Data Protection Notice

Data Protection Laws

The British Travel Awards Survey complies with the principals of the Data Protection Act 1998 and The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) 2003 and well as the new and updated legislation GDPR UK (General Data Protection Regulation) which became effective in January 2021.

This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that the British Travel Awards (BTA) and UK Travel Awards Limited (UKTA) does not own or control, or to people that the BTA or UKTA does not employ or manage.

Why we collect your data?

BTA/UKTA uses information for the following general purposes: to record your vote, your prize draw entry (if applicable) improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients. You will also be asked your age in order to confirm that you are over 18. BTA/UKTA does not accept voting or record any information from anyone under 18.

Who is the Data Controller?

The Data Controller is British Travel Awards and UK Travel Awards Limited whose registered office is

Spirit House, 8 High Street, West Molesey, Surrey, England, KT8 2NA.

How we use personal data

The data controller will use your information for specific travel marketing, customer services and for profiling your travel and voting preferences. If you have requested to be sent further relevant travel information or to be updated with details about future British Travel Awards products/programmes (opted in) we will disclose your information to the relevant third-party travel supporters, e.g., our sponsors, and clients for marketing these purposes.

Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features.

The British Travel Awards uses this type of cookie for the following purposes: Remembering previous selections you have made, such as the categories in which you have voted and who you have voted for, to save you re-selecting these options; to store your acceptance of our cookie policy.

If you'd like to restrict, block or delete cookies, you can do this by altering the settings on your internet browser. By managing your cookies you can decide whether you want to prevent cookies from being accepted, clear the cookies currently held on your computer or device and - depending on the browser - receive an alert when a website tries to place a cookie on your browser. Some cookies are needed to ensure the effectiveness and usability of a website, and as such it may not be possible to disable them independently, in which case you’ll need to agree to accept these cookies to continue using the site.

Third Parties

We will not share your information with any third-party organisations (excluding any firm contracted for verification and results analysis) unless you make a positive action - to opt in – to receive such information

For complete clarity –

• Users who submit details are automatically opted out unless they check the opt in box
• All users who submit their details agree to receive The British Travel Awards e-newsletter

N.B. The British Travel Awards e-newsletter contains information from various BTA suppliers, sponsors or marketing partners detailing any goods or services which may be of specific interest to you and/or your business.

If you have made a positive action to opt in, you may also exercise your right to opt out of the use of your information for marketing purposes at any time by contacting us by the methods explained at the end of this policy.

Your personal information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law to do so.

We will transfer information about you if BTA/UKTA is acquired by or merged with another company. BTA/UKTA will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Consent

By returning or submitting a form with your personal information to us, you consent to our transferring your information to countries, which do not provide the same level of data protection as the UK if necessary for the above purposes. If we do make such a transfer, we will put a contract in place to ensure your information is protected.

Updating or deleting your personal information

When you request to be removed from further marketing offers, you will be added to a suppression list to ensure your request is complied with. All personal data is processed in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, the updates GDPR of 2018 and The Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2003.

Information Requests

You have a right to ask for a copy of your information (for which we may charge a responable administration fee) and to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in your personal information (which is free).

When you give us information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, to consent to the processing of their personal data, including sensitive personal data.