
At
Scootaround Inc. ("Scootaround") we respect
the privacy of our customers. We have implemented this
privacy policy to explain to you how we use and protect
personal information we may gather from you by means
of this Web Site ("Privacy Policy"). Any information
that you voluntarily provide to Scootaround on this
Web Site with will be treated with the highest standards
of confidentiality and security.
Scootaround
may gather information about you from this Web Site
and from other sources, such as other Scootaround affiliated
Web Sites, information you provide at our physical locations,
information you provide to our affiliated companies,
including parent and subsidiary companies or any entity
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or
under common control with said entity (“Affiliates”),
and information provided to our business partners. This
Privacy Policy applies only to information gathered
from this Web Site and does not apply to information
about you that we may gather from other sources, including
off-line data collected by Scootaround, our Affiliates
or any business partner.
Except
as otherwise provided below, we do not provide any personally
identifiable information about you that we obtain by
means of this Web Site to any unaffiliated third party
unless we have your express permission. As a general
rule, you will not be required to provide personally
identifiable information as a condition of browsing
this Web Site. When such information is gathered, we
will gather the minimum information from you necessary
to facilitate transactions requested by you, to improve
this Web Site and your customer experience, and to make
future visits to this Web Site easier and more personalized
for you. We do not sell or rent any personal identifiable
information.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
Users
of this Web Site may browse without being obligated
to submit any personal information; however, we may
collect certain personally identifiable information
from you in certain areas of our Web Site for a limited
number of specific purposes. These purposes include:
- assisting
you with reserving and renting mobility vehicles
- providing
information concerning scooter/wheelchair rentals,
rental fleets, and other services
- conducting
other transactions
- servicing
your account with us and responding to your questions
- providing
you with discounts, coupons, offers and other information
and opportunities and services that may be of interest
to you
- assisting
us in providing better products and services (for
example, we may contact you to assist us in evaluating
the performance of our staff, to assess the quality
of product and service received and to help us improve
our Web Site, facilities and services), and
- compiling
statistics and analysis about our customers use of
our Web Site, products and services, which statistics
are only used internally to enable use provide better
customer service and products to you and other customers
in the future.
Information we collect includes, but is not be limited
to:
-
names
- addresses
- telephone
numbers
- e-mail
addresses
- frequent
flyer number
- date
of birth
- credit
card numbers
- all
other personally identifiable information you affirmatively
provide to us
You may choose not to provide some of information to
us, but this may prevent us from providing our services
to you, or limit our ability to provide you with the
level of service that you would otherwise expect from
us.
The general categories of information we gather include:
Personal User Information: We may require
that you obtain a user name and password to log on to
certain portions of our Web Site. We may also require
that you supply your name, telephone number, e-mail
address, or other personally identifiable information
in order to facilitate the specified transactions listed
above. We may also require additional personal information
to provide specific services to you as set forth above.
Anonymous
User Information: Certain non-personal, anonymous
information may be automatically provided to our Web
servers by your computer. Additionally, certain other
information (such as cookies, described below) may be
transmitted by our Web server to your computer. That
information does not contain any personally identifiable
information. Specific types of anonymous information
are described below.
IP Addresses: For each visitor to our
Web Site, our Web server automatically recognizes the
visitor’s domain name or IP address (where possible),
but not the visitor’s e-mail address. An IP address
is a number assigned to your computer when you connect
to the Internet. As part of the protocol of the Internet,
Web servers can identify your computer by its IP address.
In addition, Web servers may be able to identify the
type of browser you are using or even the type of computer.
We collect IP addresses and related information for
the purposes of system administration, to assess the
traffic to our Web Site and to maintain and improve
our Web Site. While it is not our practice to link IP
addresses to your personally identifiable information,
we reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify
a user when we feel it is necessary to protect the compelling
interest of our Web Site, customers or others, or to
comply with laws, court orders, or law enforcement requests.
Use of Cookies: Cookies are short strings
of text sent from a Web server to a Web browser when
the browser accesses a Web Site. In simplest terms,
when the browser requests a page from the Web server
that originally sent it the cookie, the browser sends
a copy of the cookie back to that Web server. A cookie
typically contains, among other things, the name of
the cookie, a unique identification number, and an expiration
date and domain name information. Cookies are used for
personalization, tracking and other purposes. Cookies
may be “session-only” or “persistent.”
Persistent cookies last for more than one visit and
are typically used to allow a visitor to our Web Site
to personalize their experience.
We may use cookies to analyze the traffic on our Web
Site (such as total visitors and pages viewed), to personalize
features or save you the trouble of retyping your name
or other information, and to make improvements to the
Web Site based on the data we collect. We do not save
passwords or other sensitive information in cookies.
The use of cookies has become a standard in the Internet
industry, especially at Web Sites that provide any kind
of personalized service.
Cookies
may also be placed by third parties prior to or during
your visit to the Web Site. Our Affiliates and business
partners may use these cookies in connection with pixel
tracking (discussed below) or otherwise. We do not control
these cookies. The use of cookies by advertisers has
become standard practice in the Internet industry.
Pixel Tracking: Scootaround, our Affiliates
or business partners may employ a common technique usually
referred to as “pixel tracking” to measure
the effectiveness of marketing and advertisements, as
well as compile aggregate usage statistics. Pixel tracking,
which may be used in connection with advertisements
on other sites, on our Web Site or in e-mail messages,
involves the use of pixel tags (also known as “clear
gifs,” “Web beacons” or “1-by-1
gifs”) that are not visible to the user of the
site and consist of a few lines of computer coding.
For example, if you visit our Web Site from an advertisement
on another site, the pixel tag will reference the cookie
you received when you clicked on the advertisement.
The pixel tag also may register this activity with a
business partner to allow us to count the number of
times or when an advertisement is accessed. This data
is collected for use in our marketing and research.
Personally identifiable information about you is not
collected by pixel tracking, nor is any tracking information
generated from the pixel tag allowed to be used for
any other purpose other than to report Web Site activity
to us.
Special Promotions: Some users may
request or authorize Scootaround to contact them by
e-mail or telephone. Provided you have expressly opted
in and/or have received an e-mail opt-in confirmation,
we may use your e-mail address to provide you with special
promotions, offers, or other information. Additionally,
you may specifically authorize us, by opting-in, to
share your e-mail address with our Affiliates and business
partners. If you opt-in, our Affiliates and business
partners may contact you via e-mail with a variety of
special promotions, offers or other information that
may be of interest to you. You have the right to opt-out
of any special promotions, offers or other information
requested from Scootaround at all times.
E-mail
Newsletters: As part of our service to the
community, Scootaround automatically provides a free
monthly electronic newsletter to all registered customers
and to those who submit their e-mail address via the
various forms on our website. You may opt-out of this
email campaign via the supplied link in the newsletter,
by replying to the newsletter with the word "unsubscribe"
in the subject line, or by sending an unsubscribe request
via e-mail to scooternews@scootaround.com.
Other
Information: We may also request other personally
identifiable information from you, or you may affirmatively
provide us with information. As a general matter, we
try to limit the information we gather to the minimum
information we need to perform the applicable services
and to improve your customer experience. If you send
an e-mail to our Web Site or otherwise affirmatively
provide us with information beyond what we request,
we will treat such information as having your consent
to collect, retain and use the information for purposes
reasonably associated with the purpose for which you
provided the information. For example, we may retain
a copy of the e-mail and any personally identifiable
information you may have supplied in the e-mail with
respect to a customer service question to help us evaluate
our service, train our employees and provide better
service to our customers.
We may also gather information about your transactions
(for example, location of rental and type of vehicle)
and, as permitted by applicable law, information we
receive from credit reporting bureaus and other third
parties, such as credit history. This information may
include credit card numbers.
WHO IS COLLECTING THIS INFORMATION
We
collect the user information described above by means
of your use of this Web Site and the features of this
Web Site. For example, information is collected in connection
with online transactions, registration of users and
providing you with information and/or services. Scootaround
may share this information with its Affiliates and business
partners necessary to complete on-line transactions
as part of its standard business operations.
While you are using our Web Site, you may be linked
or directed to other third party sites outside our Web
Site that are beyond our control. For example, you might
click on a hyperlink that will take you off our Web
Site. Third party Web Sites may have a privacy policy
different from our Privacy Policy. You should review
the applicable privacy policies of all other Web Sites
before providing personally identifiable information
in connection with such sites. We are not responsible
for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties.
In addition, advertisers who assist us with pixel tracking
may collect a limited amount of information to help
us measure the effectiveness of ads, usually by placing
cookies on your hard drive. We vigorously protect the
information of our customers. Business partners will
not have any opportunity to access any of our customer
data unless they are necessary parties to complete on-line
transactions or you have specifically consented. In
either case, that business partner must agree to confidentiality
provisions that limit disclosure and use of the data.
HOW COLLECTED INFORMATION IS USED
We
use the information we collect for the following purposes:
-
assisting you with reserving and renting mobility
vehicles
- providing
information concerning scooter/wheelchair rentals,
rental fleets, and other services
- conducting
other transactions
- servicing
your account with us and responding to your questions
- providing
you with discounts, coupons, offers and other information
and opportunities and services that may be of interest
to you
- assisting
us in providing better products and services (for
example, we may contact you to assist us in evaluating
the performance of our staff, to assess the quality
of product and service received and to help us improve
our Web Site, facilities and services), and
-
compiling statistics and analysis about our customers
use of our Web Site, products and services, which
statistics are only used internally to enable use
provide better customer service and products to you
and other customers in the future.
If you choose to opt-in and/or receive an e-mail opt-in
confirmation, information you provide may be used to
send you e-mails about special offers, promotions or
other information. Again, if you choose to opt-in, our
Affiliates and business partners may use the information
you provide to send you e mails about special offers,
promotions or other information. You have the right
to opt-out of any special promotions, offers or other
information requested from Scootaround at all times.
We also use collected information to learn more about
how visitors use our Web Site and to measure areas of
interest in order to provide features and improve the
functionality of our Web Site.
Data collected online may also be combined or merged
with information you provide to us by means other than
this site as part of the standard business operations
of Scootaround and its Affiliates; provided, however,
this Privacy Policy applies only to data collected on-line.
If the same information about you is gathered from this
Web Site and also from other sources with different
privacy policies, Scootaround may elect, in its sole
discretion, to treat such information in accordance
with the privacy policy that least restricts our use
and disclosure of such information.
Aggregate, anonymous information (information that is
not personally identifiable) obtained from the operation
of our Web Site is also used to help us operate and
maintain our site, study traffic patterns and generally
learn about the usage of our Web Site.
We attempt to retain information we collect for commercially
reasonable periods of time or in accordance with specific
policies or as required by law. Information collected
for a specified purpose will only be used for that purpose
and, after a reasonable period of time, will no longer
be actively stored when that purpose has been fulfilled.
Inactive data may, however, continue to be used for
statistical, marketing, archiving, and other purposes.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT, UNLESS PROHIBITED BY LAW, YOUR
USE AND/OR CONTINUED USE OF THIS WEB SITE SIGNIFIES
YOUR EXPRESS CONSENT THAT INFORMATION MAY BE TRANSFERRED
TO OR STORED ON SERVERS AND PROCESSED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY
OF YOUR RESIDENCE, INCLUDING, THE UNITED STATES AND
CANADA. PLEASE ALSO BE AWARE THAT THE PRIVACY LAWS OF
THE UNITED STATES OR OTHER COUNTRIES WHERE INFORMATION
MAY BE STORED MAY NOT BE AS COMPREHENSIVE OR OFFER AS
MUCH PROTECTION AS THE LAWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES.
WITH WHOM THE INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
Except
as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will
not provide any personally identifiable information
about you that we obtain by means of this Web Site to
our Affiliates and to business partners that would use
the information to contact you about their own or others’
products and services unless we have your express permission.
We may also provide information to business partners
to assist us in offering products or services to you
and/or handling transactions. We will only share the
personal data you provide us on this Web Site with our
business partners who are acting on our behalf for the
uses described in this Privacy Policy and as governed
by this Privacy Policy. Such Affiliates and business
partners, including those in the United States and/or
any other countries, are governed by appropriate confidentiality
obligations.
Except
for the following exceptions, we will not knowingly
authorize the disclosure of your personally identifiable
information gathered from this Web Site to third parties
without your consent. First, we may disclose user information
in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this information is necessary to identify,
contact or bring legal action against someone who may
be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally
or unintentionally) our rights or property, customers
or other users of our Web Site, or anyone else who could
be harmed by such activities. Second, we may disclose
user information when we believe in good faith that
such disclosure is required by applicable law. Third,
we may disclose user information to business partners
and/or third parties, subject to confidentiality agreements,
for administrative or other business purposes, as is
necessary to facilitate on-line transactions or to maintain
and improve our services.
Aggregate information (without personally identifiable
information) may be used for internal business purposes,
marketing purposes or shared with business partners
for Scootaround‘s business purposes.
We do not collect any sensitive information about you
(i.e., personal information specifying racial or ethnic
origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical
beliefs, trade union membership or information pertaining
to personal or intimate details of an individual’s
life).
Please be aware that third party Web Sites linked from
our Web Site may collect personally identifiable information
and/or sensitive information and are not covered by
this Privacy Policy. You will need to review the applicable
privacy policies. Scootaround shall have no liability
for the privacy policies or practices of third parties’
Web Sites.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Scootaround
does not solicit personal information from children.
We abide by the United States Children’s Online
Privacy Protection Act and will not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from children under
age 13. We recommend that parents actively participate
in their children’s use of the Internet.
CHOICES YOU CAN MAKE ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION
We
give you a number of choices about the collection, use
and distribution of your information. For example, we
will ask for your permission to send you information
about special offers, promotions and new features, products
and services. Scootaround will at all times provide
you with the opportunity to remove yourself from any
Scootaround e-mail list.
We will give you an opportunity to opt-out of the gathering
of your personally identifiable information, specific
uses of your personally identifiable information and
any marketing promotions in accordance with the procedures
set out in the section below, “Correcting and
Changing Your Information.” By adjusting the settings
in your browser, you can refuse to accept cookies or
give yourself the opportunity to accept or reject cookies,
or receive notice of cookies. Software programs are
available that block cookies. Refusing cookies may impinge
or block altogether your user experience by eliminating
personalization or other features.
CORRECTING OR CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
We
are very concerned about the accuracy, currency and
completeness of the information we collect and make
efforts we deem appropriate to ensure that the information
we have is accurate and up-to-date.
If you wish to amend, correct, update, delete or opt-out
of any information to which you have previously opted-in
or wish to review information we have collected about
you, please contact Scootaround via e-mail at admin@scootaround.com,
and we will attend to your request and make any necessary
revisions.
This provision applies only to personally identifiable
information collected via our Web Site and not to information
that is not personally identifiable that may be gathered
by cookies or from IP addresses or to aggregate information.
We reserve the right not to allow access to your information
if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is
prohibited by law or if the rights of another individual
might be violated.
SECURITY PROCEDURES
We
are very concerned with the security of your personally
identifiable information and try to provide secure transmission
of your information from your PC to our servers. For
certain transactions on certain of our Web Sites, we
may use Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to secure
the transfer of information. Unfortunately, no data
transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to
be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to
protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee
the security of any information transmitted over the
Internet. Once we receive your information, we take
steps that we believe are reasonably appropriate to
protect the security of your data, in electronic and
paper form, both internally and from outsiders, from
loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration
and destruction, and to ensure the integrity of the
data we collect. We use a combination of technological,
physical, administrative and policy methods as well
as organizational controls and non-disclosure or confidentiality
agreements as we deem appropriate to protect this data.
For example, we restrict access to nonpublic personal
information about you to employees, Affiliates and business
partners who need to know that information to provide
products and services and/or to facilitate requests
by you for special offers, promotions and other information.
The use of this information is limited by, as applicable,
governing law and non-disclosure or confidentiality
agreements.
If you have a user name and password for any of the
features on our Web Site, you have the responsibility
of keeping your password secret. You should not reveal
your password to anyone. We will not ask you in an unsolicited
telephone call or e-mail for your password. In addition,
you should take reasonable precautions when using a
computer that is not your own or in a public setting.
CHANGES IN TERMS
We
may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and
we will change the Revision Date located at the bottom
of this Privacy Policy.
CONTACTING SCOOTAROUND
If
you have any specific questions regarding any issues
about privacy on our Web Site, please contact Scootaround
via e-mail at media@scootaround.com, and we will attend
to your request and make any necessary revisions.
APPLICABLE
LAW
Our
collection and use of information may be governed by
laws of the United States, state law or the laws of
other countries. To the extent these laws are applicable;
we will comply with applicable privacy and data laws.
CONSENT
By
using our Web Site and providing personally identifiable
information about yourself, you consent to (1) our collection
and use of data as described in this Privacy Policy
to the extent that you have opted-in to any such collection
and/or use through the methods described in this Privacy
Policy, (2) the notice, choice, access and security
we are providing, (3) the methods we have described
to notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy, and
(4) the transfer of information provided across borders,
outside of your country of residence to other countries,
such as, but not limited to, Canada and the United States.
TERMS OF USE
By
using this Web Site, you are consenting to the Terms
of Use.
Revision
Date: July, 2005 |