Privacy Policy

What does Holiday Hypermarket do with the information collected?

When you browse the site, we do not collect personal information about you. The only way we can collect any kind of personal information is if you give it to us.

To book a flight or holiday with us, we will need to collect information about you to deal with your booking as smoothly as possible. This information may include such details as your name, your address and your credit card details. We disclose your information to third parties only for the purpose of completing your transaction with us, providing the above services to you and for the purposes of associated administration and obtaining professional advice

Holiday Hypermarket may use the information provided by you to contact you about your holiday.

Holiday Hypermarket may also use this information to contact you with details of other products and services offered by other TUI Travel Plc companies, or which are available to First Choice customers from its selected trading partners. Additionally, Holiday Hypermarket may also send your information to its selected trading partners and other third parties so that they may contact you to let you know of both travel and non-travel related products and services.

If you would prefer your information not to be used in this way, please could you inform us at the time of booking, or thereafter.

When you view our site by linking from another web page we may store the name of that web page for purposes of internal administration. Also please note that any contact with Holiday Hypermarket, either online or by telephone, may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes..

Where is my personal information stored?

All personal information is stored in secure databases at secure addresses to prevent unauthorized access.

What is a 'cookie'?

Cookies are small files which are sent to your browser (for example Internet Explorer or Netscape) and stored on your computer's hard disk. They only identify your computer and not you personally.

How does Holiday Hypermarket/First Choice use cookies?

Cookies help speed up the booking process so that you do not need to re-type the same information again and again. We use cookies to measure site usage such as entry and exit points of visitors, how many people visit a certain section or page and details of searches performed and related information. If you are making a purchase we will also use cookies to keep track of the transaction from one page to the next. Other than this, we do not store your password or any other information in the cookie, or use it for any other purpose.

How will I know if you change this privacy policy?

Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be made to this page. Your continued use of this site will constitute your agreement to the changed Terms And Conditions of using this site.

What about the other sites you link to?

Holiday Hypermarket, First Choice Holidays, TUI Travel Plc, its employees, contractors, agents, and owners are not responsible for the privacy policies or content of any websites which it may link to. Also ABTA protection does not apply to any non-member ABTA websites to which we link.

Data Protection information

In the UK we operate and are registered in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. We take full responsibility for ensuring that proper security measures are in place to protect your information. We must pass the information on to the relevant suppliers of your travel arrangements such as airlines, Hotels, transport companies etc. The information may also be provided to security or credit checking companies, public authorities such as customs/immigration if required by them, or as required by law.

With effect from the 5th March 2003 the US and UK government, customs and immigration authorities will require access to passenger information by airlines. Other countries may follow in future. Please be aware that any of your information held by the airlines will be available to the authorities.

Additionally, where your holiday is outside the European Economic Area (EEA), controls on data protection in your destination may not be as strong as the legal requirements in this country. We will not however, pass any information onto any person not responsible for part of your travel arrangements. This applies to any sensitive information that you give to us such as details of any disabilities, or dietary/religious requirements. (If we cannot pass this information to the relevant suppliers, whether in the EEA or not, we cannot provide your booking. In making this booking, you consent to this information being passed onto the relevant persons).

You are entitled to a copy of the information held by us. If you would like to see this please contact us. We may make a small charge for this..

Consent information

By disclosing your personal information to us using this website or over the telephone, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by TUI Travel Plc as stated in this Privacy Policy.