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| Shop Hotels Online Commitment
to Privacy |
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ShopHotelsOnline.com is
in the travel business, not the spying business.
We will not ask you for information that does not
have a purpose and we will not require information
to be disclosed that is not absolutely necessary.
We will not sell your personally identifiable information
to others.
Whether you travel the Web or travel the world,
ShopHotelsOnline.com wants you to always be safe! |
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Your privacy
is important to us. To better protect your privacy
we provide this notice explaining our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the
way your information is collected and used. This
notice shall apply to all information ShopHotelsOnline.com collects
or is submitted by the user on the ShopHotelsOnline.com website.
To make this notice easy to find; we make it available
on our homepage and at every point where personally
identifiable information may be requested. |
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Use of Customer Information |
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ShopHotelsOnline.com is
the sole owner of the information collected on this
site. We will not sell or rent this information
to others in ways that differ from what is disclosed
in this statement. |
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ShopHotelsOnline.com may include information
about your visit in collective or aggregated data
that does not identify you specifically. For example,
we may tell our advertisers or investors the number
of website visitors or the most popular vacation
destinations. |
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Our server recognizes
domain names and the pages visited. This data is
gathered in an aggregate manner for quality control
and improvement of our website. |
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ShopHotelsOnline.com does not market
to children nor collect personal information about
children at this website. |
Individual Information
- What We Collect
and Why
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Your name, email address,
physical address, phone and fax number, and credit
card number, expiration date and billing address
are necessary to ensure we are able to make and
confirm your reservation. We do not share this personal
information with outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete your reservation or product
order. |
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Your contact information
is needed in order to notify you in the event of
any processing difficulties or unforeseen circumstances
fulfilling your reservation or product order. In
some cases, paper tickets may need to be mailed
to you. The more easily we can contact you, the
better we can serve you. |
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ShopHotelsOnline.com will use the
information you provide about yourself in order
to make the ShopHotelsOnline.com website as customer friendly
as possible. We want to know you to better serve
you, but do not want to invade your life. We may
ask you for more information about your travel interests.
In the future this information may be used to help
ShopHotelsOnline.com make more applicable travel recommendations.
However, this information will always be optional. |
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Newsletter -
What We Collect and Why
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Your email address ensures
you receive the newsletter in a timely manner. |
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Your name is optional
and tells us who personally to address - just a
nice touch. |
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Although we do not want
you to miss any great travel deals, you can unsubscribe
to any ShopHotelsOnline.com newsletter at anytime, by sending
an email to info@shophotelsonline.com.
Please tell us the newsletter title and the email
address you want removed. |
Surveys
- What We Collect and Why
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From time to time ShopHotelsOnline.com
conducts voluntary customer surveys, which may ask
questions about broad background information and
customer preferences. This survey information is
completely optional and you are under no obligation
to be a part of any survey. The information ShopHotelsOnline.com
collects is used to better serve our customers by
helping ShopHotelsOnline.com determine our customer's travel
needs and improve the satisfaction and use of this
website. |
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Participation in these
surveys or contests is completely voluntary and
you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. Information requested may include
demographic information including, but not limited
to: age, gender, approximate household income, how
you travel, how you make your reservations, and
why you travel. |
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Your contact information
may be required if a prize is to be awarded to survey
respondents either at random or individually. This
will enable us to contact you to notify you of details
regarding your prize. |
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Cookies are
small pieces of information stored on your computer
tied to information about you. We use both session
ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session
ID cookie, once you close the browser, the cookie
simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small
text file stored on your hard drive for an extended
period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed
by following the Web browser help file directions.
We use cookies to track usage of the Guest path
and to serve advertisements through our advertising
networks. Most Web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser
options to block them in the future. If you reject
the cookie, you may still use our website. The only
drawback to this is that you will be limited in
some areas of our website. Persistent cookies enable
us to track and target the interests of our users
to enhance the experience on our website.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any
personally identifiable information while on our
site.
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A cookie
file may also be placed on your hard drive by our
third-party advertising companies. These companies
may use aggregated statistics about your visits
to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
about travel-related goods and services that you
may be interested in. The information they collect
does not include your personally identifiable information.The
third-party advertising companies may also employ
technology that is used to measure the effectiveness
of ads. This is primarily accomplished through the
use of a Web beacon (a single-pixel GIF), which
is placed on our site to collect anonymous information.
They may use this anonymous information about your
visits to this and other sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of potential
interest to you. No personally identifiable information
is collected during this process. The information
is anonymous and does not link online actions to
an identifiable person. If you would like more information
and want to explore the option of not having this
information collected by third-party advertisers,
click
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We use
IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the
website, track users' movements, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. IP
addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information. |
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An Affiliate
is a Web site not owned or operated by ShopHotelsOnline.com,
but uses IAN.com's booking capabilities for processing
travel reservations. The IAN.com name may or may
not appear on the Affiliate site.
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Though
we make every effort to preserve user privacy,
we may be required by law to disclose information
you have provided in obtaining our travel products
or services. We may also disclose information
against someone who poses a threat to our interests
(such as customer fraud) or whose activities could
bring harm to others. In addition, it may be necessary
for us to provide customer information to third
parties, such as credit card companies, for the
purpose of resolving disputes that arise in the
normal course of business. |
Third Party Intermediaries
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ShopHotelsOnline.com
uses an outside a credit card processing company
and bank check processing company to bill users
for goods and services. These companies do not
retain, share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes.
This website makes use of a technology designed
to enhance your browsing experience. The technology,
provided as a hosted service application by Fireclick
®, makes use of a small and transparent Java
applet to provide you with a faster browsing experience.
In addition, aggregate reporting information is
collected and made available to the website owner
only. No personal or personally identifiable information
is gathered or used for this process.
If for any reason you do not wish to have this
technology enabled while browsing this site, please
click
here. A cookie will be set on your browser
that instructs the service not to start. If you
have disabled the service and wish to reactivate
it, please click
here. Additional information on Fireclick's
technology may be found at www.fireclick.com.
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ShopHotelsOnline.com
provides information about travel either reserved
or purchased on this website to the suppliers
whose will fulfill your travel reservation. Although
we offers travel products from hotel, airline,
car rental and other suppliers that are reputable
companies, we have not placed limitations on these
suppliers from using or disclosing your information
without your permission. Therefore, we encourage
you to review the information privacy practices
of any travel suppliers whose products you purchase
on this website. In addition, these travel suppliers
may also contact you as necessary to obtain additional
information about your confirmed reservation.
ShopHotelsOnline.com will occasionally share aggregated information
with our service providers. This information does
not contain any personally identifiable information
and is used to develop featured programs and content
that will be of interest to our website visitors.
ShopHotelsOnline.com may contract with a reputable third-party
to facilitate the distribution of survey, promotion,
or sweepstakes programs. Upon completion of these
projects, all information is returned to us.
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If you
access our website through one of our Affiliates
and make travel reservations, your personally
identifiable information (other than credit card
information) may be forwarded to that particular
Affiliate. |
Aggregate Information
(non-personally
identifiable information)
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ShopHotelsOnline.com
will share aggregated demographic information
with our Affiliates and advertisers. |
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This site
may contain links to other sites. Please be aware
that ShopHotelsOnline.com is in no way responsible for the
privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage
our customers to be aware when they leave our
site and to read the privacy statements of each
and every website that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely
to information collected by the ShopHotelsOnline.com website.
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If ShopHotelsOnline.com
decides to change its Privacy Statement, we will
post those changes this Privacy Statement so you
are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under circumstances, if any,
we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use
personally identifiable information in a manner
different from that stated at the time it was
collected, we will notify you by way of email.
You will have a choice as to whether or not we
use your information in this different manner.
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Correcting/Updating
Personal Infomation |
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If a user's
personally identifiable information (such as zip
code, phone, email or postal address) changes
or if a user no longer desires our service, we
provide a way to correct or update a user's personally
identifiable information. Users can all email
our Customer Support at Customer
Care or contact us by telephone or postal
mail at the contact information listed below.
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If users
have any questions or suggestions regarding our
Privacy Statement, please contact us at:
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Postal
Address:
1153 Bergen Pkwy
Suite M245
Evergreen, CO 80439
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Postal Address:
10440 North Central Expressway
Suite 400
Dallas, TX 75231
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Email : Customer
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Email : Customer Care |
This Privacy Statement is effective as of July
22, 2004
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