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understand that making purchases online involves
a great deal of trust on your part; we take
this trust very seriously, and make it our highest
priority to ensure the security and confidentiality
of the personally identifiable information ("PII")
you provide us. (PII includes information that
can be linked to a specific individual, such
as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.)
As a
visitor to our U.S. Web site, www.santafehotels.com
("santafehotels.com"), you have the right
to understand our information privacy practices
prior to providing santafehotels.com with
any of your PII.
santafehotels.com's
Privacy Statement
This santafehotels.com Privacy Statement discloses
the information privacy practices for Santa
Fe Central Reservations' United States Web
site, http://www.santafehotels.com/.
The santafehotels.com Web site is intended
for use by residents of the U.S. that are
over 18 years of age.
Information
collected about you
santafehotels.com collects personally identifiable
information ("PII") about you that you specifically
and voluntarily provide. PII includes information
that can identify you as a specific individual,
such as your name, phone number, or e-mail
address. Although you are required to register
as a member of santafehotels.com in order
to use selected travel planning tools, and
some PII is needed in order to process and
fulfill travel requests, many areas of santafehotels.com
can be accessed without providing any PII.
On all santafehotels.com
pages that collect PII, we specifically describe
what information is required in order to provide
you with the product or service you have requested.
santafehotels.com
collects PII when you:
- Become an
santafehotels.com member
- Purchase travel
- Participate
in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes
- Contact santafehotels.com
Member information
santafehotels.com
collects your Member ID, password, and e-mail
address when you register to become a member
of our Web site. Travel
purchase information
santafehotels.com collects the billing address
of the credit card that is used to purchase
travel. We will also collect credit card information,
including card number, card type, cardholder
name, and expiration date, in order to bill
you for travel purchased through santafehotels.com.
Contests and
sweepstakes information
Occasionally, santafehotels.com may offer
our members and site visitors an opportunity
to participate in a contest or sweepstakes.
Information collected by santafehotels.com
when you participate in a contest or sweepstakes
may include your full name, e-mail address,
and street address.
Surveys
santafehotels.com may offer our members and
site visitors an opportunity to participate
in surveys regarding their experience with
our site. For our members, we may also send
these surveys via e-mail. You are under no
obligation to respond to any survey, and you
may unsubscribe from receiving these e-mail
surveys by following the unsubscribe instructions
in any e-mail survey you receive. Information
collected by santafehotels.com when you participate
in a survey may include your full name, e-mail
address, and street address.
Contacting
santafehotels.com
santafehotels.com collects PII such as your
full name, Member ID, e-mail address, and/or
contact number whenever you submit a question
or suggestion, or request assistance with
viewing your itinerary, logging on to santafehotels.com,
or accessing your account.
Our partners
santafehotels.com has partnered with reputable
third parties to offer our members and site
visitors a variety of products and services.
All travel services throughout santafehotels.com
that are provided by a third-party partner
are described as such. Although we only work
with reputable third parties, our business
partners may have different privacy policies
and practices than santafehotels.com. We encourage
you to review our business partners' privacy
policies to further understand their procedures
for collecting, using, and disclosing your
information.
Other information
we collect
Some information is collected automatically
every time you visit santafehotels.com (e.g.,
cookies and computer information). In addition,
information may be collected from other independent,
third-party sources.
Cookies
and other Web technologies
When you visit santafehotels.com we reserve
the right to collect information about your
computer and assign you a "cookie" (a small,
unique identifier text file). You do not provide
this information—it is collected automatically
as a means of supporting your visit to our
site. This cookie does not contain any PII.
You can always choose to not receive a cookie
file by enabling your Web browser to refuse
cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie.
Be advised that, by refusing to accept a cookie,
you will not be able to access many travel
services and planning tools offered by santafehotels.com.
When you reserve
or purchase travel, or use selected travel
planning tools, santafehotels.com requires
you to sign in as a member, using your Member
ID and password. Once you sign in as an santafehotels.com
member, we record the Member ID and the name
on the member account in the cookie file on
your computer. We may also record your password
in this cookie file if you checked the box
entitled "Save this password for automatic
sign-in." Your Member ID, password, and the
name on your member account is stored in the
cookie file as encrypted data, so no one can
view the information it contains by obtaining
unauthorized access to your computer. Permanent
cookie files remain on your computer's hard
drive until you manually delete the file.
A cookie file
may also be placed on your hard drive by santafehotels.com's
third-party advertising companies. These companies
may use aggregated statistics about your visits
to this and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements about travel-related goods
and services that you may be interested in.
The information they collect does not
include your PII.
The third-party
advertising companies may also employ technology
that is used to measure the effectiveness
of ads. This is primarily accomplished through
the use of a Web beacon (a single-pixel GIF),
which is placed on our site to collect anonymous
information. They may use this anonymous information
about your visits to this and other sites
in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services of potential interest to you.
No PII is collected during this process.
The information is anonymous and does not
link online actions to an identifiable person.
Computer information
santafehotels.com reserves the right to collect
certain technical information from your computer
each time you request a page during a visit
to santafehotels.com. This information is
collected from your computer's Web browser
to enhance your experience on our site and
may include your IP address, operating system,
Web browser software (e.g., Netscape Navigator
or Internet Explorer), screen resolution,
and referrer Web site.
Information
from other sources
To improve services and enhance personalization,
we may periodically obtain information about
you from other independent third-party sources
and add it to our account information. Additionally,
authorized santafehotels.com personnel may
update your profile to accurately reflect
any new profile information included in communications
received from you.
Use
of your information
Information collected on santafehotels.com
may be used to:
- Register you
as an santafehotels.com member
- Plan and purchase
travel
- Notify you
of travel changes
- Send marketing
communications or surveys to you
- Respond to
your questions or suggestions
- Improve the
quality of your visit to our site
Member registration
information When
you register to become a member of santafehotels.com,
we use your information to create your member
account. You will then receive an e-mail that
contains your Member ID and describes the benefits
of using santafehotels.com
for planning and purchasing your travel needs.
Travel
planning and purchase
Information collected when you complete your
traveler profile is used to confirm and process
your travel reservation. In addition, information
collected from you when you purchase travel
is used to bill your credit card and deliver
your travel itinerary, either electronically
or through the mail.
Travel Alerts
notification
In the event your travel plans are disrupted
because of mechanical, weather, or carrier
business conditions, santafehotels.com may
send you an e-mail notification to inform
you of these conditions and help you make
alternative travel arrangements.
Marketing
notifications
As a registered santafehotels.com member,
you may receive e-mails from us about special
promotions, surveys, contests, sweepstakes,
flight specials, trip information, or other
travel opportunities on santafehotels.com
and its marketing partners. We may also use
your e-mail address or telephone number to
contact you about changes to your purchased
travel itinerary. To assess the effectiveness
of these e-mails, we may attach a Web beacon
that provides confirmation when you open an
e-mail from santafehotels.com. This only occurs
if your computer supports such technology.
You may also
receive postal mail notifications from us
about special promotions, surveys, contests,
sweepstakes, flight specials, trip information,
or other travel opportunities on santafehotels.com
and its marketing partners. E-mail or postal
marketing notifications containing offers
for our marketing partners will be sent by
santafehotels.com on our partners' behalf.
Responses
to your questions or suggestions
We will use your e-mail address or telephone
number to respond when you submit a question
or suggestion, or request assistance with
viewing your itinerary, logging on to santafehotels.com,
or accessing your account.
Improving
the quality of your visit to our site
We collect certain information (e.g., travel
information) based on your navigation of our
site in order to better understand and serve
our customers. This data allows us to streamline
your ability to navigate the site and develop
featured programs and content that will be
of interest to our members and site visitors.
No PII is collected unless you explicitly
provide it.
This information
can also be used to display targeted advertisements.
Advertisement information is taken from data
you explicitly provide on the santafehotels.com
Web site, such as a flight origin or destination.
No PII is used to deliver targeted
advertisements.
Sharing
your information
santafehotels.com does not sell or rent
your PII to anyone.
Service providers
To provide and process the services you request,
santafehotels.com reserves the right to share
your PII with our authorized service providers
that perform certain services or functions
on our behalf. We only share information about
travel either reserved or purchased on santafehotels.com.
Our service providers need information about
your traveler profile, as well as your credit
card information, to process and confirm your
travel reservation. These service providers
will disclose information about your traveler
profile to hotel, airline, cruise, rental
car, and other travel suppliers whose products
you have purchased. Like any other travel
agent, this information must be shared with
our travel suppliers to confirm your reservation
and travel preferences. Although santafehotels.com
offers travel products from hotel, airline,
cruise, rental car, and other travel suppliers
that are reputable companies, we have not
placed limitations on these suppliers from
using or disclosing your information without
your permission. Therefore, we encourage you
to review the information privacy practices
of any travel suppliers whose products you
purchase on santafehotels.com. In addition,
these travel suppliers may also contact you
as necessary to obtain additional information
about your confirmed reservation.
santafehotels.com
will occasionally share aggregated information
with our service providers. This information
does not contain any PII and is used
to develop featured programs and content that
will be of interest to our members and site
visitors.
In the event
that you make a new, or update an existing,
travel reservation by calling our toll-free
number, your information may be accessed by
a third-party service provider, as necessary,
to respond to your request for customer service.
santafehotels.com
may contract a reputable third party to facilitate
the distribution of survey, promotion, or
sweepstakes programs. Upon completion of these
projects, all information is returned to santafehotels.com.
Trusted business
partners
In addition, we have partnered with various
third-party Web sites to offer santafehotels.com
travel services. These trusted third-party
companies have added travel sections to their
Web sites in order to offer santafehotels.com
provided travel services. We will not share
any of your PII with these trusted third-party
companies, even if you register on santafehotels.com
through their Web sites.
Our obligations
santafehotels.com may be required by law to
disclose information you have provided in
obtaining our travel products or services.
santafehotels.com may also disclose information
against someone who poses a threat to santafehotels.com's
interests (such as customer fraud) or whose
activities could bring harm to others. In
addition, it may be necessary for santafehotels.com
to provide customer information to third parties,
such as credit card companies, for the purpose
of resolving disputes that arise in the normal
course of business.
Other Web
sites
There are several places throughout santafehotels.com
that may link you to other Web sites that
do not operate under santafehotels.com's information
privacy practices. When you click through
to these Web sites, santafehotels.com's information
privacy practices no longer apply. We recommend
that you examine the privacy statements for
all third-party Web sites to understand their
procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing
your information.
Communications
from santafehotels.com
Members will receive communications from
santafehotels.com when they:
- Sign up to
become an santafehotels.com member
- Request to
update or close an account
- Purchase travel
- Elect to receive
special promotional marketing communications
- Win a contest
or sweepstakes
- Contact santafehotels.com
with questions/suggestions
- Are asked
to complete a survey about their experience
on our site
Sign up to
become an santafehotels.com member
When you sign up as a new santafehotels.com
member, you will receive a e-mail. This e-mail
contains your Member ID and describes the
benefits of using santafehotels.com for planning
and purchasing your travel needs.
Request to
close or update an account
When you complete an Account Closure request
or modify your account information (e.g.,
update your e-mail address), we will send
you a confirmation e-mail.
Purchase travel
Each time you purchase travel through santafehotels.com,
or change or cancel a confirmed travel reservation,
you will receive confirmation of your travel
itinerary via e-mail. In the event that your
travel plans are disrupted because of mechanical,
weather, or carrier business conditions, santafehotels.com
may contact you to inform you of these disruptions
and help you make alternative travel arrangements.
Elect to receive
special promotional marketing communications
As a registered santafehotels.com member,
you will occasionally receive e-mails notifying
you of special promotions or other travel
news. Special promotional e-mails are intended
to inform you of new or unique travel opportunities
or special deals that are available on santafehotels.com.
You can opt out of your subscription to santafehotels.com's
promotional e-mail services at any time by
replying to the e-mail with the word "unsubscribe"
in the subject line.
In addition,
you will occasionally receive postal mail
notifying you of special promotions or other
travel news. You can unsubscribe from this
postal mail service by either sending an e-mail
with "unsubscribe" in the subject line to
optout@santafehotels.com
that includes your santafehotels.com e-mail
address and street address or by following
the instructions on the postal mail piece
you receive.
Contests and
sweepstakes
You have the option of sending an e-mail to
santafehotels.com requesting a change to the
information you provided to us or to receive
a copy of the information we have stored during
the length of the contest or sweepstakes.
We will make every reasonable effort to honor
your wishes. Proof of identity is required.
Request customer
support or submit questions/suggestions
When you request assistance with viewing your
itinerary, logging on to the santafehotels.com
Web site, or accessing your account, we will
respond to you via e-mail or telephone.
Surveys
To help us improve santafehotels.com and serve
you better, from time to time we may e-mail
surveys to you to learn more about your experience
with our site. You are under no obligation
to respond to these surveys, and you may unsubscribe
from receiving them by following the unsubscribe
instructions in any e-mail survey you receive.
Protecting
your information
We want our members and site visitors to feel
confident about using santafehotels.com to
plan and purchase their travel, so we are
committed to protecting the information we
collect. santafehotels.com has implemented
a security program to keep information that
is stored in our systems protected from unauthorized
access. Currently, santafehotels.com only
stores the information you provide when registering
to become an santafehotels.com member, purchase
travel, or use selected travel tools .
Our systems are
configured with data encryption, or scrambling,
technologies, and industry-standard firewalls.
When you send personal information to santafehotels.com
over the Internet, your data is protected
by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to
ensure safe transmission.
Changes
to the santafehotels.com
Privacy Statement
This
Privacy Statement was produced and posted
on santafehotels.com
on October 27, 2004. santafehotels.com
reserves the right to modify or amend this
Privacy Statement at any time and for any
reason. If there are material changes to this
statement or in how santafehotels.com
will use your PII, santafehotels.com
will prominently post such changes prior to
implementing the change.
Regardless of
later updates, we will abide by the information
privacy practices described in this Privacy
Statement at the time you provided us with
your information.
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