Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. wants you to know how we address privacy issues on the www.garbertravel.com web site (the "Site"). Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. provides the privacy policy below (the "Privacy Policy") to explain how your personal information will be treated by Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of this Site following such modifications will be conclusively deemed acceptance by you of any changes to this Privacy Policy. Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. will provide reasonable notice that this Privacy Policy has been changed on our web site; please watch for such notices, as individual email notice may not be provided.
The term "Third Party" used in this Privacy Policy means any entity other than Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.
I. Collection of personal information from site users
A) Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may collect and/or track (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of computer, and type of web browser of visitors to the Site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. or the Site via e-mail, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in online forms (including travel preferences, such as seat selection, meal requests, frequent flyer/hotel/car rental program information, and ticketing options), registration forms, surveys, and contest entries (including name, address, e-mail and other personal profile data), and (4) aggregate and user-specific information regarding page views and other online activities. You can choose not to provide information to Garber’s Travel Service, Inc., but in general some information about you is required in order for you to utilize the Site and/or to purchase products or services; complete a traveler profile; participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes; or initiate other transactions on the Site. When you make travel or other arrangements for someone else through the Site, we will request personal information and travel preferences about that individual. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. with their personal information and travel preferences.
B) Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may place internet "cookies" on visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual visitors, such as the visitor’s name, password, username, screen preferences, the pages of a site viewed by the visitor, and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the visitor. When the visitor revisits the Site, Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may recognize the visitor by the internet cookie and customize the visitor’s experience accordingly. Visitors may decline internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate feature of their web client software, if available; however, this may impair certain features of the Site.
C) When a visitor performs a search within the Site, Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may record information identifying the visitor or linking the visitor to the search performed. Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may also record limited information associated with every search request made by the visitor and use that information to, among other things, solve technical problems with the service and to calculate overall usage statistics.
II. Use of personal data collected
Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may use personally identifiable information in a number of ways, such as:
A) To communicate with you about your account, or to communicate information about the Site.
B) To build higher quality, more useful services such as by analyzing usage trends, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Site.
C) To provide you with prompt and effective customer service.
D) To support the operation of the Site (such as account maintenance and record keeping), troubleshoot problems, resolve disputes, and to enforce our terms and conditions.
E) To inform you about services related to Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.. You will have the option of opting out of further communications of this type by sending an email to: unsubscribe@garbertravel.com (please refer to section VII below.)
III. Disclosure of personal data collected
Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. may disclose personally identifiable information about you to third parties as follows:
A) With your consent.
B) To facilitate a transaction or communication with a Third Party that you have initiated.
C) To Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.’s agents and advisors (such as our accountants or attorneys). We only disclose the personal information necessary for them to provide their services to you or to us, and only under strict confidentiality restrictions.
D) As Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. believes necessary to: (1) comply with law (including court and government orders, and civil subpoenas); (2) enforce or apply Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.'s terms and conditions and rules and regulations and other agreements; or (3) protect the rights, property, or safety of Garber’s Travel Service, Inc., our users, or others.
E) If you partake (or we reasonably suspect that you are partaking) in any illegal or potentially illegal activity. We may disclose personal information even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order, to the extent we feel is necessary to inform and cooperate with law enforcement agencies or other appropriate authorities.
F) In aggregated form, i.e., information about multiple users collectively without identifying any individual user, such as the total number of visitors to the Site in a given week.
G) Due to circumstances beyond Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.'s control. Despite the precautions we take to protect your personal information, the unfortunate fact is that there is simply no such thing as a perfect security system. Also, we have no control over the security of the internet in general. As a result, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will never gain access to your transmissions or information, or that personal information will never be disclosed in ways not covered by this Privacy Policy.
H) In connection with a transfer, reorganization or otherwise, to a successor-in-interest to Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.’s organization or its other material assets.
IV. Collection of personal data from Children
To the extent that Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to, or communications with, the Site, Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from individuals under eighteen years of age ("Children" or "Child") without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information collected from Children, regardless of its source, to any Third Party for any purpose whatsoever.
V. Security measures
Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. uses advanced technology to ensure security on all data transmitted via the Site. Secure sockets layer (SSL) technology is used to transmit all data between browsers and our web server where applicable. In order to use the Site, users must be running an ssl-capable browser such as MS Internet explorer 4.0 (or later version) or Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or a later version).
VI. Third Party web sites
The Site may contain links to other internet web sites. Unless we explicitly state otherwise, we have no control over these Third Party sites and their privacy practices, and this Privacy Policy applies only to information you supply (or that we collect) in connection with use of the Site. You should review Third Party privacy policies in connection with visiting the sites.
VII. Opt-out right
Visitors may opt-out of having their personal information collected by Garber’s Travel Service, Inc., used by Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. For secondary purposes, or used by Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. to send promotional correspondence to the visitor, by contacting Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. via email at:
unsubscribe@garbertravel.com or via postal mail at the address below. To the extent you choose to continue using the Site, however, we may use your personal information as may be reasonably necessary in connection with such use.
VIII. Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. right to contact visitor
Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. reserves the right to contact visitors to the Site regarding their records and reservations, as well as changes to the terms and conditions, Privacy Policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors.
IX. Access to and ability to correct personal data
Upon request via postal mail or e-mail (during our regular business hours), Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. will provide to visitors a summary of any personally identifiable information retained by Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. regarding the visitor. Visitors may modify, correct, change or update personally identifiable information that Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. has collected through the Site or may cause their personal record to be removed from Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.'s database by contacting Garber’s Travel Service, Inc. via postal mail or e-mail indicated below.
X. Contact information
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or you would like to review, change, and/or remove your personal information, you may contact us at:
E-mail:
info@garber.fcm.travel
Mailing address:
Garber’s Travel Service, Inc.
27 Boylston Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467