We value the trust of our customers. To earn your trust, we respect your privacy in handling personally identifiable information relating to you and your transactions with us. This Privacy Statement describes the personally identifiable information we gather about you, what we do with it, the safeguards we have in place to protect it, how you can control our use of it and your right to be informed.

Personally Identifiable information:

We collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us when you make a enter/register for a category on the website, complete an application, enter a or if you give us a telephone call or send us a letter or e-mail. This personally identifiable information may include your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card number and expiration date, and other optional demographic information. You may browse our website without supplying any personally identifiable information. We use any personal and optional demographic information you provide us with to ensure that we can provide you with relevant information on our products and services as well as relevant information about The Wave Awards

How do we store and protect personally identifiable information?

We understand the value of personally identifiable information and work hard to protect your privacy. All personally identifiable information is securely stored on our servers which are regularly monitored for any intrusions. Information is limited to key personnel who need access in the line of their duties at work. Personally identifiable information is never shared with any third party without your express permission. No payment details are recorded on our systems.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site’s functionality. For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies".

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case, they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

How does The Wave Awards use personally identifiable information about me?

The personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us will be used to process your registering and may be used to identify you within our systems. We may use your email address to contact you if we have questions. We may also use your email address to notify you about new services or special promotional programs, or send you offers or information upon your request. From time to time, The Wave Awards may enable specially chosen third party partners to mail or email you from time to time with relevant information.

With whom might The Wave Awards share personally identifiable information about me?

We will not disclose personally identifiable information about you to others except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement or as specifically authorised by you at the time the information is collected.

We contract with third parties to provide specific products or services to you. For example, we use a credit card company to process credit card applications, issue credit, verify, bill, and collect payments when you make a purchase with a credit card; an independent financial institution to perform additional security checks on your credit card; an outside shipping company to ship orders; and we may use outside service providers to operate certain aspects of our website and to send e-mails. These service providers are provided with only the information that they need to perform their functions and are not permitted to use or disclose your personally identifiable information for other purposes without your authorisation. A full list of our contracted parties is available on request.

We do not sell, rent, exchange or disclose any of this information with any other companies or marketing schemes.

We will only share data with other third-party companies not contracted to Real Response Media should you expressly give us permission to do so. This will be clearly indicated at the point we collect any personal information that you wish to give us.

To make online shopping more convenient for you, our website may provide access to other companies’ websites or co-branded websites; these websites are fully operated by the other company. If you request additional information or order products or services from one of the companies featured on our website, that company may provide us with the information you have given to them (except in the case of credit application information, which we do not receive from such featured companies). We are not responsible for the content appearing on these companies’ websites or for the privacy practices of these companies. We encourage you to read the privacy policy on the other company’s website if you have any concerns about how information may be collected or used.

How long do we retain personal data for?

We will retain personal data for as long as it is required to process any products and services that we are providing to you. For non-transactional information we will hold this for no longer than 7 years from collection unless information is updated and refreshed in the period in-between.

The right to withdraw consent/access to the information we hold?

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by notifying us. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you think that your data has not been processed in compliance to this privacy agreement. You also have the right to ask about what information we hold on you. Please contact us directly for access to your data.

The information we may send you

We may send you information related to Cruises from World of Cruising and carefully chosen partners. We may also send you information from carefully chosen partners that may not be related to cruising which we believe may be of interest to you. You have the right to determine what information we may send you by contacting us.