Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://stylishdmc.com.
Effective: January 15, 2024
Stylish DMC LLC, owns and operates a service that enables users to research, find, and book travel experiences worldwide. In this Statement, these are collectively referred to as our “Services”.
The data that you and others entrust to us improves our capacity to deliver Services that are more pertinent, individualized, and beneficial. We are aware that trust is the foundation for you disclosing personal information to us. We value your trust and are dedicated to giving you useful information, goods, and services that are carefully chosen and presented based on the data you have entrusted to us. We are also dedicated to protecting your privacy when you visit our website or use our services, and we take great pride in being open and honest about how we utilize the information you entrust to us. In fact, this may even be more important. Please carefully read this privacy and cookies statement (the “Statement”) to understand our policies on privacy.
This Statement explains—hopefully in a comprehensible and transparent manner—how we collect, utilize, and process your information. It tells you of your rights, how to use them, and how to get in touch with us. Please carefully read this Statement to understand our information and privacy practices. You affirm that you have read this Statement by accessing our website and mobile application on a computer, phone, tablet, or other comparable device (collectively, “Device”).
We provide our services to users in several nations and regions with varying legal frameworks and cultural norms. Our privacy practices are outlined in general terms in this Statement. Furthermore, parts 12 and 13 of of this Statement provide specific relevant information to users residing in certain regions or countries.
- Gathered and processed information
In order to deliver the Services in a more relevant and personalized manner, we gather and process information from and about you when you access or use our services. Certain information is gathered passively, such as through cookies, our servers, or other comparable tracking methods. Certain information is gathered by us from many sources, such as you, connected companies, business associates, and other unaffiliated third parties. Third-party websites may share information with us about your use of their services when you visit them via our Services or when you “click-through” from one of their websites to another. We may combine any information we obtain from websites owned by third parties with the data you have given us. Information gathered could consist of the following:
- Contact details, such as name, email address, and postal and phone numbers (both hashed and unhashed)
- Billing and additional payment details (such as your billing address, credit card number, credit cardholder name, expiration date, and authentication code)
- Password and username; • Documentation to support travel and planning, including identity verification documents, if you wish to give it to us
- Device information, such as when you accessed our Services and details about the Device used (e.g., IP address, software or internet browser used, preferred languages, unique Device identifiers and advertising identifiers); • Photos, reviews, social posts, and videos that you may have provided to us; • Geolocation information
The information you have evaluated, the pages you have visited, and the apps you have reviewed online - Information about your travel and experience choices and plans; • Purchase and booking history; • Communications with our customer service staff, including inbound and outbound calls
Data that you have given to unaffiliated businesses in order to access social media accounts. This contains details like name, age range, and email addresses that are accessible to the general public.
In cases where you have given it to us, we may also gather personal data about other passengers, such as their email address and other details pertaining to their trip. You must get the agreement of everyone you provide information about, and make sure they understand and agree to the use of their personal information by us (as outlined in this Statement).
Apart from the categories mentioned earlier, we might additionally get specific location data if you have directed your device to transmit such data through its privacy settings or if you have uploaded images that have been geotagged.
2. Utilization and Goals of Information
When you use our services, we aim to give you relevant material and a customized experience as much as possible. To that end, we utilize information about you in the following ways, among others:
Registrations, Enrollment and further agreements
- Create an account and maintain it, enabling you to utilize our services.
- Help you make your reservations Handle credits or payments Make you promotional offers, such as contests, discounts, cash back, gift cards, and prizes.
Enhance Our Offerings and Services
- Use your data so we can analyze it and make improvements to our services.
- Give you a customized or optimal experience by classifying individuals according to their usage, interests, and demographics, among other factors.
•Invite you to participate in surveys or market research
Personalization and Tailoring
- Notify you of any promotions, giveaways, contests, or services that we, our affiliates, or our partners may offer that might be of interest to you.Customize your experience, for example, by assuming some things about your tastes and areas of interest on your behavior and personalize the advertisements that appear to you on and off our website.
Interaction
- Get in touch with you or help get in touch with you, our partners, and/or affiliates
- Manage, track, and record any conversations you have with us, such as those with our sales or customer service representatives; we may also use pixels and related technologies to track your interactions with our emails, including whether you open them and click on any links.
- Store your stuff, including images, videos, ratings, and reviews.
- Personalize your experience, including the advertisements you see both on and off our website;
- Attend to your inquiries and feedback.
Legal & Law Adherence
- Handle conflicts or address issues
Preventing fraud and other potentially illegal or prohibited activities; adhering to applicable laws; protecting our rights and the rights of other users and third parties; averting harm; and providing payment services, including identifying and stopping money laundering, fraud, and security incidents; adhering to legal requirements; and enforcing payment terms of service
Please be aware that we will take the necessary precautions to protect your rights and freedoms, including the right to human intervention, if we process your personal information using automated decision-making.
3. Information Exchange
Under the following situations, we might need to share information with our group of companies and/or some other third parties in order to deliver some of our services:
- Our Corporate Family – We exchange information with businesses inside our corporate family so that we can tell you about goods and services that may be of interest to you, not just travel-related ones. We can also learn more about how you use the websites, applications, and services of our group companies thanks to this sharing. These businesses and websites promise to abide by this declaration as well as any legal requirements that may apply to the sending of promotional messages.
- Gain knowledge from travelers and suppliers – Travelers’ personal information may be shared with experience providers so they can fulfill reservations made through our services. We may also provide travelers with personal information of experience suppliers, including, but not limited to, information on disputes that may exist between the two parties.
- Service Companies – We divulge information to specific service providers who assist us in providing our services, such as those that assist with transactions.
- Business Associates – With our reliable business partners, we might exchange information about you, your devices, and how you use our services. For instance, we might exchange data with our partners in order to process payments for services that you might see advertised on their websites. Usually, written agreements that incorporate secrecy govern this sharing. Kindly be aware that we have no control over these third-party business partners’ privacy policies.
- Social media platforms – The information you share will be subject to the privacy rules and privacy settings you have established with third-party social networking websites when you use our services and choose to share information with them.
- Networks for Advertising – Ad networks and data aggregators may receive information about your interests that we occasionally gather and distribute. A few of these businesses are members of Digital Advertising Alliance or the Network Advertising Initiative, which provide a single place for customers to opt out of receiving targeted ads from participating businesses. Please click here to find out more.
- Fraud Investigation Businesses – Other third parties, such as referring websites, may help us by offering their fraud detection tools.By running certain aspects of our website or enabling the transmission of online ads based on your interests, for instance, third parties may also help us gather information. We might provide hashed email addresses and other information, such as audience segments, to outside parties so they can use it to target you with ads. We might also receive content and contract generation, administration, and hosting tools from other third parties. Information may only be gathered or accessed by third parties as required to carry out their authorized duties. We have contractually required these third parties to act exclusively as our agents as so-called data processors, if and to the extent that they help us with our processing operations.
You may choose not to share some sorts of information, such as with specific advertising networks, depending on the operating system version of your device. You always have the option to disable your device’s location-sharing and data collection features by adjusting its privacy settings. If you would like to restrict such tracking, please check your device’s settings. Disabling location-sharing, however, might have an impact on certain of our functions. We advise you to get in touch with your cell provider or the device’s manufacturer if you have any concerns concerning the privacy settings on your device.
Additionally, if we determine in our sole discretion that such disclosure is required, we might share your information with:
- To establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; to comply with lawful and enforceable subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; or as otherwise mandated by law.
- We reserve the right to assert or waive any objection at law or other right we may have in such circumstances.
- In accordance with our Terms of Use and other agreements; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of Stylish DMC LLC, our customers, or others; or to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected criminal conduct.
- In the unlikely case of bankruptcy or in connection with a company transaction, such as a divestment, merger, consolidation, or asset sale.
Information Options
- Regarding how we process and utilize your information, you have choices. Through our website or app, you can access, modify, and even deactivate your account by going to the “Profile” section. Furthermore, you have the following options:
- Decide how we will get in touch with you.
- Decide not to give us specific information, even though it might be required to use certain of our website’s services.
- Stop some geolocation data from being collected (for example, by disabling location services for our app in your phone’s settings), though be aware that doing so can make some parts of our Services inoperable.
- You can easily deactivate your account from within your profile. For as long as it takes to accomplish the goals stated in this Statement, we may keep some information related to your account (including historical transactions) for internal uses such as backups, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, investigations, our own lawful business interests, and legal compliance.
- In the website’s Notifications area, you can change your marketing settings if you’re a registered user.
- In any email we give you, you have the option to unsubscribe from promotional messages, which include emails with travel-related offers.
- Data Regarding Children
Children are defined as: (i) those who are 13 years of age or younger, or the legal consent age in your jurisdiction; (ii) the age of legal competence to enter into a contract when processing data on that basis. These persons are not eligible to use our services.
We will only ever gather or use child information in extremely specific situations. If, for instance, the personal information is needed in order to complete a reservation for an activity, we may be compelled to gather children’s personal information as part of our service. Children’s personal information will only be gathered by us with permission from a parent or legal guardian. We will remove a child’s personal information from our records if we learn that it was handled without a parent or guardian’s legitimate consent. - Transfers of Information
We provide our services to clients throughout numerous legal jurisdictions. We will use and protect your information as outlined in this Statement and in compliance with relevant legislation if we transmit it to another country. - Data Protection
To help safeguard your information, we have put in place the proper administrative, technical, and physical security measures. Personnel that we specifically designate to have access to personal data may only do so for authorized business purposes. When sending your information between your system and ours, as well as between our system and the systems of the parties we share information with, we encrypt it. We also use intrusion detection systems and firewalls to assist stop illegal access to your data. We do not, however, guarantee that information will be secure from unapproved access or use, malfunctioning hardware or software, or other uncontrollable events.
8. Data Erasure and Preservation
Unless applicable law dictates a longer retention period, we will keep copies of your information for as long as you keep your account or as long as it’s needed for the purposes outlined in this statement. Furthermore, we may keep your information for as long as it takes to establish, utilize, or defend our legal rights.
Cookies
We strive to make it as simple, effective, and helpful as we can for you to utilize our services. We use cookies and related technologies to help us achieve this, as well as to strengthen website security, personalize your experience, and display relevant advertising.
Almost every website that you visit will automatically install cookies, which are little text files, on your device. They hold basic data about how you use the internet and are saved by your web browser. Every time you visit a website, your browser transmits the data from these cookies back to the website so that it can identify your device and enhance your experience by, for example, showing you personalized content. We also make use of other tracking technologies with comparable features, like server logs, SDKs, and pixels. In order to save you time when logging in to our services, we also utilize cookies and tracking technologies to store your login credentials and gather information about your preferences. We give you the ability to manage your cookie settings by giving you access to a Cookie Consent Tool. By selecting the “Cookie Consent” link located at the bottom of each page, you may visit the Cookie Consent Tool and adjust your cookie banner options. Additionally, you can control cookies by navigating to your browser’s settings. By changing and storing your options and clicking the “Cookie Consent” link, you have the ability to revoke your agreement to cookies at any time. Your Internet browser’s settings allow you to select which cookies to accept and reject.
You can choose not to receive advertising cookies from the majority of advertising networks. For helpful information on how to do this, see www.youronlinechoices.com and www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Certain parts of our Services may not perform as intended or you may only have limited access to them if you reject certain cookies. This Statement, to which our website has a link, governs how we use any data we get via cookies.
10. Modifications to the Statement
This Statement might be updated in the future. If we think there have been any changes, we will notify you by either sending you a letter regarding the changes, posting an updated Statement on the website, or posting a notice on the website
The date of this Statement’s most recent update will be shown at the top. We invite you to frequently review this Statement for the most recent details on our privacy practices and to check back from time to time to see the most recent version.
11. Make contact
Please go to our dedicated privacy portal by clicking here if you have any requests regarding data privacy, such as requests to access or delete your data. Please click here to contact our privacy team with any general queries you may have about data privacy or about our Privacy and Cookies Statement.
12. The UK and Europe
People who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), including those who are headquartered in the United Kingdom, are subject to the GDPR Statement. This GDPR Statement is a complement to our Statement; in the event that there is a discrepancy between the two, the GDPR Statement will take precedence with regard to individuals residing in the EEA. Please contact us at 1303 142nd PL NE in Bellevue, Washington, USA, if you have any questions.
Attention: Privacy Officer
In this regard, Stylish DMC LLC Limited’s only function is to serve as a point of contact for inquiries regarding data protection from citizens of Europe and supervisory agencies handling data protection. To be clear, Stylish DMC LLC Limited is not authorized to handle any more correspondence or legal actions on behalf of Stylish DMC LLC.
Your GDPR rights
About your personal data, you have specific rights. The following are some of your rights regarding your own personal information:
- The ability to ask to have your personal data accessed. This gives you access to a copy of the personal data we have on file about you.
- The ability to ask that any erroneous personal information about you be corrected. If we have any incomplete personal data, you can add it to it while keeping in mind the processing’s objectives.
- The right to request that your personal data be deleted if: o it is no longer required for the purposes for which we processed or obtained it; or
- If the processing of your personal information is based on consent and there is no other legal basis for it, you may withdraw your consent; if you object to the processing of your personal information and there is no overriding legitimate reason for it; if your personal information is processed unlawfully; or if your personal information needs to be deleted in order to comply with a legal requirement.
- The ability to object to how your personal data is processed. Unless we have a strong overriding legitimate interest in processing your personal information or unless we need to process your personal information in order to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim, we will abide by your request.
- The right to request that the processing of your personal information be restricted if any of the following situations apply: o You contest the accuracy of the personal data, for the period that we must verify the accuracy of the data; o The processing is unlawful and you oppose the deletion of your personal data and request restriction; o We no longer need your personal data for processing purposes, but you require it for legal claims; o You have objected to the processing, for the period that we must verify overriding legitimate grounds.
- The freedom to move data around. If possible, you have the option to request that we transfer this personal data to a third party. You may only exercise this right in relation to personally identifiable information that you have given us, when processing is carried out automatically and is required to fulfill a contract between you and us.It is also within your rights to file a complaint with your country’s data protection regulator.
Usually, there is no cost associated with accessing your personal data or utilizing any of the other rights outlined in this Statement. But if your request is obviously excessive, recurrent, or unwarranted, we may charge a reasonable price. - To verify your identity and protect your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any other rights), we might need to ask for certain information from you. If you ask someone else to submit a data request on your behalf, we might have to make a reasonable effort to confirm the request’s legitimacy. These security precautions make sure that no one who isn’t supposed to know gets access to personal information. We might also get in touch with you to get more details about your request so that we can respond to it more quickly.
- Several of your rights are available for you to use in the personal information section of your account. By clicking this link, you can submit a request to exercise your additional rights.
Information Uses and Legal Foundation
- Your personal information will only be used in ways that are authorized by you or the law.
- We will use your personal information in one or more of the following ways in accordance with GDPR:
Uses of information:
- Registration and other contracts: o In situations where we must carry out the agreement we have or will soon enter into with you.
- Enhance personalization and our services:
- o When it serves our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests to deliver or improve Services, including our interest in offering you customized and enhanced Services, and when such interests do not conflict with your basic rights and interests.
- Communication: o If you are a registered user, the data uses may need to know in order to fulfill their contractual obligations to you.
o When communicating with you is required for our legitimate purposes (or the interests of a third party), and your rights and interests do not conflict with those interests.
o We shall obtain your prior consent whenever we require it for the use of your information.