Your Consent
By using or visiting this Website, you consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, do not use the Website. Global Hotel Discount reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. If Global Hotel Discount makes significant changes to this policy, it will post them on this page so that you may remain aware of the information Global Hotel Discount collects and how it uses such information. Changes are effective when posted to this page. Your continued use of the Website after any change is posted is an acceptance by you of such change.
Definitions
" Customer-Identifiable Information" is information that can be used to identify you such as your name, birth date, e-mail address, mailing address, or telephone number.
"Anonymous Information" is information that pertains to the manner in which you are using the Website but does not identify you. This includes information such as places visited, search queries performed, the domain names and IP addresses of browsers that visit the Website, the times of day the Website is visited, and so forth.
Registration
You can visit the Website to obtain a great deal of information about Global Hotel Discount as well as other assistance without identifying yourself. In some instances, however, Global Hotel Discount or its partners may require that you register and enter into additional agreements in order to obtain some types of goods or services. In these cases, you will be required to provide Customer-Identifiable Information. In some cases you will also be required to furnish such information in order to obtain a user identification, password or similar form of authorization.
Sharing Customer-Identifiable Information with Third Parties
Global Hotel Discount will not share your Customer-Identifiable Information, however, unless Global Hotel Discount has first given you notice that it might do so and you have authorized Global Hotel Discount to do so. Global Hotel Discount partners who receive information from Global Hotel Discount have the right to use the data provided to them (as well as other information they may have independently gathered about you), but will be required to agree not to share this information with other companies or people unless you have consented.
PLEASE NOTE: In certain special cases, Global Hotel Discount may disclose your Customer-Identifiable Information when it has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering with Global Hotel Discount rights, property, operations, other Global Hotel Discount users, or anyone else. Global Hotel Discount may also disclose your Customer-Identifiable Information when Global Hotel Discount believes the law requires it, or in response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation.
Sharing Anonymous Information with Third Parties
When you use the Website, Global Hotel Discount collects anonymous information, even if you have not registered with Global Hotel Discount. Global Hotel Discount will not share any anonymous information about your use of the Website with third parties if Global Hotel Discount knows that this anonymous information will be linked by third parties with Customer-Identifiable Information of yours obtained from another source, unless Global Hotel Discount has given you notice as described above, and you have given Global Hotel Discount authorization to disclose the information.
Cookies
Global Hotel Discount may employ the use of cookies. A "cookie" is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are harmless bits of code that an Internet site assigns to your browser to keep track of who you are when you visit or make purchases. There is no risk of the information on your hard drive being exposed to the outside world since a website can only read the cookies it creates.
You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at the Website and other Websites may be diminished, and some features will not work as intended.
Use of IP Addresses
An Internet Protocol ("IP") address is a set of numbers that is assigned to your computer. Web servers - the powerful computers that provide web pages for viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.
Global Hotel Discount may collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to report anonymous user information to our advertisers (as explained above), and to audit the use of its site. Global Hotel Discount can and will use IP addresses to identify users of the Website when it deems it necessary to enforce compliance with the Website's terms of use or service, or to protect Global Hotel Discount services, the Website, or other users. Global Hotel Discount will not share or sell linked user behavior and personal user information unless you have given Global Hotel Discount authorization to do so.
PLEASE NOTE: Under certain circumstances, IP addresses and/or domain names may be linked to Customer-Identifiable Information (e.g., when said information is stored in databases managed by Internet registrars or registries).
Security
Global Hotel Discount has implemented security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of your user data under its control. Only authorized employees and agents have access to the information you provide. Global Hotel Discount imposes strict rules on all authorized persons who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host its services. However, Global Hotel Discount cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or alteration of data will not occur; Global Hotel Discount will make every effort to prevent such occurrences.
You alone are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and account information. Please be careful when you are online. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from others. While Global Hotel Discount strives to protect your Customer-Identifiable Information, it cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to it, and you do so at your own risk.
