Privacy policy

Who we are

Ski Circle is run by Ski Circle. We are the "controller" of the personal data described here, under UK data protection law. To ask about your data, contact us at our contact page.

What we collect

• Your account: your email address and the first name you give us. You sign in with a link we email you, so we never hold a password.
• Your trips: what you and your group type in. That means trip names, dates, costs, who is in on each cost, shortlist options and votes, links you paste, and payments people record.
• Clicks to suppliers: when someone clicks through to a travel company, we count the click by company and by page. The count is not linked to you or your account.
• Your rough location, for a moment: to suggest your nearest airport in the search box, our host tells us the city your connection appears to come from. We use it once to pick an airport and do not store it.
• Technical logs: like any website, the companies that host us record requests, including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting.

We do not collect payment card details. Ski Circle never takes payment for travel.

Why we use it

• To run your account and your trips, and show each person their share. This is needed to provide the service you asked for.
• To email you a sign-in link when you ask for one.
• To see which parts of the site are used and keep it secure. This is in our legitimate interests, and uses counts and logs, not profiles of you.

We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who can see it

• People on the same trip see your first name, your share of the costs, and payments recorded for you. Anyone with a trip's invite link can see the trip's name, resort, dates, the organiser's first name and how many people have joined.
• Companies that run the site for us: Supabase (database and sign-in, stored in London), Netlify (website hosting) and our email provider (sign-in emails). They act on our instructions.
• Photos: resort photos load from Unsplash's image service, which sees your IP address like any website you load images from. No personal details are sent.
• Flight prices: to show flight prices we send airports and dates to Travelpayouts. No personal details are sent.
• Travel companies you click through to: when you leave Ski Circle for a supplier, that company (and the affiliate network that tracks the referral) can see that you came from us. What they do next is covered by their own privacy policies.

Some of these companies are based outside the UK or use servers outside the UK. Where that happens, they commit to recognised safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

We keep your account and trips until you delete them. An organiser can delete a trip at any time, which removes it for everyone. Hosting logs are kept by our providers for a limited period.

Delete your account

You can delete your account and your data yourself, at any time, on your account page. Trips you organise are deleted with it. On other people's trips, your share, votes and payments are removed.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to how we use it. Contact us at our contact page. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Cookies

We do not use advertising or analytics cookies. See our cookies page for what is stored in your browser.

Children

Ski Circle is for adults. Please do not create an account if you are under 18.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top.