At D.H.CULLEN we take Security & Privacy very seriously. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data we hold about you.

 

PAYMENT SECURITY POLICY

If you pay for your hire at the time of booking you will be asked to enter your payment card type, number, expiration date and card security code to enable us to take your payment. All payment data is processed, used, stored and destroyed in compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard produced by the Security Standards Council.

For more information please visit their website: http://https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/index.php

 

PRIVACY POLICY

 

Booking Information: When booking vehicle hire services we ask for your name, postal address, telephone number and email address. This helps us to process your booking, to contact you if we have any problems with your request or to send you an electronic confirmation of the booking.

Retention

We try to ensure that the personal data we retain about you is stored securely and is as accurate, current and complete as necessary for the purposes we use it for.

Storage

We generally retain personal data about our customers for as long as we believe appropriate for the purposes for which it was collected or as otherwise required by applicable law. Our principal electronic database for storing the personal data we collect is secure, local and not virtual. 

Security

As you may be aware, there is no completely secure method of transmitting or storing data. Although their physical characteristics are different, postal mail, telephone calls, text messages, faxes and transmissions over the Internet all present possibilities of loss, misrouting, interception and misuse of the data that is transmitted.

We aim to maintain appropriate physical, procedural and electronic safeguards to protect your personal data, including: Restricting access to personal data to our employees on a “need to know” basis; Enforcing policies and procedures for our employees in their handling of personal data.

Access

You may access and review your personal data and correct factual errors upon request. To protect your privacy and the security of your personal data, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access or making corrections to the data we store about you.

Operational Uses

By making a reservation with us, you consent to our use and disclosure of your personal data for the operational uses listed below.  We would also like to use your data for our marketing purposes and to provide you services. The examples provided below are illustrative:

We will share your personal data among ourselves, our agents and other companies to provide services to you, including to:

  • Make your rental reservations
  • Process your transactions
  • Provide you with customer assistance
  • Bill and collect amounts owed to us for your hires
  • For customer satisfaction and market research purposes to help us improve our services

Disclosure to companies you use 

  • We will also share your information with companies you use in connection with your hire, including: 
  • Your credit card provider and other companies that process your charges
  • Any company or organization that is paying your hire charges
  • Any intermediary you use, such as a travel agent or broker, in relation to any aspect of your rental 

Protective and legal uses

We may use and disclose your personal data as we believe appropriate, in compliance with applicable law, to protect our business.  For example, we may share your personal data with credit reporting and fraud checking agencies.  We may also share your data with organisations to enforce the hire agreement and recover any monies due, such as debt collection agencies.

In addition, we may share your personal data for legal reasons, including:

  • Cooperating with law enforcement agencies, to identify individuals who may be involved in illegal activities;
  • Responding to governmental and administrative bodies in relation to charges arising during the hire, such as parking and traffic fines, tolls and congestion charges; and  
  • To comply with applicable law.

Disclosure to our agents

We may use other companies as our agents to act on our behalf and assist us in the conduct of our business, performing services for us under our instruction. These services may include hosting certain websites or databases, running promotions for us, sending marketing communications, carrying out data analysis and conducting customer satisfaction surveys or other research. We will require our agents to maintain appropriate security standards to protect your personal data and use the data only for the purposes we specify. 

Marketing uses

We may aggregate your personal data and use it to develop targeted marketing programs and service offerings that we believe may be of interest to you. We would like to send these to you by email or by mail. If we wanted to share your personal data with our licensees, affiliates and business partners for their marketing purposes we would only do so with your prior consent.

Alternative opportunities to opt-out

Our marketing emails contain an unsubscribe option.  If you do not want us to continue to send marketing emails to your email address, click on ‘unsubscribe’ and we will not send further marketing emails to that address, although you may still receive emails at other addresses for which you have not unsubscribed. If you subsequently wish to re-subscribe please visit your profile. 

Changes 

We may change this policy from time to time.  If we do so, the amended policy will take effect when we post it on our website.  We will amend the “last updated” notice on this page whenever we make a change. If any change makes the policy less protective of your personal data, it will not apply to data we collected about you before the change was made.  The only exception to this is where we have told you about the changes and given you the opportunity to tell us not to apply them to your personal data.