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We are committed to respecting your privacy. We have designed our websites
and booking engines so that you may visit them without identifying
yourself or revealing any personal information, unless you opt to do so.
Once you opt to provide personally identifiable information (any
information by which you can be identified such as name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address and credit card number), it will only be
used to support your customer relationship with us and for our own
internal purposes, including marketing and research, customization of our
websites and improving the content of our websites.
This Online Privacy Statement regarding the privacy of the information you
provide online covers the following main areas: Awareness, What we
Collect, Information Sharing, Choice, Access & Accuracy, Security,
Oversight, and Right to Change.
Awareness
We provide this Online Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy
policy and the practices and choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used.
What we collect
When making a reservation:
When you make a reservation online or by phone through our customer
support center, you will be asked for your name, address, phone number,
e-mail address and credit card information. This information is used to
contact you for customer service, to guaranty your reservation with our
travel suppliers and/or to bill you for your travel purchase. We may also
ask you for other personal information, such as your frequent traveler
numbers.
Third-party vendors:
Some of our online booking engines are powered by third-party vendors. You
should note that these vendors may have privacy policies and practices
that differ from ours. We strongly encourage you to read the privacy
policies of these vendors when using their websites.
About Cookies
Many websites, including ours, use cookie technology to help users
navigate efficiently. The cookie is a small text file that resides on your
hard drive. From time to time, our site(s) will request the cookie from
your browser so that we can retrieve the stored information. This allows
you to avoid making the same selections over and over again. We do not use
cookies to store personal information, such as credit-card numbers.
Please note that with most browsers, a user can set the preferences to
show a warning each time a cookie request is received. You can also
usually set the browser not to accept cookies at all. However, to make
your experience using our booking engines as convenient as possible, we
suggest that you allow your browser to accept cookies.
Information Sharing
We will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information
to third parties. Unless we have your permission or are required by law,
we will only share the personal data you provide online with other
third-party vendors that are acting to complete reservation services. We
do not knowingly permit the site to be used by any person under the age of
eighteen and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from
children (meaning those younger than thirteen years of age). We will
cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
Choice
We will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided
to us online in ways unrelated to the purposes described above without
letting you know and offering you a choice. Please be aware that our
website and those of our affiliates may contain links to other websites,
and that the privacy practices of these other websites may differ from
ours. This Online Privacy Policy does not apply to other websites. We
encourage you to read the privacy policies of all other websites you
visit.
Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your information. To
prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the
appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, electronic,
and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we
collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring
sensitive data such as credit card information.
Oversight
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, e-mail us.
Right to Change
We review our Privacy Policy from time to time, and may make changes to
the policy pursuant to such review. Please periodically review this page
to make sure you have the current version. Regardless of changes, we will
abide by the privacy practices described to you in this Privacy Policy at
the time you provided us with your personal information. The foregoing
Privacy Policy was last updated on
3/22/2006. |