Privacy Policy

Protecting the privacy of users is one of our major priorities. This Privacy Policy is written in good faith and apprises you of the types of information that is collected and recorded by MerryTrips.

What Do We Collect?

We may collect your personal information that you may wish to provide to us at the time of registering on our website, subscribing to our newsletter, or filling out a form.

This information may include your name, phone number, email address, and mailing address. Other important information may also be collected according to certain requirements.

As part of your interaction with our website, you may also be asked to provide some non-personal information, including browser name and type of computer. Technical information regarding the medium through which you have connected with our website may also be collected. This includes your operating system, Internet service providers utilized, and other such relevant details.

The collection of information is aimed at assessing how you use our website, developing new features and services, improving our website, and communicating with you through emails.

How Do We Protect Your Data?

We have put in place rigorous security measures in order to safeguard your personal data. It may be underscored that only authorized personnel at MerryTrips have access to your personal information. Furthermore, no unauthorized parties can access your information because we use firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption while transferring your personal information between your system and ours.

This is to be highlighted that you must also stay active and vigilant so as to protect the confidentiality of your own data. You should not divulge to anyone your username, password, or any other sensitive information pertaining to your registered account. Our representatives shall assume that you have approved the instructions to use your registered email address or username if they receive such a request.

When Do We Use Your Personal Data?

We might need your personal information with respect to the following factors:

  • To answer your queries.
  • To provide you with important administrative information.
  • To share promotional materials with you.
  • To encourage you to participate in marketing campaigns.
  • To fulfill our corporate goals, including data analysis, monitoring and prevention, expansion, and audits.

Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information With?

We may share your personal information with:

  • Companies that assist us in serving you by offering IT services, such as data hosting companies and other relevant service providers.
  • Recognized authorities such as auditors, courts, and internal compliance groups, aligning with legal norms.
  • Organizations like CyberSource that help us with risk assessments, credit judgments, and other tasks to stop fraud.
  • Tour operators, travel agencies, and other such service providers.

Fraud Alert

It is important to consider that you should never provide any agent or representative from MerryTrips the access to your personal information, including address, payment card information, and login password.

Our team will get in touch with you if you email us with a question or express a concern. You will definitely not hear from a MerryTrips personnel requesting your personal data.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to enhance the way you browse through MerryTrips. This enables us to offer you a personalized experience that is curated in line with your interests and preferences, as cookies are used to store the pertinent information. This also enables us to run advertising activities. On the whole, storing the information is an attempt to optimize the user experience by customizing our web page content based on the browser type of users and/or other information.

However, you have the option to set your web browser to refuse cookies. You can also set an alert to notify you when cookies are being sent.

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the service is accessed and used. This is called Usage Data which may include the IP address of your device, browser type and version, pages of our service that you visit, time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other relevant data.

Location Data

If you give us permission, we may also store information about your location. We use this data to customize and enhance our services.

Information Collected from Other Sources

We may receive or collect information about you from third parties, which may include social media platforms, business partners, and some commercially available sources.

Log Files

MerryTrips complies with a standard procedure in case of using log files, which is done as a part of hosting services analytics. These files log users when they visit our website. IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider, date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks are the information collected through log files.

External Links

The Privacy Policy of MerryTrips is not applicable or relevant in case of other advertisers or websites. Thus, we advise you to go through the Privacy Policies and Terms of Use mentioned by third-party ad servers, if you are redirected to their websites. This happens, as MerryTrips may contain links to various external sites.

CCPA

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the consumers in California enjoy the right to request that a business that discloses the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected by them about consumers.

Rights

You, as a user, are granted certain data protection rights. You are entitled to the following:

  • Right to Access: You can request copies of your personal data.
  • Right to Rectification: You are allowed to post a request for the correction of any information that is not correct. 
  • Right to Erasure: You are allowed to post a request for deletion of your personal data, provided certain conditions are fulfilled. 

Protection for Children

We take care of the protection for children who use the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, track, and guide the online activity of their children.

MerryTrips does not deliberately collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we highly recommend you to contact us immediately. Our team will make best efforts to remove such information from our records with an immediate effect.