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EzCruiseConnection.com Privacy Policy
We at EzCruiseConnection.com ("we" or "EzCruiseConnection.com")
have created this privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to
protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle
it. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in
which you engage, and data gathered, on the EzCruiseConnection.com Website
but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of contact between
EzCruiseConnection.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review
this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time.
This privacy policy was last revised on April 12, 2007. Each time you
visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting
the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce Websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically
collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order
to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with
our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your purchases
and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site.
We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to
save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial
information so you do not have to reenter it each time you visit the Site.
Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on
your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if
you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access
certain areas on the Site.
Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about
products or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you
directly (without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone
number or email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit
card numbers or passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e.
information that you submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal
information nor financial information; this may include, but is not limited
to, zip code, hometown, gender, username, age/birth date, and purchase
history information), subject to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic
information is divided into two categories: 1) "non-public information",
which consists of purchase history information; and 2) "public information",
which consists of all other demographic information.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties.
Some of these other Websites contain our brand names and trademarks and
other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click
on these links and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether or
not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property,
you need to be aware that we do not control these other Websites or these
other Websites' business practices, and that this privacy policy does
not apply to these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of these
other Websites may collect different kinds of information about you, and
may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would
if it were collected on the Site. We encourage you to review their privacy
policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help
us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited
to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship
with EzCruiseConnection.com). These types of communications are known as
"Operational Communications." In some cases, Operational Communications
may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials for EzCruiseConnection.com's or
third parties' goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are
of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event
information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive
communications from EzCruiseConnection.com (other than those contained
in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for
a certain category of communications; others may be more general.
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting
your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with
our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they
can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card
transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer
relationship management services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and
promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information
for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or
services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing
to receive communications (such as emails or newsletter subscriptions)
or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs
(such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third
parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information
to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information
in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact
those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences
for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree
that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such
third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose
any other information you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another
company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks
on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages"
and these companies are known as "Co-Branded Companies." If
the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was
accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share
your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded
Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own
privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct
them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal
information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose
all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Companies in the
same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information
you submit to us. Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an action tag (also
known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that a third party, such
as the advertising company Avenue A, may use to read cookies that it,
or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other (non-EzCruiseConnection.com)
web sites before your visit to EzCruiseConnection.com. This technology
is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other Websites
that promote Co-Branded Pages.
Further, any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal
information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance
with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance
with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you
agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or
omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by
you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information
by them.
Please read the information below under the heading "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn more
ways in which we may share your personal information.
How We Use Financial Information
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill
you for products and services and to enable you to participate in discount,
rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By
making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction
that uses financial information, on the Site, you consent to our providing
your financial information to our service providers and to such third
parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities
and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes.
These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking
institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or
services of third parties offered on the Site, or by participating in
programs offered on the Site that are administered by third parties and
that require you to submit financial information in order to use them,
you also consent to our providing your financial information to those
third parties. Additionally, if the page on which you submit information
is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded
Page, then we may share your financial information with the associated
Co-Branded Company. Any of these various third parties (including Co-Branded
Companies) may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance
with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance
with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you
agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or
omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such
information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which
we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit
to us. Please read the information below under the heading "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information" to learn
more ways in which we may share your financial information.
Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information
Your personal information or financial information may be passed on to
a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, or a
bankruptcy. We may also disclose personal information or financial information
when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable
law, to cooperate with law enforcement or to protect the interests or
safety of EzCruiseConnection.com or other visitors to the Site. We also
may disclose your personal information or financial information to our
subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal
entities and businesses with who we are under common corporate control.
Whenever personal information or financial information is disclosed under
this paragraph, we may also disclose your demographic information along
with it, on a non-anonymous basis. All of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated
legal entities and businesses that receive your personal information,
financial information, or non-anonymous demographic information from us
will comply with the terms of this privacy policy with respect to their
use and disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use demographic information
to tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share
demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated
basis (i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the
reasons we may do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers'
goods and services will appeal to EzCruiseConnection.com's users, so that
we may target specific ads at specific demographic groups. Our sharing
of demographic information with advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do
not tell advertisers which particular EzCruiseConnection.com users are
members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this privacy
policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to remember
that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide
to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser
may be able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group.
Please also be aware that when we disclose your financial information
or personal information to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we
may also disclose to that Co-Branded Company your demographic information,
other than the content of one-on-one communications between you and other
members. Please also be aware that we may disclose your demographic information
on a non-anonymous basis as described above in the paragraph titled "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information." Also,
to read further details about how we may use your public information,
see our Terms and Conditions.
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure
server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software
available today for secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your
personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet and
we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted form.
Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks
which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction
in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws
as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information
If at any point we decide to use particular personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we
will notify users by way of an email or by providing 30 days notice on
the Site. Please note that we will continue to have the right to change
our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable
information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this
Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information
gathered on or after the date of the change.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the
practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact
us at support@EzCruiseConnection.com.
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