1. Voyaseek Privacy Policy
This privacy statement applies to www.voyaseek.com, owned and operated by TravelNow. Ltd ("voyaseek"). This privacy statement describes how voyaseek collects and uses the personal information you provide on our website. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
Our website may include links to third-party websites such as WhatsApp, PayPal, Airwallex, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. Voyaseek is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party websites. We recommend that you carefully read the privacy statements of these websites.
All data provided to or collected by Voyaseek and its mobile application is controlled by TravelNow. Ltd, a limited liability company located at Room 602, 6/F Kai Yue Commercial Building, No.2C, Argyle Street, Mongkok Kowloon, HongKong. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact our data protection officer at service@voyaseek.com.
We fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2. Google Account Login & Data Usage
- When you sign in with your Google account, we only collect the necessary information to verify your identity, including your email address.
- We do not access, store, or use your email content, contacts, calendar, or any other Google account data. Your email address is retained only as long as necessary to maintain your account or comply with legal obligations.
- We use Google OAuth solely for login purposes, in full compliance with Google API Services User Data Policy requirements. We do not share your Google account data with any third parties, except as required by law.
- You can manage or revoke this authorization at any time through your Google Security Settings.
3. Collecting Personal Information
What personal data does Voyaseek hold about you and others?
Voyaseek collects and uses data that you provide directly to us in order to provide the services you request. If you contact our customer service team, contact us through social media, participate in referral programs or sweepstakes, provide feedback, or seek assistance regarding Voyaseek travel services, we may collect data such as your name and email information.
If you are traveling with other guests or booking on behalf of others, you may provide us with similar details. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have obtained the consent of others before providing their personal data and that they have agreed to share their personal data with Voyaseek for these purposes.
Voyaseek automatically collects some data about you, including log data collected through cookies, web beacons, or other channels, including channels placed by third-party business partners such as WhatsApp, PayPal, Airwallex, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.
- Device or software data, such as IP address, software version, device identifier, and browser or mobile device configuration.
- Data about what you search for or browse when using our services, including pages used, search terms, and other data browsed or provided through the mobile application.
- Data about content you share through our services, such as photos, messages, dates, and times shared or uploaded.
- Data about preferences, such as language, region, and currency.
- Data about your online activity.
- Location data when you enable location features, including geographical data collected through GPS or Wi-Fi, address data in your account information, and shared data that can show your current or previous location. You can turn off location features to prevent us from collecting location data.
We may also obtain your data from affiliates and business partners. For example, order or reservation data may be forwarded to us when you book through affiliates or partners so that we can process your order and ensure successful booking. If you log in through a social media account, your personal data may be shared with us by that platform with your consent.
Some data you provide to meet travel needs regarding accessibility facilities and dietary preferences may be considered special categories of personal data.
How does Voyaseek use your personal data?
Generally, Voyaseek collects and uses your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide services, complete and manage online orders, and provide relevant products and services through affiliates, business partners, and third parties.
- To fulfill obligations, including insurance claims, payments, partner commissions, claims for losses caused by service partners, or recovering payments already made.
- Account management, including account creation, order management, personal settings, passenger information, order history, evaluations, and payments.
- To respond to inquiries and needs through multilingual customer support.
- Marketing activities, including sending information about travel products or services, promotional activities, marketing content, customized advertisements, and sharing hashed phone numbers, email addresses and open IDs with marketing partners including Google, Facebook, TikTok, Youtube and Instagram.
- To contact you about questions, needs, submitted orders, booking reminders, surveys, or feedback invitations.
- Market research to understand preferences for our products, services, and website.
- To enhance service security and reliability, detect and prevent fraud and illegal activities, perform risk assessment, and improve mobile application stability using error report data.
- Data analysis to understand location, preferences, and demographic details, develop products, services or marketing plans, improve services, and support cross-device tracking and interest-based advertising.
- Routine operations, including order management, customer verification, technical support, network maintenance, troubleshooting, internal administration, policies, procedures, and reports.
- Monitoring customer accounts as permitted by law to prevent, investigate or report fraud, terrorism, false statements, security incidents, or criminal activities.
- Recording conversations with customer service representatives, including calls, to monitor service quality, verify information, prevent fraud, or train employees.
- Monitoring website or mobile application usage to improve operation.
- Reviews and feedback, including displaying guest reviews on accommodation data pages, our website, mobile application, social media accounts, partner websites, and aggregating feedback to compile reviews and rankings.
- Investigation and management of complaints, legal claims, compliance, regulatory and investigative purposes, including disclosure for legal proceedings or litigation where necessary.
- Purposes required by law, including legal disputes, regulatory investigations, government or law enforcement cooperation, and enforcement of service terms and conditions.
4. How Does Voyaseek Share Your Data?
We may share your order data, account data, device data, and location data with our corporate affiliates and third parties to ensure successful service provision. Our partners include the following types:
- Suppliers. These suppliers are not controlled by Voyaseek, and the personal data disclosed to them depends on the privacy policies and security measures of the relevant suppliers.
- Third-party agents. We may work with third-party suppliers who have signed contracts with us to provide services or functions on our behalf, including credit card processing, business analysis, customer service, marketing, surveys, sweepstakes, and fraud prevention. These suppliers may collect data on our behalf and may only use it as needed to perform their functions.
- Financial institutions and third-party payment institutions. When you make a booking, request a refund, or purchase insurance, we will share relevant data with financial institutions or payment institutions. If necessary for fraud detection and prevention, we may further share data such as email address, phone number, and IP address.
- Business partners. These include parties that jointly provide products or services with us or offer products or services on our website or mobile application. If a requested product or service involves a third party, its name will be displayed separately or together with ours. If you choose optional products or services, we may share your data with these partners.
- Corporate affiliates. We may share personal data with affiliates to provide the best possible service and information about other travel-related products and services. Each department takes similar measures to protect personal data.
In compliance with legal obligations or in the case of mergers or acquisitions, we may also share your data to protect our or your interests in legal matters.
5. Legal Basis and User Rights
Legal Basis for Data Processing
- Contractual Necessity: For booking management and order processing.
- Your Explicit Consent: For marketing communications and Google data access.
- Legitimate Business Interests: For fraud prevention and service optimization.
Your Data Subject Rights
Under GDPR, you are entitled to:
- Request access to and obtain a copy of your personal data.
- Rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Request erasure of your personal data, also known as the Right to be Forgotten.
- Restrict or object to the processing of your data.
- Lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.
All requests should be submitted to our Data Protection Officer at service@voyaseek.com. We undertake to respond to all valid requests within 30 calendar days of receipt.
6. Personal Data Retention
Voyaseek will process your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy, exercise our legitimate rights, and comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, provided that it is permitted by law or with your consent. If Voyaseek no longer has a legitimate purpose for using your personal data, it will be deleted from our records or anonymized so that your identity cannot be identified.
7. Modification of the Privacy Policy
We may revise this privacy policy whenever we deem it appropriate. We will record the last updated date of this privacy policy, and it will take effect immediately upon publication. Without your explicit consent, Voyaseek will not reduce the rights you enjoy under this privacy policy. Voyaseek will post significant changes in a conspicuous location, such as by email for changes to certain services. You should regularly review this privacy policy to understand our latest policies.
8. Contact
If you want to contact us, please send an email or call our customer service team.
- Email: service@voyaseek.com.
- WhatsApp: +85254286042.
9. Cookie Policy
Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive.
We use cookies to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our products and services.
What are cookies?
When you use our website, a cookie is a small text file that we store on your computer. For more information about cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
What cookies does Voyaseek use?
- Essential cookies are necessary to maintain the operation of our website, such as allowing you to log in to secure areas, use the shopping cart, and pay for travel products.
- Functionality cookies recognize you when you return to our website, enabling us to customize content and remember preferences such as language, region, and currency.
- Analytics cookies allow us to calculate visitor numbers and track navigation paths, helping us improve website operation.
- Marketing cookies record pages you visit and links you follow. We use this data to make our website, travel products and advertisements more relevant to your interests, including cookies placed by third-party advertising partners.
- We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your computer and are activated when you visit our website again.
- Our third-party advertising partners include, but are not limited to, Google, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. Upon your first visit, you will be prompted to accept or refuse these cookies via a cookie banner. You may visit each partner's website to learn more about privacy policies and cookie management options.
How can I manage my cookies?
You can activate settings on your browser to reject all or some cookies. For guidelines, please visit www.aboutcookies.org. If you block all cookies, including essential cookies, you may not be able to access our website or some content.