February 14, 2022
Welcome to our website. TripScout (“we” or “us”) provide this Privacy Statement to inform you about our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information through www.tripscout.co (the “Site”), our mobile application, and any other websites, features, applications, widgets or online services that are owned or controlled by us (collectively, the “Services”). Your privacy is important to us. By using the Services, you agree to the data collection, use, disclosure and storage practices described in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement also explains how we may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it. When you interact with us through the Services, we may collect information from you, as further described below. We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information, when you choose to provide it to us. Personal information (or personal data) means information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include personal information where the identity has been removed (anonymous personal information). This may include when you make travel plans and reservations, contact us with inquiries or otherwise contact us.
We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
By accessing or using the Services, you consent to the information collection, disclosure and use practices described in this Privacy Statement. Please note that certain features or services referenced in this Privacy Statement may not be offered on the Services at all times. Please also review our Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Services, and which is accessible at www.tripscout.co/terms.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
In some countries, including in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK), this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws:
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information from you when you choose to provide it to us. This may include when you create an account with us, sign up for our email lists, use our Services, make travel plans and reservations, submit a rating or review, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us.
We collect information from you when you choose to provide it to us. This may include when you purchase a product, create an account with us, sign up for our email lists, use our Services, submit a rating or review, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third parties, or in connection with placing an order (collectively, "User Submitted Materials").
If you have created an account, you may be able to voluntarily provide additional information in various areas of the Services. For example, you may want to provide additional information as part of an optional profile to enhance your experience and use its features. We may use this information to personalize the Services and their features just for you.
Your User Submitted Materials are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Personal Information: While using the Services, we may collect information that identifies you as a specific individual and can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Examples of Personal Information we may collect include your name, address, email address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, geolocation information, photos or videos, user name, travel booking information (including reservation dates, travel destination and hotel and other accommodation and trip information) purchase history, credit/debit card number or other financial information and billing address. We may also collect additional types of personal information that you choose to provide to us. This could include information about yourself or others that you are authorized to provide to us, including information about children that is provided in connection with utilizing our travel-related services. Our mobile application may request access to the photographs stored on your mobile device; if you choose to allow that access some of the photographs may be personally identifiable. You may be required to provide certain authentication and credential information to create your account, including a username and password.
Payment Information: If you use the Services to make purchases, we will also collect certain payment information, such as payment card, PayPal, Square, or other financial account information, and billing address. A third-party payment processor collects that information; we do not store your credit card information.
Non-Identifying Information: We also may collect other information, such as zip codes, and other information regarding your use of the Services (“Non-Identifying Information”) or from you in response to surveys. Certain Non-Identifying Information would be considered a part of your Personal Information if it were combined with other identifiers in a way that enables you to be identified (for example, combining information with your name). We may combine your Personal Information with Non-Identifying Information, but we will treat the combined information as Personal Information.
Information Collected From Other Sources
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including social media platforms like Facebook or Instagram that you use to connect with Us. If you use a third party service to login, link to us, or communicate with us (such as a social network or third party video chat), we may receive certain information about you from the third party based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services. This information may include name, user name, demographic information, location information, updated address or contact information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media and online activity.
Information Obtained from Third Parties
If others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. For example, if you have agreed to share information with one of our travel partners, we may add this information to the information we already hold about you.
INFORMATION USE
We may use the information we collect from and about you to:
as described to you at the point of data collection or otherwise with your consent, and as further described in this Privacy Statement;
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
We may share and disclosure the personal information we collect from and about you, or you provide to us, as described in this privacy statement
With third parties to facilitate your travel plans and reservations, including technology platforms used to make travel and trip-related bookings, travel suppliers and hotels/accommodations providers.
With third parties that we believe may provide promotional materials, and goods and services that may be of interest to you.
We may disclose Personal Information about you to selected business partners or other third parties who we believe may be of interest to you, and they may send you marketing offers or similar information directly. If you want to opt-out of such sharing with third parties for marketing purposes, you may notify us at privacy@tripscout.co. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly. You also may request, sometimes through your use of a social media service or similar interactive feature or third party application, that we share information about you with a third party and we will typically do so under those circumstances.
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Services of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information
We may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal information provided through the Services in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement.
We also may share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
If you do not want us to share your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Statement, contact us at privacy@tripscout.co.
INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT AND COOKIE POLICY
As is true of most web sites, we automatically gather information about your computer such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and operating system.
We may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or other technologies to automatically collect certain information when you use our Services or interact with our emails and online or mobile advertisements. For example, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information from you such as your mobile device identifier or MAC address, browser type, operating system, device model, software version, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, mobile or ISP carrier information, and the domain name from which you accessed the Services. We also may collect information about your use of the Services including the date and time you access the Services, the areas or pages of the Services that you visit, the amount of time you spend using the Services, the number of times you return, whether you open forward or click-through emails and ads, and other usage data so that we can understand the statistical use trends of our website in order to make improvements. The information we collect automatically does include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests, speed up your searches and recognize you when you return to our Services.
We may also use third-party tools or services to assist us with analyzing and improving the Services. These third parties are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help use conduct and improve our business.
We capture the following information:
Usage Details. When you access and use the Services, we may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the App, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the App.
Domain Name – through which you access the Internet
IP address – from the computer or network used to access our Services
Web browser – and operating system used
Date and time – you accessed our Services
Pages, files, documents, and links – that you visited
Referral Internet address – of the website from which you clicked to get to our Services
Search terms – used in a search engine (like google.com) that brought you to our Services.
Device Information. We may collect information about your mobile device and internet connection, including the device's unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, web browser type, mobile network information, and the device's telephone number.
Stored Information and Files. The Services also may access metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device. This may include, for example, photographs, audio and video clips, personal contacts, and address book information.
Location Information. The Services collect real-time information about the location of your device.
If you do not want us to collect this information do not download the App or please delete it from your device. Continue below for choices about how we use and disclose your information. Note, however, that opting out of the App's collection of location information will disable its location-based features
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your activities over time and across third-party websites, apps, or other online services (behavioral tracking). Continue reading for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on or through the Services and how we respond to browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking. We may also use third-party tools or services, including from our service providers, to assist us with analyzing and improving the Services. When service providers receive this information, they are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help use conduct and improve our business.
For more information on our use of cookies, click here.
Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures. We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
You may adjust your browser or operating system settings to limit this tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Services or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the “Help” menu of your browser or operating system to learn how to adjust your tracking settings or cookie preferences.
To learn more about how cookies or other technologies are used to deliver more relevant advertising or to opt out of receiving targeted ads please click here. On your mobile device, you can adjust your privacy and advertising settings to limit your tracking for advertising or control whether you receive more relevant advertising. Note that our systems may not recognize. Do Not Track headers or requests from some or all browsers.
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Location Information. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device's location through the device's privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of the App may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to privacy@tripscout.co. You can also always opt-out by logging into the Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email privacy@tripscout.co.
Promotional Offers from the Us. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data you can click on the unsubscribe link on emails you received from us or email us at privacy@tripscout.co or at any other time by logging into the Services and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@tripscout.co. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing us at privacy@tripscout.co. For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept all browser cookies.
Combination of Information
We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us and information we automatically collect through our Services as well as information collected offline or from third party sources to help us tailor our communications to you and to improve our Services.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
THIRD PARTIES
We may contract with third parties to perform functions related to the Services (“Service Providers”). Service Providers will have access to your personal information needed to perform their business functions, but may not use or share that personal information for other purposes. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Any information you may disclose in ratings or review, on message boards, in chat rooms or on other public areas of the Services, becomes public information and may be subject to the terms of use of other Services or platforms. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SERVICES
This Privacy Statement applies only to the Services. The Services may have links to third-party Services or applications, including payment processors, social media or video platforms which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the practices of such Services or applications. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement, authorization or representation of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit Personal Information from you. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Protecting children’s privacy is important to us. We do not direct the Services to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of 16. In connection with your use of the Services, you may choose to provide information to us about the ages of children who are included in your travel booking or trip-related service, but not any personally identifiable information about any children under age 16.
DATA SECURITY
We have taken certain physical, administrative, and technical steps to safeguard the information we collect from and about our customers and Services visitors and users. While we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through our App. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION
Your personal information is stored on servers in the United States. You understand and agree that TripScout may collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process the information you provide as described in this Privacy Statement even if you are from an area outside the United States. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the United States. We will retain your personal information for as long as it is needed to provide you with the Services, or to fulfill any legal or contractual obligations we may have.
If you are a resident of the EEA or UK: Your personal information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which has data protection laws that are different than those in your country and may not be as protective. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact TripScout’s Privacy Officer at privacy@tripscout.co.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have an account on our Services, you may sign in to your account and update your personal information contained in the account. You may also send us an email at privacy@tripscout.co to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. California, EEA and UK residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights or Your Rights as a Visitor From the European Economic Union (EEA) or the United Kingdom (UK) for more information.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS – YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This Privacy Notice for California Residents applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (”consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice. Our Services collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”) Personal information does not include:
Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
Notice of Collection of Information.
In particular, our Services have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity,gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | NO |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | NO |
| E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier oridentifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
| G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | YES |
| H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
| I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
| J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by aneducational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO |
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TripScout obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on the Services.
Use of Personal Information
WE DO NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect as set forth in this Privacy Statement, including for one or more of the following purposes:
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to book a trip, we will use and disclosure that information to third parties process your payment and facilitate your reservation or other trip-related service. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Services, products, and services.
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To personalize your Services experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers, promotions, discounts, incentives and ads through our Services, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Services, products, and services.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice.
Sharing and Disclosing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Statement, including to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. We share your personal information with Service Providers and with third party advertisers, analytics, and content providers. We do not sell personal information.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not disclosed personal information for a business purpose/has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Right to Know and Data Portability
The CCPA provides consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
* sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; andetion Request Rights_
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at privacy@tripscout.co or completing a form at: https://tripscout1.typeform.com/to/ktutHrOr
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights
WE DO NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We do not sell the personal information of any consumer, including those we actually know are less than 16 years old.
Non-Discrimination; Notice of Financial Incentive
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
Deny you goods or services.
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
Other California Privacy Rights
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents who provide us with personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, one time per calendar year, information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.
If you are a California resident and you have questions about our practices with respect to sharing information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes and your ability to exercise choice, please send your request to the following email address: privacy@tripscout.co or write to us at the following mailing address:
TripScout
3906 Cherrywood Lane
Annandale, VA 22003
You must put the statement "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject field of your e-mail or include it in your writing if you choose to write to us at the designated mailing address. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. We will respond to you at your mailing address or, at our option, your e-mail address. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.
YOUR RIGHTS AS A VISITOR FROM THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA) OR THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
If you are a European or UK resident, our legal basis for collecting and using your personal data or information is to do so with your consent; where we need the personal data or information for performance of a contract, or where the collection and use is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect the personal information in question.
Automated Decision-Making
We may use automated decision-making and profiling to serve you the most relevant content and recommendations, including to determine the pricing of hotels and other travel products.
If we engage in automated decision-making and profiling, we will implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including the right to speak to a representative so you can express your point of view, obtain an explanation of the decision and contest a decision we have made. Decisions we make through automated decision-making will not be based on any special categories of personal data
You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to our collection and use of your personal data and to exercise the following rights. If we are the data controller, you can contact us to exercise these rights. If we are the data processor, you must contact the controller to exercise these rights:
To withdraw consent or exercise these rights, please contact TripScout’s Privacy Officer or adjust your preferences through contacting privacy@tripscout.co
Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
If we ask you to provide personal data to us to comply with a legal requirement or enter into a contract, we will inform you of this and let you know whether providing us with your personal data is required and if not, the consequences of not sharing your personal data with us.
Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our or a third party's legitimate interests and those interests are not already listed above (see "Information Use" section), we will let you know what those legitimate interests are.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, requests or concerns about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you may contact our TripScout’s Privacy Officer at: privacy@tripscout.co
REVISIONS TO THIS STATEMENT
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the Services. If we change the Privacy Statement in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.
PREVIOUS PRIVACY STATEMENT
EFFECTIVE UNTIL FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Welcome to our website. This Privacy Statement describes the types of information that TripScout ("we" or "us") collects from and about you on www.tripscout.co and the Trip Scout mobile application (the "Site").
The Site provides information about our company and our products and services. This Privacy Statement is for informational purposes only and describes how we generally collect and use information. When you interact with us through the Site, we may collect information from you, as further described below.
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Statement sets forth our policy with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of information that is collected on our Site. By using the Site, you agree to the data collection, use, disclosure and storage practices described in this Privacy Statement.This Privacy Statement also explains how we may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it. By using this site, you agree to the data collection, use, disclosure and storage practices described in this Privacy Statement.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information, when you choose to provide it to us. Personal information (or personal data) means information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include personal information where the identity has been removed (anonymous personal information). This may include when you purchase a product, contact us with inquiries or otherwise contact us.
We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
In some countries, including in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK), this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws:
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information from you when you choose to provide it to us. This may include when you purchase a product, create an account with us, sign up for our email lists, use our Services, submit a rating or review, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us.
The information we collect may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, geolocation information, photos or videos, user name, purchase history, credit/debit card number or other financial information and billing address. You may be required to provide certain authentication and credential information to create your account, including a username and password.
If you use a third party service to login, link to us, or communicate with us (such as a social network or third party video chat), we may receive certain information about you from the third party based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services.
Information Collected From Other Sources
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including social networks that you use to connect with Us. If you use a third party service to login, link to us, or communicate with us (such as a social network or third party video chat), we may receive certain information about you from the third party based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services. This information may include name, user name, demographic information, updated address or contact information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media and online activity.
Information Obtained from Third Parties
If you provide us with personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us, for example, if you have agreed to share information with one of our partners, we may add this information to the information we already hold about you.
INFORMATION USE
We may use the information we collect from and about you to:
As described to you at the point of data collection or in our Agreement with our Customer.
Combination of Information
We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us and information we automatically collect through our Services, Apps, as well as information collected offline or from third party sources to help us tailor our communications to you and to improve our Services.
INFORMATION SHARING
We may share the information we collect from and about you with selected third parties, that we believe may provide promotional materials, and goods and services that may be of interest to you:
as described to you at the point of collection.
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information
We may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal information provided through the Services in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement.
We also may share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
If you do not want us to share your personal information as set forth in this Privacy Statement, contact us at info@tripscout.co.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
Information We Automatically Collect and Cookie Policy
We may use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or other technologies to automatically collect certain information when you use our Services or interact with our emails and online or mobile advertisements. For example, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information from you such as your mobile device identifier or MAC address, browser type, operating system, device model, software version, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, mobile or ISP carrier information, and the domain name from which you accessed the Services. We also may collect information about your use of the Services including the date and time you access the Services, the areas or pages of the Services that you visit, the amount of time you spend using the Services, the number of times you return, whether you open forward or click-through emails and ads, and other usage data so that we can understand the statistical use trends of our website in order to make improvements. This information is stored and used without any personal information attached to it. We capture the following information:
Referral Internet address – of the website from which you clicked to get to our website
Search terms – used in a search engine (like google.com) that brought you to our website.
We may also use third-party tools or services, including from our service providers, to assist us with analyzing and improving the Site and Services. When service providers receive this information, they are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help use conduct and improve our business.
Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
You may adjust your browser or operating system settings to limit this tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Services or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the "Help" menu of your browser or operating system to learn how to adjust your tracking settings or cookie preferences.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. To learn more about how cookies or other technologies are used to deliver more relevant advertising or to opt out of receiving targeted ads please click here. On your mobile device, you can adjust your privacy and advertising settings to limit your tracking for advertising or control whether you receive more relevant advertising. Note that our systems may not recognize. Do Not Track headers or requests from some or all browsers.
• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to info@tripscout.co.
• Promotional Offers from the Us. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all promotional messages. You may also send a request to info@tripscout.co.
• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing us at info@tripscout.co. For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept all browser cookies.
THIRD PARTIES
We may contract with third parties to perform functions related to the Services ("Service Providers"). Service Providers will have access to your personal information needed to perform their business functions, but may not use or share that personal information for other purposes. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. Below is a representative list of our Service Providers.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Any information you may disclose in ratings or review, on message boards, in chat rooms or on other public areas of the Services, becomes public information and may be subject to the terms of use of other Services or platforms. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
LINKS TO OTHER WEB SERVICES
The Services may have links to third-party Services or applications, including payment processors or video platforms which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the practices of such Services or applications.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Protecting children's privacy is important to us. We do not direct the Services to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of thirteen.
DATA SECURITY
We have taken certain physical, administrative, and technical steps to safeguard the information we collect from and about our customers and Services visitors and users. While we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures.
DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION
Your personal information is stored on servers in the United States. You understand and agree that TripScout may collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process the information you provide as described in this Privacy Statement even if you are from an area outside the United States. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the United States. We will retain your personal information for as long as it is needed to provide you with the Services, or to fulfill any legal or contractual obligations we may have.
If you are a resident of the EEA or UK: Your personal information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which has data protection laws that are different than those in your country and may not be as protective. For more information on where and how long your personal data is stored, and for more information on your rights of erasure and portability, please contact TripScout's Privacy Officer at info@tripscout.co .
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have an account on our Services, you may sign in to your account and update your personal information contained in the account.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS – YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This Privacy Notice for California Residents applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice. Our Site collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household ("Personal Information") Personal information does not include:
publicly available information from government records.
deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
Notice of Collection of Information.
In particular, our Website has/we have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity,gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, geneticinformation (including familial genetic information). | NO |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | NO |
| E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier oridentifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
| G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | YES |
| H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
| I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
| J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by aneducational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO |
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TripScout obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website.
Use of Personal Information
WE DO NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. We share your personal information with Service Providers and with third party advertisers, analytics, and content providers
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not disclosed personal information for a business purpose.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at info@tripscout.co.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Notice of the Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information
WE DO NOT SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
Non-Discrimination; Notice of Financial Incentive
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
Deny you goods or services.
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
Other California Privacy Rights
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents who provide us with personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us, one time per calendar year, information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses.
If you are a California resident and you have questions about our practices with respect to sharing information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes and your ability to exercise choice, please send your request to the following email address: info@tripscout.co or write to us at the following mailing address:
TripScout
2151 W Evergreen Ave Apt. 302 Chicago, IL 60622
You must put the statement "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject field of your e-mail or include it in your writing if you choose to write to us at the designated mailing address. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. We will respond to you at your mailing address or, at our option, your e-mail address. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or do not have complete information.
If you are a European or UK resident, our legal basis for collecting and using your personal data or information is to do so with your consent; where we need the personal data or information for performance of a contract, or where the collection and use is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect the personal information in question.
Automated Decision-Making
We may use automated decision-making and profiling to serve you the most relevant content and recommendations.
If we engage in automated decision-making and profiling, we will implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, including the right to speak to a representative so you can express your point of view, obtain an explanation of the decision and contest a decision we have made. Decisions we make through automated decision-making will not be based on any special categories of personal data
You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to our collection and use of your personal data and to exercise the following rights. If we are the data controller, you can contact us to exercise these rights. If we are the data processor, you must contact the controller to exercise these rights:
Update your personal data or information.
To withdraw consent or exercise these rights, please contact TripScout's Privacy Officer or adjust your preferences throughcontacting info@tripscout.co
Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
If we ask you to provide personal data to us to comply with a legal requirement or enter into a contract, we will inform you of this and let you know whether providing us with your personal data is required and if not, the consequences of not sharing your personal data with us.
Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our or a third party's legitimate interests and those interests are not already listed above (see "Information Use" section), we will let you know what those legitimate interests are.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, requests or concerns about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you may contact our TripScout's Privacy Officer at: info@tripscout.co.
REVISIONS TO THIS STATEMENT
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the Services. If we change the Privacy Statement in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.
Website Terms of Use
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.
These terms of use are entered into by and between You and Trip Scout ("TripScout," "we," or "us"). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively, these "Terms of Use"), govern your access to and use of all websites owned or operated by TripScout including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through info@tripscout.co or our other websites (the "Sites"), whether as a guest or a registered user.
By using this Sites, you signify your acceptance of these terms and conditions of use ("Terms of Use"), and the Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to all of these Terms of Use, and the Privacy Statement, do not use this Sites.
TripScout may revise these Terms of Use at any time. Your continued usage of this Sites will mean you accept those changes, and you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations. The materials provided on this Sites are protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States copyright laws and international treaties.
Geographic Restrictions
We make no claims that the Sites or any of its content is accessible, downloadable or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Sites from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.
Use Restrictions
The content on this Sites, such as text, graphics, images, photographs, illustrations, trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, information obtained from TripScout's licensors, and other materials (the "Content") is protected by copyright under both United States and foreign laws. Title to the Content remains with TripScout. Any use of the Content not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. Except as stated herein, none of the Content may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of TripScout or its licensors.
TripScout authorizes you to view and download and print a single copy of the Content solely for your own lawful, personal, non-commercial use. You may not modify, edit, create derivative works from Text-Based Content or reprinted materials nor are you permitted to use such Content for commercial purposes without TripScout's prior written consent. Any such download or use of the Content shall include the following copyright notice: "Copyright©2021, TripScout. All rights reserved" and retain other copyright and proprietary rights notices which were contained in the Content. Except as expressly authorized in this paragraph, non-text based Content may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of TripScout and/or its licensors, as applicable, regardless of the intended use. Non-text based Content may not be modified in any way.
Any special rules for the use of other items provided on the Sites may be included elsewhere within the Sites and are incorporated into these Terms of Use by reference. The use of the Content on any other site or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to TripScout and its licensors. If you violate any of these Terms of Use, your permission to use the Content automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of any portion of the Content.
You may not, without TripScout' written permission, "mirror" any Content contained in this Sites or any other server. You may not use the Sites for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. You may not use the Sites in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Sites, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Sites. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Sites through hacking, password mining or any other means. TripScout reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Sites, or any portion thereof, at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, without prior notice or any notice.
User Submissions
The personal information you submit to TripScout is governed by the TripScout Privacy Statement. To the extent there is an inconsistency between the Terms of Use and the Privacy Statement, the Privacy Statement shall govern.
Except as provided under a specific submission practice described on the Sites or in other TripScout materials made available to you, TripScout does not claim ownership of any information or material a user provides to TripScout or posts, uploads, inputs, submits, or transmits to this Sites ("Submission"). If you provide a Submission to TripScout pursuant to specific guidelines or practices identified by TripScout, such as for submitting a proposal, submitting content for a TripScout publication, or submitting a photograph, such Submission shall also be governed by the applicable guidelines or practices
You agree that you will not make any Submission that is, in whole or in part, libelous; scandalous; inflammatory; discriminatory; defamatory; false; threatening; vulgar; obscene; pornographic; profane; abusive; harassing; invasive of another's privacy; hateful or bashing; aimed at gender, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin, religious views, or disability; in violation of local, state, national, or international law; or that infringes on, or violates, any right of any party. Additionally, you agree that you will not: (a) make any Submission that is an advertisement or solicitation of business; (b) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or make a Submission unrelated to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free-form); (c) post a chain letter or pyramid scheme; impersonate another person; (d) distribute viruses or other harmful computer code; (e) harvest or otherwise collects information about others, including email addresses, without their consent; (f) post the same note more than once or "spamming"; (g) engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Sites, or which, in the judgment of TripScout, exposes TripScout or any of its licensors, partners, or customers to any liability or detriment of any type; or (h) post partisan political statements aimed at influencing legislation or supporting or opposing candidates for public office, or in a manner that otherwise violates the law. All Submissions reflect the views of such individual that provided such Submission and do not necessarily reflect the views of TripScout.
Except as provided under a specific submission practice described on the Sites or in other TripScout materials made available to you, by making a Submission, you agree that such Submission is non-confidential, non-proprietary, and may be disseminated or used by TripScout. If you make a Submission, you automatically grant—or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted—TripScout a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the Submission in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TripScout is not required to use any Submission.
You are solely responsible for your Submission, the consequences of making a Submission, and your reliance on any Submissions. TripScout is not responsible for the consequences of any Submission. TripScout is not responsible for screening or monitoring Submissions made to this Sites by users. If notified by a user of a Submission allegedly in violation of these Terms of Use, TripScout may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and its sole discretion whether to remove such Submission. TripScout will have no liability or responsibility to users for performance or nonperformance of such activities.
TripScout reserves the right (but is not obligated) to: (a) record the dialogue on the Sites; (b) investigate an allegation that a Submission does not comply with these Terms of Use and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the Submission; (c) remove Submissions which are abusive, illegal, disruptive, or outdated, or that otherwise fail to comply with these Terms of Use; (d) terminate a user's access to any or all parts of the Sites upon any breach of these Terms of Use or the law; (e) monitor, edit, or disclose any Submission; (f) edit or delete any Submission posted on the Sites, regardless of whether such Submission violates these Terms of Use.
Promotions
Any and all offers or promotions advertised on this Sites are void where prohibited, and are subject to the posting of any official rules to such offers or promotions.
Storage of Content
You agree that TripScout may establish, in its sole discretion and without prior notice to you, a maximum amount of storage space for Content stored or transmitted through the Sites. You agree that TripScout has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of or failure to store any messages, communications, or other Content stored or transmitted through the Sites.
Reliance on Information Posted
The information presented on or through the Sites is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
The Sites may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators, and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.
THE INFORMATION, MATERIALS AND CONTENT ON THE SITE ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND RESEARCH PURPOSES. YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS SUBJECT TO THE ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMERS THAT MAY APPEAR THROUGHOUT THE SITE. TRIPSCOUT AND ITS LICENSORS AND AGENTS ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES RELATING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO ANY ACTION OR INACTION YOU TAKE BASED ON THE CONTENT.
Liability of TripScout and Its Licensors and Partners
The use of the Sites or the Content is at your own risk. The Content in this Sites could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. TripScout may make changes or improvements at any time.
THE CONTENT IN THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, TRIPSCOUT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TRIPSCOUT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE CONTENT WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TRIPSCOUT DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE CONTENT IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. YOU (AND NOT TRIPSCOUT) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
TRIPSCOUT ASSUMES NO LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR REVENUE OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM ANY ACT OR OMISSION BY TRIPSCOUT ITS AGENTS, AFFILIATES, JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, OR UNAFFILIATED THIRD PARTIES AS A RESULT OF ANY ACT OR OMISSION IN FULFILLMENT OF OR IN BREACH OF THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE PRIVACY STATEMENT.
Your Account
If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to this Website or portions of it using your user name, password, or other security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.
We have the right to disable any user name, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use. TripScout reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in its sole discretion.
* Contact with Third Parties and Third Party Sites
Your interactions with a third party on the Sites, or based on such third party's participation or presence on the Sites, are solely between you and the third party. You agree that TripScout shall have no liability with respect to any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of any dealings between you and any third party, or as a result of the presence of such third party on the Sites.
The Sites may include links to third party websites or resources over which TripScout has no control. These links are provided solely as a convenience to users and should not be construed as an endorsement by TripScout of content on those third party websites or resources. Your access and use of such websites or resources is solely at your own risk. TripScout makes no representations or warranties with respect to the content, ownership, or legality of any such linked third party website.
Linking to the Sites and Social Media Features
You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part.
This Sites may provide certain social media features that enable you to:
Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Sites.
Send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this Sites.
Cause limited portions of content on this Sites to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.
You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features Subject to the foregoing, you must not:
Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Cause the Sites or portions of it to be displayed on, or appear to be displayed by, any other site, for example, framing, deep linking, or in-line linking.
Link to any part of the Sites other than the homepage.
Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this Sites that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Use.
You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.
Trademarks
The TripScout name, logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks and intellectual property of TripScout or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of TripScout. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on this Sites are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold TripScout, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and partners, harmless from and against any claims, actions, or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the Sites or Content, or your violation of these Terms of Use.
Modification or Suspension of the Sites
You agree that TripScout may, in its sole discretion and at any time, modify, discontinue, or suspend its operation of the Sites, any part thereof or any Contents, temporarily or permanently, without notice or liability to you.
Applicable Laws
These Terms of Use are governed in accordance with the laws of the Delaware, United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and TripScout hereby expressly consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of a local or federal court of competent jurisdiction in the District of Columbia for the adjudication or disposition of any claim, action or dispute arising out of these Terms of Use. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of these Terms of Use for any reason whatsoever: Liability of TripScout and its Licensors and Partners, Use Restrictions, User Submissions, Submission of Ideas, Indemnity, Applicable Laws, and Complete Agreement.
Notice and Take Down Procedures
If you believe any Submission accessible on or from the Sites infringes your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from this Sites by contacting TripScout (address identified below) and providing the following information:
Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized version of the work.
Identification of the Submission that you believe to be infringing and its location. Please describe the Submission, and provide us with its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the Submission.
Your name, address, telephone number, and (if available) email address.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the complained of use of the work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that "under penalty of perjury," you are the copyright owner or authorized representative.
A signature or the electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative.
Our address for copyright issues relating to this website is as follows:
TripScout
2151 W Evergreen Ave Apt. 302 Chicago, IL 60622
In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, TripScout maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users of this Sites who are repeat infringers.
Complete Agreement
Except as expressly provided in a particular notice or disclaimer posted by or on behalf of TripScout on this Sites, these Terms of Use, including TripScout Privacy Statement, constitute the entire agreement between you and TripScout with respect to the use of the Sites and Content.)