At Bramalea Travel we are committed to protecting your Personal Information that you share with us. Our ongoing commitment to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your Personal Information is outlined in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy explains our commitment to respect and protect your personal information. We want you to understand why we require your personal information and how this information is protected.

The Provisions of the Privacy Act require compliance in 10 areas.

1) Accountability

-Bramalea Travel will comply with all 10 principles of the Privacy Act.
-We have appointed a Privacy Office who is accountable for this policy.
-Bramalea Travel and its employees will maintain and protect all Personal Information under their control or transferred to a third party for processing.
-Bramalea Travel has a computerized system for customer's files. If we need to destroy paper files, they are shredded.

What personal information do we collect?
--Name
--Home contact Information
--Alternative contact phone number
--Nationality
--Date of Birth
--Membership numbers
--Credit card number and expiration date
--Passport information
--Email address
--Customer's travel preferences (meal preferences, smoking, seats etc.)

2) Identify The Purpose

Why do we collect the Information?

We will identify the purposes for which Personal Information is collected
either before or at the time of collection. With your consent we may use your Personal Information for a number of purposes:

.....understand your needs
.....determine if our products and services meet your needs
.....guaranteeing a travel reservation, fulfill requests for services or information
.....provide customer services
.....offer new products and services

Of course, you can choose not to provide us with some or all of your Personal
Information. However, this choice may not enable us to provide you with the product, service or information that you requested or that could be offered to you.

Where we collect Personal Information:

Travel arrangements and the purchase of other services can be made by visiting our office. If you cannot visit us, you can contact one of our sales consultants by phone or by email. You can also visit our website.

How do we collect Personal Information:

…..Electronically via email
…..By person in our office and/or over the telephone
…..Written correspondence or faxes

3) Obtain Consent

What is Consent?

Bramalea Travel will only collect, use and disclose your Personal Information with your knowledge and consent, except where otherwise required or permitted by law.
Bramalea Travel considers consent to be an expression of permission to collect and use information for purposes we believe you would consider appropriate under the circumstances. We may use your name and address for a general mailing; we believe you would also expect us to contact you to advise you of new and existing services that may be of interest to you. You may choose not to receive this information and
Can have your name deleted at any time.

Third-Party Disclosure: The names, addresses and telephone numbers of our customers may be transmitted to trusted third-party suppliers in order to process your purchase. Our partners and suppliers are required to have a policy in place that complies with the applicable federal or provincial privacy legislation in Canada and the Canadian Standards Association Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information.

Except as set our in this policy, or as required by law, Bramalea Travel does not sell or disclose any of your personal information to any other organization and will not transmit personal information to third parties without first obtaining your consent to do so.

We obtain consent by:

…..Written permission via mail, email, fax or in office.
…..Verbal permission with a dated notation in the customer's file.
…..Third party consent, as long as the third party is well known to Bramalea Travel or
Or is in a reasonable position to give such consent.

Exception to General Rule

Bramalea Travel may, however, disclose information in the following circumstances:

…..to our lawyer
…..to a police force, if required by law or a person authorized by a law or collective
agreement
…..to a government agency which can oblige us to do so
…..in emergency situations in which the life, health or safety of a customer is in
danger
…..to an authorized contractor (supplier) providing service to you
…..to an agent retained by us to do with the collection of your account and/or
credit grantors

Where do we keep your personal information?

We have organizational controls that limit access on a "need to know" basis and confidentiality agreements.

Personal Information at Bramalea Travel is kept:
…..In database, on our computer, secured by technological tools as passwords,
encryptions and firewalls
…..Paper records are kept in locked file cabinets

4) Limit Collection

We only collect the information that we need in order to deliver services and information to you. We do not use techniques to collect Personal Information about you without your knowledge. We do not collect Personal Information indiscriminately.

5) Limit Use, disclosure and retention

Bramalea Travel will not disclose or use your Personal Information for any purposes other than those for which is was collected, except with your consent or as required by law.

Bramalea Travel will keep your records as long as necessary for fulfillment of those purposes and/or as required by law.

6) Be Accurate

We will keep your Personal Information we collect as accurate, complete up to date as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.

7) Use appropriate safeguards

Bramalea Travel will protect the Personal Information we collect with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
Any personal details entered on Internet web sites including credit card details will be automatically encrypted using Secure Socket Layer. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us over the Internet.

Our employees are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all Personal Information to which they have access to. Our employees are kept informed of our policies and procedures pertaining to the safeguarding of collected information.

8) Openness

Bramalea Travel will make our policies and practices relating to the management of your Personal Information readily available to you.

9) Access

At your request in writing, we will inform you of the existence, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as well as give you access to the information. You have the right to challenge the accuracy and completeness of your information, to amend it as necessary or ask for deletion.

You can send your request to:

Brian Ruttle
Bramalea Travel Privacy Officer
18 Kensington Rd.,
Bramalea, Ontario
L6T 4S5

Fax: 905-792-3059

Bramalea Travel can refuse access to a file in certain circumstances.

…..Has already been destroyed due to legal requirements
…..Is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege
…..Cannot be disclosed for legal reasons

There are no costs or charges associated with the correction of information or deletion. We may charge you a service fee to retrieve your file from archives.

10) Challenging Compliance

You may contact our Privacy Officer with any questions, complaints or suggestions with respect to the above principles.

Brian Ruttle
Bramalea Travel Privacy Office

Updating this policy

Any changes to our privacy policy and information handling practices shall be acknowledged in this policy in a timely manner. We may modify this policy when we feel it is necessary.