Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 8, 2026

Ancient Wonders Tours (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit ancientwonderstours.com, contact us, request a quotation, or book one of our tours, Nile cruises, transfers, travel packages, or related services.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:

• Your name, nationality, and contact details.
• Email address, telephone number, and WhatsApp number.
• Booking and travel information, including arrival dates, hotel details, flight details, pickup locations, destinations, and preferred itinerary.
• Details about other travelers included in your booking.
• Passport or identification information when required by hotels, cruise operators, transport providers, authorities, or other service suppliers.
• Payment and transaction information. Card details may be processed directly by an independent payment provider and may not be stored by us.
• Messages, enquiries, reviews, preferences, and correspondence you send to us.
• Technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, visited pages, referral source, and approximate location.
• Cookie and website-usage information, subject to your browser and consent settings.

Please ensure that you have permission before providing us with another traveler’s personal information.

2. How We Collect Your Information

We may collect information when you:

• Submit an enquiry, contact, booking, or tailor-made tour form.
• Contact us by email, telephone, WhatsApp, social media, or another communication channel.
• Make or request a reservation.
• Subscribe to promotional communications.
• Submit a review or provide feedback.
• Browse or interact with our website.
• Book through a travel agent, online travel marketplace, hotel, partner, or other authorized third party.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information to:

• Respond to enquiries and prepare quotations.
• Create, manage, amend, or cancel bookings.
• Arrange accommodation, cruises, transportation, guides, activities, tickets, and other travel services.
• Communicate pickup instructions, itinerary information, schedule changes, and service updates.
• Process payments and maintain transaction records.
• Provide customer support and respond to complaints.
• Meet immigration, security, insurance, accounting, tax, or other legal requirements.
• Protect our website, travelers, employees, suppliers, and business against fraud, misuse, and security threats.
• Improve our services and website performance.
• Send marketing communications where you have consented or where otherwise permitted by applicable law.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

4. Legal Grounds for Processing

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we may process your information because:

• It is necessary to provide a quotation or fulfil a booking contract.
• You have given your consent.
• We must comply with a legal obligation.
• Processing is necessary to protect someone’s vital interests.
• We or another party have a legitimate business interest that does not override your privacy rights.

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.

5. Sharing Your Information

We may share relevant information with parties involved in delivering or supporting your booking, including:

• Hotels, Nile cruise operators, restaurants, activity providers, and attraction operators.
• Tour guides, representatives, drivers, and transport companies.
• Airlines or other travel providers where included in your arrangements.
• Payment processors, banks, accounting providers, and fraud-prevention services.
• Website hosting, email, analytics, customer-support, and technology providers.
• Travel agents, online travel platforms, and business partners involved in your reservation.
• Insurers, professional advisers, regulators, courts, law-enforcement bodies, or public authorities when legally required.

We share only the information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose. Independent suppliers may process your information under their own privacy policies.

We do not sell or rent your personal information.

6. International Data Transfers

Travel arrangements may require personal information to be transferred to or accessed from countries other than your country of residence. Data-protection standards may differ between countries.

Where required, we take reasonable steps to use appropriate contractual, organizational, or legal safeguards when transferring personal information internationally.

7. Cookies and Analytics

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Keep the website functioning correctly.
• Remember preferences.
• Understand website traffic and performance.
• Improve content and user experience.
• Measure advertising or marketing performance, where enabled.

Non-essential cookies should be used according to your consent choices where consent is legally required. You may also block or delete cookies using your browser settings, although some website features may not function correctly afterward.

Any cookie banner or cookie settings shown on the website form part of this Privacy Policy.

8. Marketing Communications

We may send you news, travel offers, or promotional messages if you have consented or if another lawful basis permits us to do so.

You can unsubscribe at any time by:

• Using the unsubscribe link in an email.
• Asking us to stop through the same communication channel.
• Contacting us at info@ancientwonderstours.com.

Service messages relating to an active enquiry or booking are not marketing communications.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Complete and support your booking.
• Comply with accounting, tax, regulatory, and legal obligations.
• Handle complaints or disputes.
• Maintain security and prevent fraud.
• Establish or defend legal claims.

Retention periods vary according to the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected. Information that is no longer required will be securely deleted, anonymized, or otherwise disposed of where reasonably possible.

10. Information About Children

Our services may be booked for children by a parent, guardian, or authorized adult. We collect children’s information only when reasonably necessary to arrange the requested travel services or meet legal and supplier requirements.

A parent, guardian, or authorized adult should provide and manage this information. Children should not submit personal information directly through our website without appropriate adult involvement.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, disclosure, or misuse.

However, no website, email service, messaging platform, or online transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12. Your Privacy Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Ask whether we process your personal information.
• Request access to the information we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Request deletion of your information.
• Restrict or object to certain processing.
• Withdraw previously given consent.
• Request a portable copy of certain information.
• Object to direct marketing.
• Submit a complaint to the relevant data-protection authority.

Some rights may be limited where information must be retained to complete a booking, comply with legal obligations, protect other people’s rights, or resolve legal claims.

To submit a privacy request, email info@ancientwonderstours.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request.

13. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to independent websites, booking platforms, social networks, payment providers, or other third-party services.

We do not control those services and are not responsible for their privacy practices. You should review the privacy policy of any third-party website before submitting personal information.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, technology, suppliers, or legal obligations change. The revised version will be published on this page with an updated revision date.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate channel.

15. Contact Us

For questions, requests, or concerns relating to this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:

Ancient Wonders Tours
Website: https://ancientwonderstours.com/
Email: info@ancientwonderstours.com
Location: Egypt

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms and Conditions and any booking-specific information provided to you.