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Privacy Policy

Travel Light / Parallel 26 is committed to protecting your privacy. We provide this notice to explain our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way information is collected and used. We will only use the information we collect for the purposes of enhancing your Travel Light / Parallel 26 experience and providing you with a more personalized trip-planning process. At no time will we sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties.

How Travel Light / Parallel 26 Uses the Information It Collects
There will be times when we will ask you for personal information. In order to ensure the integrity of your personal information, all of your data is stored in our secure databases.

Submitting Questions
Travel Light / Parallel 26 visitors can request that Travel Light / Parallel 26 contact them via e-mail regarding a specific travel question submitted online. In this case, Travel Light / Parallel 26 will request your e-mail address so that we may reach you quickly and easily. Use of this service is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

Contests
When you enter a contest or other promotional feature, we may ask for your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address so that we can administer the contest and notify winners. Additionally, you may be able to choose whether you would like to receive further communications from Travel Light / Parallel 26. Participation in these contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

Online Surveys
We value opinions and comments from Travel Light / Parallel 26 members, and you may have the opportunity to give us your feedback through online surveys. In conducting these surveys, we may ask for your name, address, or e-mail address so that we can appropriately identify you. Survey information collected will be aggregated and used to make improvements to the site and to improve Travel Light / Parallel 26 service and general offerings. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

Send This Page to a Friend
Travel Light / Parallel 26 visitors can choose to request that an Travel Light / Parallel 26 website page be sent to another person. When you elect to do this, you will be required to enter your e-mail address, the receiver's e-mail address and text of the message that will go to the receiver. This will generate a preformatted e-mail message that will go from you to the receiver's e-mail box with your message embedded in the text of the e-mail. Send This Page to a Friend is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to recognize you. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The only personal information a cookie contains is the information you provide yourself. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can set your browser to block them in the future. When you enter personal information on Travel Light / Parallel 26, your personally identifiable information will be linked to a cookie on your computer. Additionally, if you choose, we will also save your Travel Light / Parallel 26 password to a cookie on your computer.

IP Addresses
Travel Light / Parallel 26 collects the IP addresses used to access our service and the dates and times of access. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Sharing Information with Travel Light / Parallel 26 Partners
When you reserve or purchase a trip through Travel Light / Parallel 26, we provide only the information about you that you have provided to us during the booking process to the trip operator to ensure the successful fulfillment of your trip arrangements.

Safeguards to Protect the Loss, Misuse, or Alteration of your Information
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' personal information. When users submit sensitive information via the site, your information is protected both on- and off-line. All information you provide to Travel Light / Parallel 26 on-line is stored on a secure database on Travel Light / Parallel 26's servers. We also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line. Access to all of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added or new employees are hired, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment behind a locked door. iExplore's data security procedures are audited on an annual basis by an external consulting firm. All results of this audit process trigger security changes and enhancements to ensure the highest level of security achievable.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us here .

If you have any questions about this privacy policy statement or the practices of this site, you can call 011 462 8307 , or send direct correspondence to Travel Light PO Box 1073 Bromhoff Johannesburg 2154

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post notice of a privacy policy update on our Home page so that our users may view our updated policy and be aware on an ongoing basis of what information we collect, how we use it, and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

 


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