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Privacy Policy; Online Hotel Reservations |
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Discounts Wire! 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
Discounts Wire!
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
Discounts Wire! 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 Discounts Wire!'s
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
Discounts Wire!. Nevertheless, we strongly
encourage you to read the privacy policies of these vendors when
using their websites.
E-Postcards:
Discounts Wire!
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
Discounts Wire!, 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.
Discounts Wire! 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
Discounts Wire! 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
Discounts Wire! 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 Discounts Wire!.
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
Discounts Wire!
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
Discounts Wire! 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:
privacy@discountswire.com
Your use of our website is subject to our User Agreement.
Right to Change
Discounts Wire!
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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