Global Hotel Showcase has created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practice for the Global Hotel Showcase web site. Using the Internet should be a fun experience and we want to help you make it so.
When you reserve or purchase travel services or other products through Global Hotel Showcase, we will ask you to provide us with personal information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, credit card information and other personal identifying information. We need this information in order to process your order or travel arrangements and need to share this personal information with the relevant airline, car rental agency, hotel, travel agency and/or other involved third party.
As a user of Global Hotel Showcase, you have the option to engage in certain additional activities on the site, such as entering contests or sweepstakes, and receiving our e-mail alerts. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you elect to engage in these activities, however, Global Hotel Showcase may require you to provide us with personal information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other personal identifying information. Global Hotel Showcase needs to collect this personal information for various reasons, which may include: (i) notifying sweepstakes or contest winners, (ii) fulfilling prizes; (ii) disseminating our e-mail; (iii) aggregating statistical information; and (iv) tracking and verifying compliance with Global Hotel Showcase policies and international, federal, state and local laws.
Global Hotel Showcase recognizes and respects the importance of responsible use of your personal information. If you do not want the information you provide to Global Hotel Showcase to be used to inform you of other products and special offers from Global Hotel Showcase, and you indicate this preference when you provide the information, Global Hotel Showcase will honor your preference. In case you change your mind or some personal information may change (such as your zip code), we provide a way to correct, update or remove the personal data you give us. You can do this at the member information page or by contacting our Customer Support organization.
To keep you in control of your personal information and the communications directed to you, we allow you to opt-out of receiving certain communications from Global Hotel Showcase about new features or services. If a guest objects to such use for any reason, you may stop that use, either by e-mail request to Customer Support or by modifying your member information online.
Information provided when reserving or purchasing travel services through Global Hotel Showcase, may be used for marketing and promotional purposes and is subject to the opt-out processes described on, or linked to, each order form.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
We, or a data provider we have engaged, may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads, content or services. No personally identifiable information is placed into these cookies. The cookies may reflect de-identified demographic or other data linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, e.g., your email address, in hashed, non-human readable form. To opt-out of these cookies or learn more please go to http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Additionally, emails we send may contain a bit of code known as a "web beacon." This code allows us to understand the time and date of when a user has opened an email and when he/she has utilized a link within the email to visit a website. Our web beacons do not collect personally identifiable information. Users wishing to disable our web beacons should do so by turning images "off" in their email client (e.g., Outlook, Outlook Express). Please see your email client for more information."
Each time a visitor comes to our Web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. This includes the visitor's IP address, referral data (e.g., the the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the Global Hotel Showcase Web site), and browser information. We collect visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate all visitors' activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the Global Hotel Showcase properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but Global Hotel Showcase will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When Global Hotel Showcase does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one is able to identify you or contact you.
An IP address is a number that's associated with your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers use your IP address to communicate with your computer.
Global Hotel Showcase collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate, or combined, information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When users request pages from the Global Hotel Showcase Web site, our servers log the user's IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.
Global Hotel Showcase will use your e-mail address to send correspondence about reservation confirmations, purchases, important updates about your travel plans, and newsletters. Members who sign up to receive newsletters and notifications of deals and travel specials, will receive a reguarly scheduled newsletter, as well as occasional product-related announcements.
Users can choose to unsubscribe from Global Hotel Showcase newsletters or product-related announcements at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions found in each e-mail or by contacting our Customer Support organization.
Global Hotel Showcase offers contests and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal information. At a minimum, the required information includes name and e-mail address; in some cases, the user must answer survey questions about a range of other personal data. The information gathered in the entry form is used to verify the entrant's identity and to contact winners and/or prize recipients. Participation in these contests and sweepstakes is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. There are two situations in which Global Hotel Showcase will divulge this information to a third party provided the user gives express consent: (1) A user may expressly choose to receive additional information from the contest sponsor, in which case the user's personally identifiable information is divulged to the advertiser; (2) Some of the contests may be hosted on the Global Hotel Showcase site but administered by the sponsor; in such cases, the information a user provides is passed on to the third party as long as that user gives express consent. Because the rules and terms of each contest and sweepstakes can vary, all information about each contest and sweepstakes is clearly posted during the event.
Occasionally Global Hotel Showcase conducts user surveys to better target our content to our audience. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any personally identifiable information with such third parties.
Users should be aware that when you are on the Global Hotel Showcase website, could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Global Hotel Showcase pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement or a Global Hotel Showcase more information link, the click takes you off the Global Hotel Showcase site. This includes, but is not limited to, links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use Global Hotel Showcase logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.
This privacy policy does not extend to such third parties' use of such information, anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore beyond the control of Global Hotel Showcase, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
Global Hotel Showcase has taken strong measures to protect the security of your personal information and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honored. We take strong precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Global Hotel Showcase can not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. SSL is a coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble data before you send it to us.
Unfortunately, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Therefore, although we will endeavor to protect your privacy as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will remain private.
Your Global Hotel Showcase account is password protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to the account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Global Hotel Showcase will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or e-mail. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.
By using this site, you signify your assent to the Global Hotel Showcase Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of the Global Hotel Showcase Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting to the Global Hotel Showcase Web site.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact Customer Support via email or write to:
Global Hotel Showcase
c/o SkyAuction.com
Attn: Internet Development
241 North Ave. West Suite 202
Westfield, NJ 07090
Last Updated June 23, 2017