PRIVACY POLICY
Flexjet recognizes the importance of our customers’ privacy. Privacy is more than an issue of compliance – it is one of trust. With that in mind, our Privacy Policy is based on our basic belief of respect for the individual. This Privacy Policy describes:
- WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?
- OUR USE OF COOKIES
- HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?
- DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA?
- HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
- HOW DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
- YOUR RIGHTS
- RETENTION OF INFORMATION
- CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
- CONTACT INFORMATION
- CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
1. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT?
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website, enter into our mobile apps, or give us in any other way. You provide information to us when you buy a jet card, request a quote or book a flight, create or update your account, communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise, or complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form. Depending upon which actions you take,
We may collect some or all of the following personal and non-personal data:
- Name / username;
- Contact information such as email, home, business address, and telephone numbers;
- Business/company name;
- Passport details (this will include copy of passport, date of birth, image of customer & owner);
- DOB (Date of Birth);
- Travel plans and flight participants
- Bank details;
- Encrypted bank card details;
- Customer profile notes (this may contain health data such as dietary and allergy requirements);
- Details of answers to questionaries and contest entry forms;
- IP address;
- Web browser type and version;
- Operating system;
We receive and store certain types of technical information whenever you interact with us online or over the phone. Like many websites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses the Flexjet website. This information may include your IP address, website login information, e-mail address, computer operating system and browser information, purchase history, clickstream to, through, and from our website, and the phone number you used to call us.
Please note that we never collect or maintain information on our websites from persons we know to be under age 18, and no part of our website is designed to attract anyone under age 18. Please do not communicate with or contact us if you are under age 18.
2. OUR USE OF COOKIES
What Are Cookies?
A “cookie” is a small file of letters and numbers that is placed on your computer or mobile device and that that allows us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our websites, services, applications, messaging, and tools. Cookies can be in the form of session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your device when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your device until deleted or until they reach their expiration date.
How Does Flexjet Use Cookies
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and to provide a secure browsing experience that is unique to you. We also use cookies so that our website can remember what you have done while browsing it, for instance, your log-in details, how far you have progressed with a flight reservation, and so on. Where applicable, we protect our cookies to help ensure that only we and/or our authorized service providers can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that is designed for interpretation only by us. We don’t store any of your personal information on any of our cookies or other similar technologies.
What Cookies does Flexjet Use
Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our website and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
What Kinds of Information Does Flexjet Collect by Using Cookies?
We may use cookies to collect any of the information described in the section above entitled “WHAT TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES Flexjet COLLECT?” We may collect this information whether or not you create an account or make a purchase with us.
Your Consent to Our Use of Cookies
Visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies or using our mobile app tells us that you want to use our products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies to provide them to you as described in this Privacy Policy. See below for information on how to modify the settings in your device to notify you when you receive a new cookie and disable cookies altogether.
3. HOW DO WE USE YOUR DATA?
We use your information to support our core business functions. These functions generally include communicating with you, delivering and improving our services, and preventing fraud and other losses. Some examples are:
- To fulfil your requests for services and communicate with you about those requests;
- To register and service your account;
- To administer surveys and promotions;
- To help us improve and customize our service offerings, websites, and advertising;
- To send you information about our products, services, and promotions, and to provide related customer service; and
- To protect the security and integrity of our website, all data collected by us, and our business.
To accomplish these purposes, we may combine personal and non-personal information we collect with offline information, including information from third parties. We may transfer or disclose your information within our corporate family of companies for these purposes.
We have also implemented Google Analytics features based on Display Advertising, including Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. With these services, we and third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on past visits to our website. To opt out of Google Analytics services, please see “Google Analytics” under the heading “Your Rights
| Type of Data | Our Lawful Basis |
| Identity Information including Name, Company Name, Passport, DOB, ID Picture | Contractual Obligation |
| Contact information including Email Address, Work Email Address, Phone Number, Mobile Number | Contractual Obligation/ Consent |
| Business information including Name, Address, Email Address, Website, Company Registration, Number, Job Title/Role | NA |
| Payment information including Bank Account Information (DD details), Card Details (stored in our PCI Compliance Payment Provider – Stripe) | Contractual Obligation (If Personal Data) |
| Profile information including Username, Password (one-way hashed), Default Views, Notes (this may contain health data such as dietary and allergy requirements | Contractual Obligation/ Consent |
| Technical information including IP Address, Device Id, Location, User Id | Contractual Obligation/ Consent |
| Data retained post-termination for marketing, Email Address | Consent |
4. DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described in this policy and with our affiliated companies (some of which are located outside the European Economic Area) that follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Policy. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, share, or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties.
Third Party Services. Other companies and individuals perform services for us on a regular basis, and we may provide them with your personal information so that they may perform those services. Examples of these services include conducting flight operations, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies will have access to your personal information needed to perform their designated functions, but they may not use it for other purposes. For more information on the specific third parties that provide these services, please contact the Data Controller using the contact information below.
Legal Requirements. We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Flexjet, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. This does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personal information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Business Transfers. We may transfer any information we have about you to a third party in connection with a merger or sale involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization or stock sale or other change in corporate control.
5. HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We maintain a security program intended to keep the personal information stored in our systems protected from unauthorized access and misuse. Our systems are configured with data encryption, or scrambling technologies and firewalls constructed to industry standards. We also use industry standard data encryption methods that protect the data you send over the Internet. Personal information may only be accessed by persons within our organizations or our third parties to carry out the uses indicated in this Privacy Policy.
6. HOW DO WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
The personal information that we collect from you may be stored and processed in the United States, Europe, or any other country in which we or our affiliates or services providers maintain facilities. We may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, across borders from your country to other countries around the world. If you are located in a country with laws governing the collection and use of data that differ from those of the United States, please note that we will not transfer your personal information to a country or jurisdiction that does not have data protection laws that are a least as protective of those in your country or jurisdiction.
7. YOUR RIGHTS
As a data subject, you have the following rights under the Privacy Legislation, which this Policy and Our use of Personal Data have been designed to uphold:
The right to be informed about Our collection and use of Personal Data;
The right of access to the Personal Data We hold about you
The right to rectification if any personal data We hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact Us using the details in section 8);
The right to be forgotten/deleted – i.e. the right to ask Us to delete any personal data We hold about you, please contact Us using the details in section 8). Please note that deletion of certain personal data may prevent the Services from functioning;
The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of personal data;
The right to data portability (obtaining a copy of personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);
The right to object to Us using personal data for particular purposes; and
Rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.
Our business provides highly personalized services, and access to our customers’ personal information is essential to our ability to provide those services. You can always choose not to provide us with your personal information or to alter our ability to collect information about you, but you may be unable to take advantage of our products and services as a result.
Cookies. The “Help” feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Most mobile devices allow you to turn off location-based services as well. Because cookies and location-based services allow you to take advantage of some of the essential features of the Flexjet website and mobile apps, we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Google Analytics. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising you may do so by using the Google Ads Preferences Manager. You may also download a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Other Vendors
- Firebase
- Datadog
- Mixpanel
Direct Contact Opt-Out. If you prefer not to receive information from us (either through email or regular mail), or if you would like us to delete your personal information from our systems for any reason, please contact The Data Controller, this may take 30 days to take effect. Please use the following link.
You can contact the Data Privacy Team using the contact information below to determine if we are keeping personal information about you. If we do have personal information about you, we will provide you with a readable copy of that information at no charge. You may correct factual errors in your personal information by sending us a request that sufficiently details how your personal information should be corrected. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes.
If you have any cause for complaint about Our use of personal data, please contact Us using the details provided in section 8 and We will do Our best to solve the problem for you.
8. RETENTION OF INFORMATION
We retain personal information only for so long as reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes for which the information was collected. In certain cases, we may need to retain personal information for purposes required under applicable law, for tax or audit purposes, or for other purposes permitted under law.
9. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Your California Privacy Rights
California law permits residents to receive: (1) a listing of categories of personal information Flexjet has collected about them, (2) the identity of any third parties to whom Flexjet has disclosed personal information for a business purpose or sold personal information within the previous calendar year and (3) the categories of personal information disclosed or sold to those third parties. California law requires us to request certain personal information to verify your identity prior to these disclosures and prohibits discrimination based on your exercise of these rights. You can submit a request for disclosure by contacting us. The use of personal data is allowed for purposes identified at time of collection only. Flexjet/Directional Aviation Capital requires explicit consent to use personal data for a new purpose. Please note that Flexjet does not sell personal information to third parties or disclose personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing.
10. CONTACT INFORMATION
Data Controller:
Flexjet Data Controller
26180 Curtiss Wright Pkwy
Richmond Heights, OH 44126
Contact number 888-309-2214
11. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of our services following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.
Last revised November 20, 2024.
