Introduction

Welcome to Travel Insurance Explained’s privacy notice. Travel Insurance Explained is a trading brand name of Travel Insurance Facilities Plc (tifgroup), which is a UK acting branch for Union Reiseversicherung Ag (the Insurer).

 

tifgroup manages and administrates your data for the purpose of legitimate interests to determine the effectiveness of purchasing the correct and appropriate travel product to suit your specific needs. The purpose of the process is to promote customer awareness and reduce the number of unhappy customers at medical assistance and claims stage.

 

tifgroup is the controller and responsible for your personal data collectively referred to as tifgroup, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice.

 

tifgroup respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

 

This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.

 

  1. Important Information and who we are

 

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how tifgroup collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including sign up to our newsletter or take part in a competition.

 

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

 

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and it not intended to override them.

 

Controller

tifgroup is made up of different brands and Travel Insurance Explained is one of them. tifgroup will be the controller of your data and will do its utmost to protect the data provided by you. Please read the privacy policy to understand how your personal data is being processed. We will let you know how we use your data. tifgroup is the controller and responsible for this website.

 

Contact details:

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Travel Insurance Facilities PLC

Title: Data Protection Officer 

Email address: compliance@tifgroup.co.uk

Postal address: 1 Tower View, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4UY

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contract in the first instance.

 

Changes to the Privacy Notice and your duty to inform us of changes

This version was last updated on 21st May 2018 and historic are archived and can be obtained by contacting us.

 

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

 

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

 

  1. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

 

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

 

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Data includes billing address, postal address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

 

  1. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

 

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact by taking part of any competition or survey in. This includes personal data you provide when you:

 

  • Subscribe to our service or publications;
  • Enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • Give us some feedback.

 

  • Automated technologies or interactions.As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.

 

  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

 

  • Technical Data from the following parties:

 

  • Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.

 

  1. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

 

  • Where there is a legitimate interest. A winner of the competition who voluntarily entered into and won. tifgroup will need to obtain an email address or postal address to send the prize.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Click https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/lawful-basis-for-processing/ to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

 

Purpose for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate. On the basis we use your personal data under the grounds of Legitimate Interests we will compile and record a Legitimate Interest Assessment to protect your rights and freedoms.

 

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please Contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

 

Purpose Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To manage our relationship with you which will include:

(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

 (a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Marketing and Communications

 

  

(a)    Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

(b)    Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

 

 
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and Communications

 

 (a)     Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

 
 

To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

 (a) Identity

(b) Contact

(c) Technical

 

 (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

 
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (a) Technical

(b) Usage

 

 (a)    Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)

 

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We have established methods to provide you an option to make a decision whether you would like to receive marketing materials. If you would like us to stop sending certain or any marketing materials you may opt out by contacting us. This includes when you partake within our competition.

 

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use.

 

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

 

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

 

  1. Disclosures of your personal data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in set out in the table in paragraph 4 above.

 

  • If we need to share personal data in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (this includes providing personal data to others for the purposes of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk); or

 

 

  • From time to time, employ the services of other parties for dealing with certain processes necessary for the operation of the Website. However, all the information we share will be collected and anonymised, so neither you nor any of your devices can be identified from it.

 

 

  1. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

  1. Retention

How long will you use my personal data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

 

The Contact and Identity data will be deleted as soon as the purpose to send the prize to the winner is completed.

 

  1. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

 

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise these rights set out above, please contact us

 

  1. Glossary

Lawful Basis:

 

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by Contacting us

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.