Africa Big Beast Safari PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets out how Africa Big Beast Safari uses and protects any information that you give Africa Big Beast Safari when you use this website.

Africa Big Beast Safari is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used under this privacy statement.

Africa Big Beast Safari may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 16/05/2018.

TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT:

COMMENTS:

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

MEDIA:

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

CONTACT FORMS:

When filling out enquiry forms on the website, you will be prompted to fill in our specific details including: Name, Telephone Number, Email Address, and Nationality.

On submission, the email will be sent directly to our sales email address and nothing is stored on the website itself. Your IP address will also be stored for us to reduce spam and build a solution suitable for your enquiry. By filling out these forms you agree to have read our terms found in this privacy policy and accept that will store this information to respond to your enquiry.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES:

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

MAILING LIST:

As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.

We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email openings and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing us at info@africabigbeastsafari.com.

PROCESSING SERVER LOGS:

When using our website for informational purposes only, general data is initially stored automatically (i.e. not via registration) and transmitted to our server by your browser. By default, these include The browser type/version, the operating system used, the page accessed, the page previously visited (referrer URL), the IP address, the date and time of the server request and the HTTP status code.

THIRD PARTIES:

Africa Big Beast Safari use several third-party services in which the only data transferred is tracking data for Analytics and other tracking pixels. No personally identifiable data is transferred to these third-party companies.

Africa Big Beast Safari may collect, use or disclose your data through various agencies and booking partners to offer or book travel services on your behalf. This personal information enables us to provide you with trip information, book accommodation, process payments, and provide similar travel services where applicable.

PURPOSE OF THE DATA STORED

We know that reputations are hard to win and easy to lose. That’s why we set such importance on integrity, honesty and fairness throughout our organization. We listen to our customers and strive to meet their expectations. From the moment we help our customers to make the right choice about their travel experience to Tanzania, we say what we mean and mean what we say, communicating clearly throughout. Perhaps even more importantly, we ensure that we do what we say, delivering on our promises while carrying out our business by the very highest ethical standards.

PASSION

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.

From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Our website is both protected at the Server Level and Backend Level to ensure the utmost security of data. The website is also updated regularly to ensure only the latest plugins are being used to reduce the chance of breaches.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

DURATION OF STORAGE

Unless otherwise stated in the following sections, we will store the data only as long as necessary to achieve the purpose of processing or to fulfil our contractual or statutory obligations.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do/ do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes. If you have previously agreed to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by emailing us at info@africabigbeastsafari.com We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at info@africabigbeastsafari.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

LEGAL ENTITY

This site is owned and run by Africa Big Beast Safari

Email: info@africabigbeastsafari.com