Privacy Policy - Last Minutes Cruise Deals

A Rigid Policy That Secures Your Data

Last Minutes Cruise Deals is the owner and regulator of this massive platform. We prioritize our users over anything else. Hence, it is our responsibility to inform you what data we requested from your side, how we store it, and how it helps us process your requests. We take responsibility for protecting your data and, therefore, came forward with the Cruise website privacy policy. Here, the word data represents the information users or customers enter when they visit our website and input their credentials to register, sign in, or take any of our products or services.

Please Note: The words that represent us here are “We,” “Us,” “Our,” and “Ourselves.”

It is self-evident that when you come to our website, you sign in by entering the information. You must agree with our privacy policy clauses to purchase any product and take advantage of the services listed here. When you agree, we get the signal that you all believe in us, and only you are visiting for the services, and we do our best to maintain your trust in us. You should know that your privacy is important to us, and we will not leave any stone unturned to keep it safe and secure.

Under this privacy policy, you will understand what information we collect, how we use it, and for what purpose.

A Cluster of Information that We Amass

Personal details or credentials are the information stored as data that enable you to make your identity known among the masses. With the help of this information, anyone can identify who you are.

In this account, the information that is collected is as follows:

Name of the User.
Permanent Address and Postal Address.
Contact Details: Phone Number and Email ID.
Social Media Account details.
Details of Credit and Debit Card for the matter of payment.
Passport Number.

Along with this general information, the details relating to the time of your booking are also stored through our portal. It comprises your itinerary, departure place, date, destination, stops or ports, time of traveling, and choice of diet as well. This act of submitting or entering such data of yourself or other people for whom you are making the booking denotes that you are taking accountability for those people for sharing their information. We also permit to use the information of those people according to our privacy policy.

Methods to Store Personal Data

Last Minutes Cruise Deals and its service providers gather and then compile the details of you and someone else submitted by you in several ways. For online booking data safety, you must know how we get your details through various modes that you can use to inquire about our services. The ways are listed here:

With the medium of the Website- when someone comes here to take our services or products, they register by entering the information or signing in through their login credentials.
By the offline mode- When someone contacts our customer care team.
Through multiple other sources—When you agree or allow permission to share the information we already shared on our Social Media handles, Public handles, pages, and websites, and on other third-party platforms.

Usage of the Personal Details

Being the managing director of this platform, Last Minutes Cruise Deals will take the user information you provided in numerous ways, as is all mentioned here. Be sure that we only use your data to process your requests or services you purchase or modify. Rest assured, your data remains protected in our hands.

To know the methods we utilize your details, go through all of the pointers stated below:

To complete the payment process that you did for buying or taking our products and services, respectively.
To settle out or to answer your questions and queries.
To communicate with you regarding the purchases or bookings you made through our website and to provide adequate customer support.
To conclude, you purchase from our third-party travel service provider.
To share any information about the updates in our terms & conditions, privacy policy, or to any major segment of our website.
To ask for your participation in contests or promotions. (Settle this point in your mind that these promotions and contests come up with rules and policies about the matter of use. So, it is suggested that you read the following segment carefully before stepping into any of the contests. You must know the conditions for that, and then only share your information with us).
To send you promotional emails, messages, alerts, and notifications within a limit passed by the law or not counted under the section of hampering personal liberty.
In the scenario of providing you a customized experience based on your previous visits on the websites and notifying you about several exciting offers.
Regarding the enablement of sharing of data on the social media platforms that are used by you.
To prevent any type of cybercrime, fraud, and online scam.
To determine the campaign status and promotional events running on the website.

Sharing of that Personal Data

When you enter your info, you allow us to carry it forward and utilize it to provide you with the services you request. We indeed shared your personal information with all the travel service providers or third-party apps, but we do not have any control over them. Nor do we have the right to intervene in the proceedings in their portal. Thus, we leave it to you as your duty to go through the privacy policy of the travel service provider from whom you purchase products or take their services through our platform, i.e., <email id of brand>.

Considering ourselves, we share your personal information with the following entities:

To all of our third-party travel service providers from whom you requested the product or service.
With our all listed business partners.
Among our outer sources who provide us with the service of Internet and payment gateways.
To our third-party sponsors or regulators who manage various promotional activities or campaigns.
With all the other travel-related companies who invested in us or are our aggregators.
To our outer customer service providers who help us settle the issues that emerge among the users.
To the surviving firm, like with the merger, in a state of dissolution, or sale of all our assets if any such type of situation will occur.

Data protection for cruise booking: Safeguarding your Personal Info

To shield you against online scams and fraud, we ensure that your credit or debit card is used only when you give permission to do so on our cruise booking portal.

We have the One-Time Password (OTP) feature, which is mandatory to proceed with payments. Unless you enter the key, there will be no transactions.
We verify your details during the reservation process, such as name, number, address, and contact number.
By entering the data, you permit us to proceed with the process highlighted here. We assure you that nothing in this will affect your credit score.

You don’t need to worry at all. The information or details you provided us at the time of booking or registration are used under the safety protocols and guidelines. The procedure that will take place by considering your personal information will strictly fall parallel with the Data Protection Act (DPA).

Data Stored Directly by Third-Party Websites

Any information you give us may get collected by massive firms like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Microsoft, and Twitter through their method, which we have no control over. Their practices or systems for the same are quite different and have tight security enabled. Therefore, Last Minutes Cruise Deals is not answerable for data sharing that happened without our consent.

Security of the Data under User Privacy Rights

We have ample safety measures to ensure that your personal data will not get attacked by anyone and cannot get into the hands of someone illegally. To implement this promise, we laid down some restrictions on fetching data by our third-party travel service provider and employees who need it for some business processes.

It is true now that they use your personal information on our instructions and will always stick with us under the conditions of this privacy policy. Last Minutes Cruise Deals has discovered its methods to deal with the act of data breach and also lets you know with a notification whenever they spot any suspicious activity with your data. So, that’s how we protect your data.

Holding Tenure of the Data

We, Last Minutes Cruise Deals , under the privacy policy, possess the right to hold command over your data till the time we want. In general, it is done to finish down the attainment of the service you apply for, like cruise itineraries, travel accommodations, hotels, and others. We save your data for a set time period because by disclosing it, the harm of breaching or disclosure increases. We take the assistance of the data we collected from you to offer you a personalized service the next time you book with us.

According to the legal terms, we are legitimately bound to conserve your data for six years, and after that, you are not considered a customer. The act of saving data is performed only to file the tax. If those six years are inactive from your side, then we will delete all your data from our database.

Some instances also occur where people ask us to delete their data, and we sometimes make that data unidentified to make it apt for research. If this case happens, then we do not have to send you any prior notification.