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THE SUMMARY
CaribbeanLime.com is an affiliate of IAN.com is
in the travel business, not the spying business.
We will not ask you for information that does
not have a purpose and we will not require
information to be disclosed that is not
absolutely necessary. We will not sell your
personally identifiable information to others,
however, if you accessed this website through a
IAN.com Affiliate, your personally identifiable
information (other than your credit card
information) may be forwarded to that Affiliate.
Whether you travel the Web or travel the world,
IAN.com wants you to always be safe!
THE DETAILS
Your privacy is important to us. To better
protect your privacy we provide this notice
explaining our online information practices and
the choices you can make about the way your
information is collected and used. This notice
shall apply to all information IAN.com collects
or is submitted by the user on the IAN.com
website. To make this notice easy to find; we
make it available on our homepage and at every
point where personally identifiable information
may be requested.
Use of Customer
Information
IAN.com is the sole owner of the information
collected on this site. We will not sell or
rent this information to others in ways that
differ from what is disclosed in this statement.
General Information
- What We Collect and Why
- IAN.com may include information about
your visit in collective or aggregated data
that does not identify you specifically. For
example, we may tell our advertisers or
investors the number of website visitors or
the most popular vacation destinations.
- Our server recognizes domain names and
the pages visited. This data is gathered in
an aggregate manner for quality control and
improvement of our website.
- IAN.com does not market to children nor
collect personal information about children
at this website.
Individual Information
- What We Collect and Why
- Your name, email address, physical
address, phone and fax number, and credit
card number, expiration date and billing
address are necessary to ensure we are able
to make and confirm your reservation. We do
not share this personal information with
outside parties except to the extent
necessary to complete your reservation or
product order.
- Your contact information is needed in
order to notify you in the event of any
processing difficulties or unforeseen
circumstances fulfilling your reservation or
product order. In some cases, paper tickets
may need to be mailed to you. The more
easily we can contact you, the better we can
serve you.
- IAN.com will use the information you
provide about yourself in order to make the
IAN.com website as customer friendly as
possible. We want to know you to better
serve you, but do not want to invade your
life. We may ask you for more information
about your travel interests. In the future
this information may be used to help IAN.com
make more applicable travel recommendations.
However, this information will always be
optional.
Newsletter -
What We Collect and Why
- Your email address ensures you receive
the newsletter in a timely manner.
- Your name is optional and tells us who
personally to address - just a nice touch.
- Although we do not want you to miss any
great travel deals, you can unsubscribe to
any IAN.com newsletter at anytime, by
sending an email to
customers@ian.com. Please tell us the
newsletter title and the email address you
want removed.
Surveys - What
We Collect and Why
- From time to time IAN.com conducts
voluntary customer surveys, which may ask
questions about broad background information
and customer preferences. This survey
information is completely optional and you
are under no obligation to be a part of any
survey. The information IAN.com collects is
used to better serve our customers by
helping IAN.com determine our customer's
travel needs and improve the satisfaction
and use of this website.
- Participation in these surveys or
contests is completely voluntary and you
therefore have a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. Information
requested may include demographic
information including, but not limited to:
age, gender, approximate household income,
how you travel, how you make your
reservations, and why you travel.
- Your contact information may be required
if a prize is to be awarded to survey
respondents either at random or
individually. This will enable us to contact
you to notify you of details regarding your
prize.
COOKIES
Cookies are small pieces of information stored
on your computer tied to information about you.
We use both session ID cookies and persistent
cookies. For the session ID cookie, once you
close the browser, the cookie simply terminates.
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 the Web browser help file directions.
We use cookies to track usage of the Guest
path and to serve advertisements through our
advertising networks. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer,
you can edit your browser options to block them
in the future. If you reject the cookie, you may
still use our website. The only drawback to this
is that you will be limited in some areas of our
website. Persistent cookies enable us to track
and target the interests of our users to enhance
the experience on our website.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any
personally identifiable information while on our
site.
Advertising
A cookie file may also be placed on your hard
drive by our third-party advertising companies.
These companies may use aggregated statistics
about your visits to this and other websites in
order to provide advertisements about
travel-related goods and services that you may
be interested in. The information they collect
does not include your personally identifiable
information.The third-party advertising
companies may also employ technology that is
used to measure the effectiveness of ads. This
is primarily accomplished through the use of a
Web beacon (a single-pixel GIF), which is placed
on our site to collect anonymous information.
They may use this anonymous information about
your visits to this and other sites in order to
provide advertisements about goods and services
of potential interest to you. No personally
identifiable information is collected during
this process. The information is anonymous and
does not link online actions to an identifiable
person. If you would like more information and
want to explore the option of not having this
information collected by third-party
advertisers,
click here.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends,
administer the website, track users' movements,
and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to
personally identifiable information.
Affiliates
An Affiliate is a Web site not owned or operated
by IAN.com, but uses IAN.com's booking
capabilities for processing travel
reservations. The IAN.com name may or may not
appear on the Affiliate site.
You may have accessed IAN.com via one of our
Affiliate websites. Some of our Affiliates also
use cookies on our site. However, we have no
access to or control over these cookies, once we
have given permission for them to set cookies.
Please be aware that IAN.com is in no way
responsible for the privacy practices of such
other websites. We encourage you to read the
privacy statement of the Affiliate and each and
every website you visit that collects personally
identifiable information. This Privacy Statement
covers the use of cookies by this website only
and does not cover the use of cookies by any of
our Affiliates, advertisers or other business
partners.
SHARING
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user
privacy, we may be required by law to disclose
information you have provided in obtaining our
travel products or services. We may also
disclose information against someone who poses a
threat to our interests (such as customer fraud)
or whose activities could bring harm to others.
In addition, it may be necessary for us to
provide customer information to third parties,
such as credit card companies, for the purpose
of resolving disputes that arise in the normal
course of business.
Third Party
Intermediaries
IAN.com uses an outside a credit card processing
company and bank check processing company to
bill users for goods and services. These
companies do not retain, share, store or use
personally identifiable information for any
secondary purposes.
This website makes use of a technology
designed to enhance your browsing experience.
The technology, provided as a hosted service
application by Fireclick ®, makes use of a small
and transparent Java applet to provide you with
a faster browsing experience. In addition,
aggregate reporting information is collected and
made available to the website owner only. No
personal or personally identifiable information
is gathered or used for this process.
If for any reason you do not wish to have
this technology enabled while browsing this
site, please click
here. A cookie will be set on your browser
that instructs the service not to start. If you
have disabled the service and wish to reactivate
it, please click
here. Additional information on Fireclick's
technology may be found at www.fireclick.com.
Suppliers
IAN.com provides information about travel either
reserved or purchased on this website to the
suppliers whose will fulfill your travel
reservation. Although we offers travel products
from hotel, airline, car rental and other
suppliers that are reputable companies, we have
not placed limitations on these suppliers from
using or disclosing your information without
your permission. Therefore, we encourage you to
review the information privacy practices of any
travel suppliers whose products you purchase on
this website. In addition, these travel
suppliers may also contact you as necessary to
obtain additional information about your
confirmed reservation.
IAN.com will occasionally share aggregated
information with our service providers. This
information does not contain any personally
identifiable information and is used to develop
featured programs and content that will be of
interest to our website visitors.
IAN.com may contract with a reputable
third-party to facilitate the distribution of
survey, promotion, or sweepstakes programs. Upon
completion of these projects, all information is
returned to us.
Affiliates
If you access our website through one of our
Affiliates and make travel reservations, your
personally identifiable information (other than
credit card information) may be forwarded to
that particular Affiliate.
Aggregate
Information (non-personally identifiable
information)
IAN.com will share aggregated demographic
information with our Affiliates and advertisers.
Links
This site may contain links to other sites.
Please be aware that IAN.com is in no way
responsible for the privacy practices of such
other sites. We encourage our customers to be
aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every website
that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies
solely to information collected by the IAN.com
website.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If IAN.com decides to change its Privacy
Statement, we will post those changes this
Privacy Statement so you are always aware of
what information we collect, how we use it, and
under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If
at any point we decide to use personally
identifiable information in a manner different
from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify you by way of email. You will
have a choice as to whether or not we use your
information in this different manner.
CORRECTING/UPDATING
PERSONAL INFORMATION
If a user's personally identifiable information
(such as zip code, phone, email or postal
address) changes or if a user no longer desires
our service, we provide a way to correct or
update a user's personally identifiable
information. Users can all email our Customer
Support at
Customer Care or contact us by telephone or
postal mail at the contact information listed
below.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy
Statement, please contact us at:
Email
Customer Care
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10440 North Central Expressway
Suite 400
Dallas, Texas 75231
USA
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This Privacy Statement is effective as of
July 22, 2004 |