Privacy Policy
The SaveTravelUSA.com Online
Privacy Policy (Last updated MAY 2008)
The SaveTravelUSA.Com
has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects
and manages the personal information that it collects from you
(the customer) online.
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Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
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Your use of the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site and/or your
registration for SAVETRAVELUSA.COM products and
services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy
Policy.
If you do
not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use
the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site.
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM may occasionally update this
Privacy Policy. When it does, SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this
Privacy Policy. In addition, SAVETRAVELUSA.COM will
seek a customer’s prior consent, by email, for any new uses or
proposed disclosures of information collected from the customer
prior to the change. SAVETRAVELUSA.COM will
notify customers by email of changes to this policy that
will affect information collected from them in the future.
In
certain circumstances, however, SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
will not inform and obtain the consent of the customer, such as
in connection with an investigation of a breach of an agreement,
contravention of laws, an emergency where the life, health or
security of an individual is threatened, the collection of a
debt or in compliance with the request of a law enforcement
agency or a court order.
A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use
and disclosure at any time by sending an email to
unsubscribe@SAVETRAVELUSA.COM Please note that, if
you do, SAVETRAVELUSA.COM may suspend its provision
of products and services to you.
When you
unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any SAVETRAVELUSA.COM product and you request a refund,
the guarantee will be honored.
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM collects, at the time of your
registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal
information” (information that personally identifies you)
including but not limited to your name, email address, home or
work address, telephone number, and information about your
computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address,
operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times,
and referring web site addresses).
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM has implemented this Privacy
Policy to protect personal information received from its
customers, and to respond to any inquiries.
The Privacy Policy also provides that SAVETRAVELUSA.COM will use appropriate contractual
means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal
information which is sent for processing by third parties on SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s behalf.
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Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
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SAVETRAVELUSA.COM collects and uses personal
information for the following Identified Purposes:
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(a)
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to understand customer needs regarding SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s services;
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(b)
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to develop and provide our web site and our products and
services for our customers;
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(c) to
fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
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(d)
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to communicate with customers and site visitors, when
necessary, and to inform customers of upgrades, as well
as of other products and services available from SAVETRAVELUSA.COM, its affiliates and third
parties;
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(e)
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to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s site;
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(f)
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to personalize some of our services and products for you
and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from SAVETRAVELUSA.COM and third parties;
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(g)
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to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
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(h)
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to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or government request;
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(i)
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to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our
reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of
any third party or any of the agreements or policies
that govern your use of the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site or any SAVETRAVELUSA.COM product or service;
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(j)
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to protect the services, products or rights of SAVETRAVELUSA.COM, including but not limited
to the security or integrity of the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site; and
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(k)
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to identify and resolve technical problems concerning SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s site, products and
services.
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SAVETRAVELUSA.COM also uses personal information in
an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to
you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other
promotional purposes.
If we hire other companies to provide some products or services
on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the
personal information they need for the Identified Purposes, and
we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your
personal information as appropriate in the course of their work
for us.
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Limiting the Collection of Personal Information
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SAVETRAVELUSA.COM limits its collection of personal
information to only that information which is necessary for the
Identified Purposes. SAVETRAVELUSA.COM does not
direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal
information from children under the age of thirteen.
When you visit the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM web site, a cookie may be placed
on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site previously. SAVETRAVELUSA.COM uses cookies
to allow SAVETRAVELUSA.COM to determine which products and services you
have already purchased so that SAVETRAVELUSA.COM does not provide
redundant information to you, and, if you are an SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
affiliate, to track SAVETRAVELUSA.COM sales made to customers referred
by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate
program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies
from the SAVETRAVELUSA.COM web site, you may not be able to view all
the text on the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to
subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM site.
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Disclosure, Processing and Retention
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SAVETRAVELUSA.COM does not sell, rent or disclose
your personal information to anyone else, except:
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(a)
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to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for
one or more of the Identified Purposes (listed in
Section 2, above);
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(b)
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to SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s employees,
independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates,
consultants, business associates, service providers,
suppliers and agents, acting on SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s behalf for any of the
Identified Purposes;
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(c)
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as necessary if SAVETRAVELUSA.COM has reason
to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference (either intentionally
or unintentionally) with SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s
rights or property, other users of SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s web site, products or
services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such
activities; and
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(d)
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to respond to judicial process and provide information
to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an
investigation on matters related to public safety, as
permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.
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In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our
affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we
may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal
information may be one of the transferred business assets.
Also, in the event that SAVETRAVELUSA.COM or
substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal
information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in the Singapore,
or in any other country in which SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities.
By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of
information outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to
be removed from our database), SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
will keep your personal information in its archives. Your
information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons
or to prove SAVETRAVELUSA.COM’s compliance with any
applicable law.
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Accuracy of Personal Information
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SAVETRAVELUSA.COM will use reasonable efforts to
keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified
Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making
inappropriate customer decisions based on such information.
Customers are responsible for informing SAVETRAVELUSA.COM about changes to their personal
information. You can do this by emailing to us at
info@SAVETRAVELUSA.COM SAVETRAVELUSA.COM
will use new or updated personal information it receives from
customers to update its own records.
SAVETRAVELUSA.COM will use reasonable efforts to
protect customers’ personal information.
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Access to Personal Information
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Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or
incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by contacting SAVETRAVELUSA.COM at
info@SAVETRAVELUSA.COM.
