Privacy Policy
Effective date: 01/12/2021
Last revised date: 01/03/2024
- General Information
- How does BIRDY use cookies?
- What types of personal data does BIRDY collect?
- When, and why, do we collect sensitive personal data’?
- When does BIRDY collect personal data about you?
- How is your personal data used by BIRDY?
- Who might BIRDY share your personal data with?
- When will BIRDY send you marketing communications?
- Provision of third-party information
- Security, storage, and transfer
- Web leaks of information
- Links to third party websites
- Phone conversations
- How to access, review, transfer and delete your personal data
- Applicable law, jurisdiction, claims & severability
- Withdrawal of Consent
- Further details
A cookie is a small file stored by a server in the terminal (computer, telephone, etc.) of a user and associated with a web domain (i.e. in most cases with all the pages of the same website). This file is automatically returned on subsequent contacts with the same domain.”[1]
BIRDY collects Personal Data from Clients, in particular in relation to travel arrangements, use of products and services and how the website is accessed. Personal Data collected includes, but is not limited to:
✧ Identification and contact details: surname, first name, date of birth, nationality, residential address, email address, telephone and fax numbers;
✧ Flight information (when booking a flight): passport information, personal description and photo, travel arrangement information, booking details, itinerary, details of any additional assistance required and other travel-related information;
✧ Information on services BIRDY has provided to the Clients in the past, including previous travel arrangements, such as flights and other reservations, and related matters, such as upgrades.
✧ Personal tastes (with regard to food and beverages) and dietary needs;
✧ Health restrictions (for example, allergies for meal purposes and disabilities for reasonable care purposes);
✧ Localisation;
✧ Use of the website, including information about pages visited;
✧ Information about interactions with BIRDY and its employees;
✧ Financial and Banking Information: Credit card information necessary to provide the requested product or service (including information obtained from third-party banks, other credit agencies and credit bureaus); and
✧ Other informations used to perform contractual obligations between BIRDY and the Client and/or to conduct investigations and/or provide Clients with other information that may be required for an offer.
Certain categories of personal data, such as that about race, ethnicity, religion or health, are considered “sensitive personal data” in terms of applicable law. Sensitive personal data will only be processed here.
✧ You have requested specific medical assistance from us and/or an airport operator, such as the provision of wheelchair assistance or oxygen, or,
✧ You have sought clearance from us to fly with a medical condition or because you are pregnant, or,
✧ You have otherwise chosen to provide such information to us (or a third party such as the agent or other broker through which you made your booking). By providing any personal data that is, or could be considered to be “sensitive personal data”, you explicitly agree that we may collect, use, share with third parties and transfer such data, within and outside of the European Economic Area, in accordance with this Policy.
The collection of Personnel Data by BIRDY occurs after the Client’s access, use or purchase of BIRDY’s products or services, either directly or through third parties.The following are examples of when BIRDY collects Personal Data about Clients:
✧ When a Client is booking or searching for a flight or any other product or service on the website or mobile application;
✧ When a Client books or searches for flights or other products or services through other sales channels (such as through agents or other brokers);
✧ When a Client contacts a BIRDY Service Representative or Sales Representative;
✧ When a Client travels with BIRDY and uses the airport in which it operates;
✧ If a Client uses a lounge provided by BIRDY’s partners or agents;
✧ When a Client responds to surveys or provides feedback to BIRDY;
✧ When a Client subscribes to one of the BIRDY Membership Programs;
✧ If a Client enters a contest or registers for a promotion; or
✧ When a Client decides to engage with BIRDY via social media.
In addition, BIRDY may receive Personal Data about Clients from third parties such as:
✧ Companies providing products and/or services in connection with BIRDY’s services;
✧ Companies involved in the Client’s travel plans, including airport operators and relevant customs and immigration authorities; and
✧ BIRDY’s partner companies (such as car rental companies and hotels).
Personal Data necessary to execute, manage and/or deliver orders and/or orders placed through the website will be retained for as long as the Client may be able to place an order, provided that he/she has not indicated that he/she intends to cease being a Client of BIRDY or that his/her Personal Data will no longer be stored, subject to the 36 (thirty-six) months of the Client deadline for ordering through the website, on this date no personal data will be retained thereafter.
Improvement purposes
BIRDY processes the Personal Data of its Clients in order to provide them with an adapted and personalized service, in this case to ensure the most comfortable flight service possible and to provide other travel-related arrangements.
To this end, BIRDY uses Personal Data to, among other things:
✧ Process general questions asked by the Clients;
✧ Obtain feedback on its services and the services of third party suppliers, in order to improve and develop them;
✧ Deliver relevant messages and information that may be of interest to Clients before, during and after their trip;
✧ Personalize and tailor the travel experience;
✧ Participate in the training of its employees and thus participate in the improvement of its products and services;
✧ Geographically tracking Clients within airports (e.g., tracking security checkpoints) to facilitate flight connections and fast and efficient boarding of aircraft, as well as to provide personalized service; and
✧ Use facial recognition and related biometric technologies to facilitate passenger boarding.
Legal and Regulatory Obligations
BIRDY is subject to a number of legal and regulatory obligations under which Personal Information must be disclosed.
Indeed, BIRDY may be required to transmit and communicate the Personal Data collected (including data obtained from official photo identification documents) to competent authorities such as passport and border control agencies and competent police and customs authorities. BIRDY may also disclose Personal Data to make travel arrangements such as airport and immigration formalities.
It is understood that this communication is a legal obligation of BIRDY, which cannot avoid it, just as the Client cannot object to it.
Security Purposes
BIRDY will also use Personal Data to perform the following checks:
✧ BIRDY will ensure that the Client or any Passenger is not the subject or target of any economic or trade sanction law or regulation or travel ban by conducting due diligence on the Client’s background (sanctions and execution list data) to protect the rights, interests, property and safety of the Client and Clients;
✧ For general administration of records by BIRDY, which may include, for example, accounting and billing, auditing, credit or other payment card verification, fraud screening (including the use of credit reference agency searches and payment card validation checks), immigration and customs control, safety, security, health, administrative and legal purposes, and systems testing, maintenance and development; and
✧ To fulfill obligations and/or enforce rights under any contract between BIRDY and Client.
Further processing
In the event that Personal Data is further processed for purposes other than those for which the Personal Data was collected and as identified above, BIRDY will provide the Data Subject with prior information about such other purpose and any other relevant legal information required.
BIRDY may disclose Personal Data to the following entities:
✧ Aircraft operators, aircraft owners, private jet companies and airlines in general;
✧ The operating carrier (if BIRDY arranges for transportation by another carrier, that other carrier is the operating carrier as defined in the legislation governing air transportation);
✧ Third parties involved in the performance of BIRDY’s obligations in connection with any contact with the Client; and
✧ Authorized representatives (such as, but not limited to, employees, agents, mandatories) of BIRDY.
Third parties may also have access to Personal Data in the following cases:
✧ In the event of a legal or regulatory obligation to disclose Personal Data (US, European or otherwise)
✧ As part of contractual obligations between BIRDY and/or the Client and/or an Operator;
✧ In the event that BIRDY sells its entire business or assets, disclosure will be made only to the purchaser and its professional advisors;
✧ In the case of a due diligence exercise conducted on BIRDY by a potential investor or partner, disclosure will be made to the potential investor or partner and its professional advisors and will be subject to confidentiality protections to the extent possible;
✧ For security purposes to conduct due diligence or other background checks on the Client (sanctions and execution list data);
✧ For the protection of the rights, property and safety of BIRDY and its Clients (including by exchanging information with third parties for fraud protection and credit risk reduction purposes); and
✧ To facilitate travel arrangements, including other carriers and airport operators, customs and immigration authorities, agents or other brokers involved in travel arrangements, and global distribution system service providers that provide services to the Client or BIRDY, such as companies that provide airport handling, ground handling, catering, fuel, transportation, and flight personnel (pilots and cabin crew).
A number of legal and regulatory obligations are imposed to BIRDY whom is required to disclose Personal Data, such as official photo ID cards, to competent authorities, such as passport and border control authorities and competent police and customs authorities. BIRDY may also disclose Personal Data for travel arrangements such as airport and immigration procedures.
It is understood that this communication is a legal obligation of BIRDY, which cannot be avoided, just as the Client cannot object to it.
The Client is informed that BIRDY may transfer its Personal Data to a third country or to an international organization that is the subject of an adequacy decision issued by the European Commission, it being specified that, in the case of a transfer to a country or an international organization that is not the subject of an adequacy decision, this may only be carried out on condition that appropriate guarantees are put in place and that the Clients concerned have enforceable rights and effective means of recourse, under the conditions of the Regulations in force.
BIRDY informs Clients that its website may contain links to and from the websites of its network of partners and affiliates.
The links lead to websites that are independent from BIRDY and that contain their own privacy policy and their own measures to secure Personal Data. The Client acknowledges that it is solely responsible for the confidentiality of its Data if it chooses to follow these links. BIRDY does not undertake any responsibility for the privacy policies of these third party websites.
The Client is strongly advised to consult the privacy policies of these websites before submitting Personal Data or using their services.