Privacy Policy
Effective date: May 14, 2026
Who we are
First Chapter Travel is an Independent Affiliate of A. S. A. P. Cruises Inc.
First Chapter Travel respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected through this website, how it is used, and what choices you have.
Information you provide
If you submit an inquiry, planning request, or other form through this website, you may provide personal information such as your name, email address, travel preferences, approximate dates, departure city, budget range, and any other details you choose to include.
This information is used to respond to your inquiry, provide travel-planning services, communicate about potential or active bookings, and maintain related business records.
Information collected automatically
This website may collect limited technical information automatically, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, and general site usage data. This information is used for site administration, security, and understanding how visitors use the site.
Forms
If you submit information through a contact or planning form, that information may be processed through WordPress and WPForms and may also be sent to the site owner by email. Form submissions may be retained for customer service, planning, recordkeeping, and administrative purposes.
Comments
If comments are enabled on this website and visitors leave comments, the site may collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (sometimes called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. After approval of a comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Analytics
This website uses analytics tools, including Google Analytics, to understand website traffic and usage patterns. These tools may collect information through cookies or similar technologies, including data about pages visited, time spent on the site, device type, browser type, and general interaction with the site. This information is used to improve the website, its content, and the overall user experience.
You can learn more about how Google handles data in connection with Google Analytics through Google’s privacy and Analytics documentation, and website visitors may also use Google’s Analytics opt-out tools if they prefer.
Cookies
This website may use cookies or similar technologies for basic site functionality, performance measurement, analytics, spam prevention, and user experience. For example, Google Analytics may use first-party cookies and identifiers to distinguish users and sessions and measure site usage.
If you leave a comment on this site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
You can usually control cookies through your browser settings.
Email marketing
First Chapter Travel may send marketing or promotional emails at its own discretion, including updates, announcements, or travel-related communications. If you receive marketing emails from First Chapter Travel, you may opt out of future promotional emails by using the unsubscribe method included in the message or by contacting First Chapter Travel directly.
Payments
This website does not process payment card information directly. If payment is required for a service or booking, payment is handled through a separate CRM or payment-processing system. Information submitted for payment is governed by the privacy and security practices of that separate system.
How your information is used
Information collected through this website may be used to:
- protect the security and integrity of the site
- respond to inquiries
- provide travel-planning and booking-related assistance
- communicate about services, requests, reservations, or updates
- send marketing or promotional communications when appropriate
- improve the website and user experience
- maintain business and administrative records
Sharing of information
Personal information is not sold.
Information may be shared only as needed with service providers, booking partners, host-agency or travel-supplier systems, payment or CRM platforms, or technical tools used to operate the business and website, and only for legitimate business purposes related to providing services, operating the site, or complying with legal obligations.
Data retention
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for inquiry handling, service delivery, recordkeeping, legal compliance, marketing administration, and legitimate business purposes.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely unless removed.
Your choices
You may contact First Chapter Travel to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information previously submitted through the site, subject to any legal, contractual, or recordkeeping obligations.
You may also opt out of marketing emails as described above.
Third-party links
This website may contain links to third-party websites. First Chapter Travel is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third-party sites.
Security
Reasonable administrative and technical measures are used to protect information submitted through this website. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Children’s privacy
This website is not directed to children, and personal information is not knowingly collected directly from children through the site.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about information submitted through this website, contact:
First Chapter Travel
kathryn@firstchaptertravel.com
Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.