All personal data (your name, your email address, your phone number, country of residence, post code) sent by you through our contact and booking forms on this website, is entered into our system through the Security Socket Layer (SSL) security protocol. Your information is kept securely on our booking platform’s database, stored on our secure server. The information is managed by the Data Protection Officer. It is erased once we do not require it further (see 4. How long will we hold your personal data)
Your personal data information sent to our email address (info@leadingtourslondon.com) is kept within the database of our email and we do not transfer it to an external platform. Note: we do not require further information, other than your name, email address, phone number, post code and country of residence. Any additional information sent by you to us is unnecessary to us and it is up to your personal discretion whether you would like to share any further private information about yourself at your own risk. Your personal information, sent to us by email, is managed by the Data Protection Officer and. It is erased once we do not require it further (see 4. How long will we hold your personal data).
All the information about your personal data that you have sent to our site (www.leadingtourslondon.com) or email address (info@leadingtourslondon.com) or phone number (+447879978099) is accessed by the Data Protection Officer.
Leading Tours has designated responsibility for data protection compliance to a suitable individual within the organisation. The Managing Director has been appointed as Data Protection Officer (DPO). It should be noted that Leading Tours does not carry out large scale monitoring of individuals or large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy notice.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. This includes tour packages for destinations outside EEA, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data and have contractual processes in place with our business partners to do this, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site. Once we have received your information, we will use relevant procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
The information about your bank card details is managed by Stripe.
Our Payment Service Provider is Stripe (See the privacy policy of Stripe)
In addition, you know that your session is in a secure encrypted environment when you see https:// in the web address, and/or when you see the locked padlock symbol alongside the URL.
So when buying through our site, you can be sure that you are completely protected.
12. Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls www.leadingtourslondon.com (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.