THE SUMMARY
Triptactics.com is in
the travel business, not the spying
business. We will not ask you for
information that does not have a purpose and
we will not require information to be
disclosed that is not absolutely necessary.
We will not sell your personally
identifiable information to others, however,
if you accessed this website through a
Triptactics.com Affiliate, your personally
identifiable information (other than your
credit card information) may be forwarded to
that
Affiliate.
Whether you travel the Web or travel the
world, Triptactics.com wants you to always
be safe!
THE DETAILS
Your privacy is
important to us. To better protect your
privacy we provide this notice explaining
our online information practices and the
choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used. This
notice shall apply to all information
Triptactics.com collects or is submitted by
the user on the Triptactics.com website. 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.
Use of Customer Information
Triptactics.com is the
sole owner of the information collected on
this site. We will not sell or rent this
information to others in ways that differ
from what is disclosed in this statement.
General Information -
What We Collect and
Why
-
Triptactics.com may include information
about your visit in collective or
aggregated data that does not identify
you specifically. For example, we may
tell our advertisers or investors the
number of website visitors or the most
popular vacation destinations.
- Our server
recognizes domain names and the pages
visited. This data is gathered in an
aggregate manner for quality control and
improvement of our website.
-
Triptactics.com does not market to
children nor collect personal
information about children at this
website.
Individual Information
- What We Collect and Why
- Your name,
email address, physical address, phone
and fax number, and credit card number,
expiration date and billing address are
necessary to ensure we are able to make
and confirm your reservation. We do not
share this personal information with
outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete your reservation
or product order.
- Your contact
information is needed in order to notify
you in the event of any processing
difficulties or unforeseen circumstances
fulfilling your reservation or product
order. In some cases, paper tickets may
need to be mailed to you. The more
easily we can contact you, the better we
can serve you.
-
Triptactics.com will use the information
you provide about yourself in order to
make the Triptactics.com website as
customer friendly as possible. We want
to know you to better serve you, but do
not want to invade your life. We may ask
you for more information about your
travel interests. In the future this
information may be used to help
Triptactics.com make more appropriate
travel recommendations. However, this
information will always be optional.
Newsletter
-
What We Collect and Why
- Your email
address ensures you receive the
newsletter in a timely manner.
- Your name is
optional and tells us who personally to
address - just a nice touch.
- Although we do
not want you to miss any great travel
deals, you can unsubscribe to any
Triptactics.com newsletter at anytime,
by sending an email to
info@Triptactics.com.
Please tell us the newsletter title and
the email address you want removed.
Surveys
- What
We Collect and Why
- From time to
time Triptactics.com conducts voluntary
customer surveys, which may ask
questions about broad background
information and customer preferences.
This survey information is completely
optional and you are under no obligation
to be a part of any survey. The
information Triptactics.com collects is
used to better serve our customers by
helping Triptactics.com determine our
customer's travel needs and improve the
satisfaction and use of this website.
- Participation
in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and you therefore
have a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. Information requested
may include demographic information
including, but not limited to: age,
gender, approximate household income,
how you travel, how you make your
reservations, and why you travel.
- Your contact
information may be required if a prize
is to be awarded to survey respondents
either at random or individually. This
will enable us to contact you to notify
you of details regarding your prize.
COOKIES
Cookies are small
pieces of information stored on your
computer tied to information about you. We
use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. For the session ID cookie, once you
close the browser, the cookie simply
terminates. A persistent cookie is a small
text file stored on your hard drive for an
extended period of time. Persistent cookies
can be removed by following the Web browser
help file directions.
We use cookies to
track usage of the Guest path and to serve
advertisements through our advertising
networks. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can
edit your browser options to block them in
the future. If you reject the cookie, you
may still use our website. The only drawback
to this is that you will be limited in some
areas of our website. Persistent cookies
enable us to track and target the interests
of our users to enhance the experience on
our website.
Usage of a cookie
is in no way linked to any personally
identifiable information while on our site.
Advertising
A cookie file may also
be placed on your hard drive by our
third-party advertising companies. These
companies may use aggregated statistics
about your visits to this and other websites
in order to provide advertisements about
travel-related goods and services that you
may be interested in. The information they
collect does not include your personally
identifiable information. The third-party
advertising companies may also employ
technology that is used to measure the
effectiveness of ads. This is primarily
accomplished through the use of a Web beacon
(a single-pixel GIF), which is placed on our
site to collect anonymous information. They
may use this anonymous information about
your visits to this and other sites in order
to provide advertisements about goods and
services of potential interest to you. No
personally identifiable information is
collected during this process. The
information is anonymous and does not link
online actions to an identifiable person. If
you would like more information and want to
explore the option of not having this
information collected by third-party
advertisers,
click here.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to
analyze trends, administer the website,
track users' movements, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Affiliates
An Affiliate is a
website not owned or operated by
Triptactics.com, but uses Triptactics.com's
booking capabilities for processing travel
reservations. The Triptactics.com name may
or may not appear on the Affiliate website.
You may have
accessed Triptactics.com via one of our
Affiliate websites. Some of our Affiliates
also use cookies on our site. However, we
have no access to or control over these
cookies, once we have given permission for
them to set cookies. Please be aware that
Triptactics.com is in no way responsible for
the privacy practices of such other
websites. We encourage you to read the
privacy statement of the Affiliate and each
and every website you visit that collects
personally identifiable information. This
Privacy Statement covers the use of cookies
by this website only and does not cover the
use of cookies by any of our Affiliates,
advertisers or other business partners.
SHARING
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user
privacy, we may be required by law to
disclose information you have provided in
obtaining our travel products or services.
We may also disclose information against
someone who poses a threat to our interests
(such as customer fraud) or whose activities
could bring harm to others. In addition, it
may be necessary for us to provide customer
information to third parties, such as credit
card companies, for the purpose of resolving
disputes that arise in the normal course of
business.
Third Party
Intermediaries
Triptactics.com uses an outside a credit
card processing company and bank check
processing company to bill users for goods
and services. These companies do not retain,
share, store or use personally identifiable
information for any secondary purposes.
This website makes
use of a technology designed to enhance your
browsing experience. The technology,
provided as a hosted service application by
Fireclick ®, makes use of a small and
transparent Java applet to provide you with
a faster browsing experience. In addition,
aggregate reporting information is collected
and made available to the website owner
only. No personal or personally identifiable
information is gathered or used for this
process.
If for any reason you
do not wish to have this technology enabled
while browsing this site, please
click here.
A cookie will be set on your browser that
instructs the service not to start. If you
have disabled the service and wish to
reactivate it, please
click here.
Additional information on Fireclick's
technology may be found at
www.fireclick.com.
Suppliers
Triptactics.com provides information about
travel either reserved or purchased on this
website to the suppliers whose will fulfill
your travel reservation. Although we offers
travel products from hotel, airline, car
rental and other suppliers that are
reputable companies, we have not placed
limitations on these suppliers from using or
disclosing your information without your
permission. Therefore, we encourage you to
review the information privacy practices of
any travel suppliers whose products you
purchase on this website. In addition, these
travel suppliers may also contact you as
necessary to obtain additional information
about your confirmed reservation.
Triptactics.com will
occasionally share aggregated information
with our service providers. This information
does not contain any personally identifiable
information and is used to develop featured
programs and content that will be of
interest to our website visitors.
Triptactics.com may
contract with a reputable third-party to
facilitate the distribution of survey,
promotion, or sweepstakes programs. Upon
completion of these projects, all
information is returned to us.
Affiliates
If you access our website through one of our
Affiliates and make travel reservations,
your personally identifiable information
(other than credit card information) may be
forwarded to that particular Affiliate.
Aggregate
Information (non-personally identifiable
information)
Triptactics.com will share aggregated
demographic information with our Affiliates
and advertisers.
Links
This site may contain links to other sites.
Please be aware that Triptactics.com is in
no way responsible for the privacy practices
of such other sites. We encourage our
customers to be aware when they leave our
site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every website that collects
personally identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to
information collected by the Triptactics.com
website.
NOTIFICATION OF
CHANGES
If Triptactics.com decides to change its
Privacy Statement, we will post those
changes to this Privacy Statement so
you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at
any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner
different from that stated at the time it
was collected, we will notify you by way of
email. You will have a choice as to whether
or not we use your information in this
different manner.
CORRECTING/UPDATING
PERSONAL INFORMATION
If a user's personally identifiable
information (such as zip code, phone, email
or postal address) changes or if a user no
longer desires our service, we provide a way
to correct or update a user's personally
identifiable information. Users can all
email our Customer Support at
Customer Care
or by contact us by telephone or postal mail
at the contact information listed below.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If users have any questions or suggestions
regarding our Privacy Statement, please
contact us at: info@triptactics.com
Email
Customer Care
This Privacy
Statement is effective as of July 22, 2004
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