Lifestyle
Holidays respects the privacy of its users and is committed
to protecting it. The information collected is used to enable
the website and the Lifestyle Holidays franchisees to provide
efficient service and to personalize your Lifestyle Holidays
experience. We would like you to understand the ways in which
we do and don’t use this information, and the details
of our Privacy Policy are given below.
Information is collected
in two ways:
Supplied by you at Registration
Tracking information gathered routinely
as visitors navigate the site.
Registration
All users are initially requested to submit basic information
at the registration stage. We may ask for your name, email
address, city and country of residence and we may request
for information about your interests in order to personalize
the site and make it more useful to you. The more you
tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you.
Supplying this information is not mandatory at this
stage. However, we will be unable to tell you about new
developments in your area or region of interests, or answer
your queries without this data. You would of course be
free to surf and go through the valuable destination content
and travel tools without registration.
The registration information consists of Personal Information
as well as non-personal Demographic Information. Your
Personal Information, which consists of your name is kept
private to Lifestyle Holidays. We shall not disclose this
information unless acting under a good faith belief that
such action is necessary to 1) conform to legal requirements
or comply with legal process 2) protect and defend the
rights and property of Lifestyle Holidays 3) Enforce Lifestyle
Holidays Terms of Usage and Notices; or 4) act to protect
the interests of its’ members or others.
Non-personally identifiable information is used to provide
a more personalized advertising experience, and may entail
the use of log files and cookies (see below).
There are certain areas where it will be mandatory
for you to register and provide information:
Booking
While booking on the Lifestyle Holidays, you will be asked,
among other details, for your name, email address &
address to facilitate the service and transaction by filling
up a registration / inquiry / booking form.
Your Choice
Lifestyle Holidays will not send you any unsolicited information,
including newsletters. At all times you are given the
opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of receiving information,
newsletters or promotional materials from us or our partners.
Simply click on the unsubscribe button and follow the
instructions unsubscribe@lifestyleholidaysindia.com.
Cookies
Lifestyle Holidays uses cookies. It helps us build a better
site for you.
What is a cookie
?
A cookie is a piece of data/ small file
stored on the user’s hard drive by
the website. The file contains information
about the domain, path, lifetime and value
of the visiting variable and helps the website
to save information for future reference.
Why do websites store a cookie ?
Websites use cookies for the convenience
of the user. Setting a cookie on our site
enables you click onto various pages of
the site without typing in your password
more than once, thereby saving you time
while on our site. It also enables the website
to monitor your preferences and customize
the web page in accordance with your preferences
and interests. Websites use cookies to enable
efficient online sales/ services and for
tracking popular links or demographics.
What kind of information becomes
accessible because of the cookie ?
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to
any personally identifiable information
while on our site. It does not actually
identify you, just the computer from which
you usually access the site. Any information
that you do not submit on the website cannot
be accessed. Even though the cookie is in
your hard disk, it is not equipped to access
other information /data on your hard disk.
Also one site cannot access the cookie of
another site.
When does a cookie terminate ?
Once the user closes their browser, the
cookie simply terminates. You can delete
a cookie by setting your browser not to
accept cookies. You still get to use our
site. The only drawback to this is that
you will not be able to take advantage of
the personalized features enjoyed by other
users. Some of our business partners use
cookies on our site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Sharing Information
Lifestyle Holidays does not exchange, provide, sell or
rent to any third party the information available to it
about the users except as stated below. If any information
is provided to third parties for other support services,
it will be with your prior permission.
Third parties with whom we share information involve service
providers who are essential to efficiently complete the
service being provided by the Lifestyle Holidays licensees
and would include organizations like banks, credit card
companies, companies providing logistic services and our
technical and marketing service providers. The nature
of the information supplied will include Personally identifiable
information i.e. you can be identified through those details.
Lifestyle Holidays has agreements with all such third
parties binding them to safeguard all information provided
and to use any such information for the limited purpose
of providing the service required of them.
While sharing information with our advertisers, it is
usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic
to various pages within our sites. From time to time,
we may share information on visitors to our sites with
those marketing products and services that we believe
might be of interest to you. You could indicate on your
registration form if you would want this information to
be shared and if you would prefer to receive offers and
marketing information. And remember, you can always change
your preferences.
Surveys & Contests
Our web site may request information for contests and
surveys. Submission of these informations are entirely
voluntary. You have the option to deny submission of these
informations. The kind of information asked is to enable
contact, to inform winners of the contests. The surveys
ask for demographic details (age, post code) for aggregate
use. It helps to monitor the use of the website and improve
it.
Links
This web site contains links for the benefit of the user.
Some of the Lifestyle Holidays franchisees / Licencees
link into their existing websites as well. These links
allow you to access those websites. Therefore when you
click a link you exit our website and enter another. Please
be alerted that Lifestyle Holidays is not responsible
and has no control over the privacy policy of these other
websites.
We urge our users to read and understand the privacy policy
of other websites they access before submitting any information.
It is important that personally identifiable information
collected by other web sites are well protected (not shared/
rented or sold to other parties) . The privacy statement
of Lifestyle Holidays applies strictly to the information
collected by Lifestyle Holidays
Security of Information.
Registration information is stored in a secure operating
environment. Any information provided to the employees
or Licensees of Lifestyle Holidays restricted to what
is absolutely necessary to provide a superior service.
All such employees and Licensees are legally bound by
the privacy policies adopted by Lifestyle Holidays
Notification of Changes
The Internet is constantly evolving and our Privacy Policy
is liable to changes. All changes will be posted here
and users should check the Privacy Policy from time to
time to always be aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any we
disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different from that
stated at the time it was collected, we will clearly state
that in the Privacy Policy. Users will have a choice as
to whether or not we use their information in this different
manner.
If you have any queries about our Privacy Policy or feel
that this company is not abiding by its posted Privacy
Policy, please contact us at info@lifestyleholidays.com.
Your privacy is our concern.