Travelport GDS ensures safety for
personal data transfer

Written by at 09/03 2010, 01:55 - 0 comments

Travelport GDS is first of the worlds leading global reservation systems, which has achieved Safe Harbor certification.

Safe Harbor certification ensures that bookings online are being processed with the required protections for personal data and in compliance with local law. The statistic data by Travelport shows that despite the crisis in Europe and significant overall decline in tourism industry, online travel booking has maintained a growing trend. Europe’s online travel booking volume has grown by 6 %.The Safe Harbor is a program resulting from negotiations among the United States government, the Europe Commission, and the Swiss government. Through Safe Harbor, companies may freely transfer personal data from EU countries and Switzerland to the United States, and they can have confidence that Safe Harbor certification provides adequate data protections under the standarts of the EU Data Protection Directive and Swiss law.

To achieve Safe Harbor certification, company has to observe special conditions to provide data safety and to prevent loss of information.

 

Stand By News, 08.03.2010

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