1st-Choice-Hotels.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: 1st-Choice-Hotels.com.

1st-Choice-Hotels.com uses a business partner to help fulfill reservations named Worldspan. This partner is passed booking information in order to fulfill and facilitate the booking process. The information sent to them is used solely for the purpose of fulfilling the reservation request and the information remain owned and controlled by 1st-Choice-Hotels.com.

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their email address) and financial information (like their account or credit card numbers). 1st-Choice-Hotels.com uses customer contact information to send e-mail confirmations, as well as to send travel information prior to the trip and a thank-you letter and customer service survey after the trip. Should reservation or billing problems arise, it may be necessary to contact a customer in order to resolve a problem. From time to time, 1st-Choice-Hotels.com may use the contact information in order to request participation in a marketing research project that requires customer opinions and feedback. Credit card transactions are processed by a outside third party that uses this information for the sole purpose of processing the transaction. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.

Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Our Web site uses a reputable third party to serve the advertisements that you see on the pages of our Web site. If you would like to know more about the information gathering practices and "opt-out" procedures of our third party ad server, please Click Here 1st-Choice-Hotels.com does not have access to this information collected by the third party ad server.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

By making your travel purchase on our secure server, you are protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, utilized by most popular browsers, including Netscape and Microsoft Explorer. This technology allows us to use the most advanced encryption tools necessary to protect information transmitted between your computer and our server. Through encryption, the personal information you enter, including your name, address, and credit-card information, is converted into code that is then securely dispatched over the Internet.

Encrypted information received by 1st-Choice-Hotels.com is shared with the travel providers (i.e., airlines, hotels, and car-rental agencies) that you select in your reservation. Only information necessary to complete the reservation is shared with these travel providers. Once received by 1st-Choice-Hotels.com, your credit-card information is not transmitted over the Internet again.

Other Security measures are taken to ensure that your data is protected including off site locked storage of backup tapes accessible only to key personnel, one-way encryption of credit card information in our databases and server rooms locked 24/7/365 accessible only to key personnel.

Contact Us
If you have further questions that have not been answered here, please email us at:customercare@1st-choice-hotels.com.

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