Privacy statement

Last updated on February 23, 2022.

Your privacy and the security and confidentiality of your data is very important to us. You’ve placed your trust in us by using our services. We value that trust. We are committed to protecting and safeguarding any personal data that you give us. We want you to understand how we use your data and your rights regarding that data. This website is owned and operated by Ecoinstinct Limited (“ecoscout.com”). This Privacy & Cookies Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and process personal data through the ecoscout website, the ecoscout mobile site, our iPhone, Android and other mobile applications and any other online communications and interfaces (the “site”). Please read the Privacy & Cookies policy below to learn about our practices. By visiting the site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand the practices described in this policy.

Summary of key issues

Our Collection of Your Personal Data

In order to provide you with our online travel service, we must collect personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”). We may collect the following categories of Personal Data you provide to us while you are using the site:

Identifiers:

1. Name
2. Address
3. Phone number
4. Email address
5. Age
6. Date of birth
7. Gender
8. Username and password for our site and any other information you may choose to provide either directly or through your use of social media sign-in features (such as Facebook Connect) or as may be required to fulfill the requested service; and
9. IP address

Internet or other electronic network activity information:

1. IP address
2. Device information
3. Web log information
4. Search preferences related to specific searches and
5. Bids through your interactions with our site

Inferences drawn from other Personal Data:

1. Profile or purchasing habits inferred from Personal Data
2. Device information
3. Web log information
4. Search preferences related to specific searches and
5. Collect data through your interactions with our site

Geolocation data:

1. General device location and
2. With consent, specific device location

In addition, we may receive certain categories of Personal Data listed above from sources other than you, specifically from the following categories of sources:

1. Third party applications (including, but not limited to Facebook and Google) that you use for single sign-on
2. Our affiliates, subsidiaries, or business partners

If you purchase services for other travelers or travel companions, you must make sure that you have the right to provide their personal Data to us and that those other travelers have accepted how ecoscout uses their information as stated in this policy. Personal Data of other travelers is collected only for the purpose of providing such Personal Data to the appropriate travel supplier to fulfill the requested service, or as otherwise may be required or permitted by applicable law.

Protecting Your Personal Data

Protecting your Personal Data is a top priority at ecoscout. We employ technical, administrative and physical safeguards that are designed to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and to ensure correct use of Personal Data. To provide protection for credit card transactions while in transit, ecoscout currently uses Secure Socket Layer encryption. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (e.g., if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please contact us immediately as detailed in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy & Cookies Policy

Use of Your Personal Data

We use Personal Data to provide you with services, to build features that will make the services easier to use, and to contact you. This includes a faster website experience, better customer support, timely notice of new services and special offers, and more relevant content. Our legal basis to use your data, where one is required to be provided by applicable law, is as follows: (a) as necessary to perform a transaction;  (b) as necessary to comply with a legal obligation (such as record keeping to substantiate our compliance with law);  (c) where you have provided consent as appropriate under applicable law; and  (d) necessary for legitimate interests such as marketing that you have not previously objected to receiving. In general, you need to provide the Personal Data in order to make a reservation and otherwise enter into a transaction with us, for us to provide you with travel reservation services, and as may be required for our compliance purposes in connection with such transactions, except in limited instances when we indicate that certain information is voluntary. Not providing Personal Data may prevent us from providing you with requested information and carrying out transactions. However, you can always exercise control over our use of Personal Data for direct marketing and you can control the use of cookies on our site. We also use your Personal Data as described in the “Sharing Your Personal Data”.

Our Policy On Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as beacons, scripts, and tags, are small bits of code, usually stored on a user’s computer hard drive or device, which enable a website to “personalize” itself for each user by remembering information about the user’s visit to the website. The site uses cookies to store your preferences, display content based upon what you view to personalize your visit, analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, serve targeted advertising and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. On mobile websites and mobile apps, we may use Anonymous Device IDs and/or Advertiser Identifiers in a manner similar to our use of cookies on our websites. Although these activities involve developing an understanding of you as a user, we use this information for the purposes described. Given the nature of our site and services as a travel provider, and the limited amount of Personal Data we obtain about you, this activity does not produce legal effects for you nor otherwise does it significantly affect you. More detailed information about our use of cookies and how to opt-out of advertising and certain other cookies is provided below.

Ecoscout Cookies (First Party Cookies): We use our cookies to improve your web-browsing experience. For example, we use a cookie to reduce the time it takes for you to submit purchase requests by storing a registered user’s email address so that you do not need to enter your email address each time that you log-in. We will also use a cookie to keep track of your search criteria while you are engaging ecoscout’s services. Ecoscout cookies are associated with your Personal Data. However, no third party may use the information we collect through ecoscout cookies for their own purposes.

Third Party Cookies: We work with third parties that place cookies on ecoscout to provide their services, including:

1. Ad Targeting: We work with third-party advertising companies to serve ads while you are visiting our ecoscout. We permit these companies to place and access their own cookies on your computer in the course of serving advertisements on this site. In order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you, these companies may use information obtained through their cookies (which do not include your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to the site and other websites, in combination with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online sites. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not ours.
2. Data Providers: We also allow data providers to collect web log data from you (including IP address and information about your browser or operating system), when you visit our site, or place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads or content. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information. The cookies may reflect demographic or other data, with identifying elements removed, linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, e.g., your email address, that we may share with data providers solely in hashed, non-human readable form.
3. Analytics/Measurement: We also use third-party analytics cookies to gain insight into how our visitors use the site and optimize and improve our site. The data we gather includes which web pages you have viewed, which referring/exit pages you have entered and arrived from, which platform type you have used, date and time stamp information, and details such as the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you type while using our site. We also make use of analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our site after they have been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party websites.
4. Remarketing Pixel Tags and Other Technologies: We may share web site usage information with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place or recognize a cookie on your computer or device or directly in our emails or communications or may place pixel tags (also called clear gifs) on certain web pages. We will then use the information that is collected to serve you relevant advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet. These advertisements may be targeted to specific searches you conducted on ecoscout during earlier browsing sessions.
5. Flash Cookies: Our partners, who provide certain features on our site or display advertising based on your browsing activity, also use Local Shared Objects such as Flash cookies, and Local Storage such as HTML5, to collect and store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage. To manage Flash cookies, please click here .

Controlling Cookies: You have a choice over the use of cookies as described in this Privacy & Cookies Policy. Ecoscout is not currently configured to respond to Do Not Track signals. If you would rather we do not use ecoscout cookies when you visit us, please configure your specific browser settings to reject cookies. To opt-out of third-party cookies, please utilize the appropriate option(s) below:

1. To opt-out of ad targeting cookies set by Google and Doubleclick on ecoscout, click here: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads?hl=en.
2. To generally (i.e. not just for this Site) opt-out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising visit the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website or click here. If you are located in the European Union, please click here to opt out.
3. In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes by Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
4. For instructions on how to configure your browser settings to reject cookies being served by companies that are not part of the NAI or DAA, click here. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your computer’s hard drive by searching for and deleting files with “cookie” in it.

Please keep in mind that without cookies you may not have access to certain features on the site, including access to your profile or account and certain personalized content. Removing all cookies from your computer could also affect your subsequent visits to certain web sites, including this site, by requiring that, for example, you enter your login name when you return to that website.

Mobile Devices

1. We and/or our data providers may collect and store a unique identifier matched to your mobile device in order to deliver customized ads or content while you use applications or surf the internet, or to identify you in a unique manner across other devices or browsers. In order to customize these ads or content, we or a data partner may collect demographic or other data, with identifying elements removed, about you received from third parties, as well as data you voluntarily have submitted to us (e.g., your email address) and/or data passively collected from you, such as your device identifier or IP address. For advertising purposes, however, we will share your email address with our data partners solely in hashed, non-human readable form.

If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your mobile device browser or applications, please refer to your device’s operating system settings, or follow instructions below.

1. Android Users (version 2.3 and above): To use the “opt-out of interest-based advertising” option, follow the instructions provided by Google here: Google Play Help.
2. iOS users (version 6 and above): To use the “Limit Ad-Tracking” option, follow the instructions provided by Apple here: Apple Support Center . You can also use the tools available at https://youradchoices.com/appchoices and https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice to control cookies and similar technologies on your mobile device.

demographic or other data, with identifying elements removed, about you received from third parties, as well as data you voluntarily have submitted to us (e.g., your email address) and/or data passively collected from you, such as your device identifier or IP address. For advertising purposes, however, we will share your email address with our data partners solely in hashed, non-human readable form. If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your mobile device browser or applications, please refer to your device’s operating system settings, or follow instructions below. Android Users (version 2.3 and above): To use the “opt-out of interest-based advertising” option, follow the instructions provided by Google here: Google Play Help. iOS users (version 6 and above): To use the “Limit Ad-Tracking” option, follow the instructions provided by Apple here: Apple Support Center . You can also use the tools available at https://youradchoices.com/appchoices and https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice to control cookies and similar technologies on your mobile device.

How You Can Access or Change Your Personal Data settings

ecoscout understands that you may want to change, access or delete your Personal Data. You may do so by accessing your profile or by using the form available here. To protect your privacy and security, we will need to verify your identity before acting on a request. In most circumstances, we will then answer your request within 30 days of verification. If you have created a profile on any of the services available on the ecoscout, your email address and password are required in order to access your profile information. Depending on the jurisdiction where you reside, you may have specific rights under local legislation to: (i) request access to your Personal Data; (ii) request rectification of your Personal Data; (iii) request erasure of your Personal Data; (iv) request restriction of processing of your Personal Data; (v) request data portability; and (vi) object to the processing of your Personal Data, including opting out of certain sharing of your Personal Data or processing of your Personal Data for marketing purposes. You may also have the right to request from us the Personal Data from or about you that we have “sold” (as such term is defined under applicable law) or disclosed for a business purpose within the past 12 months. Please use the form available here if you would like to exercise such rights. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Please note that, in order to provide appropriate security to your information, we may require additional data points or information from you in order to verify your identity prior to completing certain requests related to your Personal Data (e.g., requiring the matching of two or three data points provided by you with information maintained by ecoscout). We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. In addition, we will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Links to Other Websites and Third Party Services

Ecoscout.com contains links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us, including links to websites of travel suppliers and our advertisers, sponsors, and partners. This Privacy & Cookies Policy only applies to information collected by our site. We have no control over these third party websites, and your use of third party websites and features are subject to privacy policies posted on those websites. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy or business practices of any third party websites linked to our site or third party social media feature or functionality offered on our site, such as Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, and YouTube. Your use of third parties’ websites linked to our sites is at your own risk, so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked third party websites when you leave one of our sites, link into our site from another website or through a sign-in feature (for example, Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider), or utilize a third party social media feature or functionality available on ecoscout.

How to Contact Us

Should you have any questions, or to exercise you rights as detailed above, please contact us at info@ecoscout.com.