Privacy

In short

• Travellers don't need an account, and we don't ask for your name, email or phone to browse or save offers.
• We never take bookings or payments, so we never see your card or booking details.
• Analytics only runs if you allow it.
• We don't sell your data or show you advertising.

Who we are

Maldives Offers (maldivesoffers.com) is a product of MT Media, which is responsible for the personal data collected through the site. It lists holiday offers from guesthouses, hotels, resorts, experience and transfer companies and travel agencies in the Maldives. For anything about your data, use our contact form.

If you're browsing offers

• Saved offers are kept in your browser on this device. They are not sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes them.
• Offer views and booking taps. When an offer page is opened, or a WhatsApp, website or phone button is tapped, we record which offer it was, which button and when. This record holds no name, contact details, IP address or device identifier. Properties see the totals on their dashboard.
• Your cookie choice (allow analytics or not) is remembered in your browser.
• Technical logs. Like most websites, the servers that run the site keep short-lived technical logs of requests (such as IP address, browser type and the page asked for) to keep the site working and secure.

Analytics (only with your consent)

If you tap “Allow” on the cookie notice, we use analytics cookies to see how people use the site, for example which pages are visited and where people get stuck, so we can improve it. Analytics data is collected by Microsoft. See the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Sign-in pages and the operator and admin areas are masked, so their content isn't visible in analytics. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page; saying no deletes the analytics cookies.

If you contact us

The contact form asks for your name, your email or WhatsApp number, your message, and optionally your business name and number of properties. We use these only to reply to you. Your message is kept in our admin area and sent to our own email inbox.

When you book with a property

Booking buttons take you to the property's or operator's own WhatsApp, website or phone. What you share with them, and any payment, is between you and them, under their own privacy terms. We don't receive it.

If you list a property or agency

• Your sign-in: your email address or WhatsApp number, and a password if you use one. Passwords are stored only in a scrambled (hashed) form that nobody, including us, can read. Sign-in cookies keep you signed in to the operator area.
• Your listing and offers: business name, type, island, transfer, description, photos, contact details for bookings (WhatsApp, website, phone), any social media links you add and your offers. Once approved, these are public on the site, because that is what listing is for.
• Payments for plans and Featured: the transfer receipts you upload, the amount, the dates and our decision. Receipts are private: only the site owner can open them.
• Emails we send you about your account, approvals and payments.

Some listings were added by us from a property's own public website, with its business contact details and offers. If that's your business, you can ask us to update it, hand it over to you, or remove it.

Who else handles your data

We use a small number of service providers to host the site, store its data and photos, and send email, and Microsoft for analytics if you allow it. They handle data only to provide those services to us. Their servers may be outside the Maldives. We don't sell or rent personal data, and we only share it otherwise if the law requires us to.

How long we keep it

• Saved offers and your cookie choice: in your browser until you clear them.
• Offer views and taps: kept to show properties how their offers do over time (they hold no personal data).
• Contact messages: as long as we need them to deal with your request, then deleted on request.
• Operator accounts and listings: while the account is in use, and deleted when you ask us to close it.
• Payment records and receipts: as long as we need them for our accounts and the law.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Send the request through the contact form, and we'll reply within 24 hours and act on it promptly. If we need to keep something (for example a payment record), we'll tell you why.

Security

The site uses encrypted connections (HTTPS). Each operator can only see and change their own listing, and that rule is enforced by our database, not only by the website. Receipts are stored privately. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password and tell us if you notice anything wrong.

Children

The site is for adults planning holidays and running travel businesses. It isn't aimed at children.

Changes

If we change how we handle data, we'll update this page and the date at the top.