Introduction
At OneVasco, we’re committed to protect and respect your privacy.
This Privacy Notice explains how OneVasco Worldwide DMCC (“OneVasco”, “we,” or “us”) handle your personal data (also known as personal information in certain jurisdictions).
This Privacy Notice does not intent to conflict with applicable local privacy laws. In case there is a conflict, the applicable local privacy laws will prevail.
We may change this Privacy Notice (also known as Privacy Policy in certain jurisdictions) from time to time. We will always make the latest Privacy Notice available to you via this page. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will apply to you and your data immediately.
With respect to the services provided by OneVasco, this Privacy Notice describes:
I. WHO WE ARE?
At OneVasco we offer you travel related services so that you can optimize your travel experience. With a global footprint across more than 25 countries, the services offered by OneVasco ranges from travel facilitation such as hotel and airline booking, transportation and destination management.
II. SERVICES PROVIDED BY ONEVASCO
III. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
When we provide our services to you, we may collect the following data categories from you:
If required by the relevant government authorities, we might ask you for sensitive information such as
This list is not exhaustive and varies depending on the relevant government’s requirements and the type of visa.
When you make use of our Wi-Fi/hotspot services provided by us at venues, some information is collected automatically. This information includes e.g., the unique device identifiers know as MAC ID, start and stop timestamps of your connections, amount of traffic and the logout reason type. In some countries, where mandated by law we must keep the logbooks of users of our Wi-Fi. For this purpose, we might request your name, surname, ID number.
IV. THE LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
If the data protection law in your country of residence allows, we will use the “performance of a contract” as the lawful basis for the processing of your personal data. This means that when you purchase a service from us, you enter into a contract with us to receive that service. We cannot deliver a service to you without using personal data from you. For example, in order to provide the form filling assistant, we will need a copy of your passport.
If the data protection law in your country of residence does not allow us to use “performance of a contract,” as a lawful basis, we will ask for your consent for the processing of your personal data.
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you can anytime withdraw your consent that was given to OneVasco earlier. However, without your consent in most of the circumstances we cannot continue to process the services that you have requested. Withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal. In regard to marketing purposes we will not contact you for marketing purposes unless you have given us your explicit permission to do so, nevertheless you have right at any time to withdraw your consent for marketing purposes without effect on our services, provided to you.
V. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
VI. HOW LONG DO WE HOLD YOUR DATA?
We retain and hold your personal data in order to be able to perform a requested service, such as form filling or courier delivery of your travel documents. This information is retained by us for 7 years after the collection of your personal data.
VII. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?
We may have to share your personal data to other parties in order for us to be able to provide you our service. We will only share your data as part of the performance of our contract with you. We will never sell your personal data to a third party. For example, we will share your personal data with a courier company if you have asked us to deliver your travel document to your home or office, we will need to provide the courier company with your name, delivery address, and a contact phone number.
We only use suppliers and partners that have sufficient privacy and data protection measures in place.
VIII. TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA OFFSHORE
In order to provide a service to you, such as appointment scheduling, tracking your application, and invoicing, we may transfer your personal data, internally within our group companies, to one of our data centres located in Europe, Canada, or Russia, as applicable.
The sharing of your personal data with certain recipients may imply transfers of your data out of the European Economic Area (EEA). We pay particular attention to the protection of your personal data when we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA. Thus, where such transfers out of the EEA shall take place, we first implement appropriate safeguards by signing the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission with the entity out of the EEA, which processes your personal data.
IX. YOUR RIGHTS
Under many data protection laws, you have rights with regard to how your personal data is handled. These privacy rights vary from country to country; however, we enable you, subject to all relevant laws, to exercise a full range of data protection rights depending on the applicable jurisdiction. It includes, among others:
In order to protect your privacy and to authenticate that the request is genuinely from you and not from anyone else masquerading as you, we might request some additional details of your last interaction with us, some details that nobody else would know about.
This is to ensure that it is really you who is making the request and not someone else. We will only request enough information to enable us to identify you properly.
X. HOW ONEVASCO PROTECTS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We are committed to protecting all personal data that we hold about you. When you give us personal data, we take steps to ensure that it is safeguarded and held securely. Any sensitive information is encrypted and protected.
On our websites, when you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear in the address bar of most web browsers. This means the transfer of information from your browser to our web servers is encrypted to keep it safe.
XI. OUR CONTACT DETAILS AND HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS OR MAKE A PRIVACY-RELATED COMPLAINT
We are committed to protecting your privacy. If you wish to contact us or if you have any questions or wish to lodge a complaint about our privacy practices or the way we have handled your personal data, including if you believe that there has been a possible breach of any relevant privacy principles, you may contact us at:
Data Protection Officer e-mail: dataprotection@onevasco.com
XII. THE DATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED
This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2023.