PRIVACY POLICY::Vincent Partners collects information about our guests and visitors to our web sites so that we can provide an experience that is responsive to our guests' and visitors' needs. Information may be collected as part of: (i) fulfilling reservation or information requests, (ii) purchasing products, (iii) registering for program membership, (iv) submitting a job application, or (v) responding to communications from us (e.g., surveys, promotional offers, or reservation confirmations). We endeavor to collect information only with your knowledge and with your permission if necessary. The types of personally identifiable information that we collect may include your name, home, work and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, credit card information, date of birth, gender, and lifestyle information such as room preferences, leisure activities, names and ages of children, and other information necessary to fulfill special requests (e.g., health conditions that require special room accommodations). Vincent Partners may also collect non-personally identifiable information about you, such as your use of our web sites, communication preferences, travel habits, aggregated data relative to your stays, and responses to promotional offers and surveys. PURPOSE FOR COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND DISCLOSURE::Vincent Partners is fully committed to providing you with information about the collection and use of personally identifiable information (PII) furnished by, or collected from, visitors while using our web sites, products and services. It is our practice not to ask you for information unless we need it or intend to use it. Some of the primary purposes for collecting your PII are as follows:
You will always be offered the choice not to submit your PII or to decide what communications you want to receive from us. However, doing so may cause certain transactions to become affected. For example, not providing a name will prevent the processing of reservations. Processing and DisclosureIn most cases, the information you provide is added to a local or global database. In the course of processing your information, it may be necessary to transfer your PII to Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate's affiliates, properties within the Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate system and/or third party service providers located in the United States and throughout the world for the purposes outlined within this Privacy Statement. As a general practice, Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate does not sell, rent, or give physical possession of your PII to unaffiliated third parties outside the Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate system. Situations in which Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate may disclose your information to others include:
If information is shared as mentioned above, we seek to limit the scope of information that is furnished to the amount necessary for the performance of the specific function. Unless otherwise precluded by legal process, we require third parties to protect your PII and abide by applicable privacy laws and regulations. CONSENT::As part of our commitment to keep you informed, we may mail, e-mail, telephone, or contact you by other means to notify you of new Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate products and services, or upcoming Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate special offers, events, enhancements, or other relevant information that may be of interest to you. You may also receive mailings or other communications from carefully selected third parties. We always offer you the option to decline any or all of these communications by following the directions included in our e-mails or other communications, or by contacting Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate directly. We would like to keep all of our guests and visitors informed and equally able to take advantage of the benefits offered by Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate and its strategic marketing partners. However, if you reside outside of the United States, certain data privacy regulations may require us to obtain your permission before we send you information that you have not requested from us. In some cases your permission will be implied from the nature of the service requested or transaction undertaken. For example, Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate may collect and use personally identifiable information that you volunteer, or behavioral data or information collected in the aggregate. In addition, your permission will be deemed given for communications from us that are necessary to fulfill transactions and services that you request. In certain circumstances, we will seek your express permission when we collect information that is regarded under certain data privacy regulations to be sensitive in nature (e.g., information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, or health conditions). DATA TRANSFERS ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BORDERS::As a global company, we endeavor to provide you with the same outstanding service in New York City, as you would find in Paris or Beijing. To achieve this goal, we have established a global network comprised of properties, offices, data centers, trusted marketing partners, service providers, customer contact centers, and trained associates around the globe. The nature of our business and our operations require us to transfer your information, including personally identifiable information (PII), to other group companies, properties, centers of operations, data centers, or service providers that may be located in countries outside of your own. Although the data protection and other laws of these various countries may not be as comprehensive as those in your own country, Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate will take appropriate steps to ensure that your PII is protected and handled as described in this Privacy Statement. SECURITY SAFEGUARDS::Vincent Partners recognizes the importance of information security, and is constantly reviewing and enhancing our technical, physical, and logical security rules and procedures. All Vincent Partners owned web sites and servers have security measures in place to help protect your personally identifiable information against loss, misuse, and alteration while under our control. This allows for the use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an encryption method used to help protect your data from interception and hacking while in transit. ON-LINE TECHNOLOGIES::Vincent Partners may use cookies, invisible pixels, and web beacons to obtain information about you while visiting our web sites. A cookie is a very small text file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. It assigns the computer with a unique identifier, which in turn, becomes your identification card whenever you return to a Vincent Partners web site. Cookies are designed to save you time because they help us to provide you with a customized experience without you having to remind us of your preferences each time you return to our web pages. Vincent Partners cookies are not designed to damage your files, nor can they read information from other files on your computer hard drive. Vincent Partners cookies are limited to our web sites only, and are not designed to follow you when traveling on the Internet after leaving Vincent Partners owned web sites. We track the usage of our web sites in order to better meet your needs and to help make it easier for you to find information in the future. Please note that in addition to Vincent Partners cookies, various third parties may also place cookies on your computer's hard drive. Vincent Partners is not responsible for the presence or absence of third party cookies, or for the technological capabilities or practices employed by third parties in connection with third party cookies. If you would prefer not to have the benefits of cookies, your Internet browser can be adjusted to treat cookies in different ways. Depending upon the type of browser you are using, you may be able to configure your browser so that: (i) you are prompted to accept or reject cookies on an individual basis or (ii) you may be able to prevent your browser from accepting any cookies at all. You should refer to the supplier or manufacturer of your web browser for specific details about cookie security. However, you should also understand that rejecting cookies might affect your ability to perform certain transactions on our web sites and our ability to recognize your browser from one visit to the next. Vincent Partners also uses invisible pixels, sometimes called web beacons, to count how many people visit certain web pages. Information collected from invisible pixels is used and reported in the aggregate and does not contain personally identifiable information. Vincent Partners may use this information to improve marketing programs and content. LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES::In order to anticipate your needs, Vincent Partners provides links to other web sites for your convenience and information. Vincent Partners is not responsible or liable for any content presented by or contained on any independent web site, including, but not limited to, any advertising claims or marketing practices. Please note that while Vincent Partners will protect your information on Vincent Partners owned and operated web sites, we cannot control and will not be responsible for the privacy policies of third party web sites, including web sites owned or controlled by independent franchisees, third party owners of hotel, resort, interval ownership, or residence properties that may use the name of a Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate brand, or web sites not controlled or authorized by Vincent Partners. Third party web sites that are accessed through links on our web sites have separate privacy and data collection practices, and security measures. We have no responsibility or liability for the practices, policies and security measures implemented by third parties on their web sites. We encourage you to contact them to ask questions about their privacy practices, policies and security measures before disclosing any personally identifiable information. We recommend that you review the privacy statements and policies of linked web sites to understand how those web sites collect, use and store information. MINORS::Vincent Partners does not seek to obtain nor does it wish to receive personally identifiable information directly from minors; however, we cannot always determine the age of persons who access and use our web sites. If a minor (as defined by applicable law) provides us with his/her data without parental or guardian consent, we encourage the parent or guardian to contact us to have this information removed and to unsubscribe the minor from future Elliott TM Hospitality & Real Estate marketing communications. November 5, 2007 |
