Users have free and unlimited access to our web site. We are concerned about preventing unauthorized disclosure of customer information. We also want you to know what personal information we collect and how we use it. The following privacy policy addresses these matters. If after reading it, you have questions about our policy please Contact Us. This policy was last updated on December 1, 2004.
We may from time to time amend our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our business and services and our policies relating to privacy of customer information. Amendments will become effective at the time they are posted on our web site. We will not provide notice of changes in our Privacy Policy.
We Promise to Respect Your Privacy
As a user of this website, you are asked to provide us with some personal information when filling out your profile. This information is used primarily for the purpose of learning more about your needs, preferences, and requirements. You have the option not to receive our Newsletters or other email messages from us, or any of our affiliates or marketing partners.
Before completing your personal profile, please view and accept the Website Terms of Use.
Your information, Your Choice
We take your privacy concerns seriously and will not share your personal information with anyone other than HMC and its affiliates or marketing partners without your permission.
Once you complete a profile, we will use your information in the following ways:
When you book travel, we will share basic information about you and your purchase with the hotel agency of your choice. We will provide only the information necessary to ensure your travel arrangements are confirmed and executed with these travel providers.
Once you complete a travel profile and become a member, we will occasionally use your email address to send newsletters about HMC and its affiliates. Other correspondence from us will include:
- Reservations confirmations
- Requested newsletters and special travel offers
- Special discounts and/or promotional offers from our affiliates and partners
- Membership renewal offers
Additional Privacy Information
For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes the consumer’s domain name and email address (where possible).
We collect the domain name and email address (where possible) of visitors to our Web page, the email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web site, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes, and shared with other organizations to help them contact consumers for marketing purposes.
If you do not want to receive email from us in the future, please contact us.
With respect to cookies: A “cookie” is a small text file placed on your hard drive by our web page server. By configuring your preferences or options in your browser, you can determine if and how a cookie will be accepted. Data on web site usage that we collect using cookies is not tied to individuals, and is only used in aggregate form.
We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, and customize Web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.
From time to time, we make our customer email list and the email addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. You can, however, have your email address put on our do-not-share list by emailing us. Please contact us via this website.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not want to receive mailing from us in the future, please Contact Us. You may receive periodic mailings from other companies. You can, however, have your name put on our do-not-share list by emailing us. Please provide us with your exact name and address. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding new products and services or upcoming events. If you do not want to receive telephone calls from us in the future, please contact us via the link on our website.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from other companies. You can, however, have your name put on our do-not-share list by emailing us. Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations.
With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information.
With respect to contests and promotions: We may, on our own, or in conjunction with other companies, offer contests, sweepstakes and promotions. You may be asked to supply certain personal information to participate in these promotional events. The parties sponsoring the contest may use the information you supply for future marketing purposes. If you have previously elected not to receive information or mailings about us or other third parties you may still receive information from your participation in these promotions. Rules and guidelines will be clearly posted as will notification about how the information gathered may be used. You should not participate in these special promotions if you do not want to receive marketing information about us or other sponsoring parties.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically. Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by emailing us.
We do not provide visitors access to the information that we have collected and that we maintain about them. Visitors can have this information corrected by sending us email.
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may Contact Us or contact The DMA’s Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org.