Find Local Hotels is committed to respecting your privacy. We have
designed our website and booking engine 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
Find Local Hotels 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 Find Local Hotels 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 Find Local Hotels 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 Find Local Hotels. Nevertheless,
we strongly encourage you to read the privacy policies of these vendors
when using their websites.
E-Postcards:
Find Local Hotels 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 Find Local Hotels, 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. Find Local Hotels 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
Find Local Hotels 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
Find Local Hotels 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 Find Local Hotels. 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
Find Local Hotels 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
Find Local Hotels 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.
Your use of our website is subject to our User
Agreement.
Right to Change
Find Local Hotels 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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