WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels's Privacy Pledge

We understand that making purchases online involves a great deal of trust on your part; we take this trust very seriously, and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personally identifiable information ("PII") you provide us. (PII includes information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.)

Therefore, as a visitor to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels’s U.S. Web sites ("WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels"), you have the right to understand our information privacy practices prior to providing WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels with any of your PII.

What information we collect
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels only collects PII that you voluntarily provide to us.
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How we use your information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels uses your PII only for the purpose of responding to and fulfilling your requests for WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels travel products and services.
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Who we share your information with
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels will only share your PII with our authorized travel service providers, and only as necessary in order to complete a transaction that you specifically request. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels does not sell or rent your PII to anyone.
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How you can control the use of your information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels provides you with choice and control over the collection and use of your PII, as well as a means of updating, correcting, or removing any PII stored in your customer profile.
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How you can decide what marketing communications you'll receive
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels provides you with the opportunity to specifically choose the promotional marketing communications you wish to receive from WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. If you choose not to sign up for any of the promotional e-mail services that WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels provides, then WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels will only send you e-mail that relates to a specific travel purchase you have made on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels.
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How we protect your information
To ensure the confidentiality of your PII, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels uses leading security technology and procedures which are reviewed regularly by the independent accounting firm Deloitte & Touche.
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By providing you with this Privacy Statement, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels is pledging our continued commitment to protecting the information you provide us. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels has engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to regularly examine our information privacy practices to determine whether we are adhering to the disclosures about the collection, use, sharing, and protection of your PII made in this privacy statement.

Questions regarding this statement should be e-mailed to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels or sent via postal mail to
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels, attn: Privacy Officer,
10190 Covington Cross
Las Vegas, NV 89144

WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels's Privacy Statement

This WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels Privacy Statement discloses the information privacy practices for WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels’s United States Web sites ("WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels"). The WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels Web site is intended for use by residents of the U.S. that are over 18 years of age.

Information collected about you
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide. PII includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. Although you are required to register as a member of WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels in order to use selected travel planning tools, and some PII is needed in order to process and fulfill travel requests, many areas of WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels can be accessed without providing any PII.

On all WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels pages that collect PII, we specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service you have requested.

WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects PII when you:

Become a WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member
Complete a traveler profile
Purchase travel
Participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes
Contact WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels
Member information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects your Member ID, password, and e-mail address when you register to become a member of our Web site.

Traveler profile information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects the full name and contact number for a traveler when a travel reservation is made. We may also collect information about each traveler's preferences, including meal requests, seat selection, frequent flyer/hotel/car rental programs and membership numbers, and ticketing options. This information is stored in the My Profile area of a member's WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels account.

When someone other than yourself is accompanying you on travel purchased through WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels, we may collect PII and travel preferences about that individual. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels with their full names, contact numbers, and travel preferences, as they will be unable to directly access our systems to view or change any information you provide on their behalf.

Purchase information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects the billing address of the credit card that is used to purchase travel. We will also collect credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name, and expiration date, in order to bill you for travel purchased through WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. Please view our Credit Card Guarantee for additional information on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels’s commitment to protecting your credit card security.

Surveys, contests, and sweepstakes
Occasionally, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may offer our members and site visitors an opportunity to participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes. Information collected by WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels when you participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes may include your full name, e-mail address, and street address.

Contacting WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects PII such as your full name, Member ID, e-mail address, and/or contact number whenever you submit a question or suggestion, or request assistance with viewing your itinerary, logging on to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels, or accessing your account.

Other information we collect
Some information is collected automatically every time you visit WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects information about your computer and assigns you a "cookie" (a small, unique identifier text file) when you visit WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. You do not provide this information—it is collected automatically as a means of supporting your visit to our site. This cookie does not contain any PII.

Cookies
As a member or visitor to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels you will be assigned a permanent cookie file on your computer's hard drive. You can always choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your Web browser to refuse cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie. Be advised that, by refusing to accept a cookie, you will not be able to access many travel services and planning tools offered by WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels.

When you access the My Trips or My Profile areas of the WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels Web site, reserve or purchase travel, or use selected travel planning tools, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels requires you to sign in as a member, using your Member ID and password. Once you sign in as an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member, we record the Member ID and the name on the member account in the cookie file on your computer. We may also record your password in this cookie file if you checked the box entitled "Save this password for automatic sign-in." Your Member ID, password, and the name on your member account is stored in the cookie file as encrypted data, so no one can view the information it contains by obtaining unauthorized access to your computer. Permanent cookie files remain on your computer's hard drive for five years from December 31 of the year the file was first placed on your computer, or until you manually delete it.

A cookie file may also be placed on your hard drive by WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels's third-party advertising companies or by WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels affiliates. We use third-party advertising companies to place ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated statistics about your visits to this and other Web sites 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 PII.

Computer information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels collects certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. This information is collected from your computer's Web browser and may include your IP address, operating system, Web browser software (i.e. Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer), and referrer Web site. Wireless users: Please check with your wireless company if you are using your cellular phone to access the Internet to understand whether PII may be used to identify you.

Use of your information
Information collected on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may be used to:

Register you as an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member
Plan and purchase travel
Send e-mail notifications
Respond to your questions or suggestions
Improve the quality of your visit to our site
Travel planning and purchase
Information collected when you complete your traveler profile is used to confirm and process your travel reservation. In addition, information collected from you when you purchase travel is used to bill your credit card and deliver your travel itinerary, either electronically or through the mail.

E-mail notifications
If you chose to receive communications from WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels about special promotions when registering as an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member, we may use your e-mail address to send you communications about surveys, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, flight specials, or other travel opportunities on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels and its marketing partners. We may use your e-mail address or telephone number to contact you about changes to your purchased travel itinerary.

Responses to your questions or suggestions
We will use your e-mail address or telephone number to respond when you submit a question or suggestion, or request assistance with viewing your itinerary, logging on to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels, or accessing your account.

Improving the quality of your visit to our site
We collect information about your computer (not your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number) through your permanent cookie file for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of site content and traffic. This data allows us to improve the quality of your visit by streamlining your ability to navigate the site and develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our members and site visitors.

Sharing your information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels does not sell or rent your PII to anyone.

Service providers
We only provide information about travel either reserved or purchased on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels to third parties that provide services or functions on behalf of WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. Our service providers need information about your traveler profile, as well as your credit card information, to process and confirm your travel reservation. These service providers will disclose information about your traveler profile to hotel, airline, and/or car rental suppliers whose products you have purchased. Like any other travel agent, this information must be shared with our travel suppliers to confirm your reservation and travel preferences. Although WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels offers travel products from hotel, airline, and car rental 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 WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. In addition, these travel suppliers may also contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about your confirmed reservation.

WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels will occasionally share aggregated information with our service providers. This information does not contain any PII and is used to develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our members and site visitors.

In the event that you make a new, or update an existing, travel reservation by calling our toll-free number, your information may be accessed by a third-party service provider, as necessary, to respond to your request for customer service.

WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may contract a reputable third-party to facilitate the distribution of survey, promotion, or sweepstake programs. Upon completion of these projects, all information is returned to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels.

Our legal obligations
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining our travel products or services. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may also disclose information against someone who poses a threat to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels’s interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others.

Other Web sites
There are several places throughout WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels’s information privacy practices. When you click through to these Web sites, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels's information privacy practices no longer apply. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements for all third-party Web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.

Control over and access to your information
WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels believes that members and site visitors should have control over the collection and use of their PII. You have access to your information in the following areas of WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels:

My Profile
The My Profile page on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels allows members to view and change their account settings. The e-mail settings option lets you change your e-mail address and subscribe or unsubscribe to the Fare Tracker or special promotional notification services. You can also change your password and elect to have an automatic password sign-in when logging on to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. You can add new travelers and delete existing travelers from your member profile; update or correct names, phone numbers, passport information, and emergency contacts for travelers associated with your profile; and update your travel preferences.

You can also close your WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels account by selecting the Account Closure option. Once you close an account, you will not be able to sign in or access any information associated with the account, but you can open a new account at any time. We will send you an e-mail confirming your account closure to the e-mail address contained in your member profile.

My Trips
The My Trips page on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels allows members to view, update, or delete their saved trip itineraries.

Communications from WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels
Members will receive communications from WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels when they:

Sign-up to become an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member
Request to close an account
Purchase travel
Elect to receive special promotional marketing communications
Win a contest or sweepstake
Contact WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels with questions/suggestions
Sign-up to become an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member
When you sign up as a new WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member, you will receive a "Welcome to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels" e-mail. This e-mail contains your member ID and describes the benefits of using WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels for planning and purchasing your travel needs.

Request to close an account
When you complete an Account Closure request, we will send you an "Account Closure Confirmation" e-mail.

Purchase Travel
Each time you purchase travel through WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels, or change or cancel a confirmed travel reservation, you will receive confirmation of your travel itinerary via e-mail. In the event that your travel plans are disrupted because of mechanical, weather, or carrier business conditions, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels may contact you to inform you of these disruptions and help you make alternative travel arrangements.

Elect to receive special promotional marketing communications
As a registered WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member, you will occasionally receive e-mails notifying you of special promotions or other travel news, if you sign up for this service when you register. Special promotional e-mails are intended to inform you of new or unique travel opportunities or special deals that are available on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels.

You can sign up for or discontinue your subscription to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels's e-mail services at any time on the My Profile page under the heading "E-mail settings." You can also unsubscribe to the Fare Tracker or special promotional e-mails at any time by replying to the e-mail with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Contests and sweepstakes
You have the option of sending an e-mail to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels requesting a change to the information you provided to us or to receive a copy of the information we have stored during the length of the contest or sweepstakes. We will make every reasonable effort to honor your wishes. Proof of identity is required.

Request customer support or submit questions/suggestions
When you request assistance with viewing your itinerary, logging on to the WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels site, or accessing your account, we will respond to you via e-mail or telephone.

Protecting your information
We want our members and site visitors to feel confident about using WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels to plan and purchase their travel, so we are committed to protecting the information we collect. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels has implemented a security program to keep information that is stored in our systems protected from unauthorized access. Currently, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels only stores the information you provide when registering to become an WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels member, create a travel profile, purchase travel, or use selected travel tools.

Our systems are configured with data encryption, or scrambling, technologies, and industry-standard firewalls. When you send personal information to WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels over the Internet, your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.

WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels has also obtained a digital certificate from RSA Data Security, Inc., a top maker of hardware and software used to protect and manage computer network access. To view this site certificate on each secured page, click on the image of the closed lock or the solid key on the bottom bar of your browser window. A small frame displaying site security information will pop up.

For Internet Explorer users: Click on the word "Subject" to verify that you are on the Web site www.WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels. Click on "Issuer" to verify the site certification authority.
For Netscape Communicator users: Click on "View Certificate" to verify that you are on the Web site www.WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels and to verify the site certification authority.
Changes to the WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels Privacy Statement
This Privacy Statement was produced and posted on WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels on November 14, 2000. WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Statement at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this statement or in how WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels will use your PII, WWTE / 1st Boston Hotels will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.

Regardless of later updates, we will abide by the information privacy practices described in this Privacy Statement at the time you provided us with your information.

If you have questions about our Privacy Statement, please e-mail us.