Farecrawler Privacy Policy
Last revised March 1st 2006;
You are in complete control of the information you provide to FARECRAWLER.COM and/or its various third party providers and distributors for your travel planning needs. FARECRAWLER.COM and/or its various third party providers and distributors respects and will continue to respect the privacy of members who use this Site.
When you reserve or purchase travel services through FARECRAWLER.COM, information about you is provided to airline (-s) or other involved third party to ensure the successful fulfillment of your travel arrangements. Customers of FARECRAWLER.COM provide FARECRAWLER.COM with name, address, telephone number and email address travel preferences, credit card billing information, and other personal information. This information is primarily used to assist customers in making reservations and buying tickets using the cheap fare search logic of FARECRAWLER.COM.. This information is collected and shared with airline (-s) or other involved third party for several reasons including :
- to complete travel reservations and issue the ticket according to your request;
- to allow us to contact you in order to service your ticket purchase needs
- to contact you in case we need to inform you of changes of your travel itinerary
- if necessary; to customize the content of our site to meet your specific needs
All information you provide to FARECRAWLER.COM is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us. FARECRAWLER.COM has security measures in place to protect user information utmost against loss, misuse, or alteration. Access to private and confidential data is limited to only those employees with a specific need to retrieve this information.
Newsletter
FRECRAWLER.COM publishes hot travel and airfare deals to international destination using email newsletters to subscribers of that service. Users can sign up for newsletters on our home page by providing their email address and zip code. This information will not be shared with third parties. At anytime, you can unsubscribe to FARECRAWLER.COM newsletters through links on our home page. We reserve the right to limit the amount of subscribers
FARECRAWLER.COM reserves the right to send subscribers of the FRAECRAWLER.COM newsletter additional information relating to our service or products, including administrative messages, market research questionnaires as long as you remain a subscriber to one of our newsletters.
Links
FARECRAWLER.COM provides links either on our website or on our newsletter to other web sites. These are provided as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by FARECRAWLER.COM. Neither FARECRAWLER.COM nor any third party provider or distributor shall be responsible for the content of any other web sites and make no representation or warranty regarding any other web sites or the contents or materials on such web sites. If you decide to access other web sites, you do so at your own risk.
Cookies and IP addresses
FARECRAWLER.COM collects IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and for IT system administration and for statistical reporting reasons. The only way IP addresses are associated with your email address and other personally identifiable information is for the purpose of documenting that you explicitly signed up for our email newsletters. We do use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information usually a small text file that a site transfers to your computer's hard drive and resides there for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and FARECRAWLER.COM uses them to retrieve previously knowingly provided data by the user such as email address and zip code in order to personalize the use of our website for you. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. FARECRAWLER.COM works with third party providers whouse cookies to help reporting data on web site, statistics, click through rates, traffic origin and destination etc. Some third party advertisers on our site use special kind of cookie to track the results of a certain campaign, by placing cookies on your computer. FARECRAWLER.COM has no control over neither the placement nor the content of these third party cookies and we can't access any personally identifiable information about you as a result of these cookies.
With the help of cookies placed or initiated by us we track individual user behavior and reaction to the offering on our website or offers submitted to you in a newsletter. We are using the data collected to better customize the offering and the booking process of our website offers and optimize the information that we provide to you in the future to better serve you. Personally identifiable Individual user data as a result of the placement of cookies by FARECRAWLER.COM is not shared with third parties.
Browsers are initially set to accept cookies you can always set your computer preferences to refuse cookies.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy we may need to disclose user information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights or properties of FARECRAWLER.COM when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
