Privacy Policy

The types of personal information we gather is: your name, phone number, email address, company name, physical address, as well as the responses you provide in surveys that third parties might request you to complete before or after making a booking. Additionally, this includes any correspondence you engage in with Beyonk-based websites through our platform and the specifics of the experiences you have reserved. 

We possess the ability to view messages to assist with matters related to bookings, enquiries, and any queries. When you upload experiences, it's important to be aware that they will be disseminated throughout our network. Regarding Beyonk-based websites, we retain all the previously mentioned information, along with any extra data you provide. This includes details such as your business name, experience particulars, financial data, bookings, your current service availability status, information about your staff members including their names and details, as well as qualifications and insurance documents that are utilised for the vetting process.

Personal information is used to monitor the use of the Beyonk website to aid with future improvements and in understanding of the effectiveness of marketing and communications. When you book through Beyonk, your information is available to the company you booked with so they are informed of purchase and can manage your booking. 

Your information is available to authorised staff and contractors at Beyonk Group on a need-to-know basis only, to aid in the successful operations of the business, including responding to enquiries and messages. For a Beyonk-based website, your information is used to operate the Beyonk system to take bookings.

After you've subscribed to our communications, you have the option to choose the specific types of communications you prefer to receive by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button to be redirected to the preferences page.  However, once you create an account and buy an experience, there are some emails you cannot opt out of, to ensure you receive the right information about your trip e.g. booking confirmation, reminder email, summary booking email, amendments, refunds or message emails. If you wish to opt out of operational emails, you will no longer be able to use the website to find and book experiences or manage bookings. 

For Beyonk-based websites, we send you critical emails to ensure you're aware of changes to the Beyonk system, key feature releases, latest initiatives if we require you to update your account and emails to do with you receiving bookings including: booking confirmation, reminder email, summary booking email, amendments, refunds or message emails. If you wish to opt out of these critical emails, you will be unable to use the Beyonk system.

When booking with Beyonk, your booking information and the personal information you submit will always be visible to the Beyonk-based website you have booked directly to. It will also be available to critical third-parties to support our service such as Stripe, which manages processing payments when you book via the Beyonk system. 

Outside of sharing data with the Beyonk-based website you booked with and critical third parties supporting the Beyonk infrastructure, or unless we must comply with law or reasonable requests from law enforcement agencies or authorities, we will never share your data with third-parties without your explicit permission. 

For Beyonk-based websites, by using Beyonk you can opt to share your business information, service offerings and availability across our third party websites to attract more customers and bookings.

We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than the purposes listed below.

We only transfer your data to third parties, if:

• You, in accordance with Article 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR, have given us express permission to do so;
• The transfer in accordance with 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in your data not being transferred;
• A statutory obligation exists for transfer in accordance with 6(1)(1)(c) GDPR;
• This is legally permitted, and in accordance with 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR, this is necessary to carry out contractual relationships with you.
• Customer data, including email addresses, is not shared with any third parties. Customer data, such as names, addresses, and email addresses, are passed through Beyonk as part of the business processing the payment.

When using the Beyonk system, your data is held in our system for as long as is necessary to fulfil the booking system objectives and purpose for which you submitted it. We may retain your personal information for longer if it may be the subject of a legal claim, or may otherwise be relevant for future litigation. Where we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable law. 

The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. If you're a Beyonk-based website user and you only collect data via Beyonk, then you're already in compliance. After signing up, booking, or enquiring, you can request the data we store on you and can request this to be deleted. If you request us to delete your data, we will comply with this request. Please notify us so we can provide this support. Data removal requests are assessed and deleted within 30 days, with both customer and relevant company(ies) are notified. A Beyonk-based website you've booked with or enquired with will see [removed] in place of your name, address, phone and email.

Our website may contain links which our privacy policy does not cover, please check relevant privacy policies of each website you visit. Beyonk booking systems are used across a wide range of third-party sites, of which our privacy policy only covers the Beyonk booking system and not every website they're hosted on. Please check specific websites for their privacy policies respectively.

Please be aware that Beyonk is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and has operations globally. As a result, your information may be transferred to other jurisdictions where Beyonk has operations. The data protection laws in these locations may be different from your home country.

Please note that if we transfer personal information from the EU to the United States or any other country, we will implement appropriate legal mechanisms to ensure an adequate level of personal data protection consistent with the GDPR’s requirements.  For example, if the recipient country has not received an Adequacy Decision from the EU, we will rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses(SCCs) as the lawful mechanisms for such transfers.  Furthermore, we have entered into appropriate data processing agreements signed with all non-EU (sub)processors which contain SCCs and define security standards and measures to be employed by each of our (sub)processors (including state of the art encryption).  We also contractually require our (sub)processors to provide us prompt notice of any data breach or security incident concerning processed data.

EU / UK Residents

1. Rights Under GDPR

The GDPR affords certain rights to individuals in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) regarding their personal information.  If you are located in the EEA, you have the rights to:

• withdraw consent to data processing at any time;
• access your personal information; 
• request a copy of your personal information;
• correct any inaccuracies in your personal information; 
• erase your personal information;
• data portability, meaning to request a transfer of your personal information from us to any other person or entity as chosen by you; 
• restrict the processing of your personal information; and
• object to the processing of your personal information.

You will not typically need to pay a fee to exercise any of these rights.  But we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

Subject to exceptions, if you wish to exercise one of the rights identified above with regard to personal information subject to this Policy, you may do so by submitting a request to support@beyonk.com. Once we have received your request, we will review it and contact you back within 1 month, but we retain the right to extend this period up to 2 months in exceptional circumstances. We will in any event inform you within 1 month after receipt of your request if we decide to extend the period for our response. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). 

Lastly, if you are located in the EEA and have a concern about our processing of your data, you may have the right to make a complaint to the appropriate data protection authority in the EEA.

1. Lawful Basis Under GDPR

As a “controller,” our lawful basis for processing your information is typically either to (1) fulfil our legitimate business interests (such as ensuring the safety, security, and functionality of our website), (2) comply with a legal obligation, or (3) conduct processing to which you have specifically consented.   

When we process your personal information for the purposes described in Section 3.a, and 3.e–3.g above, our lawful basis is our legitimate interest to present and optimise our website, detect and prevent potential security issues on our website, and develop and improve on service offerings.  Likewise, when we process your personal information for the purposes described in Sections 3.c – 3.d, our lawful basis is our legitimate interest to monitor the efficacy of our marketing efforts, respond to inquiries about our business and services, and promote our service offerings. When we send promotional communications to you as described in Section 3.b, our lawful basis is typically your express consent.  Where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests, we evaluate any potential impact of the processing on your rights and freedoms as required by the GDPR.

California Data

We take your data privacy seriously. When transferring international data to and from California, we adhere to all applicable regulations to ensure your personal information is handled with care and in compliance with the highest data protection standards.

Please note that we may change this Policy from time to time.  If there are changes to our Policy, we will post them here and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document. Continued use of this website after any changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.  Accordingly, we encourage you to check the Policy periodically for updates.

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