* Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website:

Information collection and use

This site is operated by UK Autohire, Malahide, Co Dublin, Ireland, UK.

We will require some personal information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, credit or debit card number, expiry date and telephone number in order to reserve the required services, to send you details of that confirmation and if necessary to inform you of updates or changes to your travel plans.

We request information from you on our order form. Here, you must provide contact information - name/postal delivery address - and financial information - credit or debit card number, expiry date and telephone number - this information is used for billing purposes and to complete your orders. If we have trouble processing a request this contact information is used to get in touch with you. We would use your telephone number if we need to contact you urgently. For example if you had made a mistake entering your e-mail address, postal address, credit card or debit card details.

We store your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, credit card and debit card details in the event that modifications or amendments may be necessary to existing bookings and in order to make your next booking quicker.

We store your information for as long as we need to do so in order to fulfil our legal obligations. We use your information to create generic information which we then use for market and commercial analysis. This generic information does not identify you personally.

Log files

We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server and to analyse trends/administer the site/track user's movement for our internal site traffic statistics.

Cookies

We use cookies to monitor which parts of the site are most interesting to you - a cookie is a piece of data stored on your hard drive and usage is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information whilst on our site. The use of cookies means that we are able to personalise our content, promotional offers and services to suit your individual travel preferences. If you wish to know when our site is using a cookie you can set your browser to send you an alert. If you prefer to use the site without utilising cookies your browser can be set to not accept them at all. However, cookies will make your life easier and are never used by us to store information of a private nature such as credit card details. Information stored in any cookies cannot be accessed by other websites.

Sharing information

Information is shared with a) our bank and b) involved third parties parties.

a) When paying by credit or by debit card we pass your card details to our bank for authorisation of the transaction and for payment.

b) We may disclose your information to booking agents and carhire companies who will use your information in the ways described above in this privacy statement. We will provide only the information necessary to ensure the successful fulfilment of your travel arrangements. You should be aware that the carhire company may not be subject to data protection laws.

c) Apart from sharing your information as mentioned above, we do not disclose your details to any other person without your consent unless there is an emergency situation that requires it or we are legally required to do so.

Links

This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites - this privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We use Secure Socket Layers (SSL) to ensure the privacy of the information provided to us and at no time are your debit/credit card details transmitted unencrypted over the Internet. To further protect the information you share with us we have an exhaustive security system that includes world class firewall technologies; logical network segmentation to allow restricted access to stored profile information and logical and physical security restrictions to our databases and systems. Whilst SSL encryption is used to protect sensitive information online we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All your information is restricted in our offices and only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. All employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices with regular quarterly updates or whenever new policies are added.

Changes to our privacy statement

Any material changes in the way we use personal information will be described in future versions of this privacy statement. By booking with us you agree that our privacy statement, current at the time of your most recent booking, shall apply to all your information, whether given to us at the time of that booking or at the time of earlier bookings.

If at any time we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated in the privacy statement applicable to your information, we will notify you by way of an e-mail and request your approval.

Contacting us

In using the octopustravel.com site, you consent to the collection and use of this information in the ways described above. If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with the site please e-mail us at the following info@ukautohire.com