Introduction
At Hobbit Travel, we believe that it is extremely important to protect the privacy of our customers. We are providing this privacy policy to help you better understand the ways in which your personal information is gathered and used on the Hobbittravel.com website.

If you have any comments or questions regarding this privacy statement, please contact Hobbit Travel via our online Customer Support section.

New Secure Flight Program
Secure Flight is a program developed to provide uniform watch list matching by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The mission of the Secure Flight program is to enhance the security of domestic and international commercial air travel through the use of improved watch list matching to identify known and suspected terrorists. Under the Secure Flight program, passengers will be required to provide full name (as it appears on passenger’s government-issued ID), date of birth and gender under the authority of 49 U.S.C. section 114, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and 49 C.F.R parts 1540 and 1560. You may also provide your Redress Number, if available. Sun Country will send the information you provide to the TSA where they will match it against the No Fly and Selectee watch lists. TSA may share the information you provide with law enforcement, intelligence agencies or others under its published system of records notice. By providing this information in advance, most passengers will not experience any differences from the way they traveled before as a result of Secure Flight.

Secure Flight provides numerous benefits to the traveling public. First, Secure Flight protects sensitive watch list data. The program also enables officials to address security threats sooner, keeping air travel safer. By implementing one watch list matching system, the program provides a fair and consistent matching process across all airlines and reduces the chance of being misidentified. Secure Flight offers an improved redress process, so that those who are mistakenly matched to the watch list can avoid further problems in the future.

The privacy of individuals’ information is a cornerstone of Secure Flight. TSA collects the minimum amount of personal information necessary to conduct effective watch list matching. Furthermore, personal data is collected, used, distributed, stored, and disposed of in accordance with stringent guidelines and all applicable privacy laws and regulations.

For more information on Secure Flight, click here

Information Hobbit Travel Collects
The Hobbit Travel website collects customer information in a number of ways: when you sign up to receive emails, when you join My Hobbit Travel, when your book online using the Hobbit Travel online booking form, when you fill out a Customer Support request, when you send a information request to a travel agent via their agency profile, when you send a comment to the suggestion link on our weekly email, and when you forward an email/webpage to a friend.
The types of information collected on these pages are:

• Customer Name
• Traveling Companion Name
• Mailing Address
• Email Address
• Telephone Number
• Credit/Debit Card Information
• Reservation Number
• Age Range
• Gender
• Destination Information Desired
• Other Information Desired
• Travel Habits

How Your Information Is Used
When you sign up for My Hobbit Travel, you have the choice of receiving or not receiving emails. If you choose to receive emails, Hobbit Travel will send you regular emails promoting vacation travel, specials, sales and other information. You may unsubscribe from the email specials list at any time by accessing the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email or by visiting the unsubscribe page on our website.

The information you supply when you book a vacation online is used to process and complete your online order. Hobbit Travel does not share this information with any outside parties except to the extent necessary to process your order (for example, credit card authorizations). Information you submit for the purposes of online bookings will not be used to subscribe you for the email guest book unless you specifically opt-in for the email guestbook by checking the appropriate box on the online booking form.

The information you supply when you send in a Customer Support request is used to assist you with your request. It may also be used to help Hobbit Travel review and improve its products, promotions, and customer service.

The information you supply when you send a suggestion or comment to the email suggestion link is used to reply to your comment. Your information may also be forwarded on to the relevant product team or Customer Support team to further process your comment or to help improve Hobbit Travel product, promotions and customer service.

The information you supply when you send an email/webpage to a friend is used to forward the relevant email or webpage information. Hobbit Travel will not send additional emails or mailings to your friend. Your friend must subscribe to our guestbook or provide information himself/herself through one of the other available means before Hobbit Travel will contact him/her.

Information collected through some/all of the methods listed above may be used by Hobbit Travel to improve products, processes and customer service. Hobbit Travel may also use some/all of the information to create customer mailing lists and may occasionally send our customers promotional pieces or other mailings. Mailing lists compiled from the information you provide will only be used by Hobbit Travel for its own marketing and promotional efforts, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties.

Hobbit Travel may also use non-identifying or aggregate information to improve our website, track promotional success, and/or to share website usage information with our hotel, airline or other business affiliates. This information may include number of page views, visitor sessions, session length, hits, number of unique visitors, browser type, number of visits by each visitor, most requested pages, most accessed pages, top paths through the site, number of returning users. Not all of this information is shared with our business affiliates, but some aggregate numbers such as page views on a particular page during a particular time frame may be shared. However, no personally identifiable information about you will be shared with any third party.

Hobbit Travel use of IP Addresses and Cookies
Hobbit Travel uses cookies to track visitors to our site. Hobbit Travel gathers the number of unique visitors as well as the number of page views each visitor makes. The information is used for promotional and marketing purposes only and in the compilation of web usage reports. The reports generated do not recognize any information specific to your location, or anything specific to your individual machine. Cookies are tiny files that are placed on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies do not extract private or personal information from your computer.

Hobbit Travel Commitment to Information Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, there are appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use SSL (Secure Socket Layers) to encrypt and protect your personal information. We understand that this is vital in the exchange of credit card and password information.

Hobbit Travel Commitment to Child Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is very important to Hobbit Travel. Hobbit Travel does not collect or maintain information from our website from those known to be under 13 years of age. No part of our website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 13. When online bookings are made, the ages of children traveling with an adult are collected so that the appropriate hotel room and pricing can be chosen for the reservation. The lowest age range specified on the guestbook sign up form is "18 and under."

How to Access or Update Your Information
You can access the personally identifiable information you submitted when you made an online reservation by viewing your password-protected reservation. You will be asked to enter both your reservation number and your password. It is the responsibility of the password holder to take reasonable precautions to protect his/her own password. Do not tell anyone your password or write your password down where it can be viewed by others.

Information you submit through any of the online methods, including online booking and My Hobbit Travel, may be used to create customer mailing lists. Hobbit Travel may occasionally send our customers promotional pieces or other mailings. Mailing lists compiled from the information you provide will only be used by Hobbit Travel for its own marketing and promotional efforts, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties.

To unsubscribe from the Hobbit Travel weekly emails, you can visit the unsubscribe page. Your information will be kept in the Hobbit Travel database and will not be shared with any third parties.

To correct or change your My Hobbit Travel information, login and then enter your new information to update your profile.

Opt-In Information
If you wish to receive information about Hobbit Travel news, products, and specials via email, you may sign up on the sign up forms throughout the website or on the My Hobbit Travel page. You may also sign up to receive email specials when you book online by checking the appropriate box on the online booking form. Information you submit for the purposes of online bookings will not be used to subscribe you for the email guest book unless you specifically opt-in for the email guestbook.

Information you submit through any of the online methods, including online booking and My Hobbit Travel, may be used to create customer mailing lists. Hobbit Travel may occasionally send our customers promotional pieces or other mailings. Mailing lists compiled from the information you provide will only be used by Hobbit Travel for its own marketing and promotional efforts, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties.

Notification of Changes to Hobbit Travel Information-Use Policies
If at some future date, Hobbit Travel determines that it will change the manner in which it uses the information it collects on the website, you will be notified at least 30 days prior to Hobbit Travel making the change. You would have the option of choosing to continue or not continue to be a member of the Hobbit Travel database receiving emails, and would have the option of unsubscribing. Information collected prior to any information-use changes would be managed according to the Privacy Policy in place at the time it was collected. Only new information collected online would be subject to any new information-use policies.

How to Contact Hobbit Travel
If you have any questions or comments regarding the Hobbit Travel privacy policy, please contact Hobbit Travel via our online Customer Support section.

Updated: November 29, 2006