Privacy Policy | Egypt Tours Club

Privacy Policy

 Egypt Tours Club is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how Egypt Tours Club collects, uses, and discloses your personal information.

This privacy policy applies to our website, associated subdomains (collectively, our "Service"), and the Egypt Tours Club application. By accessing or using our service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this privacy policy and our terms of service. This privacy statement was developed in collaboration with Egypt Tours Club.

Definitions and key terms

To help explain things as clearly as possible in this privacy policy, every time any of these terms are referenced, they are strictly defined as:

  • Cookie: a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.
  • Company: When this policy mentions "Egypt Tours Club," it refers to ETC (14 A, Obur Buildings, Salah Salem St., Naser City, Cairo, Egypt), which is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.
  • Country: where Egypt Tours Club or the owners/founders of Egypt Tours Club are based, in this case in Egypt
  • Customer: refers to the company, organization, or person that signs up to use the Egypt Tours Club Service to manage the relationships with your consumers or service users.
  • Device: any internet-connected device, such as a phone, tablet, computer, or another device, that can be used to visit Egypt Tours Club and use the services.
  • IP address: Every device connected to the internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often identify the location from which a device connects to the internet.
  • Personnel: refers to individuals employed by Egypt Tours Club or under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
  • Personal data is any information that, directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information (including a personal identification number), allows for the identification or confidentiality of a natural person.
  • Service: refers to the service provided by Egypt Tours Club as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
  • Third-party service: refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
  • Website: Egypt Tours Club's site, which can be accessed via this URL: https://egypttoursclub.com/en 
  • You: a person or entity registered with Egypt Tours Club to use the Services.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you when you visit our website, register, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form.

  • Name or Username
  • Phone Numbers
  • E-mail Addresses

When does Egypt Tours Club use end-user information from third parties?

Egypt Tours Club will collect the end-user data necessary to provide the Egypt Tours Club services to our customers. End users may voluntarily provide us with the information they have made available on social media websites. If you provide us with such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

When does Egypt Tours Club use customer information from third parties?

We receive some information from third parties when you contact us. For example, when you submit your e-mail address to us to express interest in becoming an Egypt Tours Club customer, we receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to Egypt Tours Club. We also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites. You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

Do we share the information we collect with third parties?

We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you. We may also disclose it to current and prospective affiliated companies and business partners. We may share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest if we are involved in a merger, asset sale, or other business reorganization.

We may engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website, database storage and management, email management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service, and fulfilling orders for products and services you may purchase through the website. We will likely share your personal and non-personal information with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for you and us.

We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate your general location and other technical characteristics, such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website in a shared location, and the type of device used to visit the website. They may aggregate information about our advertising and what you see on the website and provide auditing, research, and reporting for our advertisers and us.

We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to the government or law enforcement officials, or to private parties, as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal processes (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules, and regulations.

Where and when is information collected from customers and end users?

Egypt Tours Club will collect the personal information that you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties, as described above.

How Do We Use the Information We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us better respond to your individual needs),
  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you),
  • To improve customer service Your information helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more effectively.
  • To process transactions
  • to administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
  • to send periodic emails

How Do We Use Your Email Address?

By submitting your email address on this website, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel participation in any of these email lists by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe options included in the respective e-mail. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them directly or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial e-mails because we hate spam as much as you do. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your e-mail address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us. Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used to send you information and updates about your order. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this policy. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We keep your information only as long as we need it to provide Egypt Tours Club to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy. This is also the case for anyone with whom we share your information or who carries out services on our behalf. When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we'll either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we can't identify you.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive or credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers' databases only by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) is never kept on file. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Egypt Tours Club or guarantee that your information on the service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Could my information be transferred to other countries?

Egypt Tours Club is incorporated in Egypt. Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices, personnel, or third parties throughout the world. It may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

Is the information collected through the Egypt Tours Club Service secure?

We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard your information, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use it. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes, or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standard to measure our compliance with that duty.

Can I update or correct my information?

The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Egypt Tours Club collects depend on your relationship with Egypt Tours Club. Personnel may update or correct their information as detailed in our internal company employment policies.

Customers have the right to request the restriction of specific uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information. You can contact us at

  1. Update or correct your personally identifiable information,
  2. Change your preferences concerning communications and other information you receive from us, or
  3. You can delete the personally identifiable information about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph) by canceling your account.

Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will not affect other information that we maintain or have provided to third parties by this Privacy Policy before such updates, corrections, modifications, or deletions. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information.

You should be aware that removing every record of the information you provided us from our system is not technologically possible. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal data stored in databases we actively use and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed, or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

If you are an end-user and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may contact the organization of which you are a customer.

Personnel

If you are an Egypt Tours Club worker or applicant, we collect the information you voluntarily provide. We use the information collected by Human Resources to administer workers' benefits and screen applicants.

You may contact us to

  1. update or correct your information,
  2. change your preferences concerning communications and other information you receive from us,
  3. receive a record of the information we have relating to you.

Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will not affect other information that we maintain or have provided to third parties by this Privacy Policy before such updates, corrections, modifications, or deletions.

Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Egypt Tours Club or any of its corporate affiliates (as defined herein) or that portion of Egypt Tours Club or any of its corporate affiliates to which the service relates, or if we discontinue our business or file a petition or have filed against us a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization, or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this privacy policy.

Affiliates

We may disclose information (including personal information) about you to our corporate affiliates. For purposes of this privacy policy, "corporate affiliate" means any person or entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Egypt Tours Club, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to you that we provide to our corporate affiliates will be treated by those corporate affiliates in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

Governing Law The laws of Egypt manage this Privacy Policy without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy, except for those individuals who may have the rights to make claims under the Privacy Shield or the Swiss-US framework.

The laws of Egypt, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this agreement and your use of the website. Your website use may also be subject to local, state, national, or international laws.

Using Egypt Tours Club or contacting us directly signifies your acceptance of this privacy policy. If you disagree with this privacy policy, you should not engage with our website or use our services. Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or posting changes to this privacy policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your personal information will mean that you accept those changes.

Your Consent

We've updated our Privacy Policy to provide complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our Egypt Tours Club, registering an account, or making a purchase, you now consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Egypt Tours Club. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or opinions expressed on such websites, which are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect when you use a link to go from the Services to another website. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those with a link on our platform, is subject to that website's rules and policies. Third parties may use cookies or other methods to collect information about you.

Cookies

Egypt Tours Club uses "cookies" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website, but they are not essential to its use. However, with these cookies, certain functionality, like videos, may become available, or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website, as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place personally identifiable information in cookies.

Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies

Wherever you're located, you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning correctly, and you may not fully utilize all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may lose some saved information (e.g., saved login details and site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser, and you will need to do this yourself from within your browser; you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

Remarketing Services

We use remarketing services. What is remarketing? In digital marketing, remarketing (or retargeting) serves ads across the internet to people who have already visited your website. It allows your company to seem like they're "following" people around the internet by serving ads on the websites and platforms they use most.

Payment Details

Concerning any credit card or other payment processing details you have provided; we commit that this confidential information will be stored in the most secure manner possible.

Children's Privacy

We collect information from kids under 13 to better our services. If You are a parent or guardian and you know that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data without your permission, please get in touch with Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may change our service and policies and need to make changes to this privacy policy to reflect our service and guidelines accurately. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our service) before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and allow you to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the service, you will be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. You can delete your account if you do not want to agree to this or any updated Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Services

We may display, include, or otherwise make available third-party content (including data, information, applications, and other product services) or provide links to third-party websites or services ("Third-Party Services").

You acknowledge and agree that Egypt Tours Club shall not be responsible for any third-party services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof. Egypt Tours Club does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.

Third-party services and links are provided solely as a convenience to you, and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties' terms and conditions.

Facebook Pixel

Facebook pixel is an analytics tool that allows you to measure the effectiveness of your advertising by understanding the actions people take on your website. You can use the pixel to ensure your ads are shown to the right people. The Facebook pixel may collect information from your device when you use the service. Facebook's pixel collects information that is stored following its privacy policy.

Tracking Technologies 

  • Google Maps API
  • Google Maps API is a robust tool that can be used to create a custom map, a searchable map, check-in functions, display live data synching with location, plan routes, or create a mashup, to name a few uses.
  • Google Maps API may collect information from You and Your Device for security purposes.
  • Google Maps API collects information that is held following its Privacy Policy.

Information about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in this section of our Privacy Policy, we are going to explain exactly how and why this data is collected and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.

What is GDPR?

GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law regulating how EU residents' data is protected by companies and enhancing the control of EU residents over their data.

The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company, not just EU-based businesses and EU residents. Our customers' data is important irrespective of their location, so we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.

What is personal data?

Any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own or in combination with other pieces of information to identify a person. Personal data extends beyond a person's name or e-mail address. Some examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical addresses, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

The Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:

  • Personal data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.
  • Personal data should only be collected to fulfill a specific purpose, and it should only be used for that purpose. Organizations must specify why they need personal data when they collect it.
  • Personal data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfill its purpose.
  • People covered by the GDPR have the right to access their data. They can also request a copy of their data and that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organization.

Why is GDPR important?

GDPR adds new requirements regarding how companies should protect individuals' data that they collect and process. It also raises the stakes for compliance by increasing enforcement and imposing greater fines for violations. Beyond these facts, it's simply the right thing to do. At Egypt Tours Club, we strongly believe that your data privacy is critical, and we already have solid security and privacy practices that go beyond this new regulation's requirements.

Individual Data Subject's Rights: Data Access, Portability, and Deletion

We are committed to helping our customers meet the data subject rights requirements of GDPR. Egypt Tours Club processes or stores all personal data with fully vetted, DPA-compliant vendors. We store all conversation and personal data for up to 6 years unless your account is deleted. In this case, we will dispose of all data following our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, but we will not hold it for longer than 60 days.

We know that if you are working with EU customers, you need to provide them with the ability to access, update, retrieve, and remove personal data. We've got you! We've been set up for self-service and have always given you access to your and your customers' data. Our customer support team is here for you to answer any questions you might have about working with the API.

Contact Us

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.