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Transat A.T. Inc. and its affiliates (hereinafter « Transat ») are committed to protecting your privacy. As a tour operator, distributor of travel services and air carrier, we attach particular importance to protecting the personal information that you share with us and we strive to maintain your trust in this regard.
The objective of this Personal Information and Privacy Protection Policy (hereinafter the « Policy ») is to provide you with information about the manner in which Transat collects, uses and shares your personal information, the options you have in this respect and how you can access and rectify your personal information if necessary.
This Policy was developed to comply with the requirements of the privacy protection legislation in force.
For the purposes of this Policy, « personal information » refers to any information that could allow an individual to be identified, such as an email address, telephone number or any medical or financial information.
We collect your personal information in several ways, including when you reserve or purchase travel services, contact Customer Relations, complete an in-flight survey or participate on our social media sites.
Depending on the circumstances, here are some types of personal information that we may collect about you:
In an effort to continuously improve the quality of the services offered on Transat’s website and to better meet you expectations, Transat may use cookies, which are text files used to identify your device when connecting to one of our services.
By accessing Transat’s website, mobile site or mobile applications, you acknowledge that you have read the information provided to you regarding the purpose of any process accessing, through electronic transmission, information already stored on your device (electronic communications terminal), or recording information in such device (cookies), and further acknowledge that you are aware of the means at your disposal to refuse such process. You acknowledge that the appropriate configuration of your web browser constitutes your acceptance of the implementation and use of cookies.
For more information on the use of cookies by Transat, please refer to our policy on the management of cookies.
We use and share your personal information primarily:
Your personal information may be shared among Transat's affiliates as part of providing the travel services. Such information may also be forwarded to the third-party providers with which Transat conducts business from time to time and these third-party providers may contact you to send you personalised offers for products and services.
Transat is not liable for the use or sharing of personal information that you provide to third-party providers and may not be held liable for the policies, procedures, or practices of such third-party providers with respect to protection of personal information.
We have implemented a combination of material, organisational and technological means to ensure the confidentiality of the personal information that we hold, to protect such information against loss or theft and to prevent any unauthorized access, transmission, reproduction, use or amendment thereof.
When we share personal information with a third party, we take appropriate security measures to ensure such third party’s compliance with the undertakings and rules set forth in this Policy.
Local tribunals and legislations will have jurisdiction over the access of your personal information.
Upon written request and subject to proof of identification, you may consult the personal information that we have collected, used or shared, as required or permitted by law.
Accessing the personal information contained in your file and rectifying such personal information is free of charge. However, a small fee may be required, upon notice from us, to cover the costs of processing such requests (e.g. the cost of photocopies).
We will attempt to process your request to access or rectify your personal information within thirty (30) days of receipt thereof. If we are unable to respond within this time, you will be notified.
We make every effort to keep the personal information in our possession accurate, complete, and up to date. However, you are in the best position to quickly inform us of any changes to your personal information, and we therefore ask you to inform us of any required amendments.
At any time, you may request that the appropriate corrections be made to the personal information that we hold about you. If applicable, we will forward the amended information to the third parties that have access to your personal information.
Any comments, questions or access or rectification requests concerning your personal information, this Policy or our internal personal information protection procedures may be addressed to Transat’s director of personal information protection:
In writing:
Me George Petsikas Transat A.T. Inc. 300 Léo-Pariseau Street Suite 600 Montreal, Québec H2X 4C2
Email: george.petsikas@transat.com
We undertake to follow up on every comment, question, request or complaint.
This Policy is subject to amendment to account for the rapid evolution of the rules pertaining to protection of personal information and privacy. This version was last updated on July 1, 2015.