This Webmaster has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers and visitors of this website, including respecting your concerns about privacy. We understand that you may have questions about how this website collects and uses information. We have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy principles that govern This website and other sites created by this Webmaster This Statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. We have organized this statement by major processes and areas so that you can quickly link to the information of most interest to you.

The bottom line is that meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do - including protecting your privacy.

This website does not collect personally identifiable information from your computer when you browse this website and request pages from our servers. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personally identifiable information, we will not know your name, your e-mail address, or any other personally identifiable information. When you request a page from our web site, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information that is provided in the HTTP header. We collect the HTTP request header information in order to make our website function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see on this website, as our servers use this information to deliver to you the pages on this website. We also use this information to better understand how visitors use our website and how we can better tune our website, its contents and functionality to meet your needs.

When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you to provide you with a particular service we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would like information about a listing, we will ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and other matching criteria so that we may serve you the best. We will use your e-mail address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, might use the other information to contact you for help to process the information.

We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company's security procedures and corporate policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. When we ask you for credit card data it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line provided you are using a SSL enabled browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on other select pages where you would enter personally identifiable information. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears in the locked position. In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."

After information reaches This Webmaster it is stored on a secure server that resides behind firewalls designed to block unauthorized access from outside of This Webmaster. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, our hotels or other business operations may put in place additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal requirements. Information collected on the sites covered by this Statement is generally processed and stored in the United States.

In addition to the travel related services and required information sharing described directly above, This Webmaster does use the services of third parties, such as e-mail service providers and marketing companies that act as agents on behalf of This Webmaster. These parties are contractually prohibited from using personally identifiable information for any purpose other than for the purpose This Webmaster specifies. We do provide non-personally identifiable information to certain service providers for their use on an aggregated basis for the purpose of performing their contractual obligations to us. We prohibit the sale or transfer of personal information to entities outside of the This Webmaster family of companies and hotels for their use without your approval.

Our website uses "cookie" technology. "Cookies" are encrypted strings of text that a website stores on a user's computer. Our website requires the use of a cookie throughout the online reservation process. Without cookies we will not be able to keep information you enter on multiple pages together. For example, unless This Webmaster.com can remember the dates you used in your hotel search we will not be able to check room availability. Cookies also enable us to customize our website and offerings to your needs and provide you with a better online experience on This Webmaster.com. In addition, cookies are used to:

• measure usage of various pages on our website to help us make our information more pertinent to your needs and easy for you to access; and
• provide functionality to this Webmaster and other functionality that we believe would be of interest and value to you.

The types of cookies that we use are referred to as "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you leave This Webmaster.com. Persistent cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them. We do not use cookies to gather information concerning your visits to other sites, nor ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with This Webmaster. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.

In addition, the service providers we use to serve and host our advertisements, and/or deliver our e-mails, use session and persistent cookies, to track the number of times This Webmaster.com is accessed and whether the site was accessed from an advertisement. Sometimes cookie technology is used to track the number of times an advertisement is viewed. In all cases, the cookie generated from the advertisement or e-mail does not contain any personally identifiable information and will remain on your hard drive until you delete it.

You may set your browser to block cookies (consult the instructions for your particular browser on how to do this), although doing so will adversely affect your ability to perform certain transactions, use certain functionality and access certain content on our website.

This Webmaster and its third party service providers use pixel tags (also known as "clear gifs", "beacon gifs", etc.). Pixel tags are not visible to the user of the web site and consist of a few lines of computer coding. Pixel tags are not used to collect any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with This Webmaster. This Webmaster and our e-mail service provider use pixel tags to:

• track responses to This Webmaster advertisements and site content;
• determine your ability to receive HTML-based e-mail messages. Our e-mail service provider includes a pixel tag, which they refer to as a "coded sensor", in all of the HTML-based messages sent on our behalf. The sensor activates when the e-mail message is opened and flags the e-mail address of the user as one that is capable of receiving HTML-based email messages. This capability helps our service provider to send the e-mail in a format you can read. The sensor does not collect or use any other information. If you cannot receive HTML, you will not receive a functioning sensor.
• know how many users open an e-mail and allow our service provider to compile aggregated statistics about an e-mail campaign for us; and
• allow us to better target interactive advertising, enhance customer support and site usability, and provide offers and promotions that we believe would be of interest to you.

At your choice, you can use this website to opt-in to e-mail communications such as notices of upcoming events. This Webmaster will not use this information for any other purposes. All personally identifiable information you provide such as e-mail address will be transmitted to This Webmaster as an e-mail via the Internet and is not encrypted.

This Webmaster is only responsible for the privacy statement and content of this website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the use of cookies on websites that you have accessed this website from and to websites that you may access from this website.

This is a United States website and is subject to United States law. This Webmaster will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to This Webmaster guests, visitors, associates, or property (including this site), or to others. As mentioned above, laws related to personal identifiable information vary by country. For example, personally identifiable information collected in the European Union is subject to the EU Data Protection Directive.