Online Privacy Statement
World Choice Travel 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.
- Awareness
- What we Collect
- Information Sharing
- Choice
- Access & Accuracy
- Security
- Oversight
Awareness
World Choice Travel 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 World Choice Travel’s 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 unchecking the appropriate boxes on the online
form.
Third-party vendors:
Some of World Choice Travel'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 World
Choice Travel. Nevertheless, we strongly encourage you to read the
privacy policies of these vendors when using their websites.
E-Postcards:
World Choice Travel 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 World Choice Travel, 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. World Choice Travel
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
World Choice Travel 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
World Choice Travel 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 World
Choice Travel. 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
World Choice Travel 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
World Choice Travel 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@wctravel.com Your use of our website is subject to our User
Agreement.
Right to Change
World Choice Travel 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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