PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: June 18, 2024

By browsing, accessing, viewing, or using Adventure Your Way Vacations, LLC’s website, https://www.adventureyourwayvacations.com, including its subdomains, webpages, hyperlinks, or mobile-optimized versions thereof (collectively, the “website”), and/or using any of Adventure Your Way Vacations, LLC’s services, as defined in its Terms and Conditions (the “website Services”), you (hereinafter referred to as “you,” “your,” or “User”) consent to the information collection, disclosure and use practices as described in this Privacy Policy. The website is owned by Adventure Your Way Vacations, LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company, having its registered address at 3611 Jacob Stout Road, Unit 7, Doylestown, PA 18902 (hereinafter referred to as “we,” “us” or “our”). This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect, use, and disclose website User information.


Information We Collect

Your privacy is important to us, and we strive to ensure that we do not collect more information from you than is necessary to provide the website Services.

For browsing, accessing, viewing, or using the website, you may be asked to submit the following types of personal data:


Personal Data: This may include information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as your full name, email address, phone number, and such other information, data, and materials as we may deem necessary for provision of the website Services. We utilize third-party companies who use customer data to connect with processing services for us.


Communication Data: This may include the substance of and data relating to any communication that you send to us whether that be through the consultation form located on the website, email or any other mode of communication that you use to contact us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping, and for the establishment, pursuit, or defense of potential legal claims.


Technical Data: This may include data relating to your use of the website and website Services such as your Internet protocol (IP) address, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on the website, page views, navigation paths, details about the number of times you use the website, and time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access the website. We currently do not collect any Technical Data; however, our third-party website vendors may collect such Technical Data. You may be able to limit the Technical Data collected from you through your browser’s settings.


Marketing Data: This may include data relating to your preferences in receiving marketing, mailing list, and other material from us and third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to study how customers use our services, develop our services, grow our business, and decide our marketing strategy.

We may use Personal Data, Communication Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data (collectively the “Data”) as described herein.


Consent to Collection and Processing of Data

By browsing, accessing, viewing, or using the website, including by your completion of forms available on the website, you are consenting to our use of your Data. In order to provide you with the website Services, it is necessary for us to collect all relevant and necessary Data from you.


Withdrawal of Consent

You may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, and for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information by us, at any time, by contacting us at admin@AdventureYourWayVacations.com


Promotional Emails

You agree that we may from time to time send email messages to you which offer services, promotions, subscriptions or registration-based services or other material. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all email messages will contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing lists so that you receive no further email communication from us.

Users who no longer wish to subscribe to our mailing list or receive our promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email, or if you are having trouble, you may opt-out by writing us through email at admin@AdventureYourWayVacations.com. Your preferences will then be updated. 


How We Use and Process the Data

The Data collected by us from you may be used to provide you the website Services and better understand your needs in relation thereto, correspond with you, and reply to any of your questions relating to the website Services.

We will not rent or sell your Data to others. We may store the Data in locations outside our direct control (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

If you provide any Data to us, you are deemed to have authorized us to collect, retain and use that data for the following purposes:


  • verifying your identity;
  • sending you email and other communications;
  • providing you with customer service and responding to your queries, feedback, or disputes;
  • conducting marketing analysis, sending surveys or newsletters, contacting you about the website Services, activities, special events or offers from us or our partners, and for other marketing, information, service development and promotional purposes;
  • making such disclosures as may be required for any of the above purposes or as required by law, regulations and guidelines or in connection with any investigations, claims, or potential claims brought by or against us;
  • sending you notices (for example, in the form of emails, mailings, etc.) regarding services you are receiving and for billing and collection purposes;
  • providing and maintaining the website Services;
  • notifying you about changes to the website Services;
  • sending you information we think you may find useful or that you have requested from us;
  • enhancing and improving the website or the website Services, for example through personalized features and content;
  • analyzing the use of the website and the website Services, and the people visiting the website and using the website Services, to improve our content and website and the website Services; and
  • investigating, preventing or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our policies, or as otherwise required by law.

 We shall ensure that:

  • the Data collected and processed for and on our behalf by any party is collected and processed in accordance with applicable data privacy laws;
  • you are always made fully aware of the reasons for the collection of Data and are given details of the purpose(s) for which the Data will be used;
  • the Data is only collected to the extent necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it is required;
  • no Data is held for any longer than necessary in light of the purpose(s) for which it is required;
  • whenever cookies or similar technologies are used online by us, they shall be used strictly in accordance with applicable laws;
  • you will be informed if any Data submitted by you online cannot be fully deleted at your request under normal circumstances and how to request deletion of any other copies of that Data, where it is within your right to do so;
  • appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken to protect the Data;
  • the Data is transferred securely, whether it is transmitted electronically or in hard copy; and
  • you can fully exercise your rights with ease and without hindrance.


Disclosure of Data

We may not be able to keep your Data private in response to legal process (i.e., a court order, subpoena, or law enforcement agency’s request). If, in our view, it is deemed appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, we may be compelled to disclose the Data. Moreover, in case of takeover, merger, or acquisition, we reserve the right to transfer your Data to a new platform.

We may disclose the Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:


  • comply with a legal obligation;
  • protect and defend our rights or property;
  • prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing;
  • protect the personal safety of Users of the website Services or the public; or
  • protect against legal liability.

When necessary, we may also disclose and transfer your Data to our professional advisors, law enforcement agencies, insurers, and government and regulatory agencies or other organizations.


Data Storage

Your Data may be stored and processed at the servers in the United States, Europe or any other country in which we or our subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities.

We may transfer your Data to affiliated entities or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of your Data.

We will generally retain your Data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any record retention or reporting requirements under applicable laws. When making Data retention decisions, we look at the nature and sensitivity of the Data, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and the Data processing purposes, including if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.


How We Protect Your Information

We or our third-party suppliers store the Data submitted by you through the website within one or more secure networks.

We are concerned with protecting your privacy and Data, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Data you transmit or guarantee that your Data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our industry standard physical, technical or managerial safeguards.

No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect your Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security of the website, you can contact us at info@AdventureYourWayVacations.com.

Any Data supplied by you will be retained by us and will be accessible by our employees, and as necessary, any third-party service providers engaged by us.


GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS

By using the website Services, you may provide your information to users or third parties in countries outside the United States, regardless of where you are located when using the website Services. Please note that laws and regulations regarding the transfer of information may be different from those in the United States.


YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE EUROPEAN UNION’S GDPR

All European Union (EU)-based individuals, irrespective of their nationality, have certain individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), such as:


  • the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal data.
  • the right of access to find out what is stored about them.
  • the right to rectify their personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • the right to erasure to enable an individual to request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
  • the right to restrict processing to “block” or suppress processing of personal data.
  • the right to data portability allowing individuals to obtain and reuse their personal data for their own purposes across different services.
  • the right to object to the processing of an individual’s data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest or exercise of official authority (including profiling), direct marketing or for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.
  • various rights in relation to automated decision making (decisions made solely by automated means without any human involvement) and profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual).

Adventure Your Way Vacations, LLC will abide by the GDPR and provide an adequate level of data protection for personal data received from citizens of the EU and processed by us in accordance with this privacy policy. If you would like to exercise these rights, please submit a request to admin@AdventureYourWayVacations.com.


YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA 

You have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge.


  • You have the right to know certain details of the personal information we collect, including:
    • the categories of personal information we collected about you;
    • the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
    • our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
    • the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and
    • the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that under the CCPA we are not required to:

    • retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
    • re-identify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
    • provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.
  • In connection with any personal information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:
    • the categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold; and
    • the categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.
  • You have certain rights to deletion of personal information. Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
    • delete your personal information from our records; and
    • direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

    • complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
    • detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
    • debug our systems to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; or
    • comply with an existing legal obligation.
  • You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:
    • deny goods or services to you;
    • charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
    • provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
    • suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.


HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please:


  • Email us at info@AdventureYourWayVacations.com.
  • Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
  • If you choose to contact us to excise such rights, you will need to provide us with:
    • enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, physical address, and/or description of past business with Adventure Your Way Vacations, LLC);
    • proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
    • a description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
  • We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
  • Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.


CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 

In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the GDPR, our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 should provide any personal information to us on the website or in connection with website Services, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the website or in connection with website Services, or otherwise provide any information about yourself to us. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at: info@AdventureYourWayVacations.com.


Compliance with CalOPPA

We are also committed to complying with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”), which requires commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law requires any person or company in the United States that operates websites collecting “personally identifiable information” from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. As required under CalOPPA, we agree to the following:


  • Users can visit our site anonymously.
  • Our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy” and can easily be found on our website.
  • We endeavor to fulfil requirements of the CalOPPA under this Privacy Policy in line with our policy for User Data collection, storage, and disclosure as outlined above.


Cookies

We do not use technologies such as cookies. Our third-party website vendors may use cookies to create a better User experience, customize content, provide social media features, and to analyze traffic to the website.

Cookies are small files saved to the User’s computer’s or mobile device’s hard drive or memory 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 User with a tailored experience.


Managing Cookies: Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from the website, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from the website and its external serving vendors. Many web browsers allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage other technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser’s preferences.

Please note that if you choose to block cookies, doing so may impair the website Services or prevent certain elements of it from functioning as intended.


Third-Party Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate the website Services (“Third-Party Service Providers“), to provide the website Services on our behalf, to perform services related to the website Services, or to assist us in analyzing how the website Services are used.

These Third-Party Service Providers have access to your Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.


Changes to this Privacy Statement

We may modify these this Privacy Policy from time to time and any such change shall be reflected on the website with the updated version of the Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound to any changes to the updated version of Privacy Policy when you use the website or the website Services.

You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review the website and this Privacy Policy periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Updates to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page.

Occasionally there may be information on the website that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies or omissions that may relate to service descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information, and we reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update the information at any time, without prior notice.


Contact Us

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@AdventureYourWayVacations.com or by writing us at 3611 Jacob Stout Road, Unit 7, Doylestown, PA 18902.