INTRODUCTION

This Privacy (“Policy”) applies to the securing and processing of personal data by EdTrips Global (hereinafter “EdTrips Global”) in connection with personal data provided by any person (“User”) who has purchased or intends to purchase or inquiries about any product(s) or service(s) made by EdTrips Global through any of EdTrips Global’s interface channels including website, mobile site and mobile app (collectively referred herein as “Sales Channels”).

For the purpose of Privacy Policy:

• References in this policy to “you” or “your” are references to ‘User’
• References to “we”, “us” or “our” are references to EdTrips Global
• References to “website” mean a reference to ‘website(s)’, ‘mobile site(s)’ and mobile app(s)

By accessing or using the website or any other sales channel, the User agrees with the term of the Privacy Policy and the contents herein. If you disagree with the Privacy Policy, please do not access or use our website or any other Sales Channels.

This privacy policy does not apply to any third-party website(s), mobile site(s) and mobile app(s). Users are requested to take note that information and privacy practices of EdTrips Global’s business partners, advertisers, sponsors, or other sites to which EdTrips Global provides hyperlink(s), may be different from this privacy policy, Hence, it is recommended that you review the privacy policy of any such third parties before you interact.

Your privacy is important to us and we recognize that the use and disclosure of personal data has important implications for us and for the users whose personal data we process.

PURPOSE OF THIS POLICY

We respect your need to understand how and why information is being collected, used, disclosed, transferred, and stored. Thus we have developed this Policy to familiarize you with our practices. This policy sets out the way in which we process your information when you use our website or other digital platforms in accordance with applicable data protection laws. It is important that you read this policy together with any other policies we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing your personal data, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal data. This policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

DEFINING CONTROLLER & PROCESSOR OF PERSONAL DATA

A “Controller” is a person or organization who alone or jointly determines the purposes for which, and the way, any personal data is, or is likely to be, processed. This notice is issued on behalf of EdTrips Global as controller.

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the Controller.

As the circumstances warrant EdTrips Global may be Controller or Processor of your personal data.

TYPE OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

Personal data includes any information about any user from which that person can be identified. It does not include personal data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

You may be asked for personal data anytime you are in contact with EdTrips Global directly or indirectly through a third party.

We collect, use, and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this policy.

We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you through our website (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, data on or about children). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you. We have grouped together the following categories of personal data to explain how this type of information is used by us. These terms are used throughout this Notice:

• Contact Data: including your residential address, work address, email address and telephone numbers;
• “Identity Data”: including your first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title;
• “Website User Data”: Usernames, Passwords and other security related information used by you in relation to our services
• “Transaction Data: Transactional history about your e-commerce activities, buying behaviour. Information pertaining to any other traveller(s) for whom you made a booking through your registered EdTrips Global account or a B2B/sales channel. In such case, you must confirm and represent that each of the other traveller(s) for whom a booking has been made, has agreed to have the information shared by you disclosed to us and further be shared by us with the concerned service provider(s).
• Marketing and Communications Data: including your marketing and communication preferences. We also track when you receive and read marketing communications from us, which information we use to improve our marketing services, provide you with more relevant information and improve the quality of our marketing materials. Additional information about the personal data we process in connection with marketing is included with the marketing communications we send you;
• Public Domain or Third-Party Data: Data available in public domain or received from any third party including social media channels, including but not limited to personal or non-personal information from your linked social media channels (like name, email address, friend list, profile pictures or any other information that is permitted to be received as per your account settings) as a part of your account information.
• Profile Data“: including information collected progressively when you visit our site including your referral website, pages you visit, actions you take, patterns of page visits and information from forms you fill in;
• “Technical Data”: includes information collected when you access our website, mobile site or mobile app your internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you are using; and
• Usage Data: information about how you use our website.
• Any other Personal Data: If you request EdTrips Global to provide visa related services, then copies of your passport, bank statements, originals of the filled in application forms, photographs, and any other information which may be required by the respective embassy to process your visa application. If you request EdTrips Global to provide foreign exchange (Forex) related services then passport copies, A2 form, air tickets or travel authentication document to verify confirmed travel or any other documents required to process your Forex transaction.

MODES OF COLLECTING PERSONAL DATA

The only way we will get any kind of personal data is if you choose to give it to us in the following circumstances:

1. • When you make an enquiry or quotation request or make a reservation or purchase from our ‘Website’ or through our customer service team – by email(s), letter(s), fax, on the phone or in physical office.
   • When you register with us, subscribe to our newsletter, enter in lucky draws/competitions/surveys/feedback, send us queries or register for promotions.
   • When you engage with us in any online or offline event, promotions, page hosted by us on a third party platform or location.
   • Through cookies on our website

Cookies & other technologies

1. • We receive Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see cookie policy for further details of the information collected.

Third parties or publicly available sources:

1. • We receive Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google.

GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING OF DATA

When you use our website, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Performance of a contract: where we need to perform a contract which we are about to enter or have entered with you as a party or to take steps at your request before entering such a contract;
• legal or regulatory obligation: where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to;
• Legitimate interests: where necessary for our interests provided that your fundamental rights do not override such interests. This can mean, for instance, that it is in our interest, to monitor how you are using our website or client portals to ensure that the security of our website or client portals or systems is maintained. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests; and
• consent: We rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message.

We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

USE OF PERSONAL DATA

We will only process (i.e. use) your personal data when the law allows us to, that is, when we have a legal basis for processing. We generally use the information to establish and enhance our relationship with our users for the following purposes:

While you make a booking:

• We may use your Personal Information available with us to ease your booking process. This information may include all the data provided by you earlier i.e. contact data. We may also use the information of travellers list as available in or linked with your account. This information is presented to the User at the time of making a booking to enable you to complete your bookings expeditiously.

We may also use your Personal Information for several reasons including but not limited to:

• keep you informed of the transaction status
• send booking confirmations either via SMS or WhatsApp or any other messaging service
• send any updates or changes to your booking(s)
• allow our customer service to contact you, if necessary
• confirm your reservations with respective service providers
• customize the content of our website, mobile site, and mobile app
• request for reviews of products or services or any other improvements
• send verification message(s) or email(s)
• validate/authenticate your account and to prevent any misuse or abuse
• contact you on your birthday/anniversary to offer a special gift or offer
• send you important notices and communications regarding our products and services availed or changes to the terms and conditions and/or policies
• send information about products and services offered by EdTrips Global and its affiliates
• send you payment reminders and/or travel vouchers
• Newsletters to keep you updated on the travel sector. If you do not wish to receive such intimation, you may unsubscribe this facility in the email message you receive

We may share your personal data to third parties for reasons cited below but not limited to:

• Where it is necessary to process your booking, enquiry, or participation.
• To fulfil the service offering and/or to make booking, reservation, blocking and any such activity initiated by user.
• We may share personal data with companies who provide services such as information processing, extending credit, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products to you, managing, and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. These companies are obligated to protect your information.

We may use your personal information for Marketing Promotions, Research, and other programs

• As a registered user, you will receive our latest product and service announcements, offers, promotions and event updates. If you wish to unsubscribe, you can choose to do so.
• We may also use the personal data to improve our product offering, develop and deliver products, services, content, and advertising. – Personal data may also be used internally for research, analysis, and auditing
• EdTrips Global may from time to time launch promotions to give its Users an opportunity to win great travel and travel related prizes. During such activity the personal information collected by us may include contact information and survey questions. We will use such information to notify contest winners and survey information to develop promotions and product improvements.
• EdTrips Global may launch travel referral or reward programs from time to time by way of which users would win travel related rewards or other rewards. We may use your personal information to enrol you in the rewards program. Depending on the reward program, each time you win a reward, EdTrips Global may share your personal information with a third party that will be responsible from fulfilling the reward to you. You may however choose to opt out of such reward program if you choose to do so. Here too while rewarding any user we at times may verify information of customers on selective basis for various purposes such as fraud protection or any other purpose.

COLLECTION AND USE OF NON-PERSONAL DATA

Non-personal data is data which can never be used to identify an individual. We may collect information regarding customer activities on our various portals. This aggregated information is used in research, analysis, to improve and monitor products and for various promotional schemes. It may be shared in aggregated, non-personal form with third party to enhance customer experience, products offering or services.

COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience when you use our website. To that effect, we have developed a cookie policy to familiarize you with our practices. You can access the cookie policy.

LINKS

For your convenience, our website provides links to other sites. When you click on one of these links, you are leaving our website and entering another site. We are not responsible for such third-party sites. You should carefully review the privacy statements of any other sites you visit, because those privacy statements will apply to your visit to such other sites.

WITH WHOM YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS SHARED

• Group Companies (Companies in the same group):

In the interests of improving personalization and service efficiency, we may, under controlled and secure circumstances, share your Personal Information with our affiliate or associate entities. If the assets of EdTrips Global are acquired, our customer information may also be transferred to the acquirer depending upon the nature of such acquisition. In addition, as part of business expansion/development/restructuring or for any other reason whatsoever, if we decide to sell/transfer/assign our business, any part thereof, any of our subsidiaries or any business units, then as part of such restructuring exercise customer information including the Personal Information collected herein shall be transferred accordingly.

• Service Providers and suppliers:

Your information shall be shared with the end service providers like airlines, hotels, visa consulates, bus service providers, cab rental, railways or any other suppliers who are responsible for fulfilling your booking. You may note that while making a booking with EdTrips Global you authorize us and consent to share your information with the said service providers and suppliers. It is pertinent to note that EdTrips Global does not authorize the end service provider to use your information for any other purpose(s) except as for fulfilling their part of service.

EdTrips Global does not sell or rent individual customer names or other Personal Information of Users to third parties except sharing of such information with our business/alliance partners or vendors who are engaged by us for providing various services and for sharing promotional and other benefits to our customers from time-to-time basis their booking history with us.

• Third Party Vendors and Business Partners:

We may also share certain filtered Personal Information to our corporate affiliates or business partners who may contact the customers to offer certain products or services, which may include free or paid products / services, which will enable the customer to have better travel experience or to avail certain benefits specially made for EdTrips Global customers. Examples of such partners are entities offering savings/EMI on travel, co-branded credit cards, travel insurance, insurance cover against loss of wallet, banking cards or similar sensitive information etc. If you choose to avail any such services offered by our business partners, the services so availed will be governed by the privacy policy of the respective service provider.

EdTrips Global may share your Personal Information to third party that EdTrips Global may engage to perform certain tasks on its behalf, including but not limited to payment processing, data hosting, and data processing platforms.

We may provide non personal data based on this data to suppliers, advertisers, affiliates, and other current and potential business partners. We may also use such aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their websites.

Occasionally, EdTrips Global will hire a third party for market research, surveys etc. and will provide information to these third parties specifically for use in connection with these projects. The information (including aggregate cookie and tracking information) we provide to such third parties, alliance partners, or vendors are protected by confidentiality agreements and such information is to be used solely for completing the specific project, and in compliance with the applicable regulations.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Where required, we will (subject to our professional obligations and any terms of business which we may enter with you) disclose your personal data to:

• Any person or entity to whom we are required or requested to make such disclosure by any court of competent jurisdiction or by any governmental, taxation or other regulatory authority, law enforcement agency or similar body;
• Our professional advisers or consultants, including lawyers, bankers, auditors, accountants, and insurers providing consultancy, legal, banking, audit, accounting, or insurance services to us; and
• Service-providers who provide information technology and system administration services to us.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER

Due to the multinational character of EdTrips Global, some of the affiliated companies and other recipients may be in countries (including the United States) that do not provide a level of data protection equivalent to that set forth by the law in your home country. EdTrips Global will take steps to make sure that such recipients act in accordance with applicable law and provide an adequate level of protection for your personal data including appropriate technical and organizational security measures, also through implementation of appropriate contractual measures to secure such transfer, in compliance with the applicable law.

USER GENERATED CONTENT

EdTrips Global provides an option to its users to post their experiences by way of reviews, blog articles, ratings, and general poll questions. The customers also have an option to give their feedback or ask questions w.r.t a service offered by EdTrips Global or post answers to questions raised by other users. EdTrips Global may also engage a third party to contact you and gather your feedback about your recent booking with EdTrips Global. Though the participation in the feedback process is purely optional, you may still receive emails, notifications (app, SMS, WhatsApp or any other messaging service) for you to share your review(s). These reviews may be written (with or without images) or in video format. The reviews written or posted will be visible on EdTrips Global and may also be visible on other travel or travel related platforms or social media handles of EdTrips Global such as YouTube. The User Generated Content that EdTrips Global collects may be of the following kinds:

• Articles for Website or Blog
• Video Logs (VLgos) created as part of Young Learners Programme/
• Review and Ratings
• Question and Answers
• Crowd Source Data Collection (poll questions).

Each User who posts review or ratings, Q&A, photographs shall have a profile, which other Users will be able to access. Other Users may be able to view the number of trips, reviews written, questions asked and answered and photographs posted

Each User shall be diligent and take due care to ensure that the views expressed by you on the social media platform or EdTrips Global website is not derogatory or oppose to law, public policy, morality, religion, caste, creed, color, sex, race, culture, ethics, customs, traditions, decency, good conscience, third party intellectual property etc. By uploading pictures, views, images, contents, visuals, audios, experiences etc. on the social media platform or EdTrips Global website, you consent to EdTrips Global to use, reproduce, copy, upload pictures, views, look and feel, images, contents, visuals, audios, experiences etc. in any manner, as may deem fit by EdTrips Global, without any responsibility, liability, compensation or cost due to you or any third party, on the part of EdTrips Global. EdTrips Global hereby disclaims all or any disputes, responsibilities, liabilities, litigations, costs, expenses, compensations etc., arising with respect to or in connection with the use, reproduction, copying, uploading of pictures, views, look and feel, images, contents, visuals, audios, experiences etc. contributed, shared, expressed by you, or on your behalf and/or otherwise to any third party.

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED FOR USING OUR MOBILE APPLICATIONS

When the EdTrips Global app is installed on your phone a list of permissions will appear and are needed for the smooth functioning of the application. The permissions that EdTrips Global requires and the data that shall be accessed and its use are as below:

Android permissions:

Location: This permission enables us to give you the nearest branch details from your location in case you require any physical assistance with regards to any travel query.

SMS: If you allow us to access your SMS, we can send you SMS related to ‘OTP’ and send package details to your mobile number.

Phone: The app requires access to make phone calls so that you can make phone calls to our customer contact centres directly through the app.

Contacts: If you allow us to access your contacts, it enables us to provide a lot of social features to you such as sharing packages with your friends, etc.

Photo / Media / Files: The libraries in the app use these permissions to save and cache images and document data for your ease and faster use of the app while you browse with us the next time. By saving image and document data locally, your phone does not need to re-download the same every time you use the app.

IOS Permissions:

Notifications: If you opt in for notifications, it enables us to send across exclusive deals, promotional offers, travel related updates, etc. on your device.

INFORMATION PROTECTION AND SECURITY

Considering the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, we implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing, including:

1. the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;
2. the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services
3. the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident; and
4. a process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

We ensure that those who have permanent or regular access to personal data, or that are involved in the processing of personal data, or in the development of tools used to process personal data, are trained, and informed of their rights and responsibilities in when processing personal data.

To protect your personal data and prevent unauthorized access, we have put in place appropriate security measures and certifications. We have SSL site and user should use it to protect the information transmission while transacting online.

We require any third parties processing your information to do the implement the same levels of protection with respect to your data.

While no system is full-proof, including ours, we will continue using internet security procedures to ensure your data remains safe with us. By opening, browsing, using this site for transactions, or storing any data/information, you agree to comply with the latest revised privacy notice in effect at such time. If you use some social networking or other service which maintains your information, it is governed by their terms of use and privacy notice.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. This includes, for example, the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, reporting requirements, to carry out legal work, for the establishment or defence of legal claims.

We will retain your personal data in our databases in accordance with our document management, retention and destruction policy and applicable laws. This period may extend beyond the end of your relationship with us, but it will be only as long as it is necessary for us to have sufficient information to respond to any issues that may arise later. For example, we may need or be required to retain information to allow you to obtain credit for trip you purchased but had to cancel. We may also need the retain certain information to prevent fraudulent activity; to protect ourselves against liability, permit us to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that we may sustain; or if we believe in good faith that a law, regulation, rule, or guideline requires it.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

CHANGES TO THE POLICY

We reserve the right to update or change this Policy at any time. You should check the policy periodically. Your continued use of our website after we post any modifications to the policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified notice.

In case you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Policy, you may contact team@edtripsglobal.com

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one calendar month. Occasionally it may take us longer than one calendar month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

COMPLAINTS

If you have any complaint about how we have handled a Subject Access Request, please let us know and we will try to fix it. You can email the Data Protection Officer (DPO) using our contact us section on the website. If you are dissatisfied with handling of any privacy complaints, if you do not receive timely acknowledgement of your complaint, or your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed please contact our team at team@edtripsglobal.com If you have any complaint about how we have handled a Subject Access Request, please let us know and we will try to fix it. You can email the Data Protection Officer (DPO) using our contact us section. If you are dissatisfied with handling of any privacy complaints, if you do not receive timely acknowledgement of your complaint, or your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed please contact our team at team@edtripsglobal.com

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this privacy notice or questions or complaints about the processing of your personal data by EdTrips Global, please contact:

Data Protection Officer

Registered Office:

EdTrips Global

215, Vipul Business Park,

Sector 48, Sohna Road, Gurgaon -122018

Email: info@edtripsglobal.com