consists of your full legal name, address, email address, phone numbers, and credit card information. We may also collect your employer or sponsor's name, passport number, driver’s license or other government-issued identification number, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure locations and times, airline, hotel or car rental frequent loyalty numbers, seat preferences, known traveler and global entry number, and other related travel information.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Vacation Hacker collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
Vacation Hacker may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Vacation Hacker and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Vacation Hacker does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Travel Suppliers: We share your personal information as necessary with airlines, cruise lines, hotels, car rental companies, and other providers for whose services you have requested our assistance. We (may) enter this information in the Global Distribution System (GDS), which passes it on to the travel suppliers.
Email Communications: We may share your email contact information with our partners to assist with marketing our products and services. You may unsubscribe from receiving future commercial email communications from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of any marketing emails. However, we reserve the right to send you transactional emails such as customer service communications in connection with the products or services you have purchased.
Transfer of Assets: We do not sell or lease personal information or provide a list of our customers to third parties. However, if another entity acquires us or all (or substantially all) of our assets, the information we have about you will be transferred to and used by this acquiring entity. Also, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, all such information may be considered an asset of ours and as such may be sold or transferred to third parties.
Other Sharing: We may also share your information to protect and defend our rights and property.
Vacation Hacker may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Vacation Hacker may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Vacation Hacker, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Vacation Hacker may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Vacation Hacker or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Vacation Hacker; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Vacation Hacker, or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Vacation Hacker may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Vacation Hacker, in order to determine what Vacation Hacker services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Vacation Hacker to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Google Ad Words
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Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Vacation Hacker. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Vacation Hacker website.
Use of Cookies
The Vacation Hacker website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Vacation Hacker pages, or register with Vacation Hacker site or services, a cookie helps Vacation Hacker to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Vacation Hacker website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Vacation Hacker features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Vacation Hacker services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
Vacation Hacker does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Vacation Hacker may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Vacation Hacker or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Vacation Hacker, you may opt out of such communications by hacker@vacation-hacker.com.
Your California Privacy Rights
List of Third Parties: If you are a resident of the State of California, you may obtain a list of all third parties to which we have disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes, if any. You may request the information in writing at hacker@vacation-hacker.com.
Corrections: If you wish to make corrections to any personal information you have provided, contact us at hacker@vacation-hacker.com.
Do Not Track Disclosures: We do not take any particular action based on browser based Do Not Track (DNT) Notices; nor do we track your use of other websites.
Changes to this Statement
Vacation Hacker reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Vacation Hacker welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Vacation Hacker has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Vacation Hacker at:
Vacation Hacker
_________________
West Hollywood, California 90046
Email Address:
Telephone number:
3234519696
Effective as of January 12, 2022