Last updated: 8 August 2022.
Welcome to the privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) of Soneva.
This Privacy Policy applies when you visit www.soneva.com or www.siamdiscoveryair.com (collectively, “our Websites”) and may be updated at any time. This Privacy Policy and each updated version will take effect once we have posted it on our Websites. As such, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy each time you visit our Websites.
Soneva is made up of five different legal entities: Bunny Holdings (BVI) Limited, Hillside Villa Private Limited, SIA Investments BVI Limited, Soneva Mauritius Limited and Tropical Island Limited (the “Soneva Group”). This privacy policy is issued on behalf of the Soneva Group so when we mention “Soneva”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to the relevant company in the Soneva Group responsible for processing your data.
We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to whether and how we collect information about you when you visit our Websites (regardless of where you visit it from) and how we use such information.
1 Important information and who we are
1.1 Purpose of this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our Websites, including any data you may provide through our Websites when you sign up to our newsletter, register to use our services, raise an inquiry or make a booking or reservation with us.
It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.
1.2 Use by Children
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data through our Websites relating to children. Although our Websites are not targeted toward children, we are concerned about the safety and privacy of children who use the Internet. If a child under 13 has provided personally identifiable information to us through our Websites, a parent or guardian may inform us using the contact details in Section 1.4 below, and we will delete it from our database (although please refer to Section 9 below on data retention).
1.3 Contact details
Our Digital Manager is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights (including those set out in Section 10 below), please contact our Digital Manager using the details set out below.
Full name of legal entity: Soneva Mauritius Limited
For the attention of: Digital Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Postal address: IFS Court, 28, Cybercity, Ebene, Mauritius.
Website: https://www.soneva.com/contact-us/
If you are within the EU, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant supervisory authority for data protection issues in your country. For a list of these authorities, please contact us. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the relevant supervisory authority so please contact us in the first instance.
1.4 Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
1.5 Third-party links
This Privacy Policy concerns only our Websites and does not concern any third-party websites, plug-ins, or applications to which our Websites may include links to. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave any of our Websites, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
2 The data we collect about you
2.1 Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified, directly or indirectly. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (i.e., anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
2.2 We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for the purpose of improving our services and offerings, among others. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data has been de-identified such that it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2.3 The term Special Categories of Personal Data refers to information related to your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not generally collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you.
2.4 If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In that case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if that is the case at the time.
3 How your personal data is collected
3.1 We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Websites, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties that are lawfully entitled to share your data with us and public sources as set out below:
4 Cookies
4.1 Our Websites use “cookies,” which is a small text file containing a random and unique identifier that either Soneva or a business partner, such as a third-party web analytics provider, transfers to your computer through your web browser (unless you set your browser to reject cookies). Soneva uses cookies to, among other things, recognize your browser, track your movement through the website, track the point of registration for those users signing up for mailings or programs, and track and measure the success of a marketing campaign. Cookies help us understand our visitors’ needs and interests, and we use that information to improve our Websites and the products and services offered. We do not use cookies to store any personal information that could be read or understood by others.
4.2 Soneva uses analytics platforms, including Google Analytics, to collect information about your use of our Websites. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Websites, what pages users visit, and what other sites they visited prior to or after coming to our Websites. More information on how Google Analytics uses your data can be found at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Websites. By using our Websites with your browser set to accepting cookies, you consent to our and Google Analytics’ use of cookies on our Websites.
4.3 Soneva also re-targets cookies to allow 3rd party service providers to provide advertisements on our behalf across the internet. These service providers may collect your IP address and non-personal data about your visits. This is completely anonymous and does not include your name, address, email address or any other personal information. Additionally, these re-targeted cookies are used to gather anonymous statistical information on how the website is browsed. These re-targeted cookies will expire after 10 years.
4.4 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.networkadvertising.org. You can also specifically opt-out of Google Analytics using this tool. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
4.5 Do-Not-Track.
We do not track visitors of our Websites over time and/or across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. However, some third party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, your browser allows you to set the DNT signal so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked. You should consult the help pages of your browser to learn how to set your preferences so that websites do not track you.
5 How we use your personal data
5.1 We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
5.2 Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to the collection of cookies (please see Section 4) and sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message (see further Section 5.3). We will always ask you separately when we seek your consent. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time as set out in Section 10.7
5.3 We have set out below, in a table format a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, the legal basis we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are for processing where appropriate. Please contact our Digital Manager using the details set out in Section 1.3 if you have any queries about this table and the lawful basis for processing your personal data.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer | (a) Identity
(b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your booking or reservation which may include:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us |
(a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you which may include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey (c) managing your personal service preferences at our resorts |
(a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business, our websites (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our websites, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences | (a) Technical
(b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our websites updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you and to provide details of our exclusive offers | (a) Identity
(b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (i.e., to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
5.3 Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
We or our affiliates may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, or Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you for marketing purposes.
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, made a reservation or booking with us or otherwise signed up to receive services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving marketing.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside Soneva for marketing purposes.
You can ask us or any third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time simply by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of any of our or the third party’s emails. Alternatively, consent to marketing from us can be withdrawn by emailing [email protected].
When you opt out of receiving marketing messages, the opt out will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a booking or reservation made with us.
5.4 Change of Purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email our Digital Manager using the contact details in Section 1.4 for further information.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with this Privacy Policy, where required or permitted by law.
6 Disclosures of your personal data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in Section 5.2 above:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
7 International transfers
7.1 We may share your personal data across entities within the Soneva Group, which may result in the transfer of your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all the Soneva Group to follow the same rules when processing your personal data.
Many of our third party service providers are based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will also involve a transfer of data outside the EEA. This includes where your information is held on our secure database which is stored on a server located in a data center in Bangkok, Thailand.
7.2 Where we transfer information which originates in the EU to a country outside the EEA, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to such information as in the EU by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
8 Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Our emails are protected by DMARC.
9 Data retention – how long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Details of the specific retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available from our Digital Manger using the contact details set out in Section 1.3.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Your Legal Rights in Section 10 below for further information.
In some circumstances we may de-identify or anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
10 Your Legal Rights
10.1 You have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Digital Manager using the contact details set out in Section 1.3.
10.2 No fee required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights set out in this Privacy Policy).
10.3 What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
10.4 Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10.5 Data Controller
For the purpose of the European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation, Soneva Mauritius Limited is the company who controls the data of all Soneva resorts and Soneva Group and will be the data controller for your data that we collect through our Websites.
11 California’s Shine the Light Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us a list of what personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may be made only once a year and are free of charge. Under Section 1798.83, we currently do not share any personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
12 Addendum for Thailand
12.1 Application
The following terms supplement this Privacy Policy with respect to our collection, use, disclosure and/or transfer of personal data under Thai laws.
To the extent applicable, in the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Privacy Policy and the terms of this Addendum, this Addendum shall govern and prevail with regards to the collection, use, disclosure and/or transfer of personal data under Thai laws.
12.2 Use by Minors, Quasi-Incompetent Persons, and Incompetent Persons
The terms of Section 1.2 (Use by Children) shall be replaced by the following terms.
This website is not intended for minors (who have not yet become sui juris, i.e. under 20 years of age or have not reached legal age through marriage as applicable by law), quasi-incompetent persons, and incompetent persons. We do not knowingly collect their personal data through our Websites without obtaining necessary consent or without relying on any other legal bases. Although our Websites are not targeted toward minors, quasi-incompetent persons, and incompetent persons, we are concerned about their safety and privacy on the Internet. If they have provided their personal data to us through our Websites, a parent, curator or guardian may inform us using the contact details in Section 12.3, and we will delete it from our database to the extent applicable (although please refer to Section 9 on data retention).
12.3 Contact details
For the purpose of the Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562, Tropical Island Limited is the data controller who is responsible for collecting, using and/or disclosing your personal data. You can contact us by using the details set out below.
Email address: [email protected]
Postal address: 19/F Two Pacific Place,142 Sukhumvit Road, Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110
Telephone Number: 082-208-8888
If you are in Thailand, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the relevant supervisory authority so please contact us in the first instance.
12.4 Additional data we collect about you
In addition to personal data indicated in Section 2.1 above, we may also collect, use, store and transfer the following kinds of personal data about you:
Where you do not to provide personal data which are required for our legal compliance, we may not be able to comply with our legal obligations.
12.5 Special Categories of Personal Data
The terms of Section 2.3 (Special Categories of Personal Data) shall be replaced by the following terms.
The term Special Categories of Personal Data refers to information related to your racial, ethnic origin, political opinions, cult, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual behavior, criminal records, health data, disability, trade union information, genetic data, biometric data, or any data which may affect you in the same manner as prescribed by the Personal Data Protection Committee. We collect Special Categories of Personal Data as follows:
12.6 Additional use of your personal data
In addition to circumstances indicated in Section 5.1, we may also use your personal data in the following circumstances:
In addition to a description set out in Section 5.3, we may also use your personal data for the following purpose/activity and on the following legal basis.
Purpose/Activity | Type of data | Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To comply with the immigration laws and laws on hotel | (a) Identity
(b) data required under immigration laws (c) data required under laws on hotel |
(a) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
12.7 International transfers
The terms of Section 7 (International transfer) shall be replaced by the following terms.
Some of the recipients we may share your personal data with, e.g. entities within the Soneva Group or third party service providers, may be located outside Thailand. The destination countries may or may not have the same equivalent level of protection for personal data protection standards. In such case, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, including obliging the recipients to protect your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as allowed by applicable laws using appropriate security measures. We will request your consent where consent to cross-border transfer is required by law.
12.8 Your Legal Rights
The terms of Section 10 (Your Legal Rights) shall be replaced by the following terms.
You have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Digital Manager using the contact details set out in Section 1.3.
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