Privacy Policy | Holicay
Privacy Policy
How we deal with your data
This privacy policy pertains to the collection of personal data by Holicay Private Limited. Holicay Private Limited, Holicay Pte. Ltd. or Holicay ("us", "we", or "our") operates the https://www.holicay.com website (the "Service"). This declaration informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. The controllers of your personal data in the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Holicay Pte Ltd with whom you have a business relationship or whose products/services you are using.
By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use, accessible from https://www.holicay.com.
This Privacy Policy explains about:
A. What kinds of data do we collect?
Holicay collects the following data:
1. Website visitor information and browsing patterns
2. Data provided voluntarily by you / user accounts
When you use our service site to book a product, we may need the provision of the following data from you which includes:
3. Newsletter and marketing emails
You can also “unsubscribe” from our newsletter by clicking on the link included in any of our newsletter and marketing emails.
When you have successfully unsubscribed from our mailing list, we will delete your contact information unless the information remains is stored for other reasons described in our privacy policy in this page.
4. Cookies and similar technology
Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your computer or mobile device which allows re-identification of your computer or mobile device, potentially across numerous websites, including the Service Sites for the following purposes:
- To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our website. We also automatically log you in if you check the ”remember me” option on the login page
- To help us customize the content and advertisements shown to you on our website or on third party sites and advertisements
- To help us measure the effectiveness of the features and offerings, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon) shown to you on our service site.
- To save and load your preferred currency and language while on our service sites
- To allow for website analysis, retargeting and conversion tracking
- To allow revisits in between different pages and to remember popular recent search queries
In the event where you are redirected to another website for other services from our service site, the storage of cookies on those websites are not tracked by us. We have no control over cookies from other third-party sites.
5. Targeted advertisements based on your interests
6. Conversion tracking using analytics tools
Similarly, our ad partners use cookies that cannot be used to personally identify you but can do the following:
- Identify your clicks on an ad
- Redirection of your browser to specific landing pages
As such, our advertising partners can show the number of users that clicked on ads that we create and eventually determine the number of people redirected to various pages. In the entire advertising process, we will not collect any personal data of consumers and can only obtain statistical data which are general and non-identifying.
7. Web analytics and statistics / Facebook Pixel and Google analytics
Google is subjected to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
8. Google user data
- Your Google Calendar information and events
- Permission to create, edit, and manage calendar events in your Google Calendar
- Basic Google account information (email address and name) for authentication purposes
We use your Google user data exclusively for the following purposes:
- To create calendar events in your Google Calendar based on your trip itinerary created in Holicay
- To help you better organize and manage your travel plans by syncing them with your personal calendar
- To verify your identity when connecting to Google Calendar services
- To maintain the connection between your Holicay trip plans and your Google Calendar
We do not use your Google user data for any other purposes, including advertising, marketing to third parties, or any activities unrelated to the calendar synchronization feature.
We implement the following security measures to protect your Google user data:
- All data transmitted between Holicay and Google services is encrypted using industry-standard HTTPS/TLS protocols
- Google authentication tokens are securely stored and encrypted
- Only authorized personnel have access to systems handling Google user data
Retention Policy:
- Google authentication tokens are retained only as long as you maintain an active connection between Holicay and your Google Calendar
- Calendar event data is not stored on our servers after synchronization is complete
Data Deletion:
- You can revoke Google Calendar access at any time through your Google Account settings under “Apps with account access”
- If you delete your Google Calendar account, we will delete all Google user data associated with your account
Our use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
9. Data breaches
C. Purposes and legal basis of data processing
1. Purposes and legal basis of data processing
a) Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR to enter into, perform, modify or terminate a contractual relationship with you, in particular:
- To enable your access and use of the Service Sites
- To facilitate your search queries and bookings
- To indicate dates that you wish to travel
- The days and dates you will spend in different places for your booking
- To personalise the ticket or booking that you have made and to deliver them to you
- To facilitate your account login on the Service Sites by remembering your user login details
b) Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR or corporate interest:
- To improve the Service Sites and our other services and to improve services offered
- To perform internal upgrades and quality control
- To ensure network and information security
- To create statistics about the on the Service Sites and App
- For internal accounting and invoicing purposes
- To personalize the Service Sites and our offers
- To show promotions that would interest you on our platforms
- To collect information on marketing material and strategy
- For partnerships with other companies and/ or affiliates Accounting and record keeping
c) Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR based on your consent if you sign up for the following services:
- To send you newsletter emails or other marketing push messages based on your interest (see above)
- To transfer data for certain bookings to our partner Distribution and to transfer Facebook Data (see above)
d) Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR based on your explicit consent for Google Services integration:
- To access your Google Calendar for trip synchronization purposes
- To create, edit, and manage calendar events based on your Holicay trip itineraries
- To maintain the connection between your Holicay account and Google Calendar services
- To provide ongoing synchronization between your trip plans and calendar events