This document describes how we use and process your personal data, hopefully provided in a readable and transparent manner so you can understand where we’re coming from without dying of boredom. As an added bonus, it also tells you how to contact us if you have questions about your personal data, which we’re more than happy to answer. You should also check out our separate Cookie Statement, which tells you how Smart Turkey Tours makes use of cookies and other similar technologies. For a better understanding of what we mean by “Trip,” “Trip Provider,” “Trip Service,” and “Trip Reservation,” please read the Smart Turkey Tours Terms and Conditions.

If you’ve ever used our services before, you know that Smart Turkey Tours offers online travel-related services through our own websites and mobile apps, as well as through other online platforms like partners’ websites and social media. Why mention every one of these? It's good to know that all the information that follows applies to not one, not two, but all of these platforms. We have several platforms, but one Privacy Statement.

This one Privacy Statement applies to any kind of information we collect through these platforms or other means connected to these platforms (like emailing our Customer Service team, for example). It makes reading all of this a lot simpler. If you're one of our business partners, check out our Privacy Statement for Business Partners as well, to understand how personal data is further processed as part of the business relationship.

We might amend the Privacy Statement from time to time. If you care about your privacy, visit this page regularly to know exactly where you stand. If we make changes to the Privacy Statement which will have an impact on you (e.g. if we intend to process your personal data for other purposes than communicated in the past in this Privacy Statement), we'll notify you of these changes before the new activities begin.

The hard truth: If you disagree with this Privacy Statement, you should discontinue using our services. If you agree with our Privacy Statement, then you’re all set to book your next stay. Let the good times roll!

What kind of personal information does Smart Turkey Tours collect?

We can’t help you book the perfect accommodations without information, so when you use our services there are certain pieces of information we ask for. This is pretty basic stuff – your name, preferred contact details, the names of anybody traveling with you, and your payment information. You can decide to submit special requests for your upcoming Trip (e.g. certain preferences). In addition to this, we also collect information from your computer, phone tablet or other device you're using to access our services. This can include the IP address, the browser you're using, and your language settings. There are also situations when we receive information about you from others or automatically collect other information. This is a basic overview of the information we collect, but if you’d like to know more specifics, we go into a lot more detail below.

Why does Smart Turkey Tours collect and use your personal data?

The main reason we ask you for personal details is a very good one – it’s to help administer your online bookings and ensure you get the best service possible. We also use your personal data to contact you and inform you about our latest deals and special offers that we think would interest you. There are other uses, too – if you’d like to find out what they are, keep reading for a more detailed explanation.

How does Smart Turkey Tours share your data with third parties?

There are different parties integrated into the Smart Turkey Tours services in various ways for various reasons. The main purpose is to share your data relevant for your Trip with the Trip Provider to complete your Trip Reservation. There are also other parties that can receive some of your data, which are parties we involve to provide you with the Smart Turkey Tours services. These include financial institutions, advertisers, subsidiaries of the Smart Turkey Tours corporate family and other affiliates of the corporate family, or in some cases if we are required by applicable law, governmental or other authorities. We do not sell or rent your personal data. Below we’ll go into more detail about how the information you share with us is used and exchanged with these parties.

How does Smart Turkey Tours process communications that you and your booked Trip Provider might send to Smart Turkey Tours?

Smart Turkey Tours can help you and Trip Providers exchange information and requests about their services and existing Trip Reservations, directing the communications through Smart Turkey Tours. If you want to find out more about how Smart Turkey Tours receives and handles these communications, read on!

How does Smart Turkey Tours use mobile devices?

We offer free apps which we also collect and process personal data through. This works very much the same way as our website, but they also allow you to use our locations services.

How does Smart Turkey Tours use social media?

The use of social media services may be integrated with the Smart Turkey Tours services in various ways, which can involve us collecting some of your personal data or the social media provider receiving some of your information. If you’d like to learn more about how this information is used and exchanged, keep reading.

What security and retention procedures does Smart Turkey Tours put in place to safeguard your personal data?

We adhere to appropriate and adequate procedures to prevent unauthorized access to, and the misuse of, personal data that we process.

How does Smart Turkey Tours treat personal data about children?

Unless otherwise indicated, Smart Turkey Tours is a service you're only allowed to use if you're over 16 years old. We only process information about children with the consent of the parents or legal guardians or when the information is provided to use by the parents or legal guardian.

How can you control the personal data you've given to Smart Turkey Tours?

You always have the right to review the personal information we keep about you. You can request an overview of your personal data by emailing us at the email address dataprotection@Smart Turkey Tours. If you want to find out more about your rights to control your personal data, here.

Who's responsible for the processing of personal data on the Smart Turkey Tours website and apps?

Smart Turkey Tours located in Athens, Greece, controls the processing of personal data on its websites and mobile apps.

What kind of personal data does Smart Turkey Tours collect?

Ok, so you’re looking for some more specifics. Here’s an in-depth view of the information we collect.

Personal data you give to us.

Smart Turkey Tours collects and uses information that you provide us. When you make a Trip Reservation, you are (as a minimum) asked for your name and email address. Depending on the Trip Reservation, we might also ask for your home address, telephone number, payment information, date of birth, the names of any guests traveling with you, and any preferences (e.g. meal preferences or any mobility restrictions) you have for your Trip.

If you need to get in touch with our customer service team, or reach out to us through other means (e.g. using social media, or communicating with your booked Trip Provider through us), we'll collect information from you there, too. Guests can also be asked to provide a review to help ensure future guests get exactly what they’re looking for. We'll collect information from you included in your reviews, like your display name and avatar if you choose one.

There are also other instances where you’ll provide us with information. For example, if you’re browsing with your mobile device, you can decide to enable Smart Turkey Tours to see your current location or grant access to your contact details – this helps us provide you with the best possible service and experience (e.g. to see our city guides, the nearest restaurants & attractions to your location, or other recommendations). You can also open a user account, which allows you to save your personal settings, upload photos, review previous bookings, or plan and manage future reservations or benefit from other features only available to account holders (such as incentives or other benefits we might offer).

You can decide to participate in referral programs or sweepstakes, which involves providing us with personal data. In addition to that, you can provide us with feedback or ask for help with using the Smart Turkey Tours travel services.

Personal data you give us about others.

Of course, you might not just be making a Trip Reservation for yourself. You might be doing a Trip with other guests whose details you provide as part of the Trip Reservation, or you might make a Trip Reservation on behalf of someone else. If you maintain a Smart Turkey Tours for Business account, you can also create an address book to facilitate business travel, as well as manage the others' bookings. In some cases, you can use Smart Turkey Tours to share information with others. This might take the form of forwarding a wish list or participating in referral programs, but such information can only be used as described in the offered interface – check the details there if you want to learn more.

However, now we should point out that it’s your responsibility to ensure the person or people you've provided personal information about are aware that you’ve done so, and have accepted how Smart Turkey Tours uses their information (as described in this useful privacy statement).

Personal data we collect automatically.

Even if you don’t end up making a Trip Reservation (and when you do), when you visit our websites or apps, we automatically collect certain information. This includes your IP address, the date and time you accessed our services, the hardware, software or internet browser you used and information about your computer’s operating system, like application versions and your language settings. We also collect information about clicks and which pages were shown to you.

If you're using a mobile device, we might also collect data that identifies your mobile device, device-specific settings and characteristics, location details, app crashes, and other system activity. When you make a reservation, our system registers through which means and from which websites you made your reservation or entered the Smart Turkey Tours websites and/or apps.

Personal data we receive from other sources.

It’s not just the things you tell us, though – we might also receive information about you from other sources. These include business partners, like affiliate partners, subsidiaries of the Smart Turkey Tours corporate family, other affiliates of the corporate family (see here), and other independent third parties, and anything we get from them can be combined with information provided by you. For example, the Smart Turkey Tours reservation services are not only made available by Smart Turkey Tours and the Smart Turkey Tours apps, but are also integrated into services of affiliate partners you can find online. When you use some of these, you provide the reservation details to our business partner, who then forwards your details to us. We also integrate third-party service providers to facilitate payment between bookers and Trip Providers. These service providers share payment information, so we can administer and handle your Trip Reservation, making sure everything goes as smoothly as possible for you.

Another example is how we integrate communication services into our platforms to let you connect with the booked Trip Provider about your stay. When we do, we receive metadata about communication activities (e.g. where you called, who you are, the date and length of the call, etc.). We might also receive information about you to deliver you more relevant advertisements, like additional cookie data made available to Smart Turkey Tours by social media partners. Read under Why does Smart Turkey Tours collect and use your personal data? for more information. When you link your Smart Turkey Tours user account to your social media account, personal data might be shared with Smart Turkey Tours by that social media provider, but only when you don't mind them doing so. You always have the choice to not share this data.

Trip Providers might share information about you with Smart Turkey Tours too – this might happen if you have support questions about your pending reservation when disputes arise about a Trip Reservation (though naturally, we don’t like it when that happens).

Why does Smart Turkey Tours collect and use your personal data?

We use the information collected about you for various purposes. Your personal data may be used in the following ways:

Trip Reservations: First and foremost, we use your personal data to complete and administer your online Trip Reservation, which is pretty central to what we do as a company! This includes sending you communications related to your Trip Reservation like confirmations, modifications, and reminders.

Customer service: We provide international customer service from our local offices in many languages, and we’re here to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sharing your relevant details, such as reservation information or information about your user account with our global customer service staff allows us to respond when you need us – including helping you find an appropriate Trip Provider and responding to any questions you might have about your Trip Reservation (or anything, for that matter).

Account facilities: Smart Turkey Tours users can create a user account on our websites or apps. We use the information you give us to administer this account, allowing you to do a number of useful things. You can manage your Trip Reservations, take advantage of special offers, make future Trip Reservations easily and manage your personal settings. Managing personal settings can allow you to keep and share lists, share photos, see previously searched Trip Services easily, and check other travel-related information you have provided. It can also allow you to see any reviews you have submitted. If you want, you can share certain information in your user account by creating a public profile that’s associated with either your own first name or a screen name of your choice. Smart Turkey Tours for Business account holders can save contact details in their account facility, manage their business reservations, and link other account holders to the Smart Turkey Tours for Business account.

Online groups: We might enable users with an account to join and interact with each other through online groups or forums.

Marketing activities: We use your information for marketing activities. These activities include:

Using your contact information to send you news about travel-related products and service. You can unsubscribe from email marketing communications quickly, easily, and at any time – just click the "Unsubscribe" link included in each newsletter or other communication.

Based on your information, individualized offers might be shown to you on the Smart Turkey Tours website, in mobile apps or on third-party websites/apps (including social media sites), and the content of the site displayed to you might also be personalized. These could be offers that you can book directly on the Smart Turkey Tours site, or on co-branded sites, or other third-party offers or products we think might interest you.

When you participate in other promotional activities (such as sweepstakes, referral programs or competitions), relevant information will be used to administer these promotions.

Communicating with you: There may be other times when we get in touch with you, including by email, mail, phone or text message – which method we choose depends on the contact information you previously shared with us. We also process the communications you send to us. There could be a number of reasons for this, including:

Responding to and handling any requests you or your booked Trip Provider have made. Smart Turkey Tours also offers guests and Trip Providers various means to exchange information, requests, and comments about Trip Providers and existing Trip Reservations through Smart Turkey Tours. For more information, scroll down a bit and read the section “How does Smart Turkey Tours process communications that you and your booked Trip Provider may send through Smart Turkey Tours?”.

If you haven't finalized a Trip Reservation online, we can contact you with a reminder to continue with your reservation. We believe that this additional service benefits you as it allows you to carry on with a Trip Reservation without having to search for Trip Provider or fill in your reservation details again!

When you use our services, we might send you a questionnaire or invite you to provide a review about your experience with Smart Turkey Tours or the Trip Provider.

We might also send you other materials related to your reservations, like how to contact Smart Turkey Tours if you need assistance while you're away, and information that we feel could be useful to you in planning your trip or getting the best out of your stay. We might also send you material related to upcoming reservations or a summary of previous reservations you made through Smart Turkey Tours.

Even if you don't have an upcoming reservation, we might need to send you other administrative messages, which can include security alerts.

Market research: We sometimes ask our customers to take part in market research. When you're invited to participate, review the information provided to better understand what personal data is collected and how it used.

Improving our services: We also use personal data for analytical purposes. This is part of our mission to improve our services and enhance the user experience, but can also be used for testing purposes, troubleshooting, and improving the functionality and quality of our online travel services. The main goal here is to optimize and customize our online platform to your needs, making our site easier and more enjoyable to use. We strive to only use pseudonymized data for these analytical purposes.

Guest reviews and other destination-related information: During and after the Trip you book through us, you might be invited to submit a review. We can also enable guests traveling with you or on whose behalf you have booked to provide a review. This request asks for information about the Trip Provider or the destination. Account holders can choose to either display a review with a screen name instead of their real name (which can be chosen in the user account facility), or else choose to display a review anonymously. Adding an avatar is also possible. By completing a guest review, you are agreeing that it can be displayed on (as described in detail in our Terms and Conditions) the relevant Trip Provider information page on our websites, our mobile apps, our social media accounts, and social media apps, or on the online platform of the relevant Trip Provider or business partner’s website. This is to inform other travelers about the quality of the Trip Service you used, the destination you have chosen or other experiences you choose to share.

Call monitoring: When you make calls to our Customer Service Team, Smart Turkey Tours uses an automated telephone number detection system to connect your telephone number to your existing reservations – this can help save time for both you and our customer support staff. Our customer service staff still might ask for authentication, which ensures your reservation details are kept confidential. During calls with our customer service team, live listening might be conducted, or calls might be recorded for quality control and training purposes, which includes the usage of the recordings for the handling of claims and fraud detection purposes. Not all calls are recorded, recordings are kept for a limited amount of time, then automatically deleted later on, unless Smart Turkey Tours has a legitimate interest to keep these recording for a longer period, including for fraud investigation and legal purposes.

Promotion of a safe and trustworthy service: In order to create a trustworthy environment for you, your fellow travelers, Smart Turkey Tours’s business partners, and our Trip Providers, we might use personal data for the detection and prevention of fraud and other illegal or unwanted activities. Similarly, we might use personal data for risk assessment and security purposes, including the authentication of users and reservations. For such purposes, we might have to stop certain reservations or put reservations on hold until we've finished our assessment.

Legal purposes: Finally, in certain cases, we might need to use your information to handle and resolve legal disputes, for regulatory investigations and compliance, to enforce the terms of use of the Smart Turkey Tours online reservation service, or to comply with lawful requests from law enforcement.

Providing your personal data to Smart Turkey Tours is voluntary. However, depending on the type of service you want to use, we might only be able to provide you with this service if certain personal data is collected. For instance, we cannot process your Trip Reservation if we don't collect your name and contact details.

If we use automated means to process personal data that produces legal effects or significantly affects you, we will implement suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms, including the right to obtain human intervention.

To process your personal data as described above, we rely on the following legal bases:

In view of purpose A and B, Smart Turkey Tours relies on the legal basis that the processing of the personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract, specifically to finalize and administer your Trip Reservation. If the required personal data is not provided, Smart Turkey Tours cannot finalize the Trip Reservation, nor can we provide customer service. In view of purposes C to K, Smart Turkey Tours relies on its legitimate commercial business interest to provide its services, to prevent fraud, and to improve its services. When using personal data to serve Smart Turkey Tours’s or a third party's legitimate interest, Smart Turkey Tours will always balance your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data against Smart Turkey Tours’s rights and interests or those of the third party. For purpose L, Smart Turkey Tours also relies where applicable on compliance with legal obligations (such as lawful law enforcement requests). Where needed under applicable law, Smart Turkey Tours will obtain your consent prior to processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

If you want to object to the processing set out under C to K and no opt-out mechanism is available to you directly (e.g. in your account settings) to the extent applicable, feel free to contact dataprotection@Smart Turkey Tours.

How does Smart Turkey Tours share your data with third parties?

In certain circumstances, we’ll share your personal data with third parties.

The Trip Provider You Booked: This one’s pretty important for what we do! In order to complete your Trip Reservation, we transfer relevant reservation details to the Trip Provider you've booked. Depending on the Trip Reservation and the Trip Provider, this can include your name, contact details, payment details, the names of guests traveling with you, and any preferences or other info you specified when you made your Trip Reservation. If you have a question about your Trip, we may contact the Trip Provider and ask them to handle your request. Unless payment is made during the booking process through the Smart Turkey Tours website, we'll forward your credit card details to the booked Trip Provider for further handling (assuming you’ve provided us with those details during your booking process). In cases of reservation-related disputes, we may give the Trip Provider information about the reservation process as needed to handle the dispute. This may include a copy of your reservation confirmation as proof that a Trip Reservation was actually made.

Your Local Smart Turkey Tours Office: In order to support the use of the Smart Turkey Tours services, your details may be shared with subsidiaries of the Smart Turkey Tours corporate family which act as service providers for Smart Turkey Tours, including in relation to customer support services. To find out everything you need to know about the Smart Turkey Tours corporate family, visit About Smart Turkey Tours.

Third-party service providers: We use service providers, which are not part of the Smart Turkey Tours corporate family to support us in providing the Smart Turkey Tours services. These service providers provide support services like

Customer support,

Market research,

Fraud detection and prevention services, including anti-fraud screening service; payment services, etc.

We use third parties to process payments, handle chargebacks or provide billing collection services. When a chargeback is requested for your Trip Reservation by either you or the holder of the credit card used to make your reservation, we need to share certain reservation details with the payment service provider and the relevant financial institution to handle the chargeback. This could also include a copy of your reservation confirmation or the IP address used to make your reservation. We might share information with relevant financial institutions if we consider it strictly necessary for fraud detection and prevention purposes. marketing services. We share personal data with advertising partners, including your email address, as part of marketing the Smart Turkey Tours services through third parties (to ensure that relevant advertisements are shown to the right audience). We strive to only share email addresses in hashed form to enable the matching of your email address with an existing customer database so your email address can't be used for other purposes. For more information on personalized advertisements and your choices, take a look at “How are cookies used?" and “What are your choices?" in our Cookie Statement.

All service providers are required to continue to safeguard your personal data adequately.

Competent Authorities: We disclose personal data to law enforcement insofar as it is required by law or is strictly necessary for the prevention, detection or prosecution of criminal acts and fraud or if we're otherwise legally obliged to do so. We may need to further disclose personal data to competent authorities to protect and defend our rights or properties, or the rights and properties of our business partners.

Business Partners: We work with many business partners around the world. These business partners, like Google or Rakuten Advertising, distribute or advertise the Smart Turkey Tours services, including the services and products of our Trip Providers. Every single one of them have their own Privacy policy as well as the option to visualice, edit, erase or update your data. In example Rakuten Advertising here y here.

Rakuten Advertising may collect personal information when you interact with our digital property, including IP addresses, digital identifiers, information about your web browsing and app usage and how you interact with our properties and ads for a variety of purposes, such as personalization of offers or advertisements, analytics about how you engage with websites or ads and other commercial purposes. For more information about the collection, use and sale of your personal data and your rights, please use the above links.

When you make a reservation on one of our business partners’ websites or apps, certain personal data that you give them such as your name and email address, your address, payment details and other relevant information, will be forwarded to us to finalize and administer your Trip Reservation. If customer service is provided by the business partner, Smart Turkey Tours will share details relevant to your reservation with the business partners (as and when needed) in order to provide you with appropriate and efficient support. When you make a reservation through one of our business partners’ websites, the business partners can receive certain parts of your personal data related to the specific reservation such as your name and email address. This is for their own internal purposes (such as analytical purposes) and, if requested by you, for the administration of loyalty programs or marketing.

When you make a reservation on a business partners’ website, take the time to read their privacy notice if you want to understand how these business partners may process your personal data. For fraud detection and prevention purposes and as strictly necessary, we may also exchange information about our users with business partners.

The transmission of personal data as described in this Privacy Statement may include overseas transfers of personal data to countries whose data protection laws are not as comprehensive as those of the countries within the European Union. Where required by European law, we shall only transfer personal data to recipients offering an adequate level of data protection. In these situations, as may be required, we make contractual arrangements to ensure that your personal data is still protected in line with European standards. You can ask us to see a copy of these contractual agreements using the contact details below.

We might receive personal data about you from other companies of Smart Turkey Tourss’ corporate family or share your personal data with them for the following purposes:

To provide services (including to make, administer, and manage reservations or handle payments);

To provide customer support services;

To detect, prevent, and investigate fraudulent, other illegal activities and data breaches;

For analytical and product improvement purposes;

To provide personalized offers or send you marketing with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law;

To ensure compliance with applicable laws.

Unless indicated otherwise, for purposes A to E, Smart Turkey Tours relies on its legitimate interest to share and receive personal data. For purpose F, Smart Turkey Tours relies, where applicable, on compliance with legal obligations (e.g. lawful law enforcement requests).

For example, Smart Turkey Tours works closely with X company to offer ground transport services to its customers. All companies within Smart Turkey Tours group of companies might need to exchange customers' personal data to ensure it protects all users from fraudulent activities on its online platforms.

How does Smart Turkey Tours process communications that you and your booked Trip Provider may send through Smart Turkey Tours?

Smart Turkey Tours offers you and Trip Providers partners various means to communicate about the Trip Services and existing Trip Reservations, directing the communications through Smart Turkey Tours. This allows you and your Trip Provider to contact Smart Turkey Tours with questions about your reservation or about your Trip Reservation partners through the My Booking Page, the Smart Turkey Tours app, and other channels that we may make available.

Smart Turkey Tours accesses communications and may use automated systems to review, scan, and analyze communications for security purposes; fraud prevention; compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; investigations of potential misconduct; product development and improvement; research; customer engagement, including to provide you with information and offers that we believe may be of interest to you; and customer or technical support. We reserve the right to block the delivery of or review communications that we, in our sole discretion, believe may contain malicious content, spam, or may pose a risk to you, accommodation partners, Smart Turkey Tours, or others. Note, all communications sent or received using Smart Turkey Tours communication tools will be received and stored by Smart Turkey Tours. Business partners through whose platform you made the reservation and Trip Providers may choose to communicate with you directly by email or other channels that Smart Turkey Tours does not control.

How does Smart Turkey Tours use mobile devices?

We offer free apps for a variety of mobile devices, as well as versions of our regular website that have been optimized for mobile and tablet browsing. These apps and mobile websites process the personal details you give us in much the same way as our website does, and they also allow you to use location services to find Trip Services nearby, if you want us to. With your consent, we may send you push notifications with information about your Trip Reservation. You may grant us access to your location data or contact details in order to provide services requested by you. When you upload a picture from your mobile device, your picture may also be tagged with your location information. Please read the instructions of your mobile device to understand how to change the settings and enable the sharing of such data or the receipt of push notifications.

We make use of something known as cross-device tracking in order to optimize our services and marketing activities. This may be done with or without the use of cookies. For more information about cookies and other similar technologies, please see our Cookie Statement. With cross-device tracking, Smart Turkey Tours is able to track user behavior across multiple devices. As part of cross-device tracking, Smart Turkey Tours may combine data collected from a particular browser or mobile device with another computer or device linked to the computer or device from which the data was collected.

In order to optimize the content of the Smart Turkey Tours newsletter, Smart Turkey Tours combines the searches and reservations made from different computers and devices. You can unsubscribe from the Smart Turkey Tours newsletter anytime.

Personalized advertisements shown to you on other websites or in apps, can be offered based on your activities on linked computers and devices. By amending your cookie settings on your device (see in our Cookie Statement under “What are your choices”), you can change your cross-device tracking settings for advertisement purposes. You should know that logging out of your user account will not actually mean that you no longer receive personalized advertisements.

How does Smart Turkey Tours use social media?

Here at Smart Turkey Tours, we use social media in different ways. We use it partly to facilitate the use of online reservation services, but also to promote our Trip Providers’ travel-related products and services, as well as to advertise, improve, and facilitate our own services. You're free not to use the social media features.

Login with your social media account. We offer you the opportunity to sign into a Smart Turkey Tours user account with your social media account, which saves you from having to remember different user names and passwords for different online services. After you’ve signed in once, you’ll always be able to use your social media account to sign in to your Smart Turkey Tours account. You can decouple these accounts from each other anytime.

Integration of social media plugins: We also have integrated social media plugins into the Smart Turkey Tours website and apps. This means that when you click on one of the buttons (such as Facebook’s "Like" button) certain information is shared with these social media providers. If you're logged in to your social media account at the same time, your social media provider may relate this information to your social media account and possibly present your actions on your social media profile to be shared with others in your network.

Other social media services and features. We may integrate other social media services (like social media messaging) to interact with Smart Turkey Tours or with your contacts about our services. We may maintain social media accounts and offer apps on several social media sites. Whenever you connect with Smart Turkey Tours through social media, your social media service provider may allow you to share information with Smart Turkey Tours. If you choose to share, you will generally be told by your social media provider which information will be shared. For example, when you login to a Smart Turkey Tours user account with your social media account, certain information (as authorized by you to your social media provider) may be shared with Smart Turkey Tours. This might include your email address, age, or profile pictures saved in your user account.

When you register with a Smart Turkey Tours social media app or connect to a social media messaging service without having a Smart Turkey Tours user account, the information you choose to share with us may include the basic information available in your social media profile (including your email address, status updates and a list of your contacts). We’ll use this information to help provide you with the service you requested – for example, to forward a message you want to send to your contacts or to create a personalized user experience in the app itself or on our websites. It means that, if you want us to, we can customize our services to fit your needs, connecting you and your friends with the best travel destinations and analyzing and enhancing our travel-related services. Your social media provider will be able to tell you more about how they use and process your data whenever you connect with Smart Turkey Tours through them, for instance by combining personal data they collect when you use Smart Turkey Tours through them with information they collect when you use other online platforms linked with your social media provider.

What security and retention procedures does Smart Turkey Tours put in place to safeguard your personal data?

We observe reasonable procedures to prevent unauthorized access to, and the misuse of, personal data.

We use appropriate business systems and procedures to protect and safeguard the personal data you give us. We also use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal data on our servers. Only authorized personnel are permitted to access personal data in the course of their work.

We will retain your personal data for as long as we deem it necessary to enable you to use our services, to provide our services to you (including maintaining the online user account (if created)), to comply with applicable laws, to resolve disputes with any parties, and otherwise as necessary to allow us to conduct our business, including to detect and prevent fraud or other illegal activities. All personal data we retain will be subject to this Privacy Statement.

How does Smart Turkey Tours treat personal data about children?

The services offered by Smart Turkey Tours are not directed at children under 16 years old. For children younger than 16 years old, the use of any of our services is only allowed with the valid consent of a parent or a guardian. In limited cases as part of a reservation, purchase of other travel-related services, or in exceptional other circumstances (such as features addressed to families), Smart Turkey Tours may collect and use information of children only as provided by the parent or guardian or with their consent. If we become aware that we process information of a child under 16 years old without the valid consent of a parent or guardian, we reserve the right to delete it.

How can you control the personal data you've given to Smart Turkey Tours?

We want you to be in control of how your personal data is used by us. You can do this in the following ways:

You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;

You can inform us of any changes to your personal data, or you can ask us to correct any of the personal data we hold about you, though you may be able to make such changes yourself as explained below;

In certain situations, you can ask us to erase, block, or restrict the processing of the personal data we hold about you, or object to particular ways in which we are using your personal data; and

In certain situations, you can also ask us to send the personal data you've given us to a third party.

Where we use your personal data on the basis of your consent, you are entitled to withdraw that consent at any time subject to applicable law. Moreover, where we process your personal data based on legitimate interest or the public interest, you have the right to object at any time to that use of your personal data subject to applicable law.

We rely on you to ensure that your personal data is complete, accurate and current. Please inform us of any changes to or inaccuracies of to your personal data by contacting us immediately.

If you have an online user account, you can access a significant amount of your personal data through our website/apps. Our website/apps generally present you with the option to add, update or remove information we have about you.

If any personal data we have about you is not accessible through our website/apps, you can send us your request at no cost. For any of your requests in regards to this Privacy Statement and to exercise any of your rights or if you have a complaint, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at info@SmartTurkeyTours.Com You can also contact your local data protection authority.

If you want to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of legitimate interest and no opt-out mechanism is available to you directly, you can contact us at marketing@smartturkeytours.com

Who is responsible for the processing of personal data on Smart Turkey Tours and how to contact us?

Smart Turkey Tours controls the processing of personal data as described in this Privacy Statement. Smart Turkey Tours is a private limited company, incorporated under the laws of Turkey Bayraklidede Mah. Selcuk Bulvari No:21/E 09400 Kusadasi/Aydin/Turkey If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or our processing of your personal data, contact our data protection officer at info@ SmartTurkeyTours.Com and we’ll get right back to you. For questions about your reservation, contact our customer service team via any contact page or directly to marketing@smartturkeytours.com