Privacy Policy

What information we collect from you 

In general, we (Saltie) receive and may store any information you enter on our mobile applications, websites or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you (“personal information”), including your first and last name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, and billing information (such as credit card number, cardholder name, and expiration date). We may also request information about your cruise line preference, hotel room preferences, frequent flyer and car rental program information. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to register as a customer; book travel; complete a traveler profile; participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes; ask us a question; or initiate other transactions with us. 

Travel Companion Information. When you make a reservation for someone else through our websites, mobile applications (apps) or any other way, we will request personal information and travel preferences about that individual. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing us with their personal information and travel preferences, as any access to view or change their information will be available only through your account. 

Information from Other Sources. We also may periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliated entities, business partners and other independent third-party sources and add it to our account information. Examples of information we may receive include: updated delivery and address information, purchase history, and demographic information. In addition, if you sign up for Saltie using your social media account, link your Saltie account to your social media account, or use certain other Saltie social media features, we may access information about you via that social media provider in accordance with the provider’s policies. The information may include your name, email address, profile picture, gender, list of friends, and other information that you authorize us to receive. Depending on the privacy settings of you and your friends, we may access information that you provide to a social media provider regarding your respective locations (“Location Data”) to provide you with relevant content. Please note that your Location Data may also be shared with your friends on a social media provider in accordance with your privacy settings for that social media provider. 

Automatic Information. We may automatically collect some information about your computer when you visit our websites. For example, we will collect your IP address, Web browser software (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), and referring website. We also may collect information about your online activity, such as trips viewed and bookings made. Our goals in collecting this automatic information include helping customize your user experience and inhibiting fraud. 

For more information, please see Cookies and other technologies. 

How we use your information 

We use sensitive billing information (such as cardholder name, credit card number, and expiration date) for the purpose of completing the travel bookings you create, purchase and manage on our websites, apps or any other way. We use other information about you for the following general purposes: to provide you with the products and services you request; to provide you with travel confirmation and updates; to manage your account, including processing bills and providing travel notifications; to communicate with you in general; to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and websites; to notify you about special offers and products or services that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with these websites; to reward you as part of any reward and recognition program you choose to join; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection. 

Email Communications. We want to make it easy for you to take advantage of travel-related opportunities which we offer. One way we do this is by sending you email messages that contain information about your apparent travel-related interests. For example, if you search for a cruise to Bermuda on our websites and have saved your itinerary or otherwise not yet booked your travel, we may send you an email message reminding you about your saved travel itinerary or about a special offer to Bermuda. Similarly, if you receive an email from us about Bermuda travel and demonstrate an interest in Bermuda by affirmatively clicking on a link about Bermuda in the email, you may receive an email about Bermuda offers or other destination information. We believe these email messages will provide you with useful information about travel-related special offers available through our sites. Please note that you will have the opportunity to choose not to receive these email messages in any such email we send. 

Please review “Your choices with respect to the collection and use of your information” below. 

With whom we share your information 

Our websites may share your information with the following entities: 

Suppliers, such as cruise lines, hotel, airline, car rental, and activity providers, and other fulfillment partners who fulfill your travel requests and reservations. Throughout our sites, all services provided by a third-party supplier are described as such. By making a reservation through our sites, you are authorizing us to disclose to suppliers the information required to complete the booking and deliver the related travel. These suppliers are not controlled by CEDC and personal information disclosed to them is subject to the applicable supplier’s privacy policy and security practices. Therefore, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any travel supplier whose products you purchase through our sites. 

Third-party vendors who provide services or functions on our behalf, including credit card processing, business analytics, customer service, marketing, distribution of surveys or sweepstakes programs, and fraud prevention.  Brad, does this last sentence make sense? We may also authorize third-party vendors to collect information on our behalf, including as necessary to operate features of our websites or to facilitate the delivery of online advertising tailored to your interests. Third-party vendors have access to and may collect information only as needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose. They are also required to follow the same data security practices that we ourselves adhere to. 

Business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be offered on our websites. You can tell when a third party is involved in a product or service you have requested because their name will appear, either alone or with ours. If you choose to access these optional services, we may share information about you, including your personal information, with those partners. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners. 

Referring websites. If you were referred to our websites from another site (for example, through a link you clicked on another site that directed you to this one), we may share some information about you with that referring website. We have not placed limitations on the referring websites use of your personal information and we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website that referred you here. 

Companies within our corporate family. We may share your personal information with our parent company and corporate affiliates. This sharing enables us to provide you with information about products and services, both travel-related and other, which might interest you. To the extent that our parent company and corporate affiliates have access to your information, they will follow practices that are at least as restrictive as the practices described in this Privacy Policy. They also will comply with applicable laws governing the transmission of promotional communications and, at a minimum, give you an opportunity in any commercial email they send to choose not to receive such email messages in the future. 

We also may share your information: 

In response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. 

When we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company or our websites, our customers, or others; and in connection with our Terms and Conditions and other agreements. 

In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. 

Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information. 

We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors our websites receive or the most popular cruise line and vacation destinations. This information does not contain any personal information and is used to develop content and services we hope you will find of interest. 

You can access and update your contact information by accessing Profile Settings or your Member Profile page. can close your account by contacting us at the email address listed below. Please note that after you close an account, you will not be able to sign in or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at any time. Please also note that we may retain certain information associated with your account, including for analytical purposes as well as for record keeping integrity. 

Your right to control how your personal information is used 

You have the right to make requests concerning how your personal information is used.  You can: 

• Request a copy and review the personal information we have about you. 
• Ask us to update information about you that is inaccurate. 
• Request that we delete your information. 
• Opt out of sharing certain personal information with third parties.  
• Opt out of email marketing campaigns.  

You can close your account by contacting us at the email address listed below. Please note that after you close an account, you will not be able to sign in or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at any time.  

We will make reasonable efforts to meet with your requests.  If you request that we delete or stop using your personal information we may not be able to meet that request where  the personal information is required for payments, refunds, the delivery of travel services to you, or where the information is required for tax, compliance or regulatory purposes.    

Your choices with respect to collection and use of your information 

As discussed above, you can choose not to provide us with any information, although it may be needed to book travel or to take advantage of certain features offered on our sites. 

You also can add or update information and close your account as described above. 

You will be given the opportunity to unsubscribe from commercial emails in any such message that we send you. If you are a registered member, you can also modify your choice at any time on the Member Profile page. Please note that we reserve the right to send you other communications, including service announcements, administrative messages, and surveys relating either to your account or to your transactions on our sites, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. 

You may have the opportunity in our app or on our websites to provide a mobile number in order to receive day-of-travel flight alerts. You may discontinue these alerts at any time. 

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies from our sites, you will not be able to access portions of our sites. 

Cookies and other technologies 

Cookies are small data text files and can be stored on your computer’s hard drive (if your Web browser permits). Our websites uses cookies for the following general purposes: 

To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our sites. For example, if you register on our sites, we may use cookies to remember your registration information, so you do not need to log into our sites each time you visit. We also may record your password in a cookie, if you checked the box entitled “Sign me in automatically next time.” Please note that member IDs, passwords, and any other account-related data included in such cookies are encrypted for security purposes. Unless you register with us, these cookies will not contain any personal information. 

To help us customize the content and advertisements provided to you on our websites and on other sites across the Internet. For example, when you access a page on our websites, a cookie is automatically set by us, our service providers, or our partners to recognize your browser as you navigate on the Internet and to present you with information and advertising based on your apparent interests. See Display of Advertising/Your Choices for more information about our online advertising practices and your choices. 

To help measure and research the effectiveness of websites features and offerings, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon). 

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to access many of the travel tools offered on our sites. 

In addition to the above cookies, we may use Local Shared Objects, also referred to as “flash cookies,” on our websites. These may be used to enhance your user experience. Local Shared Objects are similar to browser cookies, but can store data more complex than simple text. By themselves, they cannot do anything to or with the data on your computer. Like other cookies, they can only access personally identifiable information that you have provided on our sites, and cannot be accessed by other websites. To find out more about flash cookies or how to disable them, please visit: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html. 

Our sites may also use Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or Web bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are placed in the code of a Web page. We use Web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our sites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our sites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, and to improve site performance. We also may allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help us understand which emails have been opened by recipients and to track the visitor traffic and actions on our sites. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our content and other offerings. 

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us via info@saltie.cruises. 

Display of tailored content/Your choices 

Data collected by our websites to serve you with relevant advertising. CEDC is committed to providing you with relevant content and information. To do this, we may, through cookies and other technologies, collect information about your travel-related searches. We use this information, together with other information we have collected about you, to sort, filter, rank and display content that is of specific interest to you. 

Please note that we do not have access to or control over cookies or other technologies these third parties may use to collect information about your interests, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. 

We also use some other information that we collect automatically when you use our Mobile App. Specifically: 

We collect information about Mobile App functionality that you access and use. This allows us to identify those areas of the Mobile App that are of interest to our customers so that we can refine and continuously improve the Mobile App. The information we collect for this purpose does not enable us to directly identify you. 

Each Mobile App also sends us the device’s unique device identifier (or “UID”), a sequence of numbers or characters that are unique to your mobile device. We use this only on the first opening of the Mobile App so that we can confirm to our advertising networks the number of downloads resulting from clicks on their respective ad banners and other marketing tools. 

When you use a Mobile App, you can choose to allow access to your current location – provided by your mobile device using GPS or similar technologies – in order to identify nearby hotels or airports. If you choose to allow access, this location data may be collected anonymously as part of search requests logged by our servers. You can switch off the Mobile App’s access to your location at any time through your phone settings menu. 

Each Mobile App will also send us error-reporting information in the event that it crashes or hangs. This enables us to investigate the error and to improve the stability of the Mobile App for future releases. As part of these error reports, the Mobile App sends us information about the mobile device type and version, the UID, the time the error occurred, the feature being used and the state of the application when the error occurred. We do not use this information for any purpose other than investigating and remedying the error. 

You always have the ability to control what information a Mobile App sends to us. You can exercise this control either by changing the settings of the Mobile App under its setting menu or changing the settings of your mobile device. Alternatively, you can remove the Mobile App from your mobile device entirely and access our services through our websites. 

How we protect your information 

We want you to feel confident about using our websites and apps to make travel arrangements, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no company can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may only do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your sensitive personal information between your system and ours, and we employ industry standard best practices in protecting our network from unauthorized usage or unauthorized persons from gaining access to your 

Children’s privacy 

Our websites and apps are for general audiences and do not offer services directed to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information. 

External Links 

If any part of our websites or apps links you to other sites, those sites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend you examine the privacy statements posted on those other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information. 

Visiting our websites from outside the United States 

If you are visiting our websites from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that we take steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy. 

U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework 

As described in our Safe Harbor Privacy Statement, we comply with the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the US-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. 

Changes to this Privacy Policy 

We may update this Privacy Policy in the future. We will notify you about material changes to this Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the email address you provided to us or by placing a prominent notice on our websites. 

How you can contact us 

If you have questions about either this Privacy Policy (or your travel planning or purchases), please email us at info@saltie.cruises. 

This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 1, 2024.