Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the https://www.bestcruises.com/ Web site and explains the types of information we collect from you and how we use the collected information. Best Cruises & Tours® reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy and such changes will become effective when posted at https://www.bestcruises.com/privacy-policy/. Therefore, it is recommended that you check this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. Your continued access and use of https://www.bestcruises.com/ acknowledges that you understand this Privacy Policy and accept its terms and conditions. If you do not agree with the Privacy Policy, please do not access and use this Web Site.
Types of Information Collected
Best Cruises & Tours® does not collect any personal information about you such as your name, mailing, or e-mail address except when such information is voluntarily provided by you to https://www.bestcruises.com/ through this Web site. Whether you provide any information is entirely up to you.
The types of data collected will include IP addresses, cookie identifiers, website activity and in the cases where customer fills out a form, it will include all field information filled out by the customer.
Best Cruises & Tours® does collect non-personally identifiable aggregate information about visitors when pages on https://www.bestcruises.com/ are requested through a Web browser. This information is used for analytical and statistical purposes and includes information such as a visitor’s host name, internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, date and time of the visit, the page from which the visitor accessed the current page, the request made by the visitor, volume, traffic pattern, and related site information. Best Cruises & Tours® may use this information to tailor your online experience on https://www.bestcruises.com/.
Cookies
Best Cruises & Tours® may utilize a standard technology called “cookies” to collect information about your use of https://www.bestcruises.com/. A “cookie” is a text file that is sent to a browser from a web site and stored on a computer’s hard disk. Cookies record information about a visitor to a web site, the pages that were visited by the visitor, the date of the visit, and any preferences that may have been set while the visitor was browsing the site. This information may be used by Best Cruises & Tours®, now or in the future, to control your access to certain features, customization of content, or to analyze your activity and behavior on https://www.bestcruises.com/. Cookies cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive nor obtain your e-mail address nor read cookies that were created by other web sites. The browser only allows the Web site that created the cookie the ability to access it.
When visitors come to our site, third parties may place cookies on visitors’ browsers for targeted advertising purposes. You may avoid that by utilizing ad blocker on your browser.
If you are concerned about the use of cookies, your Web browser’s options may be set to notify you when a cookie is saved to your computer or to disallow cookies. Prohibiting the use of cookies may restrict your access to certain types of content or features.
Use of Collected Information
Best Cruises & Tours® will use the information you provide on https://www.bestcruises.com/, for the purpose of Lead Generation; Best Cruises & Tours® will contact you via email or telephone, to inform you about Best Cruises & Tours® services.
Best Cruises & Tours® does not sell or rent personal information collected through https://www.bestcruises.com/ to anyone or share your individual profile with other third parties (unless requested to do so to comply with legal proceedings or law enforcement investigations). However, Best Cruises & Tours® does share your information in aggregate form only.
Links to Other Sites
Best Cruises & Tours® may contain links to the Web sites of our clients, partners, sponsors, or of other third parties. Best Cruises & Tours® is not responsible for the privacy practices of or any content on any of these third parties web sites. Best Cruises & Tours® encourages you to review the privacy policies, if any, of any visited web sites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by https://www.bestcruises.com/.
Security
Best Cruises & Tours® uses industry standard application security measures on https://www.bestcruises.com/, to help protect the storage of your personally identifiable information that is temporarily stored on our Web server. However, data transmission over the Internet is not secure. Best Cruises & Tours® cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us including information you transmit to us by e-mail.
Children
Best Cruises & Tours® does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. Children should always ask parents for permission before providing personal information to any Web site. Best Cruises & Tours® urges all parents to participate in their children’s exploration of the Internet and to teach them about safety and protecting their personal information on the Internet.
Communications; “Opt-In/Opt-Out” Elections
By filling out our forms on https://www.bestcruises.com/, you are “Opting In” to receive communication from Best Cruises & Tours® to inform you of our services, new information or events we think might be of interest to you. You will have the opportunity to “opt-out” of this communication in the future, by “unsubscribing” or “opting-out” when you receive future communication from Best Cruises & Tours®.
If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply STOP, QUIT, CANCEL, OPT-OUT, or UNSUBSCRIBE to any text messages sent from us.
SMS opt-in and Phone Numbers for the purpose of SMS will not be shared with third parties and affiliates for marketing purposes.
Change your Information
You may change your personally identifiable information at any time by contacting Best Cruises & Tours®.
Personal Data Request
You may request access to the Personal Information that Best Cruises & Tours® has collected about you during the previous 12 months, for a copy of Personal Information in a portable format, and that Best Cruises & Tours® delete Personal Information it has about you.
Depending on the nature of your request, we may contact you for further information if appropriate to verify your identity. Note, however, that Best Cruises & Tours® will never ask you for sensitive personal or financial information when verifying your identity.
Best Cruises & Tours® will not discriminate against anyone that makes a request to access, delete, or limit our use of Personal Information, but in some cases we will not be able to provide our Services to you without that information. You may make a request related to Personal Information about you by calling 1-800-576-2378 or emailing info@bestcruises.com.
More about the types of privacy rights requests you can make Access: You can request more information about Best Cruises & Tours®’ processing of your Personal Information during the previous 12 months. Your request can include:
- the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we collected from you,
- why we collected that information,
- when we collected that information, and/or
- the categories of third parties from which we received Personal Information about you.
Deletion: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Information from our systems.
Please be aware that your request to delete Personal Information may not cover all of the Personal Information in Best Cruises & Tours®’ possession. We will continue to retain Personal Information that we use to provide our Services to you, preserve the security and functionality of our Services, protect our legal rights, and internally for other legitimate business purposes that are consistent with the reason why you provided us with the Personal Information and reasonable expectations.
Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact us by clicking the Contact Us link at the bottom of the https://www.bestcruises.com/ Web pages.