Privacy Policy

by Avio Agent

Who we are

We are a group of enthusiastic explorers who give details to the most mind amazing flight deals around the planet.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Newsletter Sign-up

When you use the website sign-up form for the newsletter your email address is not stored on our website, but is forwarded to MailChimp whom we use for email marketing services. Your email address will remain in MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use their services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can ‘unsubscribe’ using the link shown at the foot of every Mailchimp based correspondence that you receive from AvioAgent.

Contact forms

If you contact us using the contact form on the website the data is collated into an email and sent to us the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The data collected is housed on our website.

To protect your information, we use an industry standard security protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the transmission of sensitive information between you and our website.

Your email message will be read by designated AvioAgent staff and may be forwarded to other mailboxes if this is required in order for us to be able to address your request.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Cookies

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what is in your shopping basket.

How can I control cookies?

If you do not want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your browser settings. You may wish to visit aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers.


How we use cookies

Permanent cookies

Permanent cookies help us to recognise you each time you visit our website, so that the website can be presented in line with your preferences and settings. Also, if you give permission for cookies to be used, this is itself saved by means of a cookie. This means you do not have to re-enter your preferences, which saves time and guarantees a better user experience. You can disable permanent cookies in the settings of your web browser.

Session cookies

Session cookies allow us to see which parts of the website you viewed during your visit. This helps us tailor our website to the surfing behavior or our visitors. These cookies are automatically deleted when you restart your browser.


Google Analytics

Our website stores cookies from Google as part of the Google Analytics service. We use this service to keep track of how visitors use our website. Google may provide this information to third parties if it is legally required to do so or if the parties process this information on Google’s behalf. We have no influence over this. We have authorised Google to use these analytics for other Google services.


Facebook, Twitter and other external companies

Our website has buttons that allow you to ‘like’ or share webpages on social networks like Facebook or Twitter. These buttons work using strings of code generated by the social networks, which are then used to store cookies on your computer. We have no influence over this process. Please read the privacy policies of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (which are subject to regular changes) to find out how they use the personal information they collect with these cookies. The information they collect is anonymized as far as possible.