This Web site is operated on behalf of Marriott by a third party. Marriott has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all our customers and visitors to this Web site. This includes respecting your concerns about privacy. We understand that you may have questions about how this Web site collects and uses the information that you provide to us. We have prepared this statement to inform you of the privacy principles governing this Web site.

This Statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. We have organised the Statement into major processes and areas so that you can quickly find the information of most interest to you.

At Marriott, meeting your needs and expectations form the foundation of everything we do, including protecting your privacy. We also require the third party operating this Web site to protect your privacy.

If, after reviewing this Statement, you have any questions or privacy concerns please send an email to privacy@marriott.com or send a letter to:

Marriott International, Inc.
Att: Information Protection, Dept 52.923.26
10400 Fernwood Road
Bethesda MD 20817

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When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you to provide you with a particular service, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. We will also use your email address to 1) send you an email order confirmation and 2) notify you about special offers and promotions as described in the email section of this privacy statement. You can opt out of emails at any time.

At your choice, you may create a personal account which will allow you to log on and view your order history and track any recent orders. The security of this information is addressed in the security section below.

We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information. As such, it is subject to our company's security procedures and policies regarding the protection and use of confidential information. When we ask you for credit card data, it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line, provided you are using a SSL enabled browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL on other select pages where you would enter personally identifiable information. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears in the locked position. In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."

After information reaches us, it is stored on a secure server behind firewalls designed to block unauthorised access from outside our servers. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, Information collected on the Web sites covered by this privacy statement is generally processed and stored in the United States.

We do not permit the sale or transfer of personally identifiable information to entities outside of the Marriott family of companies and hotels and Hotels At Home, Inc. for their use without your approval.

Our Website uses "cookie" technology. "Cookies" are encrypted strings of text that a Web site stores on a user's computer. Our Web site requires the use of a Cookie throughout the online order process. Without cookies we will not be able to keep information you enter on multiple pages together. In addition, Cookies are used to: * Measure usage of various pages on our Web site to help us make our information more pertinent to your needs and easy for you to access * Provide functionality that we believe would be of interest and value to you. The types of Cookies that we use are referred to as "session" Cookies and "persistent" Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you close your internet browser. Persistent Cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them or are otherwise removed upon expiration. We do not use Cookies to ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us with in your dealings with Marriott. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.

You must set your browser to accept Cookies in order to use Marriott Online shop.

It is our intention to only send you email communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. When you create a personal account and provide your email address, we will periodically contact you via email and provide information about special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. These communications will relate to Marriott offers which may also include the promotions of select, reputable third parties with whom Marriott has a strategic marketing relationship because they offer products or services that we believe would be of interest to you. We typically use third-party email
service providers to send emails. These service providers are prohibited from using your email address for any purpose other than to send Marriott-related email.

We give you the ability to define and modify your mailing preferences online at anytime including unsubscribing from all marketing communications. In addition, every time you receive an email, you will be given the choice to opt-out of future emails by following the instructions given in the email.

Marriott is only responsible for the privacy statement and content of this Web site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the use of cookies on Web sites that you have accessed this Web site from and to the non-Marriott Web sites that you may access from this Web site.

This is a United States Web site and is subject to United States law. Marriott will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in the belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to Marriott guests, visitors, associates, or property (including this site), or to others. As mentioned previously, laws related to personally identifiable information vary by country.

If you are a customer who resides in the State of California, you have the right to request from Marriott a list of third parties with whom we shared personally identifiable information about you for their own direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year. Although Marriott does not share personally identifiable information with unrelated third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, many of our hotels, which are separately owned and operated by franchises of Marriott, are permitted to use the personally identifiable information they receive from Marriott to market the Marriott hotels forwhich they hold the franchise. If you would like to request information about the franchisees that may have obtained personally identifiable information about you during the immediately preceding calendar year, please send an email to privacy@marriott.com or letter to Marriott International, Inc., 10400 Fernwood Road, Dept. 52.923.26, Bethesda, MD 20817 USA

In the future, we may need to change this privacy statement. All changes will be made here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. This statement was last updated on September 16, 2005.