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Your privacy is very important to Marathon Travel
& Cruise Shop. We have established and implemented
practices that we believe are consistent with the
highest standards and best practices of organizations
doing business on the Internet. This privacy policy
("policy") describes the practices that
apply to our travel product, including, specifically,
the information we collect about you, when and how
we collect that information and what may happen to
that information.
* Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will not collect
personally identifiable information like your name,
e-mail and mailing address and telephone number ("Personal
Information") without your knowledge and permission
* Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will not disclose
your Personal Information to third parties other than
those required to complete your travel purchases
* Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will not sell
your Personal Information to anyone
* Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will allow you
to view, correct or remove your Personal Information
and other information associated with your Traveler
Profile as a user of our travel product
* Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will take reasonable
steps to protect the security of the Personal Information
we collect from you
REGISTERED USERS
Personal Information
At Registration, you will provide an e-mail
address and select a Username and Password that will
be required to gain access to portions of our travel
product. When you access My Account and complete your
Traveler Profile, we will collect Personal Information
about you that you voluntarily provide and that is
necessary for us to deliver the services offered on
our site. Personal Information includes your name,
e-mail and mailing address, telephone numbers and
payment information for online purchases.
Other Information
You may choose to provide other information
about yourself and your travel preferences, such as,
preferred seat selection, airline/hotel/car-rental
loyalty or awards program membership numbers, special
meal requests and ticketing options. We will use this
information to automatically record your travel preferences
in reservations you confirm and to provide more appropriate
travel recommendations to you. Travel Preferences
allow us to customize the information we return to
you so that your favorite services and companies are
considered for inclusion. You may use our travel product
to search for and purchase travel services even if
you do not share this type of information with us.
Traveler Profile
Once you register, you will be able to reserve
and purchase travel services through our travel product
in part using information contained in your Traveler
Profile. To do so, you must provide payment information
consisting of credit card number, expiration date,
cardholder name and billing address. We will keep
a history of all your reserved and purchased services
through our travel product.
Traveler Profile Security and Authentication
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop provides
additional security by using authentication mechanisms
to restrict access to your Traveler Profile information
to users without proper authorization. Authentication
includes a username and password confirmation before
Personal Information can be requested or viewed. Access
to your Traveler Profile is available only to your
username and password, so it is important you save
this information while securing it from others' use.
How We Use Your Personal Information
Personal Information such as your name, telephone
numbers, personal travel preferences and credit card
information is provided to airlines, car rental companies,
hotels and other travel suppliers when necessary to
obtain travel service availability and rates, and
to complete a reservation or finalize the purchase
of a travel itinerary. Marathon Travel & Cruise
Shop does not warranty the way your Personal Information
is used by travel suppliers to whom this information
is provided. We use your email address to notify you
of purchase confirmation. Personal Information may
also be provided to support personnel as necessary
to ensure the integrity and operation of our travel
product.
Sharing of Personal Information and Disclosure
Other than as explained in this policy, we
will not disclose any Personal Information we collect
from you to others without your permission, except
in certain limited circumstances:
(a) to protect the security of our travel
product and our rights under Terms and Conditions
of Use;
(b) to protect ourselves against liability;
(c) in response to legal process;
(d) if we believe in good faith that the
law requires it;
(e) in connection with a sale of our business
or company; or
(f) in connection with governmental security
initiatives.
Other Travelers
If you decide to reserve or purchase travel
services for other travelers under your registration,
we will collect certain Personal Information about
these travelers. You need to ensure each of these
other travelers agrees to allow you to disclose their
Personal Information. If you create an individual
Traveler Profile for another traveler, we will retain
their Personal Information under your My Account section
of the travel product along with your Traveler Profile.
Security
Whenever you use our travel product, you are
automatically signed in securely unless you choose
otherwise. All your transactions are protected by
powerful Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology
supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, 5.0,
Netscape and other popular browsers.
Whenever personal or financial information is transmitted
via the Internet, Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop
utilizes the leading security technology on the Internet
known as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. SSL
protects the confidentiality of personal and financial
information shared between the user and Marathon Travel
& Cruise Shop by encrypting the data during transmission.
SSL encrypts your credit card number, name, address,
and phone number before they travel over the Internet.
Travel Purchase Information
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop collects
the billing address of the credit card that is used
to purchase travel. We will also collect credit card
information, including card number, card type, cardholder
name, and expiration date, in order to bill you for
travel purchased through our travel product. Each
time you purchase travel through our travel product,
you will receive an e-mail confirmation of your itinerary
to the e-mail address you provided at Registration.
Your Consent
Use of our travel product means you agree to
the collection and use, as defined in this Privacy
Policy, of information made available through this
product. Changes to our privacy policy will be posted
on this page so you are always made aware of the information
we collect, how it is used and when and to whom it
is disclosed.
Ability to Delete Your Account Information
At any time you may update or delete information
in the My Account section of the travel product, including
information in your Traveler Profile and in any other
Traveler Profiles you have created.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information that
are stored on your computer by your web browser to
help establish a future connection. Cookies allow
our travel product server to recognize you on subsequent
logins, correctly provide you with the information
you request based on preferences you establish and
to authenticate your authority to access the travel
product. In addition, Cookies are used to maintain
session information during a transaction and to enhance
security.
Cookies and authentication software enable us to:
* Recognize you as a unique user, saving you from
going through the log-in process each time you visit
the travel product
* Identify where you are in a purchase transaction
in progress during a session
* Obtain usage information about the way you prefer
to use our travel product, allowing us to improve
the ease of use in future versions
* When completing your user Registration, you have
the option to select either (1) Remember my Username
and Password, (2) Remember my Username only, or (3)
Do not save my Username or Password. A Cookie is saved
when you select either of the first two options.
Modification of this Privacy Policy
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop reserves
the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at
any time. If there are material changes to this Policy,
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop will post these
changes at least 30 days prior to their implementation.
Our Legal Obligations
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop may be required
by law to disclose information you have provided in
obtaining our travel products or services. Marathon
Travel & Cruise Shop may also disclose information
against someone who poses a threat to the travel product's
interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities
could bring harm to others.
Use of Third-Party Service Providers
Marathon Travel & Cruise Shop contracts
with other highly reputable third parties to support
the travel product and your purchases on it; to communicate
with you via email; and to collect and provide web
usage information. Such third parties are subject
to maintain the confidentiality of all information
obtained from or about the usage of our travel product.
Other Web sites/Links
From time to time Marathon Travel & Cruise
Shop's travel product may link you to other Web sites
that do not operate under our travel product's information
privacy practices. When you click through to these
Web sites, our travel product's information privacy
practices no longer apply. You will be responsible
for examining the privacy statements for all third
party Web sites to understand their procedures for
collecting, using, and disclosing your information.
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