Kodama

Kodama Travel Privacy and Cookie Policies

Summary of Key Points1. What information do we collect2. How do we process your information3. What legal bases do we rely on to process your personal information4. When and with whom do we share your personal information?5. Do we use Cookies and other tracking technologies?6. How do we handle your social logins7. How long do we keep your information?8. How do we keep your information safe?9. Do we collect information from minors?10. What are your privacy rights?11. Do we make updates to this policy?

This privacy policy for Kodama Travel (“we”, “us”, or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”). Kodama Travel owns and operates a marketplace platform that enables travellers to search, find, and book travel experiences globally. In this Statement, these are collectively referred to as our “Services”. This Statement provides a general overview of our privacy practices, although laws and customs can differ in a number of countries and territories.

Summary of key points

What personal information do we process?
When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.

Do we process any sensitive personal information?
We do not process sensitive personal information.

Do we receive any information from third parties?
We receive payment related information from Stripe in order to process your booking.

How do we process your information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, prevent fraud, and comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information?

We share your name, email, and booking details with vendors from whom you have made a booking with.

1. What information do we collect

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you provide to us when you make a booking with us. Information collected may include the following:

  • Contact information, including name, phone number, and email addresses.
  • Profile information, including your username, profile picture, and other information you provide
  • Information to help vendors with your booking, such as dietary requirements and ages when needed.
  • Information that you have provided to third party companies for the purposes of logging into Kodama via social media platforms or Google accounts. This includes publicly available information, such as name and email addresses.

Information automatically collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (such as your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, currency preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

2. How do we process your information

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log into your account, as well as keep your account in working order.

  • To deliver and facilitate delivery of services. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.

  • To respond to user inquiries/offer support. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.

  • To send administrative information to you. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, or changes to our terms and policies.

  • To fulfil and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfil and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.

  • To save or protect an individual's vital interest. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest, such as to prevent harm.

3. What legal bases do we rely on to process your personal information

If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information

  • Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. However, we will still contact you if you have an upcoming trip with us, such as when there is cancellation or changes.

  • Performance of a contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services.

  • Legal obligation. We may process your personal information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

  • Vital interests. may process your personal information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person

4. When and with whom do we share your personal information?

Vendors and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents (third parties') who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.

5. Do we use Cookies and other tracking technologies?

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information. Some default cookies seetings are for authentication purposes and enable key functionality of the Kodama Travel platform, such as keeping an end-user logged in, being able to tie a visitor to an app user through sign-up.

6. How do we handle your social logins

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media or Google account, we may have access to certain information about you. Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform. We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this privacy policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

7. How long do we keep your information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than three (3) months past the termination of the user's account. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives or you have an upcoming trip with us), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. How do we keep your information safe?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

9. Do we collect information from minors?

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent's use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records.

10. What are your privacy rights?

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right:

(i)to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information

(ii) to request rectification or erasure;

(iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information;

(iv) if applicable, to data portability;

(v) not to be subject to automated decision-making.

In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section 'HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?' below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Withdrawing your consent

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section 'HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?' below or updating your preferences. However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you may email us at hello@kodamatravel.com

11. How can you contact us about this policy?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at hello@kodamatravel.com.