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Apply for ESTA - US Travel Authorization US Tourism - Transit - Business

1. Submit Application Online
2. Review and Confirm Payment
3. Receive Approval Confirmation

Online Application for Citizens from

Personal Details

Surname *

Surname is also known as Last name or Family Name.
Enter ALL name(s) as they appear on your passport.

Enter your Family name exactly as shown in your passport.

Given Name(s) *

Please provide your Given Name(s) (also known as "First Name") and middle name exactly as shown on your passport.
If you have no first name, then enter the letters FNU, which stands for First Name Unknown.

Enter your First and Middle Name(s) as shown on your passport.

Date of Birth *

Select your date of birth, as it appears on your passport.
If you do not know your exact date of birth, give as much information as possible.

Gender *

Male Female

City of Birth *

Enter the city, town, village, or hamlet in which you were born.
If you do not know the city in which you were born, enter UNKNOWN.

Country of Birth *

Please select the country of birth as shown on your passport.

Country of Citizenship *

National Identification Number (optional)

Enter the number on your identity document, other than a passport, issued by your country. If you do not have a National Identification Number, enter UNKNOWN.

Passport Details

Country of Passport *

Please indicate the country of your citizenship, the country of the passport you will use to travel. If you do not find your country on this list, it means that your country is not eligible to apply for an online visa.

Passport Number *

The passport number is normally listed in the top right corner of the photo page in the passport. You can verify your passport number by looking in the left lower corner on the same page. The numbers will match.

Note:

The country code in your passport is NOT a part of your passport number.
Some passport numbers only include numbers while others include a combination.
Your passport number is normally between 7 and 11 characters long.

The passport number may contain numbers and/or characters. Please closely distinguish between the two, such as the numbers zero and one, and the letters O and I.

Passport Date of Issue *

Issue date can be found on your passport.

Passport Expiry Date *

Expiry date can be found on your passport.

Home Address of Residence

Home Address line 1 *

Enter the number and street of the location of your home address. Do not include the city and state in this field.

Home Address line 2 (optional)

City *

State/Province/Region *

Country *

Please confirm the responses to the following mandatory questions:

Do you have a physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser or addict; or do you currently have any of the following diseases (communicable diseases are specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act):* Cholera, Diphtheria, Tuberculosis, infectious, Plague, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, including Ebola, Lassa, Marburg, Crimean-Congo, Severe acute respiratory illnesses capable of transmission to other persons and likely to cause mortality. *

Yes No

Under United States law communicable diseases of public health significance include:

Chancroid
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Leprosy, infectious
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Syphilis, infectious stage
Tuberculosis, active

And others as determined by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Physical or Mental Disorders:

With regard to physical or mental disorders, answer ”Yes” to this question if:

(a) You currently have a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder that may pose or has posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others; or
(b) You had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder that has posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others and the behavior is likely to recur or lead to other harmful behavior.

Answer "No" if:

(a) You currently have no physical or mental disorders; or
(b) You have or had a physical or mental disorder without associated behavior that may pose or has posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare of that of others; or
(c) You currently have a physical or mental disorder with associated behavior, but that behavior has not posed, does not currently pose nor will pose a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others; or
(d) You had a physical or mental disorder with associated behavior that posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others, but that behavior is unlikely to recur.

Drug Abusers and Drug Addicts

Under United States law persons may not be admissible if they have been determined to be a drug abuser or drug addict.

For further information refer to § 212(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(1)(A), and corresponding regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations.

Have you ever been arrested or convicted for a crime that resulted in serious damage to property, or serious harm to another person or government authority? *

Yes No

Have you ever violated any law related to possessing, using, or distributing illegal drugs? *

Yes No

Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide? *

Yes No

Have you ever committed fraud or misrepresented yourself or others to obtain, or assist others to obtain, a visa or entry into the United States? *

Yes No

Are you currently seeking employment in the United States or were you previously employed in the United States without prior permission from the U.S. government? *

Yes No

Have you ever been denied a U.S. visa you applied for with your current or previous passport, or have you ever been refused admission to the United States or withdrawn your application for admission at a U.S. port of entry? *

Yes No

Have you ever stayed in the United States longer than the admission period granted to you by the U.S. government? *

Yes No

Have you traveled to, or been present in Cuba, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen or North Korea on or after March 1, 2011? *

Yes No

Country *

From *

To *

Primary Reason *

Country *

From *

To *

Primary Reason *

Country *

From *

To *

Primary Reason *

Country *

From *

To *

Primary Reason *

Contact Details

Email Address *

You will receive an e-mail that confirms the receipt of your Application at the e-mail address you provide. You will also receive updates on the status of your Application.

Confirm Email Address *

Alternative Email Address (optional)

Mobile/Cell Telephone *

Please indicate a mobile/cell telephone. It is important to indicate a correct phone number, since you may receive updates on the status of your Application. If you do not have a telephone number, you may provide an alternative third-party telephone number belonging to a point of contact.

Please select your country code and write your phone number without the country code

Declaration of Applicant

I declare that the information I have given in this application is truthful, complete and correct.

I have read and understood the terms and conditions and privacy policy.

Terms and Conditions

Effectiveness date: June 2020

General

The present website is owned and operated by which is a private company with TAX ID number and its registered office at and contact email: info@handyvisas.com. (hereinafter, “we”, “The/our Company”).

The present Terms and Conditions establish the conditions of hiring our professional services (detailed in the “About our Services” section). They must be accepted by the User before confirming the payment of the costs of the services. Said acceptance will be an express and clear statement by the User that he/she/they have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. The confirmation of payment automatically confers the User the status of Customer and its bonding with these Terms and Conditions (hereinafter, “you”, “your”, “the Customer”).

The Company reserves the right to update these Terms and Conditions, in accordance with new legislative and/or jurisprudential requirements and/or business needs or interests, at any time and without prior notice to the User and/or Customer. The updated version of these Terms and Conditions will be effective immediately, at the same time it is published on this website.

These Terms and Conditions will always be available on this website so that the User and/or Customer can consult them at all times.

The service provision contract may be formalized, at your choice, in any of the languages in which the Terms and Conditions are available on this website, but the English wording will prevail in case of discrepancy between the different versions.

For any doubt or question related to these Terms and Conditions, you can contact us through our Customer Service Department using our Contact form:

Contact Form

About our Services

This website is owned and operated by a private agency that is not affiliated, enforced, operated or owned by the Government.

We offer professional assistance services regarding obtaining different types of Electronic Travel Documents (“your order”) for foreign nationals to visit the destination country, including but not limited to:

Electronic Travel Cards/Authorizations: a document approved and expedited by the Immigration Authorities of the country to which the holder is traveling, issued for a limited period of validity.
Travel Health Certificates: a health declaration which some destination countries require the traveler to compulsorily complete before entering the country to prevent the spread of disease.

Also, we may provide ancillary services when offered on the present website, including but not limited to:

Priority service/Urgent processing fee: by paying an additional fee, your order is prioritized over others.
Priority Government service: independently from our Priority service, and when offered by the corresponding Immigration Authorities, by paying a governmental fee, your order is prioritized over others by the Immigration Authorities.
Embassy registration: providing the Embassy with your contact details and those of your trip is an optional procedure but it is helpful for different purposes like helping the Embassy (i) to contact you in case of a family emergency, (ii) to send you information regarding safety conditions in your destination country, etc. This service is only for adults.
Fee Protection: it is a complementary service that ensures that, if your trip is canceled once your Electronic Travel Authorization application has been submitted before the Immigration Authorities, you can notify the Company and opt for a full refund for the total amount paid for the services hired except for the price of the Fee Protection.

To obtain a refund all these conditions must be met:
- Traveling is canceled because of canceling due to: (i) illness; (ii) force majeure; (iii) transport cancellation.
- The Fee Protection refund request is made up to 120 days after receiving the payment confirmation email of hiring this Service.
- The Fee Protection refund request is made through our contact form selecting the option of reasons for the refund request “I purchased a Fee Protection and I’d like to claim a refund for a canceled trip”. Requests made by other means may not be attended.
Other expenses such as traveling expenses (airplane tickets, hotels, transports, etc.) are excluded from the Fee Protection guarantee and under no circumstance the Company will pay any expenses of this type.

The Company reserves the right to offer this service only to certain countries according to its business interests.

Our professional processing assistance services (hereinafter, “the/our Services”), among others, consist in:

provide information regarding the Electronic Travel Document of relevance to the user/customer.
provide support to the user/customer in completing the Electronic Travel Document application form and submit it. Please note that the resolution time of an application is entirely at the hands of the Government of the destination country and, therefore, beyond our reasonable control.
keep the user/customer updated regarding the application process, as well as to inform the result of the application (approval or rejection). In this sense, we will contact you if the Government has required more personal information and/or additional documentation to assess your application.
provide the Electronic Travel Document via email.

Remarks:

Approval or denial of an Electronic Travel Document application is an exclusive competence of the Immigration Authorities of the destination country, in accordance with their security and/or immigration laws and regulations.
The information to manage your Travel Health Certificate and/or Embassy registration may be obtained from your Electronic Travel Document application form. However, it is also possible that additional information and/or documentation may be requested by email to correctly complete the formality you have selected.
We strongly recommend you to check the personal data and information in your Electronic Travel Document before travelling to the destination country. If you find out that you have made a mistake when completing your application form, please contact our Customer Service Department as soon as possible.

Hiring our Services

To hire our Services:

You must be an adult and have the legal capacity to enter into contracts, according to the applicable national laws and regulations of your birth and/or residence country; and/or
In case that the Electronic Travel Document application is for a minor, you must guarantee that you are a parent or legal guardian.

To hire our Services you must follow the steps below:

Step 1: Select the assistance services of your interest and provide truthful, correct, complete and updated personal data and private information. This is essential as the Electronic Travel Document must match with the current information and situation of the document’s holder.

The ancillary services could be selected at some point before proceeding to the payment page.

Remarks:

Please be informed that you only are required to provide those personal data and information strictly necessary to obtain the Electronic Travel Document, in accordance with the requirements of the Immigration Authorities of the destination country.

In this regard, if you provide us with more information than the ones expressly required, you consent to the processing of them for the purpose/s for which you're sending it, following our Privacy Policy.

In the event that you provide us with third parties personal data and/or information to submit an Electronic Travel Document application on his/her behalf, whether it is an adult or a minor, you guarantee to us that (i) you have informed the data subject about the purposes of processing his/her personal data and (ii) you have the data subject’s consent to communicate us his/her personal data, except if the data subject is a minor and you are his/her parent and/or legal guardian. For further information regarding how we do process personal data check our Privacy Policy.

Step 2: Accept the “Declaration of the applicant” statement. In this step, you will be allowed to review the personal data and private information provided before going to the payment and you must expressly accept the present Terms and Conditions. For further information, please see the “Technical means for correcting errors” section.

Step 3: Select your preferred payment method among those indicated on our website and/or payment page and enter your payment information.

Note that, in the present step you will have the option to select and contract our Fee Protection service by clicking on the corresponding checkbox.

By confirming the payment of the costs of:

(i) you corroborate your willingness to hire our private assistance services;
(ii) you acknowledge you have been informed and agree with the costs of the Electronic Travel Document of your interest and, when selected, the ancillary services.

Please see the “Costs” section, for further information on this regard.

Please bear in mind the provision of our assistance services will begin once the payment of the costs has been authorized and confirmed. You will receive an email confirming the services you have hired. At this point, the services provision contract is considered formalized and these Terms and Conditions enter into force and are binding on you and the Company. Please note that if you have hired our Fee Protection service, you will receive an additional email confirming the payment of such service.

Costs

The costs of the Electronic Travel Document of your interest and, when selected, the ancillary services will be shown on our website's payment page, so you can check it before entering your payment information.

A single charge will be made for the total costs. Said charge will include our private fee for the assistance services and, where applicable, the fees charged by the Immigration Authorities for the document.

Our private service fees may change from time to time due to business strategy, objectives, or needs. The new service fees will be effective immediately, at the same time it is published on this website, not being necessary prior notice to Users and/or Customers. However, the new service fee is not retroactive and it will not affect Customers who have already hired our services before the change.

Likewise, please note that the Immigration Authorities can also modify its fees at any time, being a circumstance beyond our reasonable control, including the Priority Government fees when applicable. You can consult their fees in the About us page of this website. As per the Priority Government fees, we kindly invite you to consult the corresponding Immigration Authorities official website.

Please note that we are not responsible for any foreign exchange fees and/or surcharges imposed by your bank or card issuer and will not provide you with any compensation or refund for such circumstances.

Payments

You may use different methods of payments to hire our Services. The payment methods we accept are indicated on our website and/or the payment page of the Services.

Do not attempt to make a payment in a way other than those specified on our website. If you do, we will not be liable for loss of payment or any other damages that may arise from this action.

By confirming the payment of the costs, you acknowledge and confirm that the debit/credit card used in the payment is yours or you are the legitimate holder. Therefore, the Company will not assume any responsibility in case you are not the holder or legitimate holder of the card since this circumstance is beyond our reasonable control. However, if necessary, the Company will provide appropriate cooperation to the Customer and/or law enforcement and/or judicial authorities, for the detection and/or investigation of fraudulent operation(s) linked to the debit or credit card used to make payment of the Services.

Please be informed that:

If your debit/credit card has been blocked/declined/expired, we will be unable to process the payment of the costs and, therefore, our services will not be rendered. For any financial problems you might be experiencing, please contact your bank.
The credit cards may be subjected to checks and authorizations by the issuing bank. If said entity does not authorize the intended payment, the Company will not provide the assistance services and we will not assume any type of responsibility for lack of provision and/or delays in the provision of our professional processing services.

Merchant of Record

Please be informed that the Merchant of Record is Universal Innovations SL, a company with TAX ID number B6637935, inscribed in the Mercantile Registry of Barcelona, in T:44355 F:51 H:B453669 R:7, and registered office at C. dels Vilabella 5-7 08500 Vic ES and contact email info@handyvisas.com.

The Merchant of Record will make and manage the collection of the total costs of our professional assistance services and, where appropriate, refunds made and/or requested by the Customer. For further information, please see the "Refund Policy" section.

The Merchant of Record has put in place the maximum measures to ensure the reliability and security of communications and interactions between the User and/or Customer and this website in a completely secure manner. In this regard, please note that the payment card data is transmitted directly through a secure connection to the information systems of our payment service provider(s). Therefore, we do not have access to or store your complete payment card data.

The Merchant of Record will also issue the invoice for the charges made when required by the Customer to the Customer Service Department. The Customer expressly authorizes the Merchant of Record to send the invoice in an electronic format, although you can also indicate to our Customer Service Department your desire to receive a paper invoice, in which case we will send it in this format to the postal address that you indicate to us.

Technical means for correcting errors

Prior to making payment for the costs of our professional assistance services, you will have an opportunity to review all the personal data and other private information you've provided in regards to your Electronic Travel Document and make changes if necessary. If you have made an error, it is important that you correct it before proceeding to the payment page of the costs since documents are submitted with the exact information provided by the applicant.

Please bear in mind that information and documentation provided by you in regard to your Electronic Travel Document must be true, accurate, complete, and updated. No information, document, or statement provided can be untrue, false, incorrect, incomplete, or, otherwise misleading. Failure to comply could affect the result (approval or rejection) of said document.

Refund Policy

Customer satisfaction is one of the Company's priorities. Consequently, we offer our customers the option to apply for a refund in the event that they are not satisfied with our professional assistance services.

If you wish to request a refund, you will need to complete and submit the contact form in the link below, stating clearly the reason for the refund:

Contact Form

The refund request will be evaluated within 72 hours since its receipt. Our Customer Service Department will review the reasons and the particular circumstances of your case to assess the approval or denial of the refund requested. In any case, the customer will be informed of the outcome of his/her request.

The Customer must make the refund request within a maximum period of 120 days of receiving our email confirming successful payment for our professional services. After this period of time, no refunds will be approved, except in particular cases, depending on the circumstances of the Customer.

Remarks:

In the case that you are requesting a refund for multiple orders of Electronic Travel Documents, each request needs to be filled in individually.
Customers whose Electronic Travel Document has not been submitted to the Government on the date of the refund request will be considered eligible for a full refund.
Customers whose Electronic Travel Document application has been approved by the Government will be considered eligible for a refund of our service fee. In the case that an approved application refund request is accepted, the fee charged by the Government for the assessment of the approved application is non-refundable; except in particular cases, depending on the circumstances of the customer.
Customers whose Electronic Travel Document application has been denied by the Government are considered eligible for a full refund upon request and in accordance with the particular circumstances of his/her case, in accordance with our professional service guarantee.
The costs of ancillary services will not be reimbursed in any case.
In the event that the Fee Protection service has been hired, the refund request must be made through our contact form selecting the following reasons option: "I purchased a Fee Protection service and I’d like to claim a refund for a canceled trip".

If the Customer Service Department accepts a refund request:

The refund will be issued within 72 hours from the receipt of the request via the same payment method that the customer has used to pay for our professional services.
A confirmation email will be sent to the customer as soon as the refund has been issued.
Depending on the customer’s payment entity, the refunded amount can take up to ten (10) business days to be received.

If you need any further information about our Refund Policy, you can contact us at info@handyvisas.com or 0015513331001.

Withdrawal Right and Cancellation

In accordance with the exceptions established by the currently applicable laws and regulations, being the Electronic Travel Document a clearly personalized document, as they contain your personal data and information as an applicant, the Customer cannot exercise the right of withdrawal.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may cancel the provision of our professional assistance services, provided that you have not received your Electronic Travel Document on your contact email.

The cancellation request must be made to our Customer Service Department, through our Contact form.

Contact Form

If cancellation is possible and accepted, we will refund you all the charges made when you hired our Services in accordance with our Refund Policy.

Please be aware that the Company reserves the right to cancel the assistance services if you commit any of the acts described below:

willingly provide fraudulent, erroneous, incomplete and/or inaccurate information and/or documentation;
fails to comply with any of our instructions regarding the Electronic Travel Document and/or the ancillary services;
and/or not respond to our information and/or failing to provide information and/or documentation required to submit the Electronic Travel Document and/or, where appropriate, information and/or documentation required by the Government issuing the document;
breaches any part of these Terms and Conditions.

Also, the Company reserves the right to cancel the submission of an Electronic Travel Document application if the applicant does not meet the eligibility requirements established by the Government.

If the Company cancels the submission of an Electronic Travel Document application for the reasons above mentioned, the charges made for the provision of our professional services will not be reimbursed to the applicant.

Exemption from Responsibility

In accordance with the “About our Services” and “Hiring our Services” sections, the Company will not assume any responsibility for the following circumstances that are beyond our reasonable control - including but no limited to -:

the result of the Government's decision (approval or denial) regarding an Electronic Travel Document as it is an exclusive competence of the Immigration Authorities.
the denial of an Electronic Travel Document application as a result of fraudulent, erroneous, incomplete and/or inaccurate information provided by the applicant; and, for the same reasons, The obtention of an erroneous Electronic Travel Document.
if the Immigration Authorities first approves and/or issues an Electronic Travel Document application and later revokes it. Please note that in most cases, the Immigration Authorities do not provide the reasons behind its decision.
delays in obtaining the Electronic Travel Document since the response time is handled by the Immigration Authorities.
If the Immigration Authorities of the destination country, before traveling to or at the destination, deny the entry into the country to a holder of an Electronic Travel Document for any reason; as they have the final decision-making power to refuse or admit the entry of visitors to the country, in accordance with their security protocols and/or laws and regulations.
If the Immigration Authorities of the destination country, before traveling to or at the destination, deny the entry into the country to a holder of an Electronic Travel Document for not being the holder information accurate and updated.
Airline personnel deny boarding to a holder of an Electronic Travel Document due to the personal details on the document not matching the information of the Customer’s passport.

Likewise, the Company will not be held responsible if:

the Customer is not an adult nor has the legal capacity to contract in accordance with the laws and regulations of his/her country and hire the Services. The Company will not assume any responsibility for access to this website by Users under the required legal age according to their country’s applicable laws and regulations, is the sole responsibility of their parents and/or legal guardians to exercise an adequate control over the activity and/or use of the Internet by their dependent minors; nor for preventing their access to websites whose content is not suitable or recommended for minors, or the sending of personal data without the prior authorisation of their parents or legal guardians.
the Company has received an adult’s personal data and/or private information to submit his/her Electronic Travel Document application by an individual without having requested the data subject’s consent to communicate us his/her personal data. In such case, the Company will inform the interested person how his/her personal data and/or private information has been collected and, where appropriate, we will ask the individual who provided the personal data to the Company to confirm he/she requested the consent of the data subject and, where appropriate, to amend this circumstance.
the Company has received a minor’s personal data and/or private information to submit his/her Electronic Travel Document provided by an individual who is not his/her parent and/or legal guardian. However, as soon as the Company detects and/or becomes aware of this circumstance, it will proceed to take the appropriate measures to fix the situation.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the currently applicable Spanish law.

In case of controversy or disagreement between the Customer and the Company arising from these Terms and Conditions, both parties agree to submit their resolution, at their free choice and expressly waiving any other jurisdiction to which they may be entitled, to the competent Courts and Tribunals of the place of residence of the Customer.

The nullity, total or partial, of any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions, will not affect the validity of the other provisions.

The non-exercise by the Company of any right provided or derived from these Terms and Conditions shall not be construed, under any circumstances, as a waiver of said right, unless expressly and in writing waived by our company or legal prescription of the action that in each case corresponds according to the applicable current legislation.

Customer Service

We have a 24/7 multilingual Customer Service Department to facilitate communication between you and our Company. You can contact it by different means: info@handyvisas.com, 0015513331001 or through our Contact Form

Contact Form

Our Customer Service Department will be in charge of answering questions, suggestions, and/or complaints regarding the Services offered through this website and, where appropriate, managing the refund requests received.

Please note that:

We carefully process each individual question/email, so we will respond to you in the shortest time frame possible and, in any case, within the deadline established by the applicable laws and regulations.
For security reasons, the Customer Service Department may ask you to provide personal data and/or information in order to verify your identity as our Customer, before proceeding to address your request.

Privacy policy

Effectiveness date: June 2020

General

We are (hereinafter, “the Company”, “We”, “Us” and the like) firmly committed to regulatory compliance and the privacy and protection of personal data. Accordingly, in the present Privacy Policy, the Users (hereinafter, individually referred to as “the User”, “the Customer” and jointly referred to as “you”, “your”) of this website will find all the relevant information to better understand what we do with their personal data. In this sense, please be aware that if you confirm the payment of our professional services, you automatically acquire the status of Customer and are linked to our Terms and Conditions

We may update this Privacy Policy according to new legislative or jurisprudential requirements and/or business needs, among others. Any update or modification of the present Privacy Policy will be considered applicable from the moment of its publication on the website. Therefore, the User is recommended to review this Privacy Policy regularly.

Please bear in mind that in order to access and use our website you must be an adult and have the legal capacity to enter into contracts, according to the applicable national laws and regulations of your country of birth and/or residence.

Without affecting your rights under the current applicable legislation, the present Privacy Policy is not contractual or part of your contract with us.

What does personal data mean?

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "personal data" means all data that identifies you or that could be used to identify you, such as your contact details (your full name, date and place of birth, email/postal address, and signature) and/or other information such as how you use our website or your IP address.

Who is your personal data controller?

The Company stated in our Terms and Conditions will be the controller of your personal data collected in the following circumstances (among others): when you browse our website, you fulfill the Electronic Travel Authorization application, you contact our Customer Service Department, etc.

When does this Privacy Policy apply?

This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data that we collect, use, and process from you as a User of our website and/or Customer.

Our website may contain icons and/or links to redirect you to websites of third parties. Please note that these third-party websites are not operated by us, so we cannot assume any responsibility for the information and content provided on them and/or the correct provision of the functionalities and/or services offered by these third parties, since we have no control over them. These third-party websites are bound by their own Cookie and Privacy Policies.

What personal data do we collect?

The personal data we collect from and about you is as follows:

Direct interactions: Data collected when you interact with us by completing the forms on our website (such as the Travel Authorization form or the Contact form) and/or when you contact our Customer Service Team by the enabled means, such as the website's chat, post, email or telephone.
Automated technologies: We may automatically collect information like your IP address, the sections you consult on our website, or the amount of time that you spend on our website by using cookies, whether our own or from third parties. You can consult our Cookie Policy to obtain more information about the cookies on our website, their purposes, and other information of interest.
Payment data: We will only request your payment information once you have completed your Electronic Travel Authorization application form and you have accepted our Terms and Conditions which will then allow you to proceed to the payment page of the Electronic Travel Authorization. The captured data will be sent securely to our certified payment service providers for the authorization of the transaction. In no case we visualize or access the complete data of your credit or debit card. It is the customer’s responsibility not to enter, provide, or send his/her card information through channels not authorized by the company.

Please be informed that you will only be required to provide the personal data and information that is strictly necessary to fulfill the purposes explained below. Therefore, if you provide us with more information than the one expressly required, you consent to its processing for the informed purpose/s for which you are sending it.

The User must provide accurate, updated and complete personal data and/or private information in order to properly submit his/her Travel Authorization form and/or to manage his/her information and/or support request. We will not assume any type of responsibility for circumstances that are beyond our reasonable control, such as being provided with erroneous, incomplete, and/or fraudulent information from the User.

If you provide us with personal data of third parties, whether these be minors or adults, you assure us that you have informed them about the purposes for which their personal data will be processed by the Company and that you have obtained their prior and express consent to communicate us their personal data.

If you provide us with the personal data of a minor, you assure us that you are his/her parent and/or legal guardian.

Moreover, please note the following:

if the Company has received an adult’s personal data and/or private information to submit his/her Electronic Travel Authorization application from an individual who has not requested his/her consent to communicate us his/her personal data, the Company will inform the data subject of how his/her personal data and/or private information has been collected. Moreover, where appropriate, we will ask the individual who provided the personal data to the Company to confirm whether he/she requested the consent of the data subject and, if necessary, to amend this circumstance. In any case, the data subject will have at all times the possibility of objecting the processing of his/her personal data by the Company, in which case the provision of our professional services will not be possible, so that submission of the Electronic Travel Authorization application will be canceled.
if the Company has received a minor’s personal data and/or private information to submit his/her Travel Authorization form from an individual who is not his/her parent and/or legal guardian, as soon as the Company detects and/or becomes aware of these circumstances, it will proceed to take the appropriate measures to fix the situation, including the possibility of canceling the submission of his/her application.

What do we use your personal data for?

Your personal data is processed for the following purposes:

To provide you with our professional assistance services in submitting your Electronic Travel Authorization application. It means that we will verify that you have correctly fulfilled your application and (if applicable) that you have provided the required documents and that these meet the requirements of the Government. Should that not be the case, we will ask you for the missing and/or incomplete information and/or documentation when necessary.
To send you up-to-date information according to Government updates and/or operational communications regarding the status of your Travel Authorization form, as well as its approval or denial. In this sense, we will let you know if the Government requires more personal information and/or additional documentation in order to assess your application;
To properly address your request for information, claims or queries about us and/or our professional services and/or to complete your refund and cancellation requests;
For administrative purposes related to the processing and management of our professional services, such as verification of your payment information (fraud control), accountancy and billing tasks;
To comply with our legal obligations and/or to respond to judicial, police or to the corresponding authorities requirements;
To improve your user experience on our website and improve our services and customer support by analyzing your behavior while navigating through this website;
To carry out periodic checks against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity on/or through our website.

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

We only process your personal data when there is a legal basis for doing so. The legal basis will depend on the reason why we collect and process your personal data. In almost all cases, the legal basis will be:

To fulfill the contract with you, meaning, to check the accuracy of your Travel Authorization form and submit it before the Government; to keep you updated regarding the status of your application and communicate to you the Government’s final decision regarding its approval or denial; to respond to your information requests addressed to our Customer Service Department, among others.
The consent that you provided us with for the processing of your personal data in connection to the purposes communicated at the time of collection of your data (i.e. to receive the requested information by writing to our Customer Service team).
For compliance with our legal obligations and/or to satisfy the requirements of administrative, judicial, police or corresponding authorities.
Our legitimate interest regarding (i) credit/debit cards and other methods of payment verification, (ii) address possible claims regarding our services, (iii) enhancing the user experience when you use this website and to operate it efficiently, (iv) enhance the quality of our professional services, (v) monitor fraudulent activity in order to preserve the security and integrity of our website.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

We will process your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and, after that, your personal data will be retained, duly securely blocked, for the necessary period we need to keep it. For example, it will be kept for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations and/or address possible claims related to the professional services we have offered; to finish the investigation of a fraudulent or illicit activity detected; to retain the Cookies’ information providing that you do not revoke its consent, etc. Once the necessary retention period has ended, your personal data will be securely deleted from our information systems.

Furthermore, if you had provided us with your consent to process your personal data for specific purposes, note that you can withdraw said consent at any time. Upon receiving your withdrawal request, we will proceed to delete your personal data.

With whom do we share personal data?

Your personal data will be processed and/or shared in the following circumstances:

To the Government of the country you're going to visit as it is the competent body to approve or deny the Electronic Travel Authorization applications.
To our payment service providers to process the payment of the costs related to the Electronic Travel Authorization application process and to carry out fraud controls, as well as to your bank entity credit/debit card companies when you have initiated a dispute of the charges made.
To our technology service providers which host our information systems and/or that offer us tools or technological support.
To comply with our legal obligations and when administrative, judicial and/or police authorities require it in accordance with the applicable law and regulations.
To protect our legitimate interests in the event that a claim may arise regarding the professional services offered.

The third parties mentioned above may have their headquarters outside the European Economic Area, therefore the personal data will be subject to international transfer. In this regard, we inform you that we only transfer personal data to recipients located in countries that offer a level of personal data protection comparable to the laws and regulations of data protection of European countries or, failing that, we will apply the appropriate safeguards required by the current applicable law and regulations on the protection of personal data, in order to ensure the privacy and security of your personal data and that your individual rights and freedoms are guaranteed.

How do we protect your personal data?

Your personal data is securely stored in our information systems and we have established the appropriate technical and organizational measures in order to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your personal data and to protect it against unauthorized or unlawful processing and/or accidental loss, destruction or damage.

Likewise, we have taken reasonable measures to guarantee that all our staff, as well as the suppliers or partners with access to your personal data, have received adequate information and/or training regarding their obligations concerning the processing of the personal data of our Users and/or Customers to which they have access to for the specific purposes previously mentioned.

Although we will do our best to guarantee the protection of your personal data transmitted through our website and/or that you may provide us with by others means such as email or phone, please bear in mind that you should also take precautions to keep your personal data safe, e.g you must not enter or confirm bank details by means of fake messages and/or websites.

What rights do you have and how can you exercise them?

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing, objection, as well as the right to the portability of your personal data, with a written request addressed to us, sent by email to: info@handyvisas.com or by means of our Contact Form

You may modify the “privacy settings” of your web browser to set up tracking cookies at any time. Also, you can install programs or add-ons to your browser, known as "Do Not Track" tools, which will allow you to choose the Cookies you want to allow.

Your data protection right request will be responded to within one (1) month; but occasionally, this period may be extended by two (2) further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and/or the number of requests you may have made. In this case, we will notify you of such an extension together with the reasons for the delay.

When you consider it appropriate, you have the right to lodge a complaint before the corresponding Supervisory Authority, e.g if you consider that your data protection rights have not been adequately addressed.

We remain at your disposal for any doubts or questions you may have about the present Privacy Policy or about the processing of your personal data, so don’t hesitate to contact us: info@handyvisas.com