| Galway Hotel Guide is strongly
committed to your right to privacy and to taking steps designed to
secure your personal and financial information. To earn your trust and
confidence in our commitment, the intent of this policy is to fully
disclose our privacy practices to you. We will only use your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to
read our policy to understand what types of personal information we
collect and how this information is used.
By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of your
information as described in this Privacy Policy. Any changes to our
Privacy Policy will be reflected on this page so that you are always
aware of the information we collect and how we use it.
General.
Galway Hotel Guide and its partners collect personal
information necessary to respond to your requests for our customized
products and services and to allow you to use the resources available on
our website. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, name,
physical address, email address, phone number, age and any other
information that itself identifies or, when tied to the above
information, may identify you as a specific individual.
Galway Hotel Guide and its partners also collect information
related to your wedding, including dates and places of the rehearsal,
wedding and reception, name, address and phone number of wedding guests,
and information relating to your gift registry and honeymoon.
Galway Hotel Guide also uses order forms for you to request
certain information, products and services. On such order forms, we
collect your contact information, financial information (including
credit card numbers) and demographic information.
Contests and Online Surveys.
Galway Hotel Guide and its partners frequently
sponsor contests to give you the opportunity to win great prizes. Your
participation in these contests is entirely optional. Information we
collect for such contests can include contact information and
demographic information. Galway Hotel Guide also
values the opinions and comments from all of our users, so we frequently
conduct surveys online, via e-mail, or by telephone. Your participation
in these surveys is entirely optional. Information we collect in online
surveys will include general information on the use of our site and
other demographic information, such as age and income bracket. Survey
participants are anonymous unless otherwise stated in the survey.
Cookies.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your
browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies in several ways
(and thousands of other sites are currently using them too!). Cookie
files are used to better understand how you go through our website so
that we may tailor your experience at our website. Cookies are also used
to tell us whether you have visited our website previously, and to help
us determine whether you came to our website from a particular Internet
link or banner advertisement. Cookies can also be used to help you to
save and retrieve passwords and other information and preferences you
use on our website, saving you from having to re-enter this information
upon every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by
us to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer
that you have not previously and voluntarily provided to us. However,
cookies may also be received when you link to our partners' sites or
when you click on banner advertisements served by our outside
advertising company and we do not have control over how they use this
information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you
prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future.
Chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups.
We make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available
to you. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these
areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when
deciding to disclose your personal information.
With whom your information is shared and how it is used
When you provide information to Galway Hotel Guide,
the information is stored in our databases; Galway Hotel Guide
in accordance with this Privacy Policy uses such
information. Information we collect is used to tailor your experience at
our site (including the creation of an online bridal registry), to show
you content that we think you might be interested in, and to display the
content according to your preferences. We also use such personal
information to send you information and promotional materials. Your
contact information may also be used if it becomes necessary to contact you.
To allow you to use some of our features, information we collect will be
shared with our partners. Information collected by us will also be
shared with third parties, such as product suppliers, airlines, car
rental agencies, and travel agencies to ensure the successful fulfilment
of your product orders or travel arrangements.
Any information we collect may be shared with advertisers on an
aggregate basis. In addition, we may from time to time hire a third
party to act on our behalf for projects such as market research surveys
and contest entry processing, and we will provide information to these
third parties specifically for use in connection with these projects.
Survey and contest participation is entirely optional. The information
we provide to such third parties will be protected by a confidentiality
agreement that will obligate the third party to use such information
solely to complete the specific project.
In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose your
information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by
other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith
belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including
(without limitation) when we have reason to believe that disclosing the
information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action
against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or
properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else
could be harmed by such activities.
What choices you have over the collection and use of your information
As a user, customer, or contest entrant you will occasionally receive
e-mail updates from us about important functionality changes, special
offers from us and our partners, new Galway Hotel Guide
services and other noteworthy news items about our partners and us.
We hope you will find these updates interesting and informative. Of
course, if you would rather not receive them, just let us know by
replying to one of the e-mails with "Remove" in the body of the e-mail
or let our partners know by following their instructions. Our site also
provides you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving such communications
from us at the point where we request information from you. In other
words, if you don't want us to send you e-mails about our business, just
let us know. Galway Hotel Guide reserves the right to
limit registration to those who will accept emails and to those who will
provide the requested information.
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