Privacy Policy
PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING NOTICE PRIOR TO SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIS WEBSITE.
Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd has provided this privacy policy because we value your right to privacy. This policy governs the collection and use of personal information through this Site.
WE NEVER SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES AND OPERATE A STRICT PRIVACY POLICY
Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd processes personal information submitted by you on this Site in accordance with all applicable data protection and privacy laws. Where you decide to register on this Site we will use the personal information or data that you provide in the following manner:
• for the purposes of processing of setting up and maintaining your registration;
• running competitions and sending you our Ezines/newsletters;
• contacting you about your registration;
• as set out in theses terms
You are also free at any time to ask us to provide you with a copy of the personal information that we hold on you and/or to correct and/or to delete all or any part your personal information from our records. Such a request should be in writing and addressed to Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd, 77 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.
You are responsible for ensuring that the personal data relating to you, held by us is accurate and kept up-to-date at all times. Personal information submitted by you as set out above shall be held by us for no longer than is necessary. If the personal information relating to you that we hold is out-of-date please let us know by post to Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd, 77 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2.
If you wish to open an account on this Site you must provide us with the required information, such as name, address and email address. By entering this information on the Site you represent and warrant that (i) you are using your actual identity; and (ii) all information you provide is true, accurate, current and complete as at the time of registration.
Information we collect
Unregistered users
We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of Sticky Fingers Travel's many personalization features. However, you may choose not to register and take advantage of any feature of our Site where registration is not required.
If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on whether you access our Site through an always-on type of Internet connection (e.g., cable modem or DSL), or through a dial-up connection Either way, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so. If you reached our Site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then we also log that information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure, and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not reports about individual visitors.
We also place a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Websites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our Site, and to help us to improve our Site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so, you may find that your browser doesn't properly react when visiting not only our Site, but other Websites as well. Please note that since cookies don't provide us with any information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer so you can fully enjoy the Site's features. If you visit our Site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Website from which you reached our Site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. Regardless of what information was transmitted to us, however, we don't keep it unless you register with us.
Registered users
If you choose to register with us, you'll be able to add content to our Site. For example, you may post your own travel reviews and participate in our discussion forums. You will also be able to email Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd content to yourself and others. In addition, you will benefit from the ability to personalize your Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd Site experience. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd has to offer!
If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information may include the information you manually enter into our forms such as your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, travel preferences, user name and password or contact information for other people. We may store all or some of that information in a cookie file on your hard drive, so that our system will recognize you each time you visit our site. In that way, we can save your preferences from visit to visit and present you with a customized Web site, without requiring you to log into our Site every time you visit. To improve services and enhance personalization, we may periodically obtain information about you from other independent third-party sources from whom we have lawfully obtained this data and add it to your registration information. Additionally, authorized Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd personnel may update your registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in communications received from you.
If you visit our Site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our Site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. We may or may not retain that information; if we do, then we will only use it in accordance with our privacy policy, regardless of the policy of the partner site from which you came to us.
If you reach our Site through one of our partners (whether or not you have registered with our partner), and you choose to register with us, we may be required to give our partner some or all of your registration information. We will only do so in accordance with this policy, but we cannot control how our partner uses the information. If you have questions about our partner's privacy policy, you should review their policy before providing information to us. Of course, you can ensure that the personal information you provide to us is not shared with our partners (except in accordance with this policy), by visiting us directly instead of clicking-through from one of our partners.
How we use the personal information we collect
We use the personal information we collect to help both of us! As we mentioned above, registering with us allows you to personalize our Site so that it is most useful to you. It also allows you to log into our Site automatically each time you visit, rather than manually typing your user name and password every time. We may also use your personal information to periodically contact you with news or important information from Sticky Fingers Travel, with communications from other Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members, and/or to request your feedback on our Site. In addition to these periodic updates, we may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These might include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you proactively request from Sticky Fingers Travel.
In addition to these communications, if you have provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you notifications about special offers or to tell you about opportunities available from our partners, subject to your consent (which may be withdrawn at any time in the manner set forth herein).
You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd in any commercial e-mail we send or at any time, as well as access and update your personal information, by emailing us.
We may also use certain information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you may find interesting. This benefits both of us. It benefits us because advertising helps pay the bills, and we can charge our advertisers more if they know that their ads will be seen by somebody more likely to find it useful. It benefits you because you see advertising that may actually be interesting to you, rather than annoying.
You can cancel your registration with us by e-mailing us at info@stickyfingerstravel.com and placing your email address in the subject of the e-mail. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from our active database, but some information may remain in our archives for an additional period of time before being deleted.
Disclosure of your personal information
Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party as discussed in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.
We also may share your personal information with third-parties specifically engaged by Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd to provide services to Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd (such as market research firms, marketing services providers and advertising agencies), in which case we will require those parties to agree to use any such personally-identifiable data solely for the purpose of providing the specified services to Sticky Fingers Travel.
As you might expect, Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to legal proceedings. We don't expect this to happen, but if it does, we will provide only the information required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights. We also may share your information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, and in the unlikely event of insolvency.
Your profile and contributions on Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your screen name. Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd encourages its members to create screen names that are not visibly connected to their first and last names. Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd will share neither your email address nor first and last names with other members, nor will we display them in any public manner, unless you expressly choose to have us do so.
Member-to-member communication features
When you sign up on Sticky Fingers Travel, member-to-member communication features are automatically enabled. These features, such as traveller networks and private messaging, allow you and other Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members to communicate with each other as well as with non-members, via Sticky Fingers Travel.
Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members can turn off member-to-member features at any time via their member profile, should they wish to do so.
If you do participate in these features you agree that:
• you are willing to accept communication from other Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members
• you have already obtained prior consent from contacts in your personal email address book for us to send them such communication on your behalf.
Non-members always have the option to stop receiving further communication from Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members.
We have designed these features to avoid any disclosure of your personal information to other users and to allow you to decline to participate, should you wish to do so. Your e-mail address is never disclosed to other Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd members or vice versa.
How you can review and update your personal information.
Steps we take to protect your personal information
Sticky Fingers Travel Ltd has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. For example, we limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information. We also employ processes to protect against unauthorized access to your personal information. While we implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to personal information there is no way for us to guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.