PRIVACY POLICY
Booking-World.com is committed to respecting your privacy. We have designed our websites and booking engines so that you may visit them without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information, unless you opt to do so. Once you opt to provide personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), it will only be used to support your customer relationship with us and for our own internal purposes, including marketing and research, customization of our websites and improving the content of our websites.
Awareness
Booking-World.com provides this Online Privacy Statement to inform you about our privacy policy and the practices and choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This notice may be accessed from any area of Booking-World.com’s websites and our online booking engines.
What We Collect
When making a reservation:
When you make an online reservation online, you will be asked for your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and credit card information. This information is used to contact you for customer service, to guaranty your reservation with our travel suppliers and/or to bill you for your travel purchase. It should be clearly stated that no credit card numbers will be stored or by any means remain in Booking-World.com’s systems as they will only be used for a real-time billing procedure and then released.
During the booking process you can choose not to receive our newsletter or travel reminders by unchecking the appropriate boxes on the online form.
When registering:
When you register with Booking-World.com, you are asked for the basics -- including your name, email address and password.
Generally:
For all Booking-World.com visitors -- not just registered users -- we collect information such as IP addresses, browser type, domain names, access times, duration of visit, referring URL, platform, new/repeat information, timestamp and exit page information. One of the uses for which this data is gathered is for statistical purposes so that we may analyze trends and performances over time.
Booking-World.com may use third-party service providers to help us gather and analyze information about our customers. These service providers are contractually restricted from using your information in any manner, other than in helping us to provide you with the products and services available on our site.
To help us send more relevant communications to you (if you choose to receive any from us), we keep track of all site searches and purchases. For example, if you frequently travel between London and New York, we may send you special notices listing great recently booked fares for that route.
If you contact our Customer Care department, we will also collect the information you provide that details the nature of your question or problem to enhance the quality of our Web site.
About Cookies
Many websites, including those owned by Booking-World.com, 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(s) 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. Booking-World.com does not use cookies to store personal information, such as credit-card numbers.
An example of how cookies are used is as follows: When you conduct a search using our booking engine for hotels in Paris, a cookie will be set recording the city of Paris as the parameter of your search. When you return to the search form to narrow or change your search, Paris 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 our booking engine as convenient as possible, we suggest that you allow your browser to accept cookies.
Information Sharing
Booking-World.com will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to third parties. Unless we have your permission or are required by law, we will only share the personal data you provide online with other third-party vendors that are acting on our behalf to complete the activities described above. We will cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
Choice
Booking-World.com will not use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the purposes described above without letting you know and offering you a choice.
Please be aware that our website and those of our affiliates may contain links to other websites, and that the privacy practices of these other websites may differ from those of Booking-World.com. This Online Privacy Statement does not apply to other websites. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policies of all other websites you visit.
Access & Accuracy
Booking-World.com strives to keep your personally identifiable information accurate. We make every effort to provide you with online access to your registration data so that you may update or correct your information on the booking engine where it was submitted. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make corrections to your user account.
How your information is protected
Booking-World.com maintains data handling and storage practices and procedures that are designed to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of customer information. When you make a purchase on Booking-World.com, you are doing so in a safe and secure environment. Credit card information is transmitted online using industry standard security measures called Secure Socket Layer encryption (SSL). Current Internet security methods and technologies are used to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure correct use of information. This means that information such as your credit card number is encrypted, sent through the Internet as a jumbled code, then decoded and passed on to Booking-World.com's secure systems. These safeguards are expressly implemented for the purpose of protecting your information. Booking-World.com also employs additional security measures for credit card usage. For example, when you make a purchase on our site, we may require that you provide the credit card identification number -- a security code that helps validate purchases.
Notification of Changes
If we intend to use any personally identifiable information in a manner different than what is stated at the time of data collection, we will notify you via email and give you the opportunity to opt-out. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a notice on our Web site advising users of the change.