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Thank you for using ASIATravelTips.com /
TravelNewsAsia.com. For many years we did not had a Privacy Policy
publicly displayed on the website for the simple reason that most Privacy Policies have a
clause that state that it may change at any time. It was for this
reason, that we never publicly displayed our policy even though as
a company, we have always had a very strict internal Privacy
Policy which is followed to the letter. In addition to this,
how often does the average user check a site's privacy policy? I
know most of us here never do.
Further down you can
read the official "more legal" Privacy Policy if you wish, however
it really is very simple. Any information that we obtain from you
be it, your email, name or other information is never sold or
given to any third party (this excludes hotel reservations where
your details are shared between us and the hotel where you are
making the reservation). We never send out unsolicited email to
any of our users at any time. If you feel that you have been
receiving something from us which you should not, then please let
us know and we will immediately look into the matter. We respect
your privacy, in exactly the same way as we respect our own.
Now for the more legal version:
Privacy Policy
TravelNewsAsia.com may be referred to
below as the site, or the website, or by name.
INFORMATION WE
REQUEST
You will not be asked for any personal details that
are irrelevant to contacting you. As you are making hotel
reservations certain details are required to ensure that the
reservation is processed correctly and guaranteed for you as per
your reservation.
The type of personal information we request
are:
Name
Address
Gender
Date of birth
Nationality
Email address
Credit Card Information (name of
cardholder, credit card number and expiry date)
Travel
details, including :
proposed check-in and check-out dates
number of rooms required
proposed pick-up and drop-off dates &
time
flight information - flight number, arrival and departure
time
number of passengers, rooms
We request this
information when you make use of our reservation services.
USE
OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information you provide for one or more of
the following purposes:
- To process your
travel reservation purchases and confirm your travel arrangements.
- To improve our content, service and product offerings.
- To
provide you with valued and efficient customer support.
- To
statistically analyze site usage.
- To improve our marketing and
promotional efforts.
In specific situations, to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. We
only share your information with our service providers
(hotels) and third party reservation parties as the
information is essential to processing your hotel
reservations correctly. The sole purpose for this
disclosure is to make the ASIATravelTips.com /
TravelNewsAsia.com web site more effective for you.
DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
Please note that we may provide
aggregate demographic statistics (such as browser used, operating
system, number of pages viewed etc) about people visiting
TravelNewsAsia.com to third parties but these statistics do not identify any single user
by name etc.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
All of your TravelNewsAsia.com hotel reservation activities are
conducted through the most advanced security systems that
guarantee communication between your browser and the servers.
Information is encrypted to ensure your security and
privacy.
TravelNewsAsia.com uses the
industry-standard encryption method Secure Socket Layer (SSL 3.0,
RC4 with 128 bit encryption (High); RSA with 1024 bit exchange)
protocol to protect your information.
We are constantly looking to upgrade hardware and
software to ensure that your experience with
TravelNewsAsia.com is safe,
secure and efficient for you, the user.
Other than the
purposes and parties aforementioned, your personal information
will not be provided knowingly to anyone else which includes
advertisers, direct marketing companies, or any other unsolicited
mailers or persons.
LATEST TRAVEL NEWS DAILY EMAIL
Subscription is available to our Latest Travel News Daily Email
free of charge, simply by providing your email address (no other
data is requested) on our travel news page
here,
or any other page where you see a subscription box on
our site.
This information and any other information collected from you
is protected under our Privacy Policy as described above and
below.
To unsubscribe from our Latest Travel News Daily
Email you simply need to reply to the email, changing
the subject line to "unsubscribe". The email must be
sent from the email address you wish to unsubscribe. No third party un-subscriptions are
accepted.
CONTESTS AND PROMOTIONS
We run contests and
promotions from time to time on our site in which we ask visitors
for contact information (such as their email address). We use this
information to contact the winners. In addition, we occasionally
participate in or conduct joint contests and promotions with third
parties. In these instances, certain information such as name and
contact information may be shared with the third parties for contest
or promotion eligibility verification purposes or for the
selection of winning entries, or to ship prizes and promotional
material to those who enter.
Whenever we participate in such a
contest or promotion, we explicitly state which third party will
receive the information.
Visitors who do share information
with these third parties must contact the third party directly to
opt out of receiving future mailings from the third party. Should
you be chosen as a winner of any of our contests or promotions,
you must consent to the disclosure of certain personal information
for publicity purposes.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
TravelNewsAsia.com may link to other sites operated by third parties. The
inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply our endorsement
of such hyper-linked sites, but is for your reference and
convenience only. We have not reviewed all of the hyper-linked
sites and are not responsible for their content or accuracy.
Please note that the privacy policies of these third party sites
may differ from ours. We advise you to check the privacy policies
of other websites before disclosing any personal information.
TravelNewsAsia.com also contains advertisements by third
parties. Unless otherwise specifically stated on this site, we do
not endorse or make any representation regarding the liability,
quality or accuracy of any products or services featured in, or
linked to any advertisement that appears on this site.
ADVERTISING
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads
when you visit TravelNewsAsia.com. These companies may
use information (not
including your name, address, email address, or
telephone number) about your visits to this and other
websites in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services of interest to you.
Google, as an example of a third party vendor, uses
cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the
DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based
on their visit to this site and possible history of other sites on the
Internet. This is done in an attempt to make the
advertisements of more interest to you and cut down on
screen wasteage.
As we do not control the cookies placed on the computer by
third party vendors and / or advertising companies it is important
to note that it is their privacy policy which controls what
information is collected and how.
COOKIES
A cookie is a snippet of text that is sent from a website’s
servers and stored on a web browser. Cookies can be used to serve
more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a
given ad is shown to you. They can also be used to target more
specific and / or relevant information based on browser history.
CHANGES
TO PRIVACY POLICY
If we change our privacy policy, we will
post our new policy on this page so that you are always informed
of the way that we use information we collect. Your continued use
of our website following the posting of changes to these terms
will mean automatic acceptance of those changes.
In the event that you do not approve of the changes,
you may direct requests or comments by
contacting us.
DISCLAIMER
We may disclose
personal information when required by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the
edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our website.
TravelNewsAsia.com may, at any time and at its sole
discretion and without cause or notice, terminate or restrict your
access to any component of the site or refuse to give effect to
any booking or booking/reservation requested by you, terminate
your use of the site, and remove and discard any content within
the site, without being required to give any reasons or advance
notice to you.
Further, you agree that ASIATravelTips.com /
TravelNewsAsia.com
shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination
of your access to the site.
TravelNewsAsia.com reserves the
right at any time and from time to time to remove, modify or
discontinue, temporarily or permanently any details or aspects of this Privacy
Policy or our website.
All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
This clause shall survive any termination of this agreement.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding security and
privacy issues, please
contact us.
Last updated : 7 April 2009
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