World Wide Vacations Privacy Policy |
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Overview The following Privacy Policy explains how WorldwideVacations.com ("Worldwide Vacations") gathers and uses personal information that is provided by our customers. Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and Worldwide Vacations reserves the right to change or modify our Privacy Policy at any time with or without notice. Worldwide Vacations is committed to safeguarding your privacy. We do not rent or sell our customer database or newsletter subscriber list to third parties. We do not share customer information in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. If you have any questions or concerns over the Worldwide Vacations Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact travel@worldwidevacations.com You can also subscribe to a Worldwide Vacations Newsletter if you agree to our current Terms of Use. Site Registration Worldwide Vacations registration form may require users to provide basic contact and demographic information. We use or may use your contact information (such as email address) from the registration form to send you newsletters and occasional information about our services and partners, inform you if you are the potential winner of a contest or promotion, personalize your experience with Worldwide Vacations, or investigate cases of suspected fraud or abuse. You may opt-out of receiving future communications; see the Opting-Out of Further Communications section below. In the future, in order to customize your experience with our email newsletters, we may receive a confirmation when you open email from Worldwide Vacations if your computer supports such capabilities. Clicking on a link in a Worldwide Vacations newsletter may also be tracked on a per user basis to allow us to present content, which closely matches your interests. Demographic and profile data (such as state, zip code, age, or gender) may be used to customize your experience at our site or in our email newsletters, showing you content and advertising that may best suit your needs. This information is shared with advertisers and other third parties on an aggregate basis only. Individual user click behavior is never shared with advertisers and partners. If, in the future, you enter Worldwide Vacations via a reward or incentive program, Worldwide Vacations may share your email address with the program through which you entered Worldwide Vacations to ensure you are credited with your incentive. You may also register for Worldwide Vacations and/or specific Worldwide Vacations newsletters at web sites operated by third parties. These third parties may share contact, demographic or profile data that you voluntarily provide during the registration process with Worldwide Vacations. You also may provide personal information to third parties when you register at a third party web site and specifically request that your information be forwarded to us so that we can send you information about our product and service offerings. Worldwide Vacations does or may in the future use this information in the same manner as information collected directly by Worldwide Vacations. This Privacy Policy does not bind sites that collect information on behalf of Worldwide Vacations, and Worldwide Vacations is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. To better serve you, we may also store information you present to us via email or telephone communications with Worldwide Vacations Customer Service Department. This information is or may be used in the same manner as information directly collected using Worldwide Vacations registration form. We may also use information you provide us via email or telephone to pursue the matter for which you contacted us. Worldwide Vacations also may obtain information from you in our online forums. This information may not be disclosed except as consistent with Terms of Use. In order to better communicate with registered users about their registration status, Worldwide Vacations may acquire information about users from third-party sources, including but not limited to a users mailing address. The information collected will only be shared, if at all, on an aggregate basis only with third parties. Email Communications: To help us make emails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open email from Worldwide Vacations if your computer supports such capabilities. Data Sharing We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. Worldwide Vacations may use third parties to perform certain tasks such as package delivery. Personal information may be provided to these agents as is necessary to perform their functions. Worldwide Vacations partners with third-party companies to provide services to Worldwide Vacations users. When you sign up for one of these services, the information you provide in signing up for the service is shared with the third party and is protected in accordance with the third party's Privacy Policy. In the future, Worldwide Vacations may host content on behalf of certain other web site partners. These pages will be identified as they have the navigation of the partner site. Information collected on these pages may be shared with the partner site. These pages, and any information shared with the partner site, are subject to the Privacy Policy of the partner site. Occasionally, Worldwide Vacations may participate in reward programs. In order to properly credit you for your reward, we may share basic customer information with the reward-giver. Sweepstakes, Online Surveys, and Order Forms Worldwide Vacations occasionally runs sweepstakes, hosts online surveys, or uses order forms on our web site in which we ask for contact and demographic information. Participation in sweepstakes and surveys and usage of order forms is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use or may use your contact information (such as email address) from your sweepstakes entry, survey registration, or order form to inform you if you are the potential winner of a contest or promotion, personalize your experience with Worldwide Vacations, send you newsletters (should you opt-in for these newsletters) and occasional information about our services or partners, or investigate cases of suspected fraud. You may opt-out of receiving future communications; see the Opting-Out of Further Communications section below. Demographic and profile data (such as zip code, age, or gender) may be used to customize your experience at our site, showing you content and advertising that may best suit your needs. This information is shared with advertisers and other third parties on an aggregate basis only. In the event that Worldwide Vacations partners with a third party to run a sweepstakes, Worldwide Vacations may share demographic and profile data with such third party only as indicated in the official sweepstakes rules. Tell-a-Friend and Email This Deal Worldwide Vacations may, from time to time, offer services to allow our users to send information about our site to their friends. If a user elects to use such service for informing a friend about our site, or elects to use our other services to inform a friend about information on our site, we will ask them for the friend's email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit our site. We store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time email and investigating suspected fraud. Children Under 13 Years Old Worldwide Vacations and its affiliated sites do not knowingly collect, maintain or use personal information from our websites about children under age 13. Children under the age of 13 may not participate in any online activities on Smarter Travel Media LLC's web sites. If a child whom we know to be under age 13 sends personal information to us online, we will only use that information to respond directly to that child, notify parents, or seek parental consent. IP Addresses Worldwide Vacations uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our web site, and help diagnose problems with our servers. IP addresses are also used to gather broad demographic information and to prevent, investigate, and take actions in the case of suspected fraud or abuse. Web Analytics Worldwide Vacations uses a web analytics company to track and generate reports on visitor use of Worldwide Vacations. We use the web analytics company to analyze visitor activity so that we may better understand how visitors make use of Worldwide Vacations, and so that we may better tailor content to meet our visitors' needs. This data may include individual visitor click behavior. However, no personally identifiable information is shared with the web analytics company. Although our web analytics company logs the information coming from Worldwide Vacations on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. Cookies A cookie is a small piece of data that a web server places on a user's computer. Worldwide Vacations employs the use of cookies to ensure that you do not see the same ad repeatedly, to track marketing promotions, to estimate and report audience size and traffic, and to customize and personalize your experience at Worldwide Vacations.com. Furthermore, Worldwide Vacations may, from time to time, use outside media companies to display advertisements on our site. These ads may contain cookies, which are collected and tracked by the outside media company. Worldwide Vacations has no access to or control over these cookies. Most web browsers provide users the ability to limit the use of cookies by allowing users to adjust privacy settings. If a user has their cookies disabled, Worldwide Vacations will still be accessible, however some sections of the web site will not perform as well as they normally would with cookies enabled. Links to Other Sites Worldwide Vacations.com contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every web site that collects personally identifiable information. Security, Fraud, and Abuse This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Worldwide Vacations regularly reviews these measures to better protect users. Occasionally information may be provided to Worldwide Vacations fraudulently or by an individual unauthorized to provide such information. Worldwide Vacations may use all information it collects for reasonable investigation and prosecution of suspected fraud and/or abuse. Worldwide Vacations may provide all information it collects to third parties as necessary to comply with law enforcement requests or other legal requirements. Worldwide Vacations does not ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet. Opting Out of Further Communications and Updating Personal Information Worldwide Vacations.com subscribers may opt out of receiving future Worldwide Vacations.com communications or update their personal information by clicking the unscribe link at the bottom of email or newsletter recieved by us Service and Partner Updates We may send our users service and partner announcements from time to time. Users are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain information about our services and partners, without opting-out of all Worldwide Vacations newsletters. You may opt-out of receiving future communications; see the Opting-Out of Further Communications section below. We communicate with our users to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email, telephone, or postal mail. Notification of Changes If at any point we decide to share personally identifiable information to third parties FOR REASONS NOT OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, we will notify our users by way of an email, so that users are made aware. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. Business Assets As part of operations, Worldwide Vacations may sell, transfer or merge particular businesses and/or other assets to a third party. As part of such a transaction, personal information users have provided to Worldwide Vacations may be given to a third party. Worldwide Vacations attempts to comply with all legislative and judicial orders. These orders will take precedence over the details stated in the policy above. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your dealings with Worldwide Vacations, please contact: travel@WorldwideVacations.com |
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