Information Collection and Use. This site (the Site) is owned and operated by Travelous Corp. DBA Travelous (Travelous). Travelous is committed to protecting your privacy. Your Personal Information (ie. data that identifies you or from which you are identifiable, including: your phone and fax numbers, your Email address, your postal address, your preferred user name, etc) is collected solely to facilitate, improve, and deliver the services we offer. We do not share your Personal Information with outside parties, except where necessary: to process a request or order (including the processing of credit card payments and orders to vendors and service providers from whom you have purchased products or services), processing applications, billing, in an emergency situation, to enforce our policies, or where we are required or permitted to do so under applicable law, such as in response to a request by a law enforcement or governmental authority, in connection with actual or proposed litigation, or to protect our property, people and other rights, and communicating with you (you or the user).
Consent to Processing of Personal Information. BY PROVIDING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO TRAVELOUS, ALL USERS UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND TO THE TRANSFER OF SUCH PERSONAL INFORMATION BETWEEN VARIOUS STATES AND COUNTRIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH TRAVELOUSS STANDARD OPERATIONS AS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH AND CARRYOUT THE OPERATIONS OF TRAVELOUS. YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO, AND MAINTAINED ON, COMPUTERS AND SERVERS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF YOUR STATE, PROVINCE, COUNTRY OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL JURISDICTION WHERE THE PRIVACY LAWS MAY NOT BE AS PROTECTIVE AS THOSE IN YOUR JURISDICTION. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND CHOOSE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO US, TRAVELOUS TRANSFERS PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND PROCESSES IT THERE. YOUR CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOLLOWED BY YOUR SUBMISSION OF SUCH INFORMATION REPRESENTS YOUR AGREEMENT TO THAT TRANSFER.
Protecting Your Information. While no Internet site can guarantee security, we use physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to assist us in preventing unauthorized access, maintaining data accuracy, and correctly using your Personal Information. Except as specified in this Privacy Policy (the policy), we use commercially reasonable efforts to limit access to your Personal Information to the employees, agents, and officers of Travelous who need the information to carry out their jobs.
Non-Personally-Identifiable Information We May Collect Online. We may use various technologies to collect non-Personal Information about your visits online including:
a. Server Statistics. We may collect general statistics to track user trends on the Site. These statistics include hits to our server, the types of browsers used to access the Site, page views, and navigational patterns. The information that is collected in this manner does not provide us with any personally identifiable information about our users. It helps us track where our users are coming from. This allows us to pinpoint high traffic areas and determine the most effective ways to communicate with our users. In order to prevent the introduction of viruses and hackers into the Site, we may collect information, such as IP addresses, into a log file to be used to identify potential hackers of the Site.
b. Clear GIFs. We may use pixel tags (also called clear gifs) or other similar tracking technologies in our Site and/or in our communications to collect information about your navigation on our Site, and to enable us to know whether you have visited a web page or received a message. This information enables us to serve you and your interests better.
c. Cookies. To serve you faster and with better quality, we use "cookie" technology. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our Site users to enhance the experience on the site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our Site (for example, advertisers, strategic partners). However, Travelous.com has no access to or control over these cookies.
Email notifications. If you wish to contact us via email, you will be asked to leave contact information, so that we can send you the requested information. The personal information, such as name, phone, email address, will solely be used for this purpose.
Personal Information Submitted by Children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information submitted through our site by children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our files.
Third-party website links. This policy only addresses Travelous' Privacy Policy concerning information collected from its own website and does not apply to information that may have been collected by others. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy or information collection practices of third-party websites that may be linked to this Site. Please be aware that when you leave this site, you should read the third-party website privacy practices before submitting Personal Information. Travelous has no control or influence over third-party policies, and cannot be held liable for damage or misdoings of other websites linked or otherwise.
Your California Privacy Rights. As provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83, a California resident who has provided Personal Information to a business with whom they have established a business relationship for personal, family, or household purposes (California customer) is entitled to request information about whether the business has disclosed Personal Information to any third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes. In general, if the business has made such a disclosure of Personal Information, upon receipt of a request by a California customer, the business is required to provide a list of all third parties to whom Personal Information was disclosed in the preceding calendar year, as well as a list of the categories of Personal Information that were disclosed.
California and other customers may request further information about our compliance with this law by emailing Travelous at life@travelous.com. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.
Changes to Privacy Policy. Any changes to the Privacy Policy will be posted on this webpage to keep you aware of what information is collected, how it is used, and under what circumstances it will be disclosed. It is your responsibility to review Travelous Privacy Policy each time you provide Personal Information to Travelous as the policy may have changed since the last time you used the Site.