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Online Privacy Policy |
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America Hotel Deals
is 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), 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, and Oversight.
Awareness
America Hotel Deals provides 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. This notice may be accessed from any area of
America Hotel Deals
websites and our online booking engines.
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. During
the booking process you can choose not to receive our newsletter
or travel reminders by un-checking the appropriate boxes on the
online form.
Third-party vendors:
Some of
America Hotel Deals
online booking engines are powered by third-party vendors. Our
goal is to work only with reputable and reliable vendors. You
should note that these vendors may have privacy policies and
practices that may differ from those of
America Hotel Deals.
Nevertheless, we strongly encourage you to read the privacy
policies of these vendors when using their websites.
E-Postcards:
America Hotel Deals
provides electronic postcards cards via
our websites and our affiliate websites for you to send to a
friend. We store the e-mail address of all recipients, the
message you want to send and the URL for locating the greeting
card. We do not sell, distribute, or license in anyway the use
of recipient e-mail addresses. We use them solely for the
purposes of notifying recipients on your behalf that a card is
waiting for them at the designated URL. After 30 days, all
information pertaining to your postcard is deleted.
About Cookies
Many websites, including those owned by
America Hotel Deals, 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 prevents you
from making the same selections over and over again.
America Hotel Deals
does not use cookies to store personal
information, such as credit-card numbers.
An example of how cookies are used is as follows: When you
conduct a search using our hotel-booking engine for hotels in
Orlando, a cookie will be set recording the city of Orlando as
the parameter of your search. When you return to the search form
to narrow or change your search, Orlando will automatically be
entered into the city field in the search form.
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
hotel-booking engine as convenient as possible, we suggest that
you allow your browser to accept cookies.
Information Sharing
America Hotel Deals
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 on our behalf to complete the activities
described above. We will cooperate with law enforcement
authorities.
Choice
America Hotel Deals
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 those of America Hotel Deals. This Online Privacy Statement
does not apply to other websites. We encourage you to read the
Privacy Policies of all other websites you visit.
Access & Accuracy
America Hotel Deals
strives to keep your personally
identifiable information accurate. We make every effort to
provide you with online access to your registration data so that
you may update or correct your information on the hotel-booking
engine where it was submitted. To protect your privacy and
security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your
identity before granting you access or enabling you to make
corrections to your user account.
Security
America Hotel Deals
is 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 appropriate 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:
info@americahoteldeals.com
Your use of our website is subject to our User Agreement.
Right to Change
America Hotel Deals reserves the right
to change this policy at any time by notifying users of the
existence and location of the new or revised Privacy Policy. The
foregoing Privacy Policy was last updated on 7/16/2003 |
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