| | |  | |  | | TimesharePartners.com Privacy NoticeLast updated: May 1, 2009.TimesharePartners.com knows that you care
how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that
we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy.
By visiting TimesharePartners.com, you are accepting the practices described
in this Privacy Notice.- What Personal Information About Customers Does
TimesharePartners.com Gather?
- What About Cookies?
- Does TimesharePartners.com Share the Information It Receives?
- How Secure Is Information About Me?
- What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
- Which Information Can I Access?
- What Choices Do I Have?
- Are Children Allowed to Use TimesharePartners.com?
- Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
- Examples of Information Collected
What Personal Information About
Customers Does TimesharePartners.com Gather?
The information we learn from customers
helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at
TimesharePartners.com. Here are the types of information we gather.
- Information You Give Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us
in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but
then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We
use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to
your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our product
and services, and communicating with you.
- Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact
with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and
we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses
TimesharePartners.com or advertisements and other content served by or on
behalf of TimesharePartners.com on other Web sites.
- E-mail Communications:
To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a
confirmation when you open e-mail from TimesharePartners.com if your
computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our customer list to
lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending
unnecessary messages to our customers. If you do not want to receive
e-mail or other mail from us, please email us at unsubscribe at
timesharepartners.com.
- Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add
it to our account information.
What About Cookies?- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your
computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to
recognize your browser and to provide features such as recommendations,
personalized advertisements on other Web sites (e.g., Timeshare Partners
Associates with content served by TimesharePartners.com and Web sites powered
by Timeshare Partners), and storage of items in your Shopping Cart between
visits.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how
to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data
used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's
settings or visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. However, because
cookies allow you to take advantage of some of TimesharePartners.com's
essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For
instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be
able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any
TimesharePartners.com products and services that require you to Sign in.
Does TimesharePartners.com Share the
Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our
business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share
customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries
Timeshareweb.com, LLC controls or entities related to Timeshareweb.com, LLC that
either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as
protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
- Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with affiliated businesses. In
some cases, these businesses operate within TimesharePartners.com or sell
offerings to you at TimesharePartners.com. In other cases, we operate
stores, provide services, or sell product lines jointly with these
businesses. You can tell when a third party is involved in your
transactions, and we share customer information related to those
transactions with that third party.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on
our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, preparing documents,
sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from
customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing
search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing
credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to
personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it
for other purposes.
- Promotional Offers:
Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of TimesharePartners.com
customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give
that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such
offers, please email us at unsubscribe at timesharepartners.com.
- Business Transfers: As
we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy related
businesses, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions,
customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets
but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy
Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the
unlikely event that TimesharePartners.com, Inc., or substantially all of
its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the
transferred assets.
- Protection of TimesharePartners.com and Others: We release account and other personal
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law;
enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect
the rights, property, or safety of TimesharePartners.com, our users, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously,
however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise
disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for
commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy
Notice.
- With Your Consent: Other
than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you
might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not
to share the information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?- We work to protect the security of your information during
transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts
information you input.
- We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers
when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card
number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
- It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to
your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished
using a shared computer.
What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
Our site includes third-party advertising and links to other
Web sites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information
to these advertisers or third-party Web sites.
These third-party Web sites and advertisers, or Internet
advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send
(or "serve") the advertisements that appear on our Web site directly
to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens.
They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags
or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of
their ads and to personalize advertising content. We do not have access to or
control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information
practices of these advertisers and third-party Web sites are not covered by
this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about
their privacy practices.
TimesharePartners.com also displays personalized third-party
advertising based on personal information about customers, such as purchases on
TimesharePartners.com, visits to Timeshare Partners Associate Web sites, or use
of our product. Although
TimesharePartners.com does not provide any personal information to advertisers,
advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that users who interact
with or click on a personalized advertisement meet their criteria to
personalize the ad (for example, users in the Southeastern United States who
bought or browsed for locations in Hawaii. If you do not want us to use
personal information that we gather to allow third parties to personalize
advertisements we display to you, please email us at unsubscribe at
timesharepartners.com.
Which Information Can I Access?
TimesharePartners.com gives you access to a broad range of
information about your account and your interactions with TimesharePartners.com
for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that
information.
What Choices Do I Have?- As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide
information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take
advantage of other TimesharePartners.com features.
- You can add or update certain information on certain pages. When
you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for
our records.
- If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please contact
us at unsubscribe at timesharepartners.com. (If you do not want to receive
Conditions of Use and other legal notices from us, such as this Privacy
Notice, those notices will still govern your use of TimesharePartners.com,
and it is your responsibility to review them for changes.)
- If you do not want us to use personal information that we gather to
allow third parties to personalize advertisements we display to you,
please contact us at unsubscribe at timesharepartners.com.
- The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how
to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the
browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable
cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data
used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's
settings or visiting the Web site of its manufacturer. However, because
cookies allow you to take advantage of some of TimesharePartners.com's
essential features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. For
instance, if you block or otherwise reject our cookies, you will not be
able to add items to your Shopping Cart, proceed to Checkout, or use any
TimesharePartners.com products and services that require you to Sign in.
- Are Children
Allowed to Use TimesharePartners.com?
TimesharePartners.com does not sell products for
purchase by children. If you are under 18, you may use
TimesharePartners.com only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit TimesharePartners.com, your visit
and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions
of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and
application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern
about privacy at TimesharePartners.com, please contact us with a thorough
description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes
constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change
also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless
you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site
frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current
Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your
account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never
materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective
of customer information collected in the past without the consent of
affected customers. Examples of
Information CollectedInformation You Give UsYou
provide most such information when you search, buy, bid, post, participate in a
contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example,
you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through
TimesharePartners.com or one of our third-party sellers; provide information in
Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one
e-mail address when shopping with us) or Your Profile; communicate with us by
phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form;
compile Wish Lists or other registries; provide employer information when
opening a corporate account; participate in Discussion Boards or other
community features; provide and rate Reviews; specify a Special Occasion
Reminder; share information with Timeshare Partners Friends; and employ other
Personal Notification Services, such as Available to Order Notifications. As a
result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your
name, address, and phone numbers; credit card information; people to whom
purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number; e-mail
addresses of Timeshare Partners Friends and other people; content of reviews
and e-mails to us; personal description and photograph in Your Profile; and
financial information, including Social Security and driver's license numbers.
Automatic InformationExamples
of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP)
address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address;
password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version,
and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system,
and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar
information from other customers to create features such as Purchase Circles
and Top Sellers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to,
through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number;
products you viewed or searched for; and the phone number you used to call our
800 number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also
known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our
Web site for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use
software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information,
including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain
pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs),
and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information from Other SourcesExamples
of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and
address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to
correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more
easily; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view
information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or
for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services;
search term and search result information from some searches conducted through
the Web search features offered by our subsidiaries, search results and links,
including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links); and credit history
information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud
and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.
Co-branded and Joint OfferingsExamples
of businesses with which we offer joint or co-branded products and other
offerings include Timeshare Closing Services, various resorts and resellers. Information You Can AccessExamples
of information you can access easily at TimesharePartners.com include
up-to-date information regarding recent orders; personally identifiable
information (including name, e-mail, password, communications and personalized
advertising preferences, and address book); payment settings (including credit
card information and gift certificate, gift card, and check balances); e-mail
notification settings (including Alerts, Available to Order notifications,
Delivers, Recommended for You, Special Occasion Reminders, and newsletters);
recommendations (including recent product view history, prior order history,
and Favorites); shopping lists and gift registries (including Wish Lists);
Marketplace seller accounts; and Your Profile (including your product Reviews,
Requests, and Recommendations, personal profile, people you tagged as
interesting, and Timeshare Partners Friends).
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