Privacy Policy - Version 1.0.0.EN – 01-Jul-2015
AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS "YOU", "USER" AND "CLIENT" OR "CUSTOMER" SHALL MEAN ANY VISITOR TO THIS WEBSITE.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE PRIVACY POLICY BELOW. THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, FROM TIME TO TIME IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION. WE MAY NOTIFY YOU OF AMENDMENTS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY BY POSTING THEM TO THIS WEBSITE. YOU SHOULD CHECK THE PRIVACY POLICY PERIODICALLY OR EACH TIME YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO REVIEW ANY CHANGES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN MADE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THIS WEBSITE.
Enforceability and Governing Law. This privacy policy or legal notice and issues regarding the website www.wtocorp.com, a domain of the World Travel & Tourism Operators Corporation (WTO), a business established in the Dominican Republic, are governed exclusively by the Dominican laws. Access to this website is granted on condition that you accept all of the bellow indicated and agree to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Dominican Republic located in the city and judicial distric of Santiago de los Caballeros to settle matters in relation to the website and the WTO, without regard to principles of conflicts of law.
WTO does not accept or assume any domicile at any place, location or office in the world (also not at the office of its agents, allies, partners or support companies), other than its registered Legal or Headquarters offices in the Dominican Republic.
Clarification: In spite of this policy of privacy mention and apply measures or standards to preserve and protect the privacy of our users and the “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII), from laws, decrees, acts, resolutions, etc., from other countries indicated below, this domain and the WTO take them into consideration with the only purpose of improving the effectiveness and best practices for the application of our privacy policy and the protection of the PII. We hereby establish that this domain and the WTO are not forced to follow or subjugate to international or those of bellow mentioned countries jurisdictions.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the use of others Websites operated by WTO operating businesses or brands, such as: www.partnerhub.wtocorp.com, www.wisefarer.com, www.country.travel, www.ontripto.com, www.wisetripick.com and others. We refer you to each Website’s respective Privacy Policy for the terms and provisions applicable to use of such Website.
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is being used online. PII, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website, blog, forum, chat or app? When registering or ordering on our website, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information, personal identification document number, passport number, your business contact information, corporate and tax identifiable documents, or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information? We collect information from you when you register on our website, fill out a form or enter information on our website.
How do we use your information? We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other website features in the following ways:
- To improve our website in order to better serve you.
- To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
- To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other website feature.
- To quickly process your transactions.
- To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
How do we protect visitor information? Our website is scanned by our hosting provider or third party on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our website as safe as possible. We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Do we use cookies? Yes. Cookies are small files that a website or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the website's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current website activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about website traffic and website interaction so that we can offer better website experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
- Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.
- Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
- Keep track of advertisements.
- Compile aggregate data about website traffic and website interactions in order to offer better website experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If users disable cookies in their browser or do not accept cookies on our website, certain parts, functions and/or features will be disabled. It will turn off some of the features that make your website experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
Third Party Disclosure. Do we disclose the information we collect to Third Parties? We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal identifiable information such as: your name, address, city, town, any form or online contact identifier email, name of chat account etc., screen name or user names, phone number, personal identification document number, passport number, cookie number, ip address, device serial number, unique device identifier personally identifiable information, neither your business contact information, and corporate and tax identifiable documents. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, our business partners servicing you or interested in serving you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Third party links. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party information, products or services on our website. These third party websites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these websites.
Google. Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. We may use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our website and other websites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
- Remarketing with Google AdSense.
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting.
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
- DoubleClick Platform Integration.
We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out. Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
California Online Privacy Protection Act. CalOPPA is the first state law in the United States of America to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) 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 with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. See more at: CalOPPA and CalOPPA Amend.
According to CalOPPA websites should agree to the following: Users can visit our website anonymously, once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website. Our Privacy Policy link includes the word "Privacy", and can be easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on website Privacy Policy Page; Users are able to change their personal information by logging into their account.
How does our website handle do not track signals? We don't honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place. We don't honor this because of technological limitations.
Does our website allow third party behavioral tracking? It's also important to note that we allow third party behavioral tracking.
Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of the USA puts parents in control. The USA Federal Trade Commission, the nation's Consumer Protection Agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under 13.
Fair Information Practices. The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the USA and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: a) We will notify the registered users via email within 2 business days; b) We will notify the non-registered users via in website notification within 2 business days.
We do not agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors. We do not agree to the individual redress principle due that the Internet represents an insecure channel for exchanging information leading to a high risk of intrusion or fraud.
CAN-SPAM Act. The CAN-SPAM Act is a law of the United States of America that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
- Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
- We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
- Market to our mailing lists or continue to send emails to our users and clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, websites should agree to the following:
- NOT use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or website headquarters.
- Monitor third party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you should follow the instructions at the bottom of each email received or you can use our website contact form to request to be removed from all correspondences.