Privacy Policy
At Junior Freeride Tour, we understand that privacy is really important. So we have prepared this privacy policy to fill you in on what personal information we may collect, how we collect it and what we do with it.
This policy describes our current policies and practices in relation to the management of your personal information.
What personal and sensitive information do we collect and hold?
There are situations in which we ask you to give us personal information about yourself. This information includes things like your name, age, gender, contact details, employment history, bank account and credit card details, and, if applicable, any information we receive through our complaints process. The sensitive information we may collect may include health information, such as information about your medical conditions and treatment. If customers choose to purchase Junior Freeride Tour insurance, we collect their credit card details and other identifying information in order to process orders and provide customer service.
How do we collect and hold your personal and sensitive information?
We collect your personal and sensitive information in various ways.
These include when you:
- submit an enquiry through our website or request information from us
- enter into any competitions, scholarships or promotions we may run
- sign up for a Journal with us
- submit an application for insurance or make a claim
- download a PDF guide
- Your personal information may also be collected when you browse our website (or associated websites), use our mobile apps or when you speak with us by telephone or through social media networks.
Information from other sources
In most circumstances we will only collect your personal and sensitive information from you, unless it is unreasonable or impracticable to do so, and will only collect your sensitive information with your consent, unless we are legally required or authorised to do otherwise. We may also collect your personal or sensitive information from third parties including those authorised by you such as your family members, travelling companions, doctors, hospitals and medical service providers, as well as from others we consider necessary including our service providers, partners, associates, those who investigate and manage claims, and government entities.
Information about other people
When you give us personal and/or sensitive information about other individuals, we and our agents rely on you to have made or make that individual aware of the matters contained in our Privacy Notice, including:
• that you will or may provide their information to us, and how to contact us;
• of the types of third parties to whom the information may be provided;
• of the relevant purposes for which we and the third parties will collect, use and disclose it;
• that we have a privacy policy and where this is located; and
• how they can request access and correct their information, or make a complaint.
We rely on you to have obtained their consent on these matters. If you have not done or will not do these things, you must tell us or our agents before you provide the relevant information.
Security
We strive to protect the privacy and security of the personal and sensitive information we hold through the use of encryption, security access, firewalls and computer security systems. We have physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal and sensitive information which is held by us, and access to information stored electronically is restricted to staff whose positions require access to this. We may also use third party data storage providers and servers to store your personal information.
We use the very latest, industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This technology encrypts the information about you that is entered on our website, prevents other computers impersonating your computer and prevents third parties reading or changing your information as it travels over the internet.
For what purposes do we collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information?
We collect personal information and, in certain circumstances, sensitive information from you and others to enable us to provide you with a quote and to arrange and manage your travel insurance and insurance related services.
Any personal information you provide is used by us to evaluate and arrange your travel insurance. We also use it to administer and provide the insurance related services. These include providing you with emergency assistance, managing, processing and investigating claims as well as managing your and our rights and obligations in relation to the insurance. We may also collect, use and disclose it for product development, marketing, competitions, research, IT systems maintenance and development, recovery against third parties and for any other purposes with your consent or where authorised by law.
Some examples of the purposes for which we use your information include:
- obtaining, responding to and managing feedback from travellers
- processing purchase orders and providing technical support
- contacting travellers with information and updates (like exciting travel news, great offers, promotions, special events, competitions and surveys) from Junior Freeride Tour. Our information and updates may also include information from our partners.
- managing our competitions and scholarships and contacting the winners
- personalising or improving the way Junior Freeride Tour content is presented to you across a range of platforms (see our “Cookies Policy” below for more information)
Use of the description and outcome of your claim
If you provide your consent when lodging a claim, we may use a description of your claim, along with your first name, last initial, country of residence, country of loss and the outcome of your claim for marketing purposes. If you do not provide your consent, this information may be used anonymously for marketing purposes.
In regards to our communications with you
If you have shared your information (such as your email address) with Junior Freeride Tour, for instance by purchasing a policy from us, submitting an enquiry on our website or otherwise interacting with us, we may occasionally notify you by email or other methods such as by phone or SMS about our services, products, special offers, contests, events or articles we think will be of interest to you. If you would rather not receive this information, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe facility included in all our marketing correspondence, or by contacting us directly.
Once you have provided us with your information, sleep easy, we will not sell your email address or phone number to marketing companies for spamming (but we will disclose your email address to the organisation which helps us provide the email service). Junior Freeride Tour collects your email address so we can send you email newsletters as well as emails for all your travel inspiration, tips and exclusive offers. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of the emails.
Will we disclose the information we collect to anyone?
Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to third parties involved in the above processes, such as:
- travel agents, consultants and travel insurance providers;
- your and our agents, insurance intermediaries, and our representatives;
- insurers and reinsurers;
- claims handlers, investigators, and cost containment providers;
- service providers and contractors, including IT service providers and medical and health service providers;
- legal and other professional advisers;
- law enforcement, regulatory and government entities and courts where we are legally required or authorised to do so;
- our related companies; and
- companies we partner with on such programs as co-authoring content, co-promotion of competitions and use to develop targeted marketing campaigns.
How you can access the personal information that we hold about you, and seek correction of such information
You can seek access to and request correction of your personal and sensitive information held by us by sending us a written request and enough information to allow us to identify the information. You may not access or correct personal or sensitive information of others unless you have been authorised by them or otherwise under law, or unless they are your dependants under 16 years. In cases where we do not agree to give you access to or to correct your personal information, we will give you reasons why.
We do not charge you for making a request to access or correct your personal information, however we may charge an administration fee for providing you with access to your personal and sensitive information.
Circumstances where you can deal with us anonymously or using a pseudonym
Where possible, you have the option of not identifying yourself or using a pseudonym when you deal with us. For example, you can make general enquiries on our website, call us to ask questions about the products we offer, or obtain a basic indicative quote without identifying yourself or by using a pseudonym. However, we require you to provide us with your personal information in order for us to process your application for, and to provide you with, our products and services.
What other types of information do we collect and how do we use it?
Anonymous Data
We use technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our website. For example, when you browse our website, we log your IP address, the date and time of your visit, any pages or links visited and the type of browser used. This information is used for statistical purposes, improving the content and functionality of our website, and to prevent misuse of our systems. For further information refer to our Cookies Policy below.
What if you don’t provide some information to us?
If you do not agree to the above or will not provide us with personal and, in certain circumstances, sensitive information, we cannot process your application, issue you with a policy or provide you with our services or products.
Cookies Policy
Whilst using this site, some information is collected automatically using ‘cookies’ or local storage.
We use cookies on our website to help us provide customers with the best possible online experience. If you continue to browse our website we assume that you are happy for your web browser to receive all cookies served by our site.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your web browser and stored in the memory of your device when you visit a website. Cookies are useful because they enable collection of user data and analysis of how the website is being used by visitors, to optimise and create the best possible customer experience.
Some cookies are temporary to your browsing session and deleted every time you close your browser. Other cookies remain on your device until they expire or you delete them from your device’s cache.
What information do they not hold?
The cookies we use do not hold any data that can identify you personally, such as; names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, bank account numbers or credit card information.
Why do we use cookies?
- to recognise your computer when you visit our website.
- to improve the website’s usability.
- to track you as you navigate our website.
- to analyse the use of our website.
What cookies do we use?
Essential cookies
This site uses essential cookies as they are essential to the effective operation of our website. Examples of use include:
- Saving your choice of insurance cover and information as you progress through the quote and buy process.
- Ensuring your data and policy choices have been captured correctly when you reach the stage of policy purchase.
Non-essential cookies
To help us understand how visitors use our site and to measure it’s performance, this site uses web analytics cookies provided by Google Analytics. We only use trusted web analytics platforms that provide statistical insight into interaction and behaviours of website visitors.
You will see Junior Freeride Tour owned website advertisements on third-party websites as we use display advertising techniques to target consumers. Some advertisements you may see will be facilitated through an Advertising Network.
Our site uses targeting cookies that support behavioural advertising. This form of advertising allows advertising of a more relevant nature to be tailored and broadcast by capturing user’s online behaviour. Some of these cookies are placed on your computer to display our advertisements and also use to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising and promotions on third party websites.
Please note that by ‘opting out’ of receiving cookies from any network, you may disable the ability for a network to deliver advertisements that are targeted to your interests.
Accepting or rejecting cookies
You may be able to configure your internet browser to warn you each time a new cookie is about to be stored, so that you may make a decision whether to accept or reject it. If cookies are already on your system, you can delete them.