Introduction
Airfares.com is owned and operated by Lowestfare.com LLC ("Airfares.com"). The following describes the privacy policy (as amended or otherwise changed from time to time, the "Privacy Policy") applicable to the services available through the Airfares.com web site (the "Site") from Airfares.com. Certain services which you may access on the Site are provided by our third party partners, and protection of your information relating to such services will be governed by the privacy policy of such third party (see "
Sharing Your Personal Data-Certain Services," below). By visiting the Site, you are accepting the Privacy Policy described herein.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
We value your trust in us and will work hard to earn your confidence so that you can enthusiastically use our services and recommend us to your friends and family.
Information We Collect
We collect personally identifiable information ("Personal Data") about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide to us while using the Site. Personal Data includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, address, phone number, credit card number or e-mail address.
Protecting Your Personal Data
The Personal Data you provide us is saved in a secure environment and is kept in our records to make it easier for you to use our services on return visits.
Information collected by Airfares.com is stored in a single, secure database, accessible only by Airfares.com.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of information, we will employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. Airfares.com has created a secure environment for credit card transactions. Airefares.com currently uses Secure Socket Layer technology to encrypt all your personal information including credit card number, name and address to prevent your information from being read during transmission over the Internet.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the Personal Data we collect to provide you with the products and services you purchase or offer to purchase from our Site, and to build features that will make the services available on the Site easier to use. This includes faster purchase requests, better customer support and timely notice of new services and special offers.
From time to time, Airfares.com may contact you to request feedback on your experience using the Site, to assist us in improving the Site, or to offer special savings or promotions to you, as a Site user. If you would prefer not to receive notices of special savings or promotions, you may simply opt-out from receiving them by replying to Airfares.com using the hyperlink provided in these notices.
Airefares.com does not sell or rent your Personal Data to anyone. Airfares.com may share your Personal Data with its subsidiaries and affiliates, and as described below:
Priceline.com. This Privacy Policy applies to transactions made on the Airfares.com website. Products purchased through the priceline.com website are offered by priceline.com, and the privacy policy of priceline.com governs such transactions. You should evaluate the privacy policy of priceline.com before deciding to use these services. To view priceline.com's privacy policy,
click here.
Airfares.com's Agents: Many of the operations we perform require us to hire other companies to help us with these tasks. For example, Airfares.com hires companies to help us handle mail and e-mail (including sending and delivering packages, postal mail and e-mail) analyze the data we collect, market our products and services, handle credit card transactions and provide customer service. The companies we employ to help us with these tasks have access to Personal Data to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Also, Airfares.com requires all agents to whom Personal Data is disclosed to enter into confidentiality agreements to protect your Personal Data.
External Service Providers: When you use Airfares.com to purchase an airline ticket, reserve a hotel room or to take advantage of any of our other products and services (including travel insurance), we provide Personal Data to the airline, hotel, car rental agency, travel agency or other involved third-party.
Advertisements, Marketing Material and Other Offers: Unless you tell us that you do not want to receive these offers, Airfares.com will occasionally send advertisements, marketing material or other offers on behalf of other businesses that we think might be of interest to you. This material is sent by Airfares.com, and we do not give that other business your name or address. If you do not want to receive these advertisements, marketing material or other offers, please click here to unsubscribe.
Future Business Transfers: Our business is constantly changing. As part of that process, Airfares.com may sell or buy other companies, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of these transactions. It is also possible that Airfares.com, or substantially all of its assets, may be acquired by another company, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of such a transaction.
Compliance with Law and Protection of Airfares.com: Airfares.com reserves the right to release Personal Data in order to comply with the law. We may also release Personal Data to enforce or apply the terms and conditions applicable to our products and services, or protect the rights, property or safety of Airfares.com, our users, or others.
Consent: If none of the categories described above apply, we will notify you to obtain your consent if we believe it is necessary and appropriate to share your Personal Data with someone else. You will have the right to tell us not to share your Personal Data.
Our Policy Concerning Cookies
To serve you faster and with better quality, we use "cookies" technology. Cookies are small bits of code, usually stored on a user's computer hard drive, which enable a Web site to "personalize" itself for each user. We use cookies to reduce the time it takes for you to submit purchase requests. No third party has access to the information we collect this way, but if you'd rather we didn't use cookies when you visit us, click here and we will help you turn them off.
We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other web sites, in combination with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online and offline sources, in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In addition, we share web site usage information about visitors to our sites with these companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our site and other sites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may note some of the pages you visit on our site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertising companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer. If you would like more information about the information collection practices of these third-party advertising companies and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp.
We also permit other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages to place and access cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not ours. Such advertisers do not have access to our cookies.
Amendments to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy was posted on [ ]. Airfares.com reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this Privacy Policy, Airfares.com will abide by the terms described in this Privacy Policy at the time you provided us with your information. Airfares.com will also prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.
A Special Note About Children
Persons under the age of 18 are not eligible to use any services on our Site.
How to Contact Us
Should you have any questions, concerns or comments, please click here. Airfares.com is located at c/o Lowestfare.com LLC, 800 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut 06854.
