In general, we will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you. For example, personal information is generally requested when you are asked to register before entering a contest, ordering e-mail newsletters, joining a limited-access premium site, or when purchasing and registering Atourbook.com products.
The amount of personal information you are required to supply will normally be limited to that which is necessary to supply the service or carry out the transaction that you have requested. If other information is requested, it will be labeled as optional.
Many Atourbook.com products, sites, and services provide links to sites and services operated by other companies or organizations. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of those sites and services that you choose to visit, so that you can understand how they may collect, use, and share your personal information. Atourbook.com is not responsible for the privacy statements or practices of sites and services controlled by other companies or organizations.
Use of Your Personal Information
The personal information we collect from you will be used by Atourbook.com and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates to provide the service or carry out the transaction you have requested or authorized. This may include using the personal information for the following purposes:
To improve the product or service and to provide better customer service to users.
The privacy statement of the specific product or service you are using will disclose how the personal information that is collected will be used.
Except as described below, Atourbook.com does not transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent. Atourbook.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, sending, and delivering purchases and other mailings; answering customer questions about products or services; processing event registration; or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Atourbook.com may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Atourbook.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Atourbook.com and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Atourbook.com employees, users of Atourbook.com products or services, or members of the public.
Personal information collected by Atourbook.com may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Atourbook.com or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities.
Controlling and Accessing Your Personal Information
Because Atourbook.com offers a wide variety of different products and services, the personal information collected by each Atourbook.com product or service may not all reside in a single location. Therefore to access or exercise control over the data submitted at a particular site or via a particular product, you may need to return to that location to learn how to access the data or change your preferences regarding the use of that data.
Nevertheless, Atourbook.com does believe that you should be able to exercise control over how the personal information you provide will be used. If you provide personal information to Atourbook.com for one purpose, you will be able to opt-out of that personal information being used for other unrelated purposes.
Please be aware that the choices you make in one context will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to Atourbook.com in the context of other, separately operated, Atourbook.com products, sites, or services.
Atourbook.com also believes that you should be able to access the personal information you have provided, so that you can update or amend the data where it is inaccurate. Different Atourbook.com sites and services may have different methods of providing access to the personal information they have stored. Some Atourbook.com sites and services have even created tools to allow you to directly access and change your personal data in real time. For example, personal information you have provided on the Atourbook.com Web site can be accessed through the Options section.
Security of Your Personal Information
Atourbook.com is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies or Web Beacons On Atourbook.com Sites
Many Atourbook.com Web sites use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you or your computer, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a Atourbook.com web page, or register with a Atourbook.com site or service, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Atourbook.com web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized. While some cookies contain personal information, others allow you to customize a site while remaining anonymous. The privacy statement of the particular site your are visiting will describe how that site uses cookies.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the sites or services you visit.
Atourbook.com Web pages may also contain electronic images known as "Web beacons" -sometimes called single-pixel gifs-that allow Atourbook.com to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information. They are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Web site usage. Some Atourbook.com sites may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners, to help us determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.
Contact Information
If you have questions about these policies, please contact us at info@atourbook.com.
