Who we are

Our website address is: https://victoriaexpeditions.com

What personal data do we collect and why do 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

An additional cookie will be saved in your browser if you edit or publish an article. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 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

We use Google Analytics and this is a link to their privacy policies: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ if you wish to get your data deleted with us, please contact us through on contact for our webmaster.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order! (Where we will be sending you your travel ID, Luggage tags, etc.)

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of basket contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username etc. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

Who we share your data with

We do not directly share your data with anyone, however, we have 3rd party suppliers such as DPO Group which is our online payment provider. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to DPO, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. You can find their privacy policy at https://dpogroup.com/privacy-policy/ Which is using your data to process the payment you are performing.

We collect information about you during the checkout process in our store.

How long do 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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We do keep your contact form entries for six months, analytics records for a year, and customer purchase records for ten years.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
We do not keep or have access to any information given to 3rd party suppliers such as our payment processor. 

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

VCT Expeditions Safari & Travel Limited ((VCT stands for Victoria)and our trade name is Victoria Expeditions Tanzania)
Seth Benjamin Road, Silk Club Building, 23102 Arusha, Tanzania
TZ-Phone: +255 767 288 740, North America: +1 716 948 2859, Europe: +45 91 72 63 06
Email: webmaster@victoriaexpeditions.com

Additional information

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

  • Order information like which programs, tours, activities, hotels, cars, etc. were booked, when it was booked and where possible ID tags, luggage tags, etc. should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds and support you.

How we protect your data

We are taking all technical possible measures to protect your data such as encryption; we also use security measures such as two-factor authentication, and we are training our staff in data protection.

What data breach procedures do we have in place

How do we deal with data breaches? We have put in place a reporting system, and you and others can contact us through our contact forms.

What third parties do we receive data from

Non

What automated decision-making and/or profiling do we do with user data

Non

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Non