Holiday Inn Arlington is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Holiday Inn Arlington Web site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Holiday Inn Arlington website, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Arlington collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Holiday Inn Arlington also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Holiday Inn Arlington. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This
information is used by Holiday Inn Arlington for the operation of the service, to maintain
quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Holiday Inn
Arlington Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Holiday Inn Arlington public message boards, this
information may be collected and used by others. Note: Holiday Inn Arlington does not
read any of your private online communications.
Holiday Inn Arlington encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Holiday Inn Arlington so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Holiday Inn Arlington is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Holiday Inn
Arlington and Holiday Inn Arlington family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Arlington collects and uses your personal information to operate the Holiday Inn
Arlington Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Holiday Inn Arlington
also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products
or services available from Holiday Inn Arlington and its affiliates. Holiday Inn Arlington
may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current
services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Holiday Inn Arlington does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Holiday Inn Arlington 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 personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Holiday Inn Arlington may
share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you
email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such
third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide
these services to Holiday Inn Arlington, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality
of your information.
Holiday Inn Arlington does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Holiday Inn Arlington keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Holiday Inn Arlington, in order to determine what Holiday Inn Arlington services are the
most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within
Holiday Inn Arlington to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Holiday Inn Arlington Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only 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 Holiday Inn Arlington or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property
of Holiday Inn Arlington; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal
safety of users of Holiday Inn Arlington, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Holiday Inn Arlington Web site 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, 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. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Holiday Inn Arlington pages, or
register with Holiday Inn Arlington site or services, a cookie helps Holiday Inn Arlington
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 Holiday Inn Arlington Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Holiday Inn Arlington
features that you customized.
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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Holiday Inn Arlington services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Holiday Inn Arlington secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use
or disclosure. Holiday Inn Arlington secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Holiday Inn Arlington will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Holiday Inn Arlington encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Holiday Inn Arlington is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Holiday Inn Arlington welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If
you believe that Holiday Inn Arlington has not adhered to this Statement, please contact
Holiday Inn Arlington in the contact page. We will use commercially
reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.