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Introduction
Policy effective April 1, 1999 and
revised June 1, 1999.
Reviewed
and approved on June 30, 2004.
Your privacy is important to us.
Ski Marketing Corporation, doing
business as SkiEurope, is firmly committed to maintaining your
confidence and trust. Accordingly, we have created this privacy
policy in order to protect personal information that you provide
us online.
The policy explains our online information
practices and the choices you can make about the way your information
is collected and used.
To make this notice easy to find,
we make it available on our homepage and at every point where
personally identifiable information may be requested.
Summary
Details of our information collection
are explained below. The following is a summary.
- We respect your information
as personal and confidential.
- We only collect information
that you choose to give us.
- Your information is used solely
for the purposes for which you have provided it.
- We store your information offline
and take precautions to prevent improper access to it.
- We never release your personal
information to any other organization (except as a necessary
part of the reservation and confirmation process, we must
share some of your personal information with our suppliers,
such as airlines and hotels).
- You may choose to discontinue
receiving communications from us at any time.
- You may examine and change
your information at any time.
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Contents
Introduction
Summary
The Information We Collect
Information About Travel Companions (Third Parties)
How We Use Information That You Provide
Our Commitment to Data Security
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy
How Your Information Is Handled
IP Address
Registration Form
Brochure and Information Request Forms
Proposal and Reservation Request Forms
Information Shared with Suppliers
Online Surveys
Cookies
Public Forums
How You Can Opt-Out of Receiving Information
How You Can Examine/Change/Modify Your
Information
How You Can Contact the Web Site
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The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information
collected or submitted on the www.ski-europe.com
website.
On various pages, you can register
to receive the SkiEurope Report; send your questions to be answered;
ask for additional information, brochures or materials; request
a travel proposal; and make a travel reservation.
The types of personal information
collected at these pages are:
- Name
Address
Email address
Phone number
Credit/Debit Card Information
Specification of Travel Requirements
Credit/Debit Card Information
This information is only requested
when you ask that we confirm a reservation on your behalf.
Specification of Travel Requirements
This information is only requested
when you ask that we prepare a travel proposal or confirm a reservation
on your behalf. It includes such information as: travel departure
point and destination; travel dates, times, and routes; names,
ages, and contact information of other travelers in your party,
passport number; aircraft seating and hotel rooming arrangements;
special service requests; etc.
Information About Travel Companions
(Third Parties)
When you submit a Proposal Request
or a Reservation Request for your travel companions, you are acknowledging
that you acting as their authorized agent and have their permission
to submit their personal information to us on their behalf.
Our Privacy Policy applies to their information in the same manner
as if they had submitted it to us themselves.
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How We Use Information That You
Provide
Visitors who choose not to submit
information to our site will not receive any communications from
us.
We only collect information that
is needed to respond to your requests and that you choose to give
us.
Your information is used solely for
the purposes for which you have provided it.
Any
information that you confide to us is never sold, loaned, or shared
with any outside company
(except a necessary part of the reservation and confirmation process,
we must share some of your personal information with our suppliers,
such as airlines and hotels).
We use non-identifying and aggregate
information to better design our website and to share with advertisers.
We do not disclose anything that could be used to identify you
as an individual.
You may examine and correct your
personal information, and opt-out of receiving future communications.
(See the choice/opt-out section below.)
This site contains links to other
sites. www.ski-europe.com
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of
such Web sites.
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How Your Information Is Handled
IP Address: Our internet server
is not set up to track, collect, or distribute personal information
about our visitors. It recognizes the visitor's home server and
IP address, but not your e-mail address. We use IP addresses to
help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our
Web site. IP addresses are used to compile statistics concerning
the number of visitors, page views, and requests for particular
files. These aggregated statistics are used to improve our site
and to provide better services to our visitors.
Registration Form: Our site's
Registration Form requests visitors to give us minimal contact
information (name and email address). Additional information,
such as postal address, phone number, and demographic information
is optional. We use information from the registration form to
send you from time to time: the SkiEurope Report, other related
information that we believe will be of interest to you, and information
about our company. No information is ever sent to you unless you
confirm to us that you wish to receive it. The contact information
is also used to contact you when necessary to address any questions
or problems with your request.
Brochure and Information Request
Forms: Our site uses Information Request and Brochure Request
forms for customers to request information, brochures, and other
materials. We collect visitor's contact information in order to
respond to information requests, and to fulfill brochure requests.
The customer's contact information is also used to contact you
when necessary to address any questions or problems with your
request.
Proposal and Reservation Request
Forms: Our site uses Proposal Request Forms for customers
to request travel arrangement proposals and Reservation Request
Forms for customers to request reservations. We collect visitor's
contact information and the visitor's travel requirements and
preferences in order to respond to these requests. We collect
financial information (like credit card numbers) in order to complete
the requested travel arrangements. Contact information from the
proposal and reservation request forms is used to send requested
travel arrangement proposals and confirmations to our customers.
Contact information may be shared with our suppliers as necessary
to reserve and confirm requested travel arrangements. Financial
information that is collected is used to bill the user for confirmed
travel arrangements. The customer's contact information is also
used to contact you when necessary to address any questions or
problems with your request.
Information Shared with Suppliers:
As a necessary part of the reservation and confirmation process,
we must share some of your personal information with our suppliers,
such as airlines and hotels. Without confiding this information,
the booking process is not possible. In our agreements with these
suppliers, we have endeavored to obtain their commitment to abide
by the conditions of our Privacy Policy. However, you should be
aware that we do not have any control over, nor responsibility
for, the uses that our suppliers may make of your personal information.
Online Surveys: Our Online
Survey Forms ask visitors for contact information (like their
email address) and demographic information (like their zip code,
age, or income level). We use this data to tailor our visitor's
experience at our site, showing them content that we think they
might be interested in, and displaying the content according to
their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers
only on an aggregate, and never on an individual, basis.
Cookies: We use cookies to
enable us to deliver content that is specific to your requirements
and interests when you request us to do so. We use cookies to
tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content
that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the
content according to their preferences. Our use of cookies is
never associated with any personal identifiers and will never
be used to collect information that could identify a visitor.
Public Forums: We provide
forums to enable our visitors to exchange information among themselves.
Information that you post to these areas becomes public information
and you should excise caution when disclosing any personal information.
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Our Commitment to Data Security
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.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very
young is especially important to us. For that reason, we never
collect or maintain information at our website from those we know
are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract
anyone under 13.
How You Can Opt-Out of Receiving
Information
Our site gives users the following
options for removing their information from our database to not
receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
- 1. You can send email to: travel@ski-europe.com
- 2. You can send postal mail to:
2636 Yorktown 321, Houston, Texas 77056, USA
- 3. You can call this telephone
number: 713-960-0900
In addition, every future communication
that you may receive from us will reiterate these options.
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How You Can Examine/Modify Your
Information
You can access your maintained personally
identifiable information by mailing a signed and written request
for access to:
- SkiEurope
2636 Yorktown 321, Houston, Texas 77056, USA
We require a signed and written request
to better safeguard the security of your information.
You can correct factual errors in
your maintained personally identifiable information by sending
us a request that credibly shows error.
To protect your privacy and security,
we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before
granting access or making corrections.
How You Can Contact Our Web Site
If you have any questions about this
privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings
with this Web site, you can contact
- Richard Davidson
SkiEurope
2636 Yorktown 321, Houston, Texas 77056, USA
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