Why Privacy Policy is Necessary:

To ensure effective communication and provide valuable services, we kindly request certain personal information from you, such as your full name, personal email address, and phone number. Additionally, we ask you to choose a login name and password to access our esteemed services. Here’s why we require this information:

Email Address: We need your personal or business email address to send you verification emails for online bookings, special customer service updates, and to confirm your new member registration. During the registration process, you will have the option to receive travel offers via email. If you no longer wish to receive these offers, you can unsubscribe at any time by emailing info@tipstravel.co.uk, as stated in our policy below.

Credit Card Information: We securely store your credit card number and expiration date to ensure smooth processing of your orders and reservations for flights, hotels, and car rentals.

Phone Number: We may use your phone number to contact you directly if there are any issues with your email address or to address any other human errors that may arise.

Credit Card Information Storage: We gather and store your credit card information in our secure database, accessible only to authorized staff members. We employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to prevent unauthorized access.

Referral Information: We kindly ask where you heard about cc.co.uk to evaluate the effectiveness of our various advertising campaigns.

Flight Watch Service: To utilize our Flight Watch service, we require your personal mobile telephone number. This number is solely used for the purpose of providing Flight Watch updates and is not shared with any third parties.

Site Traffic Statistics: We log domain names, IP addresses, and browser types for internal site traffic analysis. However, this information is not linked to personally identifiable information that could identify you.

Cookies: We use cookies to track which parts of our site are most interesting to you, allowing us to provide a better user experience.

Please note that our website contains links to other sites with whom we are not affiliated. While these sites may have a similar appearance to TipsTravel.co.uk, we are not responsible for their privacy practices or content. Linked sites use your information solely to provide the services they offer and will not utilize your personally identifiable information for any purposes other than the intended ones.

Information Sharing:

The information we collect from you may be transferred to and stored outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by our staff or our suppliers’ staff working outside the EEA. These individuals are involved in tasks such as order fulfillment, processing payment details, and providing support services. By submitting your personal data, you consent to this transfer, storage, and processing. We take all necessary measures to ensure the secure and proper treatment of your data in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not sell customer names or other confidential profile information to third parties, nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future. Occasionally, TipsTravel.co.uk may hire third parties to conduct market research surveys or handle contest entries. In such cases, we provide information to these third parties solely for the purpose of completing the specified project, and they are bound by confidentiality agreements.

Cookies:

At TipsTravel.co.uk, we continually research the latest technology to provide you with the most effective, informative, and enjoyable experience on our site. This includes the use of persistent cookies. A cookie is a small text file that our site may send to your hard drive when you are logged onto the Tips Travel site. On subsequent visits to TipsTravel.co.uk, our site may request the retrieval of one of these cookies to personalize our content, offers, and services based on your travel preferences.

If you would like to be notified when our site uses a cookie from your hard drive, you can configure your browser to send you an alert. Alternatively, you can set your browser to reject cookies altogether, although this may hinder your user experience. Please note that cookies are widely used on many websites and are never used to store private information such as credit card numbers. However, we associate cookie usage with personally identifiable information on our end to provide personalized travel preferences. Rest assured that the information stored in any cookies initiated by Tips Travel cannot be accessed by other websites.

Links:

TipsTravel.co.uk contains links to other websites, including some with which we have partnerships. When you click on one of these links, you will be redirected to another website. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their policies may differ from ours. However, our partnered sites have a similar appearance to ours and will only use the personally identifiable information collected to fulfill their designated services.

Security:

To safeguard against loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control, we have implemented comprehensive security measures on this site. We utilize Secure Socket Layers (SSL) technology to ensure the privacy of information provided in the flight booking engine and order forms. At no point are customers’ debit/credit card details transmitted unencrypted over the internet. Additionally, we operate behind a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our systems.

Changes to Our Privacy Statement:

If we intend to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from what was stated at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have the option to consent or decline the use of your information in this different manner. In cases where our privacy practices undergo material changes that do not affect already stored user information, we will post a prominent notice on our website to inform users of the change. Furthermore, we may email users who have opted to receive communications from us, informing them of modifications in our privacy practices.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact us at info@tipstravel.co.uk.