Privacy Policy

At Scuba Seekers Dahab, we know the importance of privacy and will do our utmost to protect your privacy.

Please read, understand and agree to this Privacy Policy before submitting personal or privacy data through our website at www.scubaseekers.com

How we obtain personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

First of all, we collect personal data that you choose to voluntarily provide to us when making an enquiry. In addition, we collect certain personal data by using cookies when you visit the website.

– Contact Forms & Emails

We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organisation, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to register you in a dive course with PADI, TDI or another dive organisation.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

– Comments on Our Blog

When you decide to leave comments on one of our blog posts, we will collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

– Cookies

Our website is created using a WordPress platform which uses “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personal information. A cookie is like an identification card. It is unique to your computer and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.

We use cookies to understand site usage, to improve the content and offerings on our site and help us to be more efficient. Cookies allow us to store user preference data. Cookies enable you to save settings such as the language, personal data, and other data so you do not need to reconfigure user preferences on each visit.

If you want to control which cookies you accept. You can configure your browser. Below we have prepare you a list of links to popular browsers on how access these settings.

You may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies.

– Google Analytics

For the exclusive reason to analyze how our users use the website, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited and the paths taken by visitors to our website as they move from page to page, we use Google Analytics.

Information collected by Google Analytics cookies will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the USA in accordance with its privacy practices. For further information of Google’s privacy practices and how this applies to Google analytics, please visit:

– Embedded Content

To enrich our website content, sometimes we may embed video content from YouTube or we have place a google map on our contact page.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded, you may be presented with cookies from these website.
To learn more about their cookie policy for more information. visit https://policies.google.com/privacy

Links Disclosure

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

The types of personal data we may obtain

We may collect and receive the following personal data from you:

  • Name and contact details (such as name, address, email and phone numbers)
  • Information on your use of the website
  • Personal data included in our contact form
  • Traffic data (such as your Internet usage)
  • Any other information that you voluntarily want to give us (such as whether you would like to receive Information about diving courses and or boat trips).

How we may use personal data

We may use the personal data we collect and receive for the following purposes:

  • To provide information, proposals and services to you;
  • To analyse how the website is used, such as which pages are visited, how long pages were visited and the paths taken by visitors to our website as they move from page to page;
  • To verify compliance with applicable legal requirements and our policies.

We may share the personal data we collect and receive on a need to know basis with the following third parties:

  • Service providers (eg. PADI, TDI or the appropriate diving agency of the course you book with us)
  • Competent public authorities if required by law.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data.

We retain the Personal Information we receive as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.

How we protect personal data

We take precautions to protect your information.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only Scuba Seekers employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, organise your next dive holidays with us) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are password protected and kept in a secure environment.

Your Rights, Our Responsibility

There are several rights granted to you immediately upon providing us with your personal information; we’d like you to know that at Scuba Seekers we take your rights as a Natural Person seriously and will always conduct ourselves in a way that is considerate of our responsibility to serve your legal rights.You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
  • Have us delete any data we have about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative or legal purposes.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

If you have any comments or inquiries about the privacy of your data, please contact us by email at info@scubaseekers.com.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes on the website or through other appropriate communication channels.

This Cookies and Privacy Policy Page was last updated on the 14th August, 2018.