ESCAPES LINK
PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: August 2026
Escapes Link respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal information when you visit escapeslink.com, create an account, register a business, interact with the platform, contact us or participate in an Escapes Link promotion or competition.
This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms & Conditions and Cookie Policy.
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1. About Escapes Link
Escapes Link is a travel-focused social media and promotional platform connecting travellers with hotels, holiday homes, travel agencies and other approved travel-related businesses.
Escapes Link is operated from Ireland by:
Legal Company Name: [JOBFLIKS LTD T/A ESCAPES LINK]
Registered Address: [BUNCLODY, WEXFORD , IRELAND]
Company Registration Number: [763715]
Privacy Email: [INFO@ESCAPESLINK.COM]
Website: escapeslink.com
For applicable data-protection legislation, the company operating Escapes Link will generally act as the data controller for personal information collected directly through Escapes Link.
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2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you use Escapes Link, we may collect different types of personal information.
Traveller Account Information
When you create an Escapes Link account, we may collect:
- Name;
- Email address;
- Username;
- Password or authentication information;
- Country or general location;
- Profile information;
- Profile photograph where provided;
- Account preferences;
- Language preferences.
Business Account Information
Hotels, holiday-home owners, travel agencies and other participating businesses may provide:
- Business name;
- Business address;
- Contact person's name;
- Business email;
- Telephone number;
- Website address;
- Business registration information;
- Property or business information;
- Photographs and videos;
- Social-media information;
- Booking links;
- Business descriptions;
- Offers and promotions.
Some of this information may relate to an identifiable business owner, employee or representative and therefore constitute personal data.
Platform Activity
When you use Escapes Link, we may collect information about how you interact with the platform, including:
- Profiles viewed;
- Businesses followed;
- Posts viewed;
- Likes, comments or other interactions;
- Saved content;
- Search activity;
- Competition participation;
- Communication preferences;
- Account activity.
Technical Information
We may automatically collect certain technical information, including:
- IP address;
- Browser type;
- Device type;
- Operating system;
- Approximate location derived from technical information;
- Website usage information;
- Login information;
- Cookie identifiers;
- Security and diagnostic information.
Further information is available in our Cookie Policy.
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3. Information You Publish
Escapes Link is designed as a social and promotional platform.
Certain information that you choose to publish may be visible to other users or to the general public.
This may include:
- Profile name;
- Profile image;
- Business name;
- Business description;
- Photographs;
- Videos;
- Offers;
- Promotions;
- Comments;
- Other content intentionally posted publicly.
Please do not publish sensitive personal information that you do not want other people to see.
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4. How We Use Personal Information
Escapes Link may use personal data to:
- Create and manage user accounts;
- Create and manage business accounts;
- Provide platform functionality;
- Allow users to follow and discover businesses;
- Display business profiles and content;
- Personalise the user experience;
- Provide search and discovery features;
- Process business memberships;
- Manage subscriptions;
- Provide customer support;
- Communicate important service information;
- Prevent fraud and abuse;
- Protect platform security;
- Moderate content;
- Investigate complaints;
- Improve Escapes Link;
- Analyse platform performance;
- Manage competitions and promotions;
- Contact competition winners;
- Provide marketing communications where permitted;
- Comply with legal obligations.
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5. Legal Bases for Processing
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we must have a lawful basis for processing personal data.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Performance of a Contract
We may process information where necessary to provide an Escapes Link account, business membership or another service requested by you.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information where reasonably necessary for legitimate business purposes, including:
- Operating and improving Escapes Link;
- Maintaining platform security;
- Preventing fraud;
- Understanding platform usage;
- Providing customer support;
- Protecting our legal rights.
We will consider the impact on your rights and interests before relying on legitimate interests.
Consent
We may rely on your consent for certain activities, including specific marketing communications, optional cookies or other processing where consent is required.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent.
Legal Obligation
We may process or retain information where necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, accounting or taxation obligations.
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6. Business Membership and Payments
If Escapes Link offers paid business memberships, payments may be processed through an independent payment provider.
Escapes Link may receive information such as:
- Customer name;
- Billing information;
- Payment status;
- Transaction reference;
- Membership purchased;
- Transaction date and amount.
Escapes Link does not necessarily receive or store complete payment-card information where payments are processed securely by a third-party payment provider.
The payment provider will process information according to its own privacy terms.
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7. Competitions, Promotions and Prizes
Escapes Link may organise competitions, promotional campaigns and member-only opportunities to receive travel-related prizes.
When you participate, we may collect information such as:
- Name;
- Email address;
- Country of residence;
- Age or confirmation of eligibility;
- Competition entry;
- Answers or creative submissions;
- Winner information;
- Information necessary to deliver a prize.
Additional information may be required from winners, such as identity or eligibility verification.
Each competition may have separate official rules explaining additional processing associated with that particular campaign.
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8. Competition Winners
Where you win an Escapes Link competition, we may need to share relevant information with the hotel, holiday-home operator, travel agency or other business responsible for providing the prize.
We will only share information reasonably necessary to arrange or fulfil the prize.
Where required, we may also publish limited winner information in accordance with the applicable competition rules and law.
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9. Marketing Communications
Escapes Link may send users information about:
- Travel inspiration;
- Hotel offers;
- Holiday-home offers;
- Travel-agency promotions;
- Escapes Link updates;
- New features;
- Competitions;
- Promotional campaigns.
Where consent is required, marketing will only be sent after appropriate consent has been obtained.
You can unsubscribe from optional email marketing using the unsubscribe link contained in marketing emails or through available account settings.
Service-related messages necessary to manage your account may still be sent.
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10. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Escapes Link uses cookies and similar technologies.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate, while others may support analytics, functionality, personalisation or advertising.
Where legally required, optional cookies will not be activated until consent has been provided.
Please read the Escapes Link Cookie Policy for further information.
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11. Wix
Escapes Link is currently built using Wix.
Wix may process certain information as part of providing website hosting, infrastructure, security, account functionality and other technical services.
Additional Wix applications or integrations used by Escapes Link may process personal information depending on the services enabled.
Escapes Link will review the privacy implications of third-party services added to the platform.
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12. Other Service Providers
We may use trusted service providers to help operate Escapes Link.
These may include providers of:
- Website hosting;
- Cloud infrastructure;
- Email delivery;
- Customer support;
- Analytics;
- Cybersecurity;
- Payment processing;
- Marketing services;
- Business administration;
- Competition fulfilment.
Where these providers process personal information on our behalf, appropriate contractual and data-protection arrangements will be used where required.
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13. Hotels, Holiday Homes and Travel Agencies
Businesses using Escapes Link are independent organisations.
If you leave Escapes Link and contact, book with or provide information directly to a hotel, holiday-home operator, travel agency or another business, that business may become independently responsible for the personal information you provide to it.
Its own privacy policy will apply to that processing.
Escapes Link is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of third-party businesses.
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14. Sharing Personal Information
We may share personal information where reasonably necessary with:
- Service providers;
- Payment processors;
- Professional advisers;
- Technology providers;
- Prize providers;
- Hotels or travel businesses fulfilling prizes;
- Regulators or authorities where legally required;
- Law-enforcement agencies where legally required.
We do not sell personal data to third parties.
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15. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by Escapes Link may process personal information outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, Escapes Link will use appropriate safeguards where required by data-protection law.
These may include adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses or other legally recognised safeguards.
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16. How Long We Keep Information
We will not retain personal information for longer than reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Retention periods may depend on:
- Whether your account remains active;
- The nature of the information;
- Contractual requirements;
- Tax and accounting obligations;
- Security requirements;
- Dispute resolution;
- Legal obligations.
Information may be retained for an appropriate period after an account is closed where legally necessary or reasonably required to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
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17. Account Closure
You may request closure of your Escapes Link account.
Closing an account does not necessarily result in immediate deletion of every piece of information.
Certain information may need to be retained for legal, security, accounting, fraud-prevention or dispute-resolution purposes.
Where information is no longer required, it will be deleted or anonymised in accordance with our retention procedures.
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18. Your GDPR Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:
Access
Request information about personal data we hold about you.
Rectification
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Erasure
Request deletion of personal data in certain circumstances.
Restriction
Ask us to restrict certain processing.
Data Portability
Receive certain personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format where applicable.
Object
Object to certain processing, including certain processing based on legitimate interests.
Withdraw Consent
Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.
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19. Exercising Your Rights
To exercise a data-protection right, contact:
[INSERT PRIVACY EMAIL]
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
We will respond within the time limits required by applicable data-protection law.
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20. Complaints to the Data Protection Commission
If you have concerns about how Escapes Link processes your personal information, we encourage you to contact us first so we can try to resolve the matter.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commission or, where applicable, another competent supervisory authority.
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21. Security
Escapes Link uses reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against:
- Unauthorised access;
- Accidental loss;
- Misuse;
- Alteration;
- Disclosure;
- Destruction.
However, no online service can guarantee absolute security.
Users should protect their passwords and account credentials and should not share them with other people.
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22. Data Breaches
Where a personal-data breach occurs, Escapes Link will assess the incident and take appropriate action.
Where legally required, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority and affected individuals within applicable legal timeframes.
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23. Children's Privacy
Escapes Link is not intended for children under the minimum age specified in our Terms & Conditions.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children contrary to applicable law.
If we become aware that personal information has been collected inappropriately from a child, we will take appropriate steps.
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24. Automated Decisions and Personalisation
Escapes Link may use information about interests, activity, location or interactions to organise or recommend travel-related content.
Where Escapes Link introduces automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects, we will provide additional information and safeguards where required by law.
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25. Business Profiles and Search Engines
Certain Escapes Link business profiles and publicly available content may be accessible without signing into an account.
Public pages may also be discoverable through internet search engines.
Businesses should therefore only publish information they are authorised and comfortable to make publicly available.
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26. Social Media
Escapes Link may maintain accounts on third-party social-media platforms.
When you interact with Escapes Link through another social-media service, the provider of that service may independently process information according to its own privacy policy.
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27. Links to Other Websites
Escapes Link may contain links to websites operated by hotels, holiday homes, travel agencies, booking providers and other organisations.
Escapes Link does not control those websites.
You should review their privacy policies before providing personal information directly to them.
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28. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy where Escapes Link changes its services, technology, business practices or legal obligations.
The current version will be published on escapeslink.com.
The “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this policy will indicate when the policy was most recently revised.
Where required, we will provide additional notice of significant changes.
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29. Contact Escapes Link
For privacy questions, requests or concerns, contact:
Escapes Link
Website: escapeslink.com
Privacy Email: [INFO@ESCAPESLINK.COM]
Operated by: [JOBFLIKS LTD T/A ESCAPES LINK]
Company Registration Number: [763715]
Registered Address: [BUNCLODY, WEXFORD , IRELAND]