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Q8 Hotels is committed to
respecting your privacy. We have designed our websites and booking engines
so that you may visit them without identifying yourself or revealing any
personal information, unless you opt to do so. Once you opt to provide
personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be
identified), it will only be used to support your customer relationship with
us and for our own internal purposes, including marketing and research,
customization of our websites and improving the content of our websites.
This Online Privacy Statement regarding the privacy of the information you
provide online covers the following main areas: Awareness, What we Collect,
Information Sharing, Choice, Access & Accuracy, Security, and Oversight.
Awareness
Q8 Hotels provides this Online
Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy policy and the practices
and choices you can make about the way your information is collected and
used. This notice may be accessed from any area of
Q8 Hotels' websites and our online
booking engines.
What we collect
When making a reservation:
When you make a reservation online or by phone through our customer support
center, you will be asked for your name, address, phone number, e-mail
address and credit card information. This information is used to contact you
for customer service, to guaranty your reservation with our travel suppliers
and/or to bill you for your travel purchase. During the booking process you
can choose not to receive our newsletter or travel reminders by un-checking
the appropriate boxes on the online form.
Third-party vendors:
Some of Q8 Hotels' online
booking engines are powered by third-party vendors. Our goal is to work only
with reputable and reliable vendors. You should note that these vendors may
have privacy policies and practices that may differ from those of
Q8 Hotels. Nevertheless, we strongly
encourage you to read the privacy policies of these vendors when using their
websites.
E-Postcards:
Q8 Hotels provides electronic
postcards cards via our websites and our affiliate websites for you to send
to a friend. We store the e-mail address of all recipients, the message you
want to send and the URL for locating the greeting card. We do not sell,
distribute, or license in anyway the use of recipient e-mail addresses. We
use them solely for the purposes of notifying recipients on your behalf that
a card is waiting for them at the designated URL. After 30 days, all
information pertaining to your postcard is deleted.
About Cookies
Many websites, including those owned by Q8
Hotels, use cookie technology to help users navigate
efficiently. The cookie is a small text file that resides on your hard
drive. From time to time, our site (s) will request the cookie from your
browser so that we can retrieve the stored information. This prevents you
from making the same selections over and over again.
Q8 Hotels does not use cookies to store
personal information, such as credit-card numbers.
An example of how cookies are used is as follows: When you conduct a search
using our hotel-booking engine for hotels in Orlando, a cookie will be set
recording the city of Orlando as the parameter of your search. When you
return to the search form to narrow or change your search, Orlando will
automatically be entered into the city field in the search form.
Please note that with most browsers, a user can set the preferences to show
a warning each time a cookie request is received. You can also usually set
the browser not to accept cookies at all. However, to make your experience
using our hotel-booking engine as convenient as possible, we suggest that
you allow your browser to accept cookies.
Information Sharing
Q8 Hotels will not sell, rent, or
lease your personally identifiable information to third parties. Unless we
have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal
data you provide online with other third-party vendors that are acting on
our behalf to complete the activities described above. We will cooperate
with law enforcement authorities.
Choice
Q8 Hotels will not use or share
the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways
unrelated to the purposes described above without letting you know and
offering you a choice. Please be aware that our website and those of our
affiliates may contain links to other websites, and that the privacy
practices of these other websites may differ from those of Q8 Hotels. This
Online Privacy Statement does not apply to other websites. We encourage you
to read the Privacy Policies of all other websites you visit.
Access & Accuracy
Q8 Hotels strives to keep your
personally identifiable information accurate. We make every effort to
provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may
update or correct your information on the hotel-booking engine where it was
submitted. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or
enabling you to make corrections to your user account.
Security
Q8 Hotels is committed to
protecting the security of your information. 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. We use
encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit
card information.
Oversight
If you have comments or questions about our privacy policy, e-mail:
info@q8hotels.com
Your use of our website is subject to our User Agreement.
Right to Change
Q8 Hotels reserves the right to
change this policy at any time by notifying users of the existence and
location of the new or revised Privacy Policy. The foregoing Privacy Policy
was last updated on 02/12/2006.
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