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This site is owned and operated by Interstate Hotels
& Resorts, Inc. Your privacy is very important
to us. We respect the privacy of every individual
who visits this Web site or responds to this hotel’s
interactive advertisements. To help protect your
privacy, we adhere to the following guidelines.
Note:
This policy applies only to this Web site/hotel
only. This site contains links to other sites,
some of them are our service providers, for example,
our reservations booking engine. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such
Web sites. The following discloses our information
gathering activities for this Web site only.
Information
Collected and Use of Information
We do not collect “Personal
Information” (information that personally identifies
our customers or allows us to contact our customers)
from individuals unless they provide it
to us voluntarily and knowingly. We do not require
you to register in order to use the Web site.
We use the information you supply for the purpose
of providing the services you’ve requested. This
Web site will explicitly ask when it needs information
that personally identifies our customers or allows
it to contact our customers (“Personal Information”).
When possible, this Web site will provide our
customers with the means to make sure that Personal
Information is correct and current.
This
Web site may use Personal Information to operate
the site, provide services, and to inform our
customers of new features, services, and products.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site
servers we use log files. This includes Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet
Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
platform type, date/time stamp, and number of
clicks to analyze trends, administer the site,
track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather
broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally
identifiable information.
Cookies
Our customers should also be
aware that information and data may be automatically
collected through the standard operation of our
Internet servers and through the use of “cookies.”
“Cookies” are small text files a Web site can
use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the
user’s ongoing access to and use of the site and
allow a site to track usage behavior and compile
aggregate data that will allow content improvements
and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs
that come onto a system and damage files. Generally,
cookies work by assigning a unique number to each
customer that has no meaning outside the assigning
site. If you do not want information collected
through the use of cookies, there is a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows a customer
to deny or accept the cookie feature; however,
you should note that cookies may be necessary
to provide customers with certain features (e.g.,
customized delivery of information) available
on this Web site. This Web site may use a database
to track users.
Business Transitions
In the event we go through a
business transition, such as a merger, being acquired
by another company, or selling a portion of its
assets, users’ personal information will, in most
instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Users will be notified prior to a change of ownership
or control of their personal information. If,
as a result of the business transition, the users’
personally identifiable information will be used
in a manner different from that stated at the
time of collection, they will be given choice
consistent with our notification of changes section.
This
Web site may disclose Personal Information if
required to do so by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply
with applicable law or with legal process served
on us or the site; (b) protect and defend the
rights or property of us or this site, and (c)
act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of our hotel(s), the
site, or the public.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity
to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used
for purposes not directly related to our site
or not mentioned in this Web Site Privacy Policy
at the point where we ask for information. In
addition, users who no longer wish to receive
our email communications may opt-out of receiving
these communications by replying to unsubscribe
information contained in the email.
Links
This Web site contains links
to other sites and service providers. For example,
for online reservations, order forms and email
marketing. Please be aware that we are not responsible
for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave
our site and to read the privacy statements of
each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this
Web site.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes to this privacy
statement, via a link from the homepage, and other
places we deem appropriate so our users are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose
it. We will use information in accordance with
the privacy policy under which the information
was collected.
If
at any time a customer believes that this Web
site has not adhered to these principles, please
notify us, and we will use all commercially reasonable
efforts to promptly determine and correct the
problem.
Updated 8/1/02.
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