Privacy Statement
Discountfares.com : Additional Information

The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practice for the Discountfares.com Web site (www.Discountfares.com).

When browsing the Site, you are not required to provide any personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail address, unless when you reserve or purchase travel services through Discountfares.com, we will ask you to provide us with personal information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, credit card information and other personal identifying information. We need this information in order to process your travel arrangements and need to share this personal information with the relevant airline, car rental agency, hotel, cruise line, travel wholesaler and/or other involved third party. Discountfares.com will send you an e-mail message confirming each reservation of your online transaction. Credit card information is not stored by the Discountfares.com Web site.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data, which often include an anonymous unique identifier, that a Web site transfers to your hard drive for record keeping purposes and contain information about you. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any of the PII which is described above. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. For example, by setting a cookie on the Discountfares.com Web site, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. We never save credit card information in cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their customers.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, note that some parts of the Discountfares.com service will not function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized news preferences or you may have difficulty booking reservations or purchasing travel services, entering contests or sweepstakes, or playing games.

Use of Traffic Data

Each time a visitor comes to our Web site, we collect some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience. At the Web site, we collect the visitor's domain name (i.e. where the user is logged on, such as from yahoo.com, etc.), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the Discountfares.com Web site), and browser and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform). We collect visitor information for purposes of product monitoring, product improvement, and targeted advertising. We also count, track, and aggregate all visitors' activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g. tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within the Discountfares.com properties, etc.). To these ends, we may merge information about you into group data, which may then be shared on an aggregated basis with our advertisers; but Discountfares.com will not disclose your individual identity or personal data without your permission. When Discountfares.com does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one is able to identify you or contact you.

Use of IP Addresses

An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers, the big computers that "serve up" web pages, automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

Discountfares.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate, or combined, information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When users request pages from the Discountfares.com Web site, our servers log the user's IP addresses. We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that your session will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. We can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules or terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers or others.

Use of Email Data

Discountfares.com will use your e-mail address to send correspondence about reservation confirmations and important updates about your travel plans.

Links to Other Site

Users should be aware that when you are on Discountfares.com, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from Discountfares.com pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a Discountfares.com search result, the "click" takes you off the Discountfares.com site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use Discountfares.com's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information or engage in other activities beyond our control. Discountfares.com's Privacy Policy does not extend to those sites, to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet or to anything beyond Discountfares.com's control.

Security

Discountfares.com has taken strong measures to protect the security of your personal information and to ensure that your choices for its intended use are honored. We take strong precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction. The importance of security for all PII associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Discountfares.com can not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Your Discountfares.com account is password protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to the account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Discountfares.com will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

Your Acceptance of these Terms

By using this site, you signify your assent to the Discountfares.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the Discountfares.com Web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Privacy Policy because it is binding on you.