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PRIVACY POLICY OF “CURIOS”

1. Introduction

 

Below you will find the Privacy Policy of the website https://curiouslyglobal.com (hereinafter, the “Website”), which, together with the Terms and Conditions and Cookies Policy, form a contract between CURIOUSLY GLOBAL S.A.C., with RUC N° 20608777734, domiciled at Calle Juan Dellepiani N° 180, Urb. Country Club El Golf, district of San Isidro, province and department of Lima, Republic of Peru (hereinafter, “Curiously Global”) and the USER and/or user (hereinafter, the “User”).

 

2. Description

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL is a company that offers educational author travel programs, tourist experiences and educational and informative content to tourists (hereinafter, the “Users”).

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL ensures maximum confidentiality and protection of the personal data provided by the Users in order to make use of our services.

 

3. Objective and purpose

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL is aware of the high importance of the privacy of our users and of all those who are interested in the services offered.

 

Being consistent with this consideration, we are committed to respect your privacy and protect the confidentiality of your private information and personal data. For this reason, by means of this Privacy Policy, we inform our Users about the way in which the personal information provided to CURIOUSLY GLOBAL is collected, treated and protected.

 

Private personal information does not include information that is available through publicly accessible sources. This includes electronic, optical and other technological means of communication designed to provide information to the public and open to general consultation, telephone directories, newspapers and magazines, social media, professional lists, anonymized case law directories, the Public Registries administered by the National Superintendence of Public Registries as well as any other registry or data bank qualified as public according to law, the entities of the Public Administration in relation to the information that must be delivered in application of Law No. 27806, Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information.

 

4. Legislation (applicable to the Republic of Peru)

 

According to Law No. 29733 – Personal Data Protection Law (hereinafter, the “Law”) and its Regulations, approved by Supreme Decree No. 003-2013-JUS, personal data is understood as any information about a natural person that identifies or makes him/her identifiable through means that can be reasonably used.

On the other hand, personal data processing is understood as any operation or technical procedure, automated or not, that allows the collection, registration, organization, storage, preservation, conservation, elaboration, modification, extraction, consultation, use, blocking, suppression, communication by transfer or by diffusion or any other form of processing that facilitates the access, correlation or interconnection of personal data.

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL develops its personal data processing policy in accordance with the guiding principles set forth in the Law mentioned below:

 

  1. Legality principle: the collection of our Users’ personal data by fraudulent, unfair or unlawful means is rejected.
  2. Principle of consent: in the processing of our Users’ personal data, their consent is required.
  3. Principle of purpose: The personal data of our Users will be collected for a specific, explicit and lawful purpose, and will not be extended to another purpose that has not been unequivocally established as such at the time of collection.
  4. Principle of proportionality: all processing of personal data of our Users will be adequate, relevant and not excessive to the purpose for which they were collected.
  5. Quality principle: Personal data shall be truthful, accurate and, as far as possible, updated, necessary, relevant and adequate with respect to the purpose for which they were collected.
  6. Security principle: they will be kept in a way that ensures their security and only for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose of the processing.

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL and, where appropriate, the data processors have in place appropriate security measures commensurate with the processing to be carried out, in addition to the adoption of technical, organizational and legal measures necessary to ensure the confidentiality of personal data.

 

5. Information about personal data

 

The USER is informed and freely and voluntarily authorizes CURIOUSLY GLOBAL to collect, store, conserve, access, use, delete or update his/her personal data to carry out the activities described in paragraph 2 of this document. In this sense, the personal data to which CURIOUSLY GLOBAL has access as a result of the services it provides or by filling out different forms, will be incorporated into the corresponding “Personal Data Bank”, forming the organized set of personal data of Users, created by CURIOUSLY GLOBAL and registered in the National Registry of Personal Data Protection. Likewise, the USER accepts that his/her personal data may be transferred to third parties, which are detailed below:

Name Identification number (RUC/Other) Country Address
Namecheap, Inc. EIN N° 26-2368289 United States of America 4600 East Washington Street

Suite 305

Phoenix, AZ 85034

USA.

Sendinblue

Société par actions simplifiée

Commercial Registry of Paris N° 498 019 298 France 7 rue de Madrid, 75008 Paris.

The personal data provided by Users will be treated with total confidentiality and may only be known and handled by CURIOUSLY GLOBAL staff as well as by the companies listed in the table above that need to know such information in order to provide the services offered in an adequate manner. CURIOUSLY GLOBAL undertakes to maintain professional secrecy with respect to this information and guarantees its duty to safeguard it by adopting all necessary security measures. Authorization will not be required when the personal data is necessary for the execution of a contractual relationship to which the owner of the personal data is a party.

Should the registered data prove to be inaccurate, in whole or in part, or incomplete, CURIOUSLY GLOBAL may update and/or replace them with the corresponding rectified or completed data.

The personal data requested from Users are basic contact data and are adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which they are collected: (i) first and last names, (ii) identification document (DNI/CE/Passport), (iii) address/location, (iv) cell phone number, and (v) e-mail address.

6. Purpose of personal data processing

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL collects the USER data listed in the immediately preceding paragraph for the following purposes:

  • To carry out commercial transactions and to ensure the performance of an adequate intermediary service by CURIOUSLY GLOBAL on behalf of the Users.
  • Likewise, CURIOUSLY GLOBAL collects personal data of its Users in order to send them advertising. In that sense, the USER agrees that CURIOUSLY GLOBAL may provide him/her with advertisements and messages in the following ways: (i) within the website, or (ii) sent to the contact information he/she provided to CURIOUSLY GLOBAL (e.g. email, cell phone number, physical address). Furthermore, the USER agrees to keep his/her contact information up to date.
  • To distribute access to the Website across multiple devices and provide faster loading times.
  • To ensure the proper functioning of the platform and to protect the security of the system.

 

7. Complaints book

 

The USER expressly authorizes CURIOUSLY GLOBAL, when using the complaints book, to process his/her data in order to meet the needs of such procedure, as well as to meet the needs arising from any judicial, administrative or arbitration process or procedure that may arise in the future in relation to the claim that the USER has filed, to meet any inspection by the competent authority regarding the processing of personal data, once the complaint procedure has been completed.

The data collected through the complaints book will be stored in the “Complaints Book” database owned by CURIOUSLY GLOBAL.

As a consequence of the purposes described above, the storage period of the data will be indefinite. For all purposes, it shall be understood that this maximum period of storage and processing of personal data is a right of CURIOUSLY GLOBAL and not an obligation, so that CURIOUSLY GLOBAL may choose to store and/or process them for shorter periods. This in no way prejudices the rights of Users to revoke consent to their personal data at any time, as permitted by law and as detailed by CURIOUSLY GLOBAL in this Privacy Policy.

 

8. Security of personal data

 

In compliance with current regulations, the Information Security Directive was approved by Directorial Resolution No. 019-2013-JUS/DGPDP of the National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, CURIOUSLY GLOBAL has adopted the technical and organizational security and confidentiality measures appropriate to the category of personal data, necessary to maintain the required level of security, in order to avoid as far as possible the alteration, loss or unauthorized processing or access that may affect the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information.

However, the transmission of information through communication networks and the Internet is not totally secure; therefore, although CURIOUSLY GLOBAL will make its best efforts to protect personal data, it cannot guarantee the security of such data during transit to the website. All information provided by Internet Users through this medium is sent at their own risk.

 

9. Exercise of Access, Rectification, Cancellation and Opposition Rights (ARCO)

 

Users who have provided personal data to CURIOUSLY GLOBAL may contact CURIOUSLY GLOBAL in order to exercise their rights to information, access, updating, inclusion, rectification and deletion, to prevent the provision of their personal data, to oppose the processing or objective processing of the data, under the terms set forth in the legislation in force. These rights may only be exercised by the owner of the personal data or his proxy, in accordance with the law.

In order to exercise these rights, Users should contact the following e-mail address info@CURIOUSLY GLOBAL.place with the reference “Personal Data Protection”, specifying their data, proving their identity and the reasons for their request. The person signing the request must attach a simple copy of the documents proving the identity of the holder (National Identity Card or equivalent document) or, as the case may be, that of the attorney-in-fact, as well as a simple copy of the power of attorney granted by notary when applicable.

Likewise, CURIOUSLY GLOBAL informs its Users of the existence of administrative channels to enforce their rights to be exercised before the National Data Protection Authority or jurisdiction before the Judiciary for the purposes of the corresponding habeas data action.

 

10. Transfer of personal data at national or international level

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL uses servers of foreign third parties for the storage of data banks by technological means, so that a cross-border flow will take place. In this sense, the purpose of the transborder flow is the hosting of personal data on the servers of Namecheap, Inc. identified with Paris Trade Register No. 498 019 298, located at 7 rue de Madrid, 75008 Paris, France.

It will also be flowed across borders in favor of Sendinblue Société par actions simplifiée, who is our email marketing service provider.

 

11. Accuracy

 

Users guarantee and are responsible, in any case, for the truthfulness, accuracy, validity and authenticity of the personal information provided, and undertake to keep it duly updated.

 

12. Others

 

As this is a virtual tool, which does not allow direct physical contact between CURIOUSLY GLOBAL and the owner of the personal data, CURIOUSLY GLOBAL will collect and process the personal data based on the good faith presumption that the person providing the data is of legal age, is proficient in Spanish or English, is of sound mind, has full civil capacity and is the owner of the personal data or acts as a representative of the owner of the data provided, in the event that the data is owned by third parties.

For any type of query regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact the following e-mail address: info@curiouslyglobal.com

 

13. Validity and modification of this Privacy Policy

 

CURIOUSLY GLOBAL’s Personal Data Protection Policy is constantly updated and CURIOUSLY GLOBAL reserves the right to modify its policy in the event of a change in current legislation, doctrine, jurisprudence or due to the company’s own criteria. Should any changes be made to this policy, the new text will be published on this website and will be communicated to the USER.

It is recommended that all Users periodically access this Privacy Policy that they will find on the website.

This Privacy Policy for the Processing of Personal Data was published on October 10, 2023.