We at Corporate Rent A Car recognize the importance of protecting your personally identifiable information. To demonstrate our commitment to maintaining the privacy of your personally identifiable information, we have created this Privacy Notice to disclose
our privacy practices for the personally identifiable information that we collect and receive through use of our products and services either offline or online. Our online operations include the website of Corporate Rent A Car.
By submitting your personally identifiable information to us, you consent to Corporate Rent A Car to use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information as set forth in this Privacy Notice. Your use and/or continued use of Corporate Rent
A Car websites signifies your consent that your information may be transferred to or stored on servers and processed outside the country of your residence. Provided the data protection laws of these other countries differ from those in the United States,
please be assured that we take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Notice, please do not submit any information to Corporate Rent A Car either offline or through our Websites.
This Privacy Notice is incorporated into, and part of, the Term of Use, which governs the Corporate Rent A Car Website.
Purpose of this Privacy Notice
We recognize the importance of protecting your personally identifiable information (PII)(which includes your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, e-mail address,
credit or debit card information, and other contact information,) that you provide to Corporate Rent A Car. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to tell you how Corporate Rent A Car strives to better serve you by keeping you informed of promotions,
products and services, while, at the same time, safeguarding your PII. This Privacy Notice sets forth our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your PII both through our online and offline operations. This Privacy Notice also explains
how you can correct or change the PII we hold about you, or opt-out of receiving certain marketing materials.
Who is Covered under this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice is applicable to PII that you provide to Corporate Rent A Car. This Privacy Notice applies to all of the products, services, and Websites offered by Corporate Rent A Car
or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies.
This Privacy Notice does not apply to those Corporate Rent A Car locations that are owned and operated by an independent licensee that is neither owned nor controlled by Corporate Rent A Car or any Corporate Rent A Car affiliate or subsidiary. Each
independent licensee collects PII and uses the PII for its own purposes. Corporate Rent A Car does not control the independent licensee’s use of this PII. For credit card transactions, the independent licensee – not Corporate Rent A Car – collects and
processes credit card information and receives payment for the vehicle rental services. Thus, the independent licensee is subject to the merchant rules of the credit card processors it selects. This Privacy Notice also does not apply to an independent
licensee’s website. These licensees may also use email campaigns and other methods of telephone, electronic, and direct mail solicitation without our consent or knowledge and are solely responsible for their content and methods of identifying and contacting
addressees.
What Personally Identifiable Information Corporate Rent A Car Collects
You generally are not required to provide us with PII when visiting our Websites. However, when you make a reservation, rent a vehicle, and/or join one
of our programs, we need to collect certain information about you to provide or improve our services. The service that you choose will determine what information we collect from you. Here are some examples of information we collect from you:
When you rent a vehicle, we will also record non-personally identifiable information about your rental (e.g. where you rented the vehicle, where and when you returned the vehicle, payment arrangements, insurance preferences, gas consumption, mileage and
other information related to the vehicle). This information is necessary in order to administer your rental reservation and/or process your transaction
We may also need certain information from you when you request any of the following services or equipment: Special Needs/Optional Equipment; Special Offers/Discounts; Partner Member Numbers; use of a corporate or other discount number and other
vehicle preferences. For example, if you wish to use a discount that Corporate Rent A Car provides to members of an association/affiliate to which you belong, we may collect information about your membership to verify and provide you with the correct
discount for our services.
In addition, to better serve our more frequent renters, Corporate Rent A Car offers customized rental services on a membership basis. If you wish to join and request one of these services, Corporate Rent A Car may need more information than is required
for providing standard vehicle rental service in order to provide you with these customized services.
How Corporate Rent A Car Collects Personally Identifiable Information
The PII we collect from you will be with your express or implied consent. How we collect this information will depend on how you use our services. We may
collect this information directly from you by telephone, fax, postal mail, email, at the counter, upon completion of an application or enrollment form, or through your use of our Websites or the Internet. To the extent you use our Websites, we may also
collect information about your use of our Websites, transactional and account information, e-mail and other information related to communications to our Websites. We may also collect information about you indirectly through a travel agent, an account
program in which you or your employer participates or through one of our partner programs when you deal with us through those means. Additionally, our affiliates and third parties may provide us with information about you.
You may choose not to provide
some of your PII 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.
How Personally Identifiable Information is Used and Disclosed by Corporate Rent A Car
Usage
We strive to ensure that we give you a stress-free rental experience and are dedicated to building a rewarding and lasting relationship with every customer. To provide the level of service we believe you expect from
us, we may use your PII for the following purposes:
We may also use your information – both PII and non-personally identifiable information – for other purposes. For example, PII may be needed to process and track your transactions or to send you information about our affiliates’ and business partners’
products and services and other information and materials that may be of interest to you. If you use our Websites, we may also use your information to evaluate what portions of our Websites are visited more often than others, determine where visitors
came from, where they go, and how long they stay on a particular page, or on our Websites in general.
From time to time, we also may combine your PII with information obtained from other sources, including third parties, in order to provide you with more customized services and product offerings. To do this, it is often necessary to share your information
with trusted vendors and business partners, such as companies that manage accounts, offer affinity, frequent-user, and reward programs, and companies that perform marketing services and other business operations for us. For more information, see below
under "Disclosing."
Disclosing
We may disclose your PII to affiliated and non-affiliated organizations including, for example:
We may disclose your PII to our affiliates and non-affiliated business partners for their use both on our behalf and for their own business purposes. For example, our affiliates and business partners may use such PII to send you information about their
products and services and other information and materials that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of us disclosing your PII for these purposes through one of the methods described in this Privacy Notice.
We may share your PII with other non-affiliated third parties, such as entities that provide services for our Websites or for our business (e.g., advertisers, ad servers, content providers, services providers, credit card processors, data processors,
website development and support, fulfillment services providers, e-mail list hosting companies and distribution companies) that use such PII on our behalf consistent with this Privacy Notice. These types of third parties are not permitted to use your
PII for any secondary purposes.
We may also transfer or assign your PII to third parties as a result of or in connection with a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of assets, reorganization, or liquidation.
We operate in North America so we may need to
send your PII overseas as part of our normal business operations. Provided the data protection laws of these other countries differ from those in the United States, please be assured that we take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.
Web site and Internet Privacy
If you use our Site or otherwise interact with us via the Internet, the following privacy-related policies also apply:
Website Tracking and the Use of Cookies and Other Technologies
If you use our Websites, certain information may be collected from your computer in the course of your use of our Websites. As with many websites, we may use both
session based and persistent “cookies” and/or other technology (e.g., web bugs, e-mail bugs, clear GIFs, web beacons, tracker GIFs and “clickstream” data logs) in our Websites or in our electronic communications with you to enhance the functionality
of our Websites and services. These technologies also make your transactions and other activities more convenient and efficient.
Cookies
“Cookies” are small amounts of data that a website can send to your web browser and store on your computer. It is our policy not to save sensitive data, such as passwords or credit card
information in cookies.
Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You have the option of disabling or refusing cookies at any time in your browser preferences. However, note that some parts of our Websites will not
function properly or may be considerably slower if you refuse cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized preferences, and/or may have difficulty completing transactions.
The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as such, you will find that most major websites use them. Corporate Rent A Car and Corporate Rent A Car’s affiliates have two (2) primary uses for cookies. First, we use them to specify a user’s preferences.
For example, we use cookies to store information about your travel preferences or rental history so you don't have to tell us repeatedly your preferences. Second, we use cookies to track Website usage trends and patterns. This helps us understand our
users’ needs better and improve areas of our Websites.
IP Addresses
An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Internet so that your computer can be identified by the main computers, known as “Web servers,” that
“serve up” Web pages. This allows us to gather useful information and data about our customers’ use of the site, such as the Web pages viewed on www.avis.com.
Corporate Rent A Car collects IP addresses for the purposes of: helping us diagnose problems
with our main computers, for system administration, to report aggregated information to our business partners, and to audit the use of our Website. When users request Web pages from our Web Site, our Web servers log the User's IP address. We do not normally
link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user’s session will be logged, but the user will remain anonymous to us. For example, we collect and/or track the home server domain name, the type of computer, and the type of
Web browser used by you to access this Web Site. Such collection and tracking information is gathered by us as you navigate through our Websites, and will be used by us for our business purposes only.
In select instances, we may use IP addresses to help us identify you when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Website Terms of Use or to protect our service, site, users, or others.
Third Party Use of Technologies
Third parties (including, but not limited to, software vendors, advertisers, ad servers, content providers, and services providers) may also use similar technologies by or through our Websites
or through their own websites. In connection therewith, such entities may collect information about you and your usage activity on this and other websites. Corporate Rent A Car does not control these third parties and is not responsible for the actions
of our third party business partners. We encourage you to check their terms of use and privacy policies for such information.
We may use third-party servicing technology and service providers to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet and sometimes
on our Websites. They may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our Websites, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to send you
targeted advertisements for goods and services. This information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, or similar technology which is industry standard technology used by most major websites.
We may also share Website usage information about
visitors to our Websites with selected third parties, such as DoubleClick, Inc., for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on our Websites and other websites. To do this, we use web beacons and cookies provided by our third-party
ad server on our Site. In connection therewith, such third parties may have access to and use non-personalized information about your online usage activity. The use of advertising cookies and web beacons sent by such third-party Web servers is standard
for commercial activity in the Internet industry
Web Beacons
Web pages may contain an electronic file called a web beacon that allows a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies
.
Visiting Third Party Websites
Our Websites may contain links or references to third party websites. These websites are outside of our control, and the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.
Please be aware that we have no control over these third party websites and our Privacy Notice does not apply to such websites. We encourage you to check the terms of use and privacy policies of such sites before disclosing any PII via such sites.
Occasionally when linking to a third party website from our Websites, you may still see Corporate Rent A Car affiliate logo or an Corporate Rent A Car affiliate website frame. This is to provide you with a seamless experience when visiting our Websites.
In these cases, you are no longer on our Websites but the third party website, and therefore the information collection practices of the third party’s website may differ from Corporate Rent A Car’s. The privacy policy of the third party site will govern
how information collected from you is used by the owner of the website. You can always know what website you are on by checking the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the location bar within your browser.
Linking your Corporate Rent A Car Accounts to Your Social Profiles
Social Authentication
In order to provide you with more personalized services, we may give you the option of linking your social profiles with your Corporate Rent A Car accounts on our Websites. Currently, some of our Websites
allow you to link social profiles from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google and Windows Live. We may add or remove the availability of any or all platforms at any time in our sole discretion. This functionality is entirely optional for all users and you
may link or unlink your account(s) at any time.
What Information is Collected from Your Social Profiles and What It’s Used for
If you exercise the option to link your social profile to any of our Websites, we may collect PII and additional information from your social
profiles, which will be used by Corporate Rent A Car and agents acting on our behalf to customize your Corporate Rent A Car customer experience. Some examples of the type of information we may collect from these social profiles include:
The information we collect may be used to:
Unlinking Your Accounts
You may unlink your social profiles at any time. In order to unlink your profiles, you must log into each Corporate Rent A Car account that has been linked, click on the “Social Media Preferences”
tab, and then select “Unlink” next to the social media channel you wish to unlink.
Social Sharing
In an effort to provide our customers with new ways of sharing content, we have enabled some of our online content to be shared on social websites through hosted sharing links and icons. Users who share content
and links through their social media profiles should be aware that all activities of this nature are public.
Please note, when you share (with or without adding your own comments) any of our content on your social media profile, that action is governed
by the privacy policy of that social media platform, and not Corporate Rent A Car’s Privacy Notice. We do not track or store a record of those comments or actions.
If you choose to participate in posting or sharing activities, you are electing to share and display such public activities via our Websites. Due to the public nature of your posting or sharing your posts may be included in RSS feeds, APIs and made
available to other websites via other formats. As a result, your public activities may appear on third-party websites, blogs, or feeds. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PII YOU CHOOSE MAKE PUBLIC VIA YOUR SHARED POSTS.
How We Protect the Security of Personally Identifiable Information
The security of your PII is important to us. We exercise reasonable care in implementing generally accepted standards of security to protect your PII from loss,
misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, such as firewalls and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption for some of your more sensitive PII. It is our policy to retain PII for as long as we believe appropriate for the purposes
for which the PII was collected or as required by applicable law.
Unfortunately, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet, and no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your PII, we cannot guarantee that PII stored on our servers,
or transmitted to or from a user, will be free from unauthorized access. By using our Websites and corresponding with us, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
You are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account passcode, membership numbers and pin numbers, and you will be responsible for any access to or use of our Websites by you or any person or entity using a passcode provided
to you, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by or on behalf of you, and whether or not such person or entity is your employee, relative or agent. In the event of the unauthorized use of your passcode, account, or membership number,
or any other breach of security involving your information as it pertains to Corporate Rent A Car, you agree to immediately notify us. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session, control the dissemination
and use of your passcode, control access to and use of your account and membership number, and notify us when you desire to cancel your account on our Websites. We will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to
comply with this provision.
It is our policy that we will never request your sensitive PII, such as your credit card number, passcode, membership number or pin number, in an e-mail, text or on a website that is not located at the domain name used by Corporate Rent A Car or
an affiliate. If you receive an e-mail or other correspondence requesting that you provide any such information via e-mail or to a website that is not on such domain name, please do not provide such information, and report such request to Corporate Rent
A Car Head office.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your PII in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to do so as promptly as
possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your current e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail.
How to Opt-Out of Receiving Marketing Materials from Us
You can opt-out of our use and disclosure of your PII for marketing purposes and customer satisfaction surveys, and/or withdraw your prior consent for same, by the methods
provided below. Upon requesting an opt out, your consent will be withdrawn, however, please note that it often takes some time to process these requests. Therefore, it is possible that you may receive promotions scheduled prior to our receipt of your
withdrawal of consent.
How to Correct or Update Personally Identifiable Information that We Maintain
If you have provided your PII to us, you can update the PII we hold about you. You play an active role in assisting Corporate Rent A Car maintain
the accuracy of your PII. Your prompt notification to us of any changes to your PII will assist us greatly in keeping your information accurate and up-to-date. If we don’t agree to make the changes, you may challenge our decision. Please email Head office
at Corporate Rent A Car.
We will respond to any access requests within 30 days of our receipt of the request.
Children's Privacy
Our Websites are not directed to children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, then please stop using our Websites or our products and services and do not provide us with
PII of any kind whatsoever.
It is our policy not to knowingly solicit children under the age of 13 for PII or otherwise contact children for any purpose. Further, it is Corporate Rent A Car’s policy to not knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to use our Websites or
our products and services. It is our policy to not knowingly exchange with any third party the PII of children under the age of 13.
We encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in monitoring their children’s use of the Internet. It is
possible that by fraud or deception, we may receive the PII of children under the age of 13. If we are notified or otherwise become aware of this, we will immediately delete the PII from our servers.
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
This Privacy Notice will be governed by the laws of the State of New York State, without regard to its conflict of law principals. By providing any PII to us, you fully understand and unambiguously
consent to the transfer of such PII to, and the collection and processing of such PII in, the United States and other countries or territories. You agree that any cause of action that may arise under this Privacy Notice will be commenced.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice applies to all information we collect or receive, on or after the effective date of this Privacy Notice, from individuals who provide us with such information for the purpose
of obtaining products and services from Corporate Rent A Car or using our Websites.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Notice. If we materially change the way your personal information will be used, we notify you by way of either prominent posting on our Website(s), e-mail and/or mail. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Notice in order to keep apprised of any changes.
Policy last updated: JAN 20, 2019