Privacy Policy

Effective date: 5 August 2026
Last updated: 5 August 2026

Cruise Plan Wise respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly and transparently.

This Privacy Policy explains how Cruise Plan Wise collects, uses, stores and shares personal information when you visit **www.cruiseplanwise.com**, download our free resources, subscribe to our emails, purchase a digital product or otherwise communicate with us.

1. Who We Are

Cruise Plan Wise is an independent digital publishing and cruise-planning business operated by Amit K. in India.

For applicable data-protection laws, Cruise Plan Wise is the person or organisation responsible for deciding how and why your personal information is processed.

Privacy and grievance contact:
Amit K.
Cruise Plan Wise
India
Email: **privacy@cruiseplanwise.com**

For general customer support, contact **support@cruiseplanwise.com**.

2. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with Cruise Plan Wise, we may collect the following information.

Information you provide directly

This may include:

  • Your email address

  • Your name, if requested

  • Your marketing preferences

  • Information included in messages or support requests

  • Information you provide when downloading a free resource

  • Details about digital products you purchase

  • Reviews, survey responses or other feedback you voluntarily submit

Purchase and transaction information

When you purchase a product, we may receive information such as:

  • Your name and email address

  • The product purchased

  • Purchase date and transaction reference

  • Country, currency and payment status

  • Refund, dispute or customer-support information

Payments may be processed through third-party services such as Gumroad or PayPal. Cruise Plan Wise does not directly receive or store your complete debit card, credit card or bank-account details.

Information collected automatically

Our website and service providers may automatically collect limited technical information, including:

  • Internet Protocol address

  • Browser and device type

  • Operating system

  • Referring website or campaign

  • Pages visited

  • Approximate location derived from your IP address

  • Date and time of access

  • Link clicks and interactions

  • Cookie and similar technology information

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Deliver requested cruise guides, downloads and digital products

  • Process purchases and provide access to purchased products

  • Respond to questions and customer-support requests

  • Send service messages concerning downloads, purchases or account activity

  • Send cruise-planning tips, product recommendations and promotional offers when you have consented

  • Maintain records of marketing consent and unsubscribe requests

  • Improve our guides, products, website and customer experience

  • Understand website and campaign performance

  • Prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents and unauthorised access

  • Manage refunds, disputes and payment issues

  • Comply with tax, accounting, regulatory and legal obligations

  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims

We will not use your personal information for a materially different purpose without providing appropriate notice and obtaining consent where required.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we rely on one or more of the following:

Consent

We rely on your consent when you voluntarily subscribe to cruise-planning tips, product recommendations or promotional emails.

You may withdraw this consent at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in an email or contacting **privacy@cruiseplanwise.com**.

Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Contract or steps requested before a contract

We process information when necessary to:

  • Deliver a guide or resource you requested

  • Process and fulfil a purchase

  • Provide customer support

  • Manage refunds or product access

Legitimate interests

Where permitted, we may process limited information for legitimate business purposes such as:

  • Operating and improving the website

  • Understanding product and page performance

  • Preventing fraud and abuse

  • Protecting the website and our customers

  • Maintaining essential business records

We consider the effect of this processing on your privacy rights before relying on legitimate interests.

Legal obligations

We may process and retain information when required by tax, accounting, consumer-protection, law-enforcement or other applicable legal obligations.

5. Email Marketing

We send marketing emails only where we have an appropriate legal basis, such as your consent.

Marketing messages may include:

  • Cruise-planning information

  • Product announcements

  • Special offers

  • Affiliate product recommendations

  • Relevant travel resources

You may unsubscribe at any time by:

Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional or service messages relating to a purchase, refund, requested download or support enquiry.

We may retain a minimal suppression record after you unsubscribe so that we can honour your request and avoid adding you back to marketing communications accidentally.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies required to:

  • Keep pages functioning correctly

  • Process form submissions

  • Maintain security

  • Remember user preferences

  • Attribute visits to particular links or campaigns

  • Understand basic website performance

At the effective date of this Privacy Policy, Cruise Plan Wise does not intentionally operate third-party behavioural-advertising pixels on the website.

If we introduce tools such as the Pinterest Tag, Meta Pixel, Google Analytics or other non-essential tracking technologies, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide cookie choices where required by applicable law.

You can also restrict or delete cookies using your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.

7. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Websites

Some Cruise Plan Wise content may contain affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and purchase a product or service, Cruise Plan Wise may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate merchants and networks may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Recognise that you followed our link

  • Attribute a purchase or enquiry to Cruise Plan Wise

  • Prevent fraud

  • Calculate commissions

Third-party websites operate under their own privacy policies and terms. Cruise Plan Wise does not control how an independent third party collects or processes information after you leave our website.

You should review the privacy policy of any third-party website before providing personal or payment information.

8. Service Providers and Disclosure of Information

We may disclose personal information to service providers that help us operate the business, including:

  • Systeme.io for landing pages, forms, contact management, automation and email delivery

  • Zoho Mail for business email

  • Gumroad where it is used for checkout, payment processing and digital-product delivery

  • PayPal where it is used for payment processing

  • Canva where editable templates or Canva-hosted resources are provided

  • Website infrastructure, security and domain-service providers

  • Accountants, professional advisers or contractors where reasonably necessary

These providers process information according to their own terms, privacy policies and contractual obligations.

We may also disclose information:

  • When required by law, regulation, court order or lawful government request

  • To investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents or violations of our terms

  • To protect our rights, customers or the public

  • As part of a business transfer, sale, restructuring or acquisition, subject to appropriate confidentiality measures

We do not sell or rent personal information for money.

9. International Data Transfers

Cruise Plan Wise is operated from India, while some service providers may process information in India, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, the United States or other countries.

Privacy and data-protection laws may differ between countries. Where required, we and our service providers use recognised contractual or legal safeguards for international transfers.

By using the website or requesting our services, you acknowledge that information may be processed in countries outside your country of residence, subject to applicable legal protections.

10. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Generally:

  • Marketing information is retained while you remain subscribed or until it is no longer reasonably needed.

  • Inactive marketing contacts may be deleted or anonymised after approximately 24 months without meaningful engagement.

  • A minimal suppression record may be retained after unsubscribing.

  • Customer-support correspondence may be retained for up to 24 months after a request is resolved.

  • Purchase, refund, accounting and tax records may be retained for the period required by applicable law.

  • Technical and security information is retained according to legitimate operational needs and the settings of our service providers.

Information may be retained longer when required to resolve a dispute, prevent fraud, enforce an agreement or comply with law.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical and organisational safeguards intended to protect personal information from:

  • Unauthorised access

  • Accidental loss

  • Misuse

  • Alteration

  • Disclosure

  • Destruction

These safeguards may include password protection, access controls, secure connections, account authentication and reputable third-party service providers.

No website, email system, storage platform or method of internet transmission is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether we process your personal information

  • Request access to the information we hold about you

  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information

  • Request deletion of your information

  • Withdraw consent

  • Object to or restrict certain processing

  • Request a portable copy of certain information

  • Opt out of marketing communications

  • Complain to an appropriate data-protection authority

  • Request information about the organisations or categories of organisations with which information has been shared

  • Nominate another person to exercise certain rights where Indian law permits

To exercise a privacy right, email **privacy@cruiseplanwise.com** with the subject line Privacy Request.

We may request reasonable information to verify your identity before processing a request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

You will not be discriminated against for exercising an applicable privacy right.

If you are not satisfied with our response, you may submit a grievance to the appropriate privacy or data-protection authority in your jurisdiction, including the Data Protection Board of India where applicable.

13. Automated Decision-Making

Cruise Plan Wise does not currently use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

We may use basic automation to:

  • Deliver requested resources

  • Send email sequences

  • Apply contact tags

  • Record purchases

  • Stop marketing after an unsubscribe request

These administrative automations do not make significant decisions about you.

14. Children’s Privacy

Cruise Plan Wise is intended for adults planning, purchasing or researching travel.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 16. A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information should contact **privacy@cruiseplanwise.com** so that we can review and delete it where appropriate.

15. Third-Party Privacy Policies

You can review the privacy policies of important service providers here:

Cruise Plan Wise is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent third parties.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when:

  • Our website or products change

  • We begin using new service providers

  • We introduce analytics or advertising technologies

  • Legal or regulatory requirements change

  • Our information-processing practices change

The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Where a change materially affects how we use information, we will provide additional notice or request consent when required.

17. Contact Us

For questions, privacy requests or complaints, contact:

Amit K.
Cruise Plan Wise
India
**privacy@cruiseplanwise.com**

For product and order support:

support@cruiseplanwise.com