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| PRIVACY
POLICY |
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| Your privacy
is important to us. Our website is designed so that you can
visit without identifying yourself or revealing any personal
information. Once you choose 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. |
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| AESU
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 our web site. |
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| What
we collect: On some of our web pages, you can request travel
services, make requests, and register to receive materials.
The types of personal information collected at these pages are
name, contact and billing information, transaction, and credit
card information. |
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We
may also utilize interactive devices on its site to create a
sense of "community" and to provide its site visitors
with the benefit of exchanged travel information. These interactive
devices may include, but not be limited to, video clips, chat
rooms, message boards, forums and similar devices. We shall
not be responsible for the online exchange of customer data
through these means between its customers. By posting a message
on our site, you understand it becomes public domain and therefore
may be used by AESU for marketing purposes.
In order to personalize our subsequent communications to you
and continuously improve our services, we may also ask you to
voluntarily provide us with information regarding your personal
or professional interests, demographics, experience with our
travel services, and contact preferences. We use your information
to better understand your travel requirements and to provide
you with better service. Specifically, we use your information
to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you,
to update you on services and benefits, and to personalize our
web site for you. Credit card numbers are used only for payment
processing and are not retained for other purposes.
AESU uses commonly employed Internet technologies to collect
additional information. For example, AESU uses "cookies"
to determine how users reach the Website and to track general
usage patterns once a user is on the Website. This information
is collected and analyzed in the aggregate in order to improve
the function, content, overall appearance, and capability of
the Website. "Cookies" are small pieces of information
that are transferred by a website and stored by your web browser
on your computer's hard drive. Most web browsers automatically
accept cookies; however, you can always choose not to accept
a cookie by changing your computer preferences to refuse cookies
or to prompt you to accept each cookie. AESU requires that your
web browser accept cookies to access the Website properly.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact
you for market research or to provide you with marketing information
we think would be of particular interest. At a minimum, we will
always give you the opportunity to opt out of receiving such
direct marketing or market research information. In some circumstances,
we will permit you to opt in before receiving unsolicited messages. |
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| Who
we share it with: We will not sell, rent, or lease your personally
identifiable information to third parties, unless we have your
permission or are required by law. |
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We
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. As
previously stated, we will also provide you the opportunity
to let us know if you do not wish to receive unsolicited direct
marketing materials from us and we will do everything we can
to honor such requests. We do not share information with outside
parties except to the extent necessary to complete your order
and fulfill your travel arrangements. Such other parties may
include, but shall not be limited to, appropriate airlines,
credit card merchant services, and the SABRE reservation system.
Should we ever in the future need to share your information
with third parties that are not acting on our behalf and governed
by our privacy policy, we will secure your permission before
sharing your information with any such third parties. |
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| Third-Party
Links: The Website may contain links to web sites operated and
maintained by third parties over whom we have no control. The
information practices of those web sites are not covered by
this privacy policy. Any information you provide to third-party
web sites or that we provide in relation to travel reservations
you made will be governed under the terms of each such website's
privacy policy. We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever
for the content, actions, or policies of third-party web sites.
We encourage you to read the privacy policies of all third-party
web sites that link to the Website, because such privacy policies
may be materially different from this privacy policy. |
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| Access
& Accuracy: Our site 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 at 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. |
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| Security:
We are committed to protecting the security of your information.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and
ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place
appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We
use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data
such as credit card information. |
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