Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 15, 2018

Seal Travel uses cookies to improve performance and enhance the user experience for customers and visitors to our website. Seal Travel is committed to protecting the data you share with us. This privacy policy clarifies how we do this and how cookies are managed.

What are cookies?

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device in order to remember your user preferences, help analyze the website’s performance, and recommend content relevant to your visit. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. Most cookies won’t collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.

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 portions of our Service.

What cookies does Seal Travel use?

Seal Travel’s website uses cookies to inform us how our website is operating, remember your preferences for services such as language choice, what you’ve chosen to purchase, and other settings. Without these cookies installed, many of the services offered by the website will fail to function.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Seal Travel uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer support
To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
To monitor the usage of our Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues
To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Types of Data Collected

In addition to information we collect to complete a purchase, when you use our site we automatically collect information which helps us improve our site. We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you. We gather this information to analyze trends and performances over time to make our Site and services more useful to you. Seal Travel uses third-party service providers to help us gather and analyze information about our customers. These service providers are contractually restricted from using your information in any manner other than in helping us to provide you with the products and services available on our Site.

For all Seal Travel visitors — our Site’s servers collect information about your Site visit, such as IP address, browser type, domain names, operating system, access times, duration of visit, referring URL, platform, new/repeat information, timestamp and exit page information.

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Other cookies on sealtravel.is

We do allow other cookies on our site that come from service providers and advertisers and fall into the categories above. Cookies from services such as Google Analytics allow us to monitor web traffic and help us with market analysis and improving performance.

If you are based in the European Union and would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies or to choose not to receive them, please visit Your Online Choices. (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/)

If you are based in the United States and would like to learn more, please visit Your Ad Choices. (http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN#!%2F)

If you are located outside Iceland and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Iceland and process it there.

How can I block cookies?

Disabling cookies is a function of the browser you are using to view our site. For specific instructions on how to control the use of cookies, select the browser you use to access this site and follow the instructions to update or restrict the use of cookies at the browser level: Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Edge. Additionally, if you would prefer to prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on by clicking here.

Retention of Data

Seal Travel will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Seal Travel will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

How Your Information is Protected

When you make a purchase with Seal Travel the Personal Data you provide will be shared with the third parties necessary to complete your purchase transaction, all of which are required not to use your information other than to provide the services requested by Seal Travel. For example: we provide your name, address, email address and phone number to the Licensee or Service provider.

To charge you for your transaction, we share your name, billing address, and credit card number with the credit card authorization company and payment processor.

From time to time, we may share general statistical information about our Site and visitors — such as number of visitors, aggregate and non-personally identifiable demographic data, number and type of goods and services booked, etc. — with our third-party advertisers and partners. However, we do not reveal your name, address or other Personal Data for anything other than the use it was originally intended without giving you the opportunity to opt-out of the disclosure.

We take several measures to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of all information we collect from our customers. When you enter Personal Data on our order forms, or our registration, we encrypt that information in transit.

Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal Data, In certain situations, Seal Travel may disclose information about you to others if we have a good faith belief that we are required to do so by law or legal process or in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, to respond to claims, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Seal Travel or others. This includes, but is not limited to, customer fraud, technical malfunctions or abuse of our network or systems. We also may provide customer information to third parties, such as credit card companies, for the purpose of resolving disputes that arise in the normal course of business. Except as otherwise stated above, Seal Travel will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party without your consent.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Data submitted to us and our partners, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our web site includes social media features, such as the Facebook button and widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: info@sealtravel.is
By phone number: +354 451 2345

Seal Travel is a travel agency in Hvammstangi