Privacy Policy

This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.oatravel.co.za

This privacy notice applies to information collected by Out and About Travel. It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through this website, how
it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to collect
information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not
share, sell or rent this information to/with any third party outside our organization.

We use this information to:

• Identify and authenticate users
• Facilitate transactions
• Operate and improve our site
• Connect with you on social media
• Contact you by phone or email
• Personalise and continually improve your experience with our company
• Provide you with information based on properties such as stated preferences, interests,
business activities, and/or location
• Send you technical notices, updates, support and administrative messages, service
bulletins, or marketing
• Evaluate additional services, items, or offerings that may be of interest to users
• Track transactions and perform other analytics as required

Cookies
We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to
help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance,
when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once,
thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the
interests of our users to enhance and personalise the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie
is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Choice and Control
While we do need to gather certain information to make your experience personalized and to
conduct transactions for you, Out and About Travel wants to give you the ability to control how
your information is provided and shared.

• Email Preferences: For various reasons, we may contact you about our services or
your activity.
• Cookies and Tracking Devices: Upon visiting our site for the first time (or after a
clearing a browser’s cache) you will be shown a notification. You may click “accept” to
clear the notification. However, we will, by default, use cookies when you visit our site.
The notification states: “This website uses cookies to remember you and improve your
experience. To find out more see our Privacy Policy.”If you wish to decline cooking tracking, you can manage how your browser handles cookies and other tracking devices by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your browser.

Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the
website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us
in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking
for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect
your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for
example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure
environment. We use HubSpot to store all.

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.

Personal Information Retention
To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the type and volume of the
information, the negatives that can result from unpermitted access to such information, why we
gather such information and the availability of achieving the goals of such gathering through
alternative means. Unengaged contacts and contacts that are no longer customers are
removed from our servers regularly.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link
on communication from us. If you wish to update your subscription information now, you may
do so by clicking the 'manage my subscription' link at the bottom of any marketing or sales
email from us.
Under the POPI Act (South Africa) and GDPR (and other European data protection laws),
including the UK, and Switzerland you have the right to object to our processing of your
personal data. You may exercise those rights by filling out the form on this page. We will honour
your request by removing your profile from our services, and we will retain the email address
you enter for purposes of storing and respecting your opt-out preference. If you prefer that we
delete all information we have connected to you, you may do so by emailing your request
to dianne@oatravel.co.za (please note that if you do this, we will not be able to retain your
opt-out preference).

If you feel we are not abiding by this privacy policy you should contact us immediately
via telephone at +27 72 9543776 (South Africa)