By your access or use of this site, you hereby agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, which are incorporated into the Legal Terms posted on this Website by reference.
Privacy Policy Effectiveness
This Privacy Policy shall apply only to individual consumers and solely to information collected by this Website. This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 15, 2016 (“Effective Date”) and applies to personal and financial information submitted on this Website on or after the Effective Date.
Our Commitment to Privacy
Your privacy is very important to Travel Central, as well as to our respective subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "we," "us" or "our") and we are all committed to treating your personal information responsibly. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information gathering and dissemination practices and the choices you can make about the collection and use of the personal information you submit on this Website on which this Privacy Policy is posted. Use of this Website constitutes your consent to our collection and use of personal data in accordance with the terms hereof. We endeavor to maintain appropriate procedures and safeguards to protect the confidentiality of personal information we collect from visitors to this Website. Personal information collected is accessible only by designated staff or agents of our organization who are also bound to this statement, except as expressly described below. However, it is important to recognize that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. Therefore, while we endeavor to maintain appropriate physical and electronic procedures and safeguards to protect information collected from this Website, we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information that you disclose online and transmit to us, and you understand that you do so at your own risk.
Personal Information that We May Collect
We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you through this Website unless you provide it to us voluntarily, with the exception of your computer's IP address. The information we collect will vary depending on how you use this Website. On some pages you can register or request to receive materials, announcements and other information from us or from others. The types of personal information collected may include, without limitation, your name and contact information (such as your postal address, zip code, phone number or e-mail address), your gender, the number and/or ages of members of your household or business, information about the type of properties you are interested in and other general information relating to product preferences, personal interests, household income or areas of interest on our Website.
We do not collect or maintain information from those actually known to be under the age of 18. We will not contact children under age 18 without a parent's permission. In addition to the information provided by Website visitors, our computers automatically receive and record information from your Internet browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the pages you request (see "Cookies and Other Tracking Methods").
How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We use information you provide on an aggregated basis to do such things as operate our site, enhance our site, and to better understand the profile of our online audience. We may also use this data, both aggregate and personal to you, to enhance your site experience on our site by displaying content and marketing messages that we believe will be of interest to you. In some cases we use your personal information to contact you or to provide information to you, such as to send newsletters to you that you request.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell or rent your personal information or share your personal information with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except with your permission or as described above, or under the following limited circumstances:
Links
This Website may contain links to third-party Websites for service providers and others, which are provided solely as a convenience to viewers and not as an endorsement of the contents of such sites. While we endeavor to only provide links to Websites maintained by reputable organizations, you should be aware that these third parties might be able to gather information from and about you if you visit their Websites. In these cases, those third parties will use such information in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ substantially from our policy. We assume no liability for the privacy practices of such other sites and are not responsible for the availability or content of, any off-site pages or any other sites linked to our Website. Your linking to off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
Cookies and Other Tracking Methods
“Cookies” are small pieces of information stored on your computer. We may use cookies or, in a limited number of cases IP addresses, for a number of reasons. Cookies allow us to better understand how users use our site and can help us to tailor our Website or a marketing message to better match your needs and interests. Cookies can also help you remember your user name and password on protected areas of Websites. You are always free to decline our cookies and continue to use our Website if the tools in your browser permits, but some parts of our site may not work properly or as efficiently if you do.
In order to better provide information to you, our Website uses Remarketing with Google Analytics in our Display Advertising online, in which third-party vendors, including Google, show our ads on sites across the Internet. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (from our Website) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Website. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Preferences Manager or opt-out of Google Analytics.
Correction of Personal Information; Opt-Out Right
We make every effort to keep your information current and accurate. Accordingly, we ask that you notify us in the manner described below of any changes to your personal information.
You may at any time request to be removed from our email list by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us. Alternatively, you may notify us via e-mail, telephone or postal mail at the address shown in the last section of this Privacy Policy. In the event you elect not to receive any future contacts from us, we will endeavor to remove your name from our email list within 10 business days.
Notification of Changes in Privacy Policy or Use of Information Collected
This Privacy Policy may be updated and modified from time to time by us in our sole discretion. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy or if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that affect user information already collected through our site, we will post a notice of those changes on our Homepage. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. If you do not agree to any provision of this Privacy Policy, or any update or modification thereto, please do not use our Website.
Questions and Suggestions
Contact us via U.S. Mail
Travel Central Vacations
3017 12th Street
Metairie, LA 70002
Contact us by telephone at 1-800-899-8553 or 504-834-7000.
Thank you for using VacationPort™, NexCite™, ESP™ and Tandem™ services of Passport Online, Inc.
Passport Online, Inc. works with site operators to provide you with leisure travel research, promotion, booking request, and booking services. In order to provide these services to you, we occasionally ask you for certain information that we receive and store. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), including your first and last name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, and billing information (such as credit card number, cardholder name, and expiration date. We respect your privacy and will only use this personally identifiable information in the manner described below. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Passport Online, Inc. does not own or control, or to people that Passport Online, Inc. does not employ or manage.
Passport Online, Inc. provides a web service that is included in the web sites of site operators with whom we do business. Personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information is collected from you when you use our service.
When you use our service, you have the option to contact a site operator using our Trip Request and Profile forms to obtain further information about their products or services. When you submit this form, we electronically deliver the information you provide to the site operator. The information you provide in these forms includes personally identifiable information, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address. All details that you submit using the Trip Request and Profile forms will be made available to the site operator. We do not collect credit card numbers, social security numbers, or other financial account data in the Trip Request and Profile, and we strongly encourage you to avoid including that data when you complete our Profile and Trip Request Forms.
All of the information you enter in our Profile and Trip Request forms is saved for you to re-use in a subsequent visit. The information is stored in databases that we maintain. Other than Passport Online, only the site operator to whom you submitted your information has access to your personally identifiable information within our database.
When you use our service, you have the option to book travel products. We use sensitive billing information (such as cardholder name, credit card number, and expiration date) for the purpose of completing the travel bookings you conduct on our site. Other than Passport Online, only the site operator and the travel supplier (such as a cruise line, tour operator, or other travel operator) to whom you submitted your information have access to your personally identifiable information within our database.
Passport Online provides access from our service to certain third party online booking tools that you can use to book travel with third parties. Passport Online provides access to third party online booking tools as a service to you and to the site operator, but has no responsibility for their operation. These tools by their nature must gather personally identifiable information and credit card information from you to complete your booking requests. Personally identifiable information collected by these third parties is subject to their privacy policies and you are encouraged to review said policies before providing any personally identifiable information.
When you enter a third party online booking tool from our service, we may pass some of your personally identifiable information to the booking tool. If you have not logged in to our service or have not registered, no such information will be shared.
Site operators, travel suppliers, and third party booking tool providers with whom we share or you share your personally identifiable information may have their own privacy policies. Personally identifiable information collected by these site operators, travel suppliers, and third party booking tool providers is subject to their privacy policies and you are encouraged to review said policies before providing any personally identifiable information. Their policies may differ from our policy. Passport Online, Inc. shall have no obligation or liability of any kind to you respecting the privacy policies of site operators and third party booking tool providers, the failure of any of them to adopt a travel policy or follow their respective privacy policies, or their use of your personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a small file that is sent from our system to your computer and is used to store data. We use session ID cookies for regular operation of our service. Once you close your browser, the cookie is discarded. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. Our service does not use persistent cookies.
We use log files to track system activity and maintain our systems. Log data includes IP addresses, browser type, referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number and nature of clicks through our service.
We use this information to analyze usage patterns, observe trends, administer the site, track user movements in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Site operators that include our service in their web sites may place banner ads on our service, using screen space we optionally set aside for that purpose. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Passport Online only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
When you create a Profile and send a Trip Request to a site operator, you can choose to receive travel promotion emails from Passport Online, Inc. and the site operator. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option to avoid receiving these types of communications. Promotion emails from a site operator are subject to the respective site operator privacy policies.
We make every reasonable effort to preserve user privacy. We will, however, disclose personal information compelled by law, order, regulation, rule or legal process when, in our judgment, we are required to do so. Statistical information about visitor usage of our service is aggregated and shared for the purposes of preparing and delivering personalized promotions and special offers to visitors who have requested such information. We make use of and share aggregate information with third parties. Personally identifiable information is not attached to this aggregate information. In the event we should go through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of our assets, users' personal information will in most instances be part of the assets transferred. If there is a material change in the use of personally identifiable information that has been previously collected, Passport Online, Inc. will notify you by posting a revised privacy policy with a modified effective date. We encourage you to review our privacy policy often to review any changes.
Our service takes every reasonable precaution to protect our users' information. When you submit sensitive information via our service, your information is protected both online and off-line.
We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you..
If you have any questions about the security of our service, please send us an email at support@passportonlineinc.com.
If there are material changes to our privacy policy, we will post a link to our revised privacy policy on our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at support@passportonlineinc.com. If you would like to review or change any of your personally identifiable information, please contact us at changenotify@passportonlineinc.com.