Last updated: 14 February, 2022
PRIVACY POLICY
House of Notoire and its related parties are committed to protecting your Personal Information that you share with us. We want you to understand our Privacy Policy and what it means to you, our customer. Please take a moment to review this Privacy Policy. By using our website or the services offered by us, you are consenting to our use of such personal information as you provide to us as described herein. If you do not consent to our use of your information, please do not use our services. Any questions you have about our Privacy Policy, or the information contained herein can be directed to hi@houseofnotoire.com.
The Privacy Policy applies to House of Notoire, the website www.houseofnotoire.com and its related parties:
• House of Notoire Retreats ("HONey Retreats")
Which will be collectively referred to as House of Notoire throughout this document for ease of reading.
We do our utmost to ensure your personal information is safeguarded and protected, by adhering and acting in accordance with all applicable legislation, as applicable in the countries and regions in which House of Notoire operates.
What is considered personal information and why would it be collected?
House of Notoire collects personal information only to the extent necessary to deliver the services, products, or information you, or an agent or other passenger booking on your behalf, request.
House of Notoire, either directly collects, holds, uses and discloses, only as necessary the following personal information from customers and others in the course of offering services or providing services to you: full name, age, home address, phone number, e-mail address, passport and travel medical information, where required, insurance details, upsell information, where applicable, nationality, residency, nutrition preferences, trip evaluations, travel & accommodation preferences, comments you provide us, trip destination information, credit card and/or other payment information, etc. The collection of this information is done to allow us to provide services to you as requested.
We may also collect personal information, including contact information, if you elect to enter a contest or sweepstakes with us, to subscribe to our newsletter, which we will use only to provide you with the service you have requested (or other substantially similar services directly related to your request).
House of Notoire collects personal information from those individuals applying for employment or similar positions at House of Notoire to the extent necessary to (i) identify the individual and (ii) evaluate their suitability for the position applied for. This information may include name, contact information, educational and employment background, criminal record information, residency and/or citizenship information, and other information necessary for us to screen potential employees and staff.
Where the collection of certain details of your personal information is not required in order to deliver requested services or products, you may forgo providing such details. For example, you may sign up for our electronic marketing and newsletters with only an e-mail address. You may also be entitled, in certain circumstances where verification of your identity is not required, to deal with House of Notoire using a pseudonym. Please ask House of Notoire to advise if the personal information in question is required to complete your request.
How is my personal information used or disclosed?
House of Notoire uses this personal information to provide the services and/or products you have requested, or to provide you with information about those services or House of Notoire. This includes using personal information to: register you to receive newsletters, answer your request for further information about our trips, make a booking or booking(s), provide you with information about the Company and/or our services, and to receive and implement feedback on those services. Furthermore, the personal information allows us to:
• Understand your needs as a customer and determine eligibility for our products and services.
• Inform you about our products and services, or those of our partners that we believe may be of interest to you.
• Provide ongoing service and support, including resolution of any issues with the services or products you request from House of Notoire.
• To ensure the safety and security of our passengers and products.
• Carry out internal accounting and administration of our business.
• Comply with laws, regulations, immigrations requirements, and the like.
House of Notoire may also use your personal information to book products and services for you or on your behalf from our third party suppliers and service providers, or other service providers or merchants for whom we act as agent from time to time. This collection of personal information can be both for our internal purposes, for example, to process your booking, and occasionally on behalf of the parties for whom we act as agent, for their internal purposes in providing the services or products you have requested. Please be aware that the consent you provide to the collection and use of personal information by House of Notoire, applies equally to the parties whose products and services we sell or book on your behalf. For example, if you purchase a flight from us, you will be deemed to have consented to your personal information being provided to the airline to enable your flight to be booked.
What are the consequences of failing to provide Personal Information?
If you do not provide the Personal Information that we request, we may not be able to deliver the services you have requested, which may mean you won’t be able to participate in our trips, purchase the items from our store, or subscribe to our newsletter, to name a few. If you have paid a deposit and later refuse to provide necessary Personal Information to House of Notoire which House of Notoire (or our partners and suppliers) require to deliver the service for which the deposit was paid (for example, for a flight which requires passport information), you may not be entitled to a refund for that service. Please contact us if you have any questions about providing or not providing Personal Information when booking or otherwise dealing with House of Notoire. Personal information is not collected unless provided to us. This means you can visit and browse our website, or send an e-mail to our contact centre, without having to provide any personal information to House of Notoire.
How do we collect this information and obtain your consent?
We collect information from customers during the booking (or option) process, or during the inquiry process where required, via our sales channels, such as our website booking form, our sales contact centre (via e-mail or telephone), using medical forms filled out by you or your authorized representative, through on-line evaluations submitted by you, via on-line or other entry ballot for any contests, competitions, or sweepstakes. This information is provided by you or on your behalf by someone you have authorized to make or inquire about a booking. We obtain consent by:
• Written permission via mail, email or fax, or online booking form.
• Verbal permission
• Third party consent (i.e. from your travel agent, or the passenger booking on your behalf to whom you have provided your personal information for such purpose).
How is your Personal Information Protected?
The security and integrity of your Personal Information is important to us. All personal information is stored in secure databases at secure addresses to prevent unauthorized access. Passwords, encryption devices and firewalls protect these databases. Please note however that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we take all steps to ensure the safety of your data, we cannot ensure the security of information you transmit to us over the Internet.
Access to your personal and private information is limited to: authorized employees, of House of Notoire, and any of the third-party suppliers who require your information to provide the travel or other services you have requested (such as the airlines, transportation services, hotels, activity providers, and tour guides who deliver the services you purchase through House of Notoire or that we arrange on your behalf) . We keep our employees and our third party suppliers and other partners informed about our policies and procedures and require strict compliance with this Policy in order to ensure your information remains protected. Unauthorized access and/or disclosure of client information are strictly prohibited.
With whom do we share your personal information?
Third Party Partners and Suppliers:
House of Notoire will share your information with the outside suppliers (such as guides, travel companies, hotel companies, insurance companies, equipment suppliers, promotion or sweepstakes co-sponsors, and credit card processing entities etc., all of which may be located outside of your country of residence and governed by differing privacy legislation) who perform services on our behalf. As you would expect, certain information must be provided to these suppliers in order to facilitate your booking and in order to provide you with service(s) you have requested. These partners and suppliers are located all over the world – you can reasonably expect your personal information to be shared with organizations we work with in the countries you are traveling to, and in some cases, to the country of the head office of such third party partner supplier.
Affiliated Companies within House of Notoire:
In order to provide you with superior customer service, and to ensure you benefit from our full range of products and services and as permitted by law, we may share your personal information within the House of Notoire group of subsidiaries listed above. This Privacy Policy applies to our operations globally and each affiliated subsidiaries abide by it in all dealings with your Personal Information.
Please be assured that House of Notoire and its contracted suppliers never sell, lease or trade information about you or your travel information to other parties in the ordinary course of conducting its business. Of course, if all of the assets of House of Notoire or any of the affiliated entities identified in this policy were to be sold, your personal information would be among the assets sold – though we commit that any subsequent entity would be bound by this Privacy Policy, or one with equal or more protective terms.
Can I access my information and whom do I contact?
You may access, update, and/or correct much of your Personal Information by emailing House of Notoire at hi@houseofnotoire.com.
Subject to legal restrictions, you can withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time and with reasonable notice. If you refuse or withdraw your consent for any purpose that is required by us to fulfil our product or service contract with you or the Company, we will not be able to provide you, or continue to provide you, with the product or service.
House of Notoire will only send you newsletters or other promotional and/or marketing materials if you have opted in to receive them. You can subscribe to receive such materials on our website.
House of Notoire retains (passenger) personal information for as long as is reasonably required, with consideration to the purpose for which it was collected or a related or ancillary purpose, and to our legal and regulatory obligations. House of Notoire deletes or otherwise destroys (passenger) personal information after a reasonable period of time. On occasion, you may have to provide your personal information to us again where it has been so deleted.
Complaints
If you have any complaints about House of Notoire’ collection, use, disclosure, or dealing with your Personal Information, if you believe that House of Notoire’ is in violation of or have any questions about House of Notoire compliance with applicable privacy legislation in relation to your Personal Information, please send an email to House of Notoire at hi@houseofnotoire.com.
Website Policies and Cookies
At House of Notoire, accessible from www.houseofnotoire.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by House of Notoire and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information.
House of Notoire legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
House of Notoire needs to perform a contract with you
You have given House of Notoire permission to do so
Processing your personal information is in House of Notoire legitimate interests
House of Notoire needs to comply with the law
House of Notoire will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object.
The right of restriction.
The right to data portability
The right to withdraw consent
Log Files
House of Notoire follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, House of Notoire uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of House of Notoire.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on House of Notoire, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that House of Notoire has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
House of Notoire's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
Children's Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
House of Notoire does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
Our Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in House of Notoire. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms