Blog

- Company News
Sun, sand and sea with Escape Magazine, from Octopoda 🐙
Welcome to our latest issue of Escape Magazine, featuring a selection of exciting holiday offers to make...

By octopodasales on Mon 20 Jan 2020.
- Company News
BEARS FITNESS CLIENT OF THE YEAR 2019 AWARD GOES TO….
JONNY CLARKE Why Jonny? Aside from being a great bloke and human being, Jonny has made some...

By octopodasales on Wed 15 Jan 2020.
- Company News
What does it mean if a company are a member of Travel Trust Association?
It means that you can book your holiday secure in the knowledge that Travel Trust Association...

By octopodasales on Tue 14 Jan 2020.
- Company News
Say Hello to our new Travel Specialist
We’d like you to join us in welcoming the latest member to the OctoFamily, Travel Specialist Sarah 😃🐙✈️🌴...

By octopodasales on Mon 13 Jan 2020.
- Company News
TAKE YOUR 🐶 ON TOUR! 🐾🇬🇧
If you don’t go anywhere without your furry sidekick then it’s your lucky day. 🥳 We’ve not finished...

By octopodasales on Wed 1 Jan 2020.
- Company News
Our ALL NEW website is here!!!
Our all new website has now launched and it’s AMAZING if we do say so ourselves 🐙🌍🌴...

By octopodasales on Thu 19 Dec 2019.
- Company News
Who won Bear’s Big Name of the Month Award for December?
So here it is, ‘Bears December Big Name Award’ goes to Neal ‘Baz’ Hutchinson and Amber Leacy....

By octopodasales on Thu 19 Dec 2019.
- Company News
Bears Fitness Big Name Award for November goes to…
🏆 Tom Smith 🏆 Tom was with the team for 4 weeks on a group Antidote plan....

By octopodasales on Wed 20 Nov 2019.
- Company News
The Arctic Treehouse Hotel in Lapland
Be prepared to be amazed! We are pleased to introduce you to a new amazing property within...

By octopodasales on Fri 8 Nov 2019.
- Company News
Sands United Leicester looking to recruit players
Are you a bereaved father or family member who has suffered a loss, loves football and wants...

By octopodasales on Mon 28 Oct 2019.
- Company News
Welcome to the team Kim!
Great to announce we’ve added another Travel Specialist to our home working network. We’d like to say...

By octopodasales on Thu 24 Oct 2019.
- Company News
Love Travel
Grab the popcorn and enjoy our latest mini-movie! 🎟📽🍿 ☎️(01509) 649461 📧 sales@octopoda.co.uk

By octopodasales on Wed 23 Oct 2019.
- Company News
It’s an adventure overload at Sandals!
It’s an adventure overload! Come and discover what all the fuss is about at Sandal’s for yourself ☀️🌴🍹...

By octopodasales on Fri 18 Oct 2019.
- Company News
Discover Canada for less with Octopoda and Canadian Affair
Discover Canada for less with Octopoda and Canadian Affair ✈️, hotels, motor home rentals all available. Immerse...

By octopodasales on Thu 17 Oct 2019.
- Company News
One EPIC Antarctic Adventure
We’ve been holding back with announcing this one but as it’s now complete, we can share with...

By octopodasales on Thu 10 Oct 2019.
- Company News
Big Name of the Month Award September
Meet Eddie who booked on our Antidote 4 week plan. He wanted to lose a bit of...

By octopodasales on Tue 8 Oct 2019.
- Company News
We are Hiring!
Following the sad news of the collapse of Thomas Cook, we are looking to assist our Travel...

By octopodasales on Mon 23 Sep 2019.
- Company News
Thomas Cook
We are deeply saddened this morning to hear that Thomas Cook have ceased trading, our thoughts are...

By octopodasales on Mon 23 Sep 2019.
- Company News
🌴💍 SAY I DO IN MAURITIUS 💍🌴
Exchange your vows in the paradise setting of Trou Aux Biches Beachcomber with our stunning Mauritius Wedding...

By octopodasales on Wed 18 Sep 2019.
- Company News
Big Name of the Month Award August
Bears ‘Big Name of the Month for August’ was awarded to Carla Alexander Carla has made some huge...

By octopodasales on Tue 10 Sep 2019.

INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data when you interact with us and through your use of our website, including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or service, sign up to our newsletter or take part in a prize draw or competition.

Octopoda Ltd is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

Contact Details

Full name of legal entity: Octopoda Ltd

Company Registration no: 8990623

Postal address: 37, Bainbridge Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2LE

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.

We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows:

Identity Data may include your first name, maiden name, last name, username, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data may include your billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data may include your bank account and payment card details.
Marketing and Communications Data may include your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us

Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data.

We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, book flights for you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including:

Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site (or otherwise) or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise, including when you:
order our products or services;
subscribe to our service or publications;
request resources or marketing be sent to you;
enter a competition, prize draw, promotion or survey; or
give us feedback.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We collect information about you to process your order, manage your account, and if you chose to opt in, to email you about our promotional offers

We may pass your information to our third-party service providers such as courier companies (for delivery of travel documents) and suppliers (most airlines and cruise companies require Advance Passenger Information) Octopoda Ltd do not share any information from either passengers or travel agents for marketing purposes with any third-party company.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

We would like to send you information about products of ours and any promotional campaigns we are running. If you have consented to receive marketing emails you may opt out by simply clicking the “unsubscribe” button contained on each email. Alternatively please send an email headed ‘opt out’ to us at sales@octopoda.co.uk , upon receipt of a written opt out we shall discontinue processing your personal data as requested.

DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the

personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include

the right to:

Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.

You can see more about these rights at:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please write to us. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights).

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

CONTACTING US

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

37 Bainbridge Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2LE

United Kingdom

sales@octopoda.co.uk

Last Edited on 2018-05-21

Sun, sand and sea with Escape Magazine, from Octopoda 🐙

Blog

Privacy Policy

Terms & Conditions