Your
Information is Protected
Heathrowairporthotelbookings.co.uk is an affliate of World Choice Travel. WCT,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Travel Services International, the operator of USAHotelGuide.com.
We value your patronage and respects your right to privacy. Because we are committed
to protecting your privacy, we employ the highest levels of security to keep your
personal information strictly confidential. We
promise to respect your privacy Heathrowairporthotelbookings.co.uk
takes your privacy concerns seriously and will not share your personal information
without your consent. What information is collected
and why: - 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, email address and credit card information. This information is shared
with the hotel that you have chosen. We will only share information with the hotel
that is necessary to process your reservation. Your credit card information will
be used by the hotel to guarantee your reservation. Also, during the booking process
you can choose not to receive our newsletter or travel reminders by unchecking
the appropriate boxes on the form. If you choose to receive our newsletter you
may also receive newsletters from our sister companies for cruise, air and resort
specials. - E-Postcards
USAhotelguide.com provides electronic postcards cards for you to send to
a friend. We store the email 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 email addresses. We use them solely for
the purposes of notifying recipients on your behalf that a USAhotelguide card
is waiting for them at the designated URL. After 30 days, all information pertaining
to your postcard is deleted. Please
be aware that our site contains links to other sites and that the privacy practices
of other sites may differ from those of World Choice Travel and heathrowairporthotelbookings.co.uk.
Correspondence with you
If you have made a reservation we will periodically send correspondence to your
email address including reservation confirmations, updates about your reservations,
newsletters, and special offers. Also, when making a reservation, you will be
given the opportunity to not receive the newsletter. About
Cookies Many
Web sites, including Heathrowairporthotelbookings, 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 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. Heathrowairporthotelbookings never uses
cookies to store personal information, such as credit-card numbers, nor can the
information we store in the cookie ever be read by any Web site other than ours.
An example of how cookies are used: When you conduct a search 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 USAHotelGuide.com as convenient
as possible, we suggest that you allow your browser to accept cookies. If you
choose to set your browser to not accept cookies, you will not be able to access
any user account you have created or take advantage of some of our shopping features.
However, the use of cookies is not required to make a reservation. Confidentiality
World Choice Travel or Heathrowairporthotelbookings.co.uk will not disclose
or sell any of your personal information, including your name, address, shopping,
or transaction history to any third party without your permission. Shopping
at Heathrowairporthotelbookings.co.uk
is safe and secure We employ security measures such as Secure
Socket Layer technology (SSL) to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of your
personal information. SSL, which is utilized by most popular browsers, including
Netscape and Microsoft Explorer, provides the advanced encryption tools necessary
to protect information transmitted between your computer and our server. Encryption
simply means that your information is converted into code before it is dispatched
over the Internet. Our secure server encrypts all personal information, including
your name, address, and credit card information, so that it cannot be read as
it is transmitted over the Internet when you make a reservation. When
making a reservation online, we also employ Virtual Private Network technology
(VPN) to encrypt your personal information when sharing it with the hotel.
In addition, only authorized World Choice Travel employees are permitted
to have access to your information and that access is limited by need. All World
Choice Travel employees must abide by our Privacy policy. Changes
to our Privacy Policy We will inform you that our privacy
policy has changed by prominently displaying a note to this effect on our Web
site home page. How to
contact us If you have additional questions or concerns
regarding the World Choice Travel Guarantee, please email us at privacy@wctravel.com.
We read every customer email and will respond as soon as possible. |