chinaetravel.com - privacy policy

chinaetravel.com respects the privacy of confidential information keyed in by registered users of our website.

Information Collection and Use

chinaetravel.com collects and stores personal information on a strictly CONFIDENTIAL basis only from individuals who have voluntarily offered such information when registering as a user of our website.

When you register with chinaetravel.com, we ask for your name, email address and birth date. If you would like to book online flights, you must submit more detailed information, including your telephone contacts, mailing address, gender, address, credit card details and other optional information.

While not all of this information is compulsory, the more information you volunteer and the more accurate it is, the better we are able to customize your experience. If you choose not to provide the requested information, chinaetravel.com may not be able to offer you some of the services that depend on this type of information to function. We use your personal information for the following primary purposes:

Cookies

chinaetravel.com uses small pieces of data called cookies stored on users' computers to stimulate a continuous connection. Cookies let us remember your user ID and password and allow you to move within our site without reintroducing yourself. Once you close your browser, the cookie will terminate. If you reject the cookie you may still use our site, but you will not have access to some areas of our site and will be unable to use our online booking systems.

Information Sharing and Analysis

chinaetravel.com reserves the right to analyze user behavior in order to improve the site and meet the needs of our users as well as to help advertisers reach their target market. chinaetravel.com will use its best endeavors to avoid unnecessary advertising material reaching non-target markets causing irritation to users.

Third Parties

chinaetravel.com will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party without your approval. We will only send personal information about you to other companies or people when:

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing such product or service.

chinaetravel.com currently has an agreement with Amadeus.net to provide online flights. Any information shared with Amadeus is used solely to facilitate your requested flight booking. Only information needed to make the flight reservation is shared and all other personal details remain on chinaetravel.com's secure servers.

chinaetravel.com also has a relationship with Burst Media who provide all 3rd party banner ads on the site. chinaetravel.com does not share any of your personal information with Burst Media.

Legal Disclaimer

chinaetravel.com may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our website or we believe such disclosure is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of chinaetravel.com, our users or others.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that chinaetravel.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. chinaetravel.com hopes that all third parties involved adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our users, however, this privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site and chinaetravel.com does not assume any responsibility for any actions of third parties.

Communications/Opt-out

chinaetravel.com sends all new users a welcome email that verifies your password and username. Users will also receive our newsletter, the chinaezine which highlights special deals and keeps you informed on the latest developments at chinaetravel.com and the travel industry in general. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications during the registration process and on receipt of emails. Please email us at info@chinaetravel.com if you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing list.

If there is any change to the use of your personally identifiable information, we will email you to notify you of such change. If you do not agree to the changes, you will be given the choice to opt-out of the new use. In addition the new policy will be posted on the site prior to its effective date.

Correcting/Updating Personal Information

chinaetravel.com provides its registered users the ability to access, update and edit their personal information. You can easily correct or update your information in 'your profile' after you log in or you can email us at info@chinaetravel.com.

Security

chinaetravel.com has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal information under our control. When we ask users to enter sensitive information such as credit card information, that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL, the best encryption software in the industry.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect users' information offline. Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us and strict rules are applied on chinaetravel.com employees who have access either to the databases that stores user information or to the servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we make every effort to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

While chinaetravel.com will strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. You alone are responsible for the security of your chinaetravel.com user ID and password.

The above are effective as from February 6, 2002.

chinaetravel.com reserves the right to change, add to or alter any of the above policy statements at any time. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. However, if you have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted. Nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

The above privacy policy is not intended to and will not create any contractual or legal rights in or on behalf of any party. The policies are stated herein on good faith on the part of chinaetravel.com and registered users.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:

chinaetravel.com Limited.
1902 Hing Lung Commercial Building
68-74 Bonham Strand East
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Email: info@chinaetravel.com
Phone: (852) 2155-2088
Fax: (852) 2121-2204