Privacy Policy

On Beach Holiday is a part of Solistic Company Ltd, registered in the UK. We are enthusiastic about discovery and travel. We use a global viewpoint to create content that inspires and guides beach lovers everywhere.

We prioritize data privacy and protection for everyone who utilizes our products and services and entrusts us with their information. We created this privacy notice to help you understand how we gather data, what we do with it, and how we protect it. We’ll explain how long we preserve data and what happens when we no longer require it. We will also discuss your data rights and how we safeguard and enable them.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information gathered through any other website, application, or service; it only covers the sites we own and manage. The privacy practices or policies of third parties are not our responsibility. By using our sites, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Contents

• What personal information do we collect from you?
• What information is collected automatically?
• How do we use your personal information?
• Your privacy choices
• How we protect your personal information
• Links to other websites
• Children’s Privacy 
• European economic area residents notice
• California residents notice
• Changes to this privacy policy
• Contacting us

What Personal Information Do We Collect From You?

We may require your personal information, such as your name or email address, when you use or subscribe to one of our services, purchase a product, join one of our online communities, or participate in any of our research initiatives. This is so that we can fulfil your request for services.

Remember that any information you post or comment on onbeachholiday.com can be seen or collected by anyone who views it. As a result, avoid sharing sensitive or personal information.

Behavioural data

When you visit onbeachholiday.com, we collect data about your online behaviour using Analytics to see how long you spent on the site, the day and time you visited, and how you browsed it.

When you sign up for a newsletter or participate in research, we may collect information about your preferences, tastes, and interests.

What Information is Collected Automatically?

When you visit onbeachholiday.com, our third-party partners and service providers may automatically collect certain information from your device or web browser using tools such as cookies, web beacons, and other data-collecting and tracking technologies. This helps us understand how our users use onbeachholiday.com and target advertising messages to you. 

We and our third-party partners and service providers may also collect and track information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and devices using specific data-matching techniques. 

The information collected automatically when you visit onbeachholiday.com may include the following:

• Your IP address.
• Operating system.
• Browser and system settings information.
• Unique device identifiers.
• Clickstream data.
• Other information that generally is not considered personally identifiable.

How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We and our third-party partners may use the information collected on the Sites for various purposes, some mentioned below. 

• Monitor, improve, and secure our websites.
• If you agree, sell ad space and show ads, including personalized ones, by enabling cookies and keeping our site free for users.
• Analyze how our site is used, including market research and financial analysis.
• Tailor content, ads, and marketing messages from us and others on our sites and elsewhere.
• Inform you about special offers or promotions.
• Enhance and develop our business, including creating new site features, improving user experience, evaluating our marketing effectiveness, and managing communications.
• Protect against fraud, criminal activities, claims, and liabilities.
• Follow legal requirements, respond to law enforcement, and adhere to our policies.
• Use your information for other stated purposes with your consent.

Newsletters

We’ll collect your email only if you agree, like when you sign up for our newsletter. We’ll use it to send you what you requested and occasionally other things we think you might like. You can stop these emails anytime by clicking “unsubscribe” in any email.

Advertising

We run advertisements on our website and newsletters to keep most of the information free. We display ads you would find interesting, manage how often you see an advertisement, and assess the success of a campaign using cookies and related technology in collaboration with reliable partners.

Disabling cookies does not guarantee you won’t see any ads.

Your Privacy Choices

Unsubscribe from emails

Click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom to unsubscribe from a particular newsletter. This will opt you out of all email campaigns.

We may disclose your opt-out choices to third parties so that they can honour your preferences by applicable laws.

Blocking Cookies

Specific browsers may be configured to notify you when you receive cookies or allow you to restrict or disable certain cookies. However, turning off cookies could affect certain site features that use cookies to enhance their functionality.

Third-party ad networks

As this Privacy Policy describes, we and third parties may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information and infer your interests for interest-based advertising purposes. 

If you prefer not to receive personalized ads based on your browser or device usage, you may opt out of interest-based advertising by clicking here.

User Choice

We honour your privacy and will verify your identity and confirm if we have your information upon request. You can ask to correct, delete, or stop using your personal information. Sometimes, we might not fulfill your request due to legal reasons, identity verification issues, or significant cost or effort. However, we’ll always respond promptly and explain our actions. To make a request, please contact us.

Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a more extended retention period is required or permitted by law.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We use strong safety measures to protect your personal information from being lost, changed, seen, or used in ways it shouldn’t be. But remember, no one can promise complete safety for information shared online. You decide if you want to use our sites and give us information, knowing these risks. If you’re worried about how secure your data is with us, or if you think it’s unsafe, please contact us immediately, as mentioned in this Privacy Notice.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other-party websites and videos, ads, and other content provided by third parties. We strongly recommend studying any privacy warnings or policies on linked websites. We are not liable for the content, terms of service, privacy policies, or other aspects of any websites, applications, or services that we do not own or control.

Children’s Privacy 

Our website is created for a general audience and is not intended for use by children under 16. We do not intentionally collect personal information about minors under 16. If we discover that we have gathered personal information from children under 16, we shall delete the information.

European Economic Area Residents

If you live in the EEA, you have rights including:

• Accessing your personal data.
• Correcting your personal data.
• Asking us to delete your personal data.
• Limiting how we process your personal data.
• Complaining to a local authority if your data is misused.

If you think we’re not handling your personal data legally, you can complain to a data protection authority in your home country, work country, or the place where you think the issue happened.

You may exercise any of your rights about your data by contacting us.

California Residents

Under California law, subject to certain limits, California residents may ask us to provide them with a list of the categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, as well as the identity of those third parties. California residents may contact us to request this information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We sometimes update our Privacy Policy. The latest version is always on our website, marked with the start date. Changes might happen if our practices evolve, technology changes, or we add or modify services. If we use your personal information differently than we said before, we’ll allow you to agree to the changes. If you disagree, we’ll use your information per the previous policy that was in place when we first got your information. After the update, you will accept the new policy if you keep using our site or services. We’ll use the information we’ve gathered based on the active policy when we collect it.

Contacting Us

If you have questions about this policy or our practices, contact us.

Last updated: March 12, 2024.