We have a legal duty to protect any personal data that we collect from you as a “controller” of that personal data under the data protection legislation. Travel Lyn Style safeguards your personal data and maintains security standards to prevent any unauthorised access.
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy or how we use your personal data, please contact us through our website at www.travellynstyle.com, by email at info@travellynstyle.com, or by letter to our registered office at: Travel Lyn Style, Pharaoh’s Island, Shepperton TW17 9LN, United Kingdom.
In order to do this, we may use your personal data in the following ways:
To fulfil your booking, including: processing your booking; sending you a booking confirmation; assessing your needs to determine suitable products of services; sending you requested product or service information; sending you product updates or warranty information; administering your account; to notify you of any changes to your booking or our services; to allow us to consider your comments, questions and suggestions and respond, if necessary; and to enable or facilitate the exercise of our rights under our website terms and conditions and booking terms and conditions.
We will also process your personal data in pursuit of our legitimate interests to improve and promote our services: to administer competitions, promotions or surveys that you have entered, and notify you if you won; to personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs), including displaying content based upon your interests; where you have given permission for a location-based service through your browser or App: displaying content based upon your location; checking you in to a store or other location to enable you to earn loyalty rewards or let know where you are; providing you with local search results; providing you with special local offers enabling designated to track your location mapping routes and provide directions to locations that you specify; enabling you to share your location with friends to improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you); to improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs), including by conducting research and analysis; and to display advertising on our website / App or manage our advertising on other websites / Apps with our ad network partner who uses technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this website / App and other websites / Apps to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
We may also be required to process your personal data to comply with our legal obligations under Protected Trust Services membership / ATOL membership.
Failure to provide your personal data when making a booking will mean that we will not be able to process your booking.
Your personal data may be accessed by or given to our staff, contractors and agents who assist us or act on our behalf: to operate our website / App, conduct our business as a travel agent, including delivering services to you; to protect the rights, property and safety of Travel Lyn Style, our customers or others, including for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction, or responding to a government request; in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case, we may disclose personal data held about our customers to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets in respect of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of Travel Lyn Style’s assets, in which case personal data held about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; or as required by law to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our website terms and conditions, service agreement or other agreement.
Your personal data, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
Your personal data is held on our computer records and paper records in the [UK / EU].
Your personal data may be transferred outside of the EU for the purpose of providing you with the travel products you are booking, depending on the supplier whom you are booking with.
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect your personal data, both during transmission and once we receive it, against unauthorised or unlawful processing and accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take reasonable endeavours to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted through our website / App, any transmission is at your own risk.
We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Other websites have their own privacy policies and when clicking through to another website / App we strongly recommend reading its privacy policy, especially as the way in which personal data may be collected from you may vary. Please note that links to these external websites / Apps are not covered by our Protected Trust Services membership, ATOL membership or any of our other memberships / associations.
Any views or opinions along with special offers and promotions on external websites / Apps may not represent the product offering / opinion or special offers at Travel Lyn Style or its associated brands.
In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal data, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so.
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at info@travellynstyle.com providing details of your request.
If you are dissatisfied with our data processing activities, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk
This policy was last modified on 28 August 2023.
Protecting Your Data & GDPR
This data protection policy is for this website; [travellynstyle.com] and is served by Travel Lyn Style of Pharaoh’s Island, Shepperton TW17 9LN, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).
This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage, and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhere to. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising, or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website.
Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.
The DPA & GDPR May 2018
We and this website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which came into effect from May 2018.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive, in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve. Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk, and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third-party anti-virus software or similar applications.
We accept no responsibility for third-party downloads and downloads provided by external third-party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third-party anti-virus software or similar applications.
Contact & Communication with Us
Users contacting this us through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.
Email Mailing List & Marketing Messages
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can subscribe through an online automated process where they have given their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected, processed, managed, and stored in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’ above.
Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through an automated online service, or if not available, other means as detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages. The type and content of marketing messages subscribers receive, and if it may contain third-party content, is clearly outlined at the point of subscription.
Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites.)
Shortened URLs; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding. We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk, and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Policy & Usage
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.