2.1 Luxury Escapes holds Personal Information which it has Collected to Use and/or Disclose for its Primary Purposes. You provide your consent to us Using and/or Disclosing your Personal Information for the following Primary Purposes:
(a) promoting daily deals to you;
(b) answering your inquiry;
(c) assisting us to process payment for the product or service purchased by you;
(d) sending you additional materials relating to Luxury Escapes and products and services that may be of interest to you; and
(e) providing you with effective customer service.
2.2 Luxury Escapes also holds Personal Information which it Uses and/or Discloses for purposes other than its Primary Purposes (Secondary Purposes). You provide your consent to us Using and/or Disclosing your Personal Information for the following Secondary Purposes: (a) billing and account management;
(b) business planning and product development;
(c) enabling us to better understand your needs and interests;
(d) improving the content, functionality and usability of our Website;
(e) improving our marketing and promotional efforts;
(f) displaying personalised advertising when you visit our Website;
(g) for any other purpose identified in any other agreement between Luxury Escapes and you;
(h) issues, news or other information relevant to your dealings with Luxury Escapes, or about Luxury Escapes generally, or the industries in which you or Luxury Escapes operates;
(i) the organisation has reason to suspect that unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in, and uses or discloses the personal information as a necessary part of its investigation of the matter or in reporting its concerns to relevant persons or authorities;
(j) in order to re-engage with and send marketing material to you (including via email, telephone, sms or Whatsapp) if your account has become inactive; and
(k) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Use of Cookies 2.3 – In addition to the Secondary Purposes outlined above we use Google Analytics (a web analytics services provided by Google) and data such as age, gender and browsing activity to better understand the behaviour of our customers and provide targeted advertising to suit customers interests and preferences. Accordingly, when you visit our website, we, and/or a third party, may place cookies on your browser to determine information including (but not limited to) your computer's location, browsing activity and time spent on our website. We use this information to help measure and research the helpfulness of website features and offers, and serve relevant ads to our users. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you grant us permission to place and store cookies on your browser. Cookies can be managed by accessing the individual browser settings. You can also opt-out of receiving personalised ads by clicking here or here. If you choose to opt-out, you will still see online advertisements, but they will be less relevant to your interests.
2.4 Luxury Escapes may Use and/or Disclose your Personal Information for any Secondary Purposes not included in this Privacy Policy if:
(a) the Secondary Purpose is related to a Primary Purpose; and
(b) you would have a Reasonable Expectation that we would Use the information for that Secondary Purpose.
2.5 From time to time we may Disclose your Personal Information to organisations outside of Luxury Escapes in order to deliver the services you require. Your Personal Information is Disclosed to these organisations only in relation to us providing our services to you. These organisations carry out, amongst other services, our:
(a) billing and debt- recovery functions;
(b) customer inquiries;
(c) information technology services;
(d) marketing services (including market research);
(e) website usage analysis; and
(f) to support or facilitate any of those activities described in Points 2.1 and 2.2 of this Privacy Policy
We will take reasonable practicable steps to ensure that these organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your Personal Information.
If you purchase a product, we will disclose your name, address and other information necessary to complete the order to the merchant on whose behalf the deal is advertised (the Merchant). We will use reasonable endeavours to make sure that the Personal Information that we disclose to the Merchant on your behalf is the minimum necessary to complete the order.
2.6 The Website uses plugins (hereinafter "Plugins") of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (hereinafter "Facebook"); Google Inc (hereinafter Google), operated by Alphabet Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043; and Apple Inc (hereinafter Apple), 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014. The plugins are marked by a Facebook logo, Google logo, Apple logo or the words "Social Plug-in by [Company Name]" or "[Company Name] Social Plugin". If you request a page of our website which contains a plugin, your browser will build up a direct connection to the servers of that company. Facebook, Google and Apple directly transmit the content of the plugin to your browser and from there it is incorporated in the website. By integrating the plugin, Facebook, Google or Apple receive the information that your browser has accessed the page of our website, even if you do not have an account or if you are not logged into Facebook, Apple or Google at the time. This information (including your IP address) will be sent directly from your browser to Facebook, Google or Apple servers in the U.S. and stored there. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example, by pressing the "Like" button or by leaving a comment, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and is stored there. The information is also posted on Facebook and can be seen by your Facebook friends. Facebook, Google or Apple may use this information for purposes of advertising, market research and personalised design of website pages. For this purpose, Facebook, Google and Apple create profiles regarding usage, interests and relationships, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on their website, to inform other users of theirs about your activities on our website and to provide further related services. If you do not want Facebook, Google or Apple to allocate the collected data via our website to your account with them, you must log out of Facebook, Google or Apple before you visit our website. To find out more about the purpose and extent to which Facebook, Google or Apple collects, processes and uses these data, your rights and the settings available to protect your privacy, please read the Facebook privacy policy; Google privacy policy; and the Apple privacy policy.
2.7 If you contact us to purchase a product over the phone and you wish to pay by credit card, you consent to us processing any credit card payment in your capacity as purchaser of the product notwithstanding whether the credit card details that you provide to us are your own. If, at your direction, we process a credit card payment using the credit card details of any third party who is not the purchaser of the product (the Third Party Payment), you indemnify us for all liability including all claims, demands or actions the third party may take against us with respect to the processing of the Third Party Payment.
2.8 Where you use your credit card to purchase an offer on another members Luxury Escapes account, you take full responsibility for being able to retrieve and redeem the package, and acknowledge that Luxury Escapes holds no responsibility in providing the credit card holder their booking confirmation, without written instructions by the account holder.