Privacy Policy of Educational Opportunities Tours, Inc.

Effective Date: November 14, 2022

This notice describes the Privacy Policy for etsa.travelwithus.com, a website containing content relating to travel tours (the “Website”) operated by Educational Opportunities Tours, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”, “we” or “us”).   By visiting the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy, which are also deemed to be a part of the Terms of Use of the Website. The use of information collected through the Website shall be limited to the purpose of providing the service for which you, as the user, have requested from us and for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On the Website.
  • In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and us, including, without limitation, electronic communications through the Website.
  • Through software, including, without limitation, mobile applications, that you download from the Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any website operated by third parties; or
  • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website after we make changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

1. Data Acquisition

In order to help us personalize and continually improve your experience at the Website, we may gather certain types of information. The types of information we gather are:  

  1. Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on the Website, or give us in any other way. For example, we may request that you provide certain personal information, including your name, address, email address, birth date, telephone number, other contact information, country of residence, gender, credit card numbers for purchases and other information from which your identity is confirmed. We may also sometimes afford you the opportunity to provide descriptive, cultural, behavioral, and preferential and/or lifestyle information about yourself, but it is solely up to you whether you furnish such information. If you do provide such information, you are thereby consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. We may also collect demographic information that is not unique to you such as your ZIP code, age, preferences, location, gender, interests and favorites, and technical data regarding usage, including your device identifier or IP address. Sometimes we collect or may collect a combination of the two types of information. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to use certain features of the website.  Certain personal information may be required from you if you register for a tour through the Website. We use the information that you provide to us for purposes such as responding to your requests, customizing future visits for you, improving our services, and communicating with you, and we may provide such information to third parties for non-commercial purposes. By submitting information relating to a tour registration, you consent to our sharing of such information with third parties as is necessary or convenient for us to complete your registration.
  2. Cookies and Automatic Information: We also receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, we gather, or may gather, certain information about your use of the Website and the Website networking, such as what areas you visit and what services you access. The Company and our partners, affiliates, and analytics or service providers use cookies or similar technologies. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.  Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level; we are not able to respond directly to “do not track” requests. As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data.  We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you and site functionality.  We may partner with third parties to either display advertising on our website or manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
  3. Email Communications: We store all email or similar electronic correspondence between you and the Website in order to improve your future experiences. We may use your contact information in order to send you email or other communications regarding updates at the Website.
  4. Blog/Testimonials/Photos:  The Website may contain publicly accessible blogs, testimonials, or photo galleries.  You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from a blog, testimonial or photo gallery, contact us at the email address set forth in Section 12 below.  In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

2. How We Use Information We Gather

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present the Website and its contents to you.
  • To communicate with you and to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
  • To improve or services.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to the Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
  • To seek to detect, investigate and prevent illegal activities or activities that may violate our policies.
  • For direct marketing by us for internal market research.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

This Website may provide information to third party advertisers to assist in the marketing to users of third-party products or services relating to our tours.

3. Disclosure of Information

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy.  We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may disclose aggregated information about our users.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates for various purposes.
  • To contractors and service providers we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about the Website users is among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
  • To third parties who provide services on our behalf to help with our tours and business activities or who provide products or services to you as part of our tour packages and related business activities.  
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • When we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
  • To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others.

We DO NOT control and are not responsible for any information provided to or disseminated by administrators or other users.

We use the information you provide when registering for a tour or placing a purchase order to fulfill the registration or purchase order. We do not share this information with third parties except as needed to fulfill that registration or purchase.  We use the information you provide about someone else when registering for a tour or placing a purchase order to fulfill that registration or purchase. We will not share this information with third parties except as needed to complete registration or fulfill a purchase order.

4. Access and Choice

You may request deletion or correction of your personal information by contacting us by email or postal mail at the contact information listed below.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.  We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

You have the right to:

  • request information about your personal information that we process. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, category of personal information, categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned duration of storage, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if we have not collected it, and about the existence of automated decision-making including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information about the details thereof;
  • immediately request the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal information relating to you stored by us;
  • request the erasure of personal information relating to you stored by us, unless processing is required for the exercising of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of the public interest, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • request the restriction of processing of your personal information in the event that you decline its erasure and we no longer need the data but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • receive the personal information relating to you that you have provided to us in a structured, established, and machine-readable format, or to request the transfer of the same to another controller;
  • at any time revoke any consent you have provided to us, which will result in us no longer continuing to process the data to which this consent relates, and lodge a complaint to a supervisory authority.

5. Public Areas of the Website

Some areas of the Website may be public areas. These are OPEN PUBLIC FORUMS and must be treated as such. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. Choosing to make your information public is exactly what it sounds like: anyone, including persons outside of the website, will be able to see it. The company does not guarantee the accuracy or your safety when posting on any of these forums.

6. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information including a variety of privacy and security policies, processes and procedures, including administrative, physical and technical safeguards that we deem to reasonably and appropriately protect the integrity and availability of the personal information that it creates, receives, maintains or transmits. In addition, we endeavor encrypt the transmission of such personal information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we endeavor to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

7. Third Party Websites

The Website may contain links to third party websites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other websites so you can understand how they collect, use, and share your information.

Widgets and Social Media Features

The Website may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets, such as the “share this buttons” or interactive mini-programs that run on the Website. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Open ID Provider

You may be able to log in to the Website through sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate certain forms on the Website. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on the Website to your profile page to share with others within your network.

8. Children Under the Age of 13

The Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.  If you are parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 years of age and you provide information about that child through the Website, such as tour registration information, then you thereby consent on behalf of such child to our use of such information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

9. Data Retention

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law for a set period. You can request deletion of your personal information. You understand and agree, however, that it may not be possible to completely delete all information from our databases and in such case,  we may retain (but not display, distribute, or perform) server copies of your information that have been removed or deleted from your account. Even after we have deleted your information from our systems, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances – where, for example, you have shared information with social media platforms and other unaffiliated services, or in a de-identified or aggregated fashion. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancelation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies.

10. Mobile Privacy

We may offer you the ability to connect with our Website, or use our applications, services, and tools through a mobile device, either through a mobile application or via a mobile optimized website. The provisions of this Privacy Policy apply to all such mobile access and use of mobile devices. This Privacy Policy will be referenced by all such mobile applications or mobile optimized websites.

When you download or use our mobile applications, or access one of our mobile optimized sites, we may use various technologies to determine location, such as location services of the applicable operating system or browser and sensor data from your device, such as GPS coordinates. We automatically receive and record information on our server from your browser or mobile platform, including your location, IP address, browser type, operating information, device and application IDs, and cookie information. We will not use any information collected directly for advertising purposes.  Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable location services in the device's setting's menu. If you have questions about how to disable your device's location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or the manufacturer of your particular device.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

12. Contact Information

The Website is operated by Educational Opportunities Tours, Inc., which developed and owns the content on the Website. You can contact us at webterms@travelwithus.com.  

Contact address:
Timothy F. Brown
Educational Opportunities Tours, Inc.
5725 Imperial Lakes Blvd.
Mulberry, FL 3386