Privacy Notice
We Take Your Privacy Seriously
Gant Travel takes the protection and proper use of your business information seriously. We respect your privacy, and take great care to safeguard information in our possession.
This privacy notice applies to www.ganttravel.com (“Site” or “web site”) owned and operated by Gant Travel, LTD (“Gant Travel”). This privacy notice describes how Gant Travel collects and uses the personal information you provide offline and on our web site. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
Gant Travel complies with the U.S.–E.U. and U.S.–GDPR Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data from European Union member countries. Gant Travel has certified that it adheres to the GDPR of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the GDPR program, please visit https://www.eugdpr.org/.
If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with GDPR you should contact us at our contact information at the end of this notice. For human resources data we have agreed to cooperate with Data Protection Authorities.
Information Collection and Use
Gant Travel collects the following personal information from you:
- • Name, Email Address, Mobile Phone
- • Information required by the TSA to secure travel arrangements o DOB
- o Gender
- o Passport Information, if applicable
- o Known Traveler Number, if applicable
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- • Credit Card information
We use this information to:
- • Book travel on your behalf
- • Send you itineraries and/or alerts specific to travel booked through our agents and tools
- • Send you requested product or service information
- • Send you a newsletter
All Personally Identifying Information (PII) is held in the strictest confidence and in encrypted in all areas of storage. Only those with an absolute business purpose may have access to PII and that access is monitored on a transaction-by-transaction basis. Secure log-ins, real-time agent monitoring, and system alerts are all part of how Gant Travel maintains PII security and access for only requested business purposes.
Information Sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy notice. We do not sell your personal information to third parties, period.
Gant Travel does not share your personal information unless it is necessary in order to provide you with requested products or services, or in the instance we are legally required to do so, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
If Gant Travel is 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 provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Gant Travel will restrict access to your information strictly to those individuals who need it to provide you with our contracted services. Any third-party companies we must use to provide you with services are required to keep your information secure and confidential as well.
User Access and Choice
If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove, or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at [email protected]. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page or you can contact us at [email protected].
We partner with a third-party to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union, click here). Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and LinkedIn, and Widgets or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These Features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing it.
Tracking Technologies
We use technologies such as beacons, cookies, scripts and tags, as well as our partners [specify type, e.g., marketing partners], affiliates or analytics or service providers such as shipping companies, or customer service. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking users’ movements around the site, and gathering demographic information about our user base, as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. We use session cookies to anonymously track which pages are visited in our website within a session, and to temporarily remember user choices with 3rd-party tools like FlightStats. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We use persistent cookies to control which content the user is shown in rss feeds, and for anonymous usage analytics. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. To learn more about cookies, visit http://webcookies.info or http://www.aboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics on *all* websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, service providers is not covered by our privacy notice. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, service providers use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site.
Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
Analytics / Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personal information.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at [email protected].
Links to 3rd Party Sites
Our site includes links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Gant Travel. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy notice. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy notice of any web site you visit.
Blog
Our web site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at [email protected]. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Changes to this Notice
We may update this privacy notice to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Contact Us
Gant Travel is happy to answer any specific questions you have concerning our privacy notices and the handling of your data. For more information, send us an email or contact us below.
Gant Travel 400 West 7th Street, Suite 233 Bloomington IN 47404 [email protected]
Gant Travel privacy notice last updated 01 September 2020
