PRIVACY POLICY
Travelcenter Inc, DBA Boscov’s Travel, Boscov’s Business Travel values your trust therefore we take the protection and proper use of your personal information seriously. We want you, the consumer who uses our websites or communicates with Travelcenter Inc, to understand what personal information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have regarding this information.
Personal data we may collect
Personal data includes information related to a person that can be used to directly or indirectly identify them.
We collect this information to facilitate your travel arrangements; to purchase products or services on your behalf; and/or for the purpose of subscribing to our services, emails, newsletters.
We may collect, store or use the following types of personal data:
Name, address, phone, email
Date of birth, gender
Government issued IDs, Passports
Travel Reward Programs Numbers, Celebration Dates
Travel preferences, special needs and meal preferences
Trip types, budget, interests and departure points
Referral methods
Any other information you choose to provide to us
You also provide us information in other ways through technology. Some of this information may be linked to you personally. This information helps supports our analytics and customer marketing programs. Here are some examples of how technology may be used to provide information:
Device Information: When you visit our websites, we may collect information such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type of mobile device you use, your device operating system and browser type, a unique device identifier, the address of a referring websites, the path you take through our websites, and other information about your session on our websites.
Browsing Information: We may use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and mobile device identifiers to collect information about the use of our websites. Cookies allow us to provide you relevant information as you use or return to our sites. Web beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited, an email was opened, or if ad banners on our websites and other sites were effective. We use these tools to provide a more personalized travel searching experience for you.
Location Information: We may collect information about your location when your device is set to provide location information. For example, your device’s GPS signal may allow us to identify the Boscov’s Travel location nearest to you.
Travel Companion Information: When you make travel arrangements for someone else, we will request personal information and travel preferences about that individual. By providing your travel companion’s information, you affirm that you have obtained the traveling companion’s consent prior to providing us with their personal information and travel preferences. .
By sharing personal information with us, you explicitly agree that we are allowed to collect and use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy so that we can arrange your travel and provide our services to you. You can choose not to provide information to us, but some information is required in order to make your travel arrangements and as a consequence of not providing required information it is possible that we cannot provide the services you have requested or that we can only partially provide the services.
How we collect your information
We may collect your data that you enter on our website, in person, by mail, email, fax, social media, contests, registration forms or give to us in any other way.
How we use your information
We use your personal information to provide you with vacation products and services and to otherwise conduct our business. We may share your information with travel service providers, such as airline, hotel, car or other providers that we use in order to make your travel arrangements. We may also share your information with Boscov’s affiliated companies and third parties such as advertising partners, marketing partners and support services In certain circumstances we may also disclose your personally identifiable information if we believe that it is necessary to contact you, if you ask us to do so, or when we believe doing so is required by law.
We may share your personal information with unrelated outside companies so that they can directly market their products or services to you if we feel that a company offers vacation products or services that we believe may be of interest. In the event that some or all of the business assets of Travelcenter Inc are sold or transferred, we may transfer the corresponding information about our customers.
Security and retention of personal data
We are committed to taking appropriate measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful processing and unintentional loss, destruction or damage. We are not responsible for any third party’s actions or their security controls with respect to information they may collect or process. We will destroy or de-identify information once we no longer require it for our business purposes or as required by law.
Transfer of data to other countries
In providing services to you, we may disclose personal information to other parties, including overseas travel service providers, affiliates, subsidiaries, partners and subcontractors. Your personal data may be transferred to countries where the data protection laws provide a lower standard of protection than your country.
Rights with respect to personal data
You may choose what personal data to provide to us, however, if you choose not to provide certain data, some services may be affected.
We adhere to applicable data protection laws in the European Economic Area, which, if applicable to you, include the right to rectify inaccuracies or errors, erase, restrict the processing, object to processing, and withdraw consent to processing of your personal data, and where applicable, the right to data portability of your personal data.
We will handle such requests in a time specified by applicable laws and may charge a reasonable fee, where applicable by law, to cover the costs of these requests.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
When you use and access this website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Anything you choose to tell us about yourself (such as your address and email address) is stored separately on our secured servers.
In addition to our own cookies, we work with a third party company to assist us in better understanding how people use our website. This third party analyzes the information it collects from our website and returns it to us through a secure web connection. We use the information to help us understand your interests in our website and how to better serve you. This third party is required to maintain all of the information it collects and analyzes securely and in confidence.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Other internet usage
Any personally identifiable information you submit on a bulletin board, blog, chat room, comment about a product, or any other public forum on this Web site can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We recommend that you do not provide your name, e-mail address or any other personal information in such forums. Please note that if you choose to do so, it is at your own risk and you accept full responsibility for those posts and any consequences that may arise from posting this information.
Links to other websites
Our websites may contain links to third party websites. We do not have control over these sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked third party websites you visit as their privacy policy and practices may differ from ours.
At times we may partner with a third party to create a site that may look as if you are on a boscovstravel.com, boscovsbusinesstravel.com page. These sites may be co-branded or may have the look and feel of being on our site. However, the information collected on these pages may not be covered under the Boscov’s Travel Privacy Policy.
Your choice
If you prefer not to receive marketing communications from us or prefer that we not disclose certain personal information about you, you may opt out of those communications and disclosures; that is, you may direct us not to send emails or make those disclosures (other than disclosures permitted by law or otherwise exempt from your opt-out rights). Please know that even if you opted out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may still contact you for transactional or informational purposes. Some examples are contacts for questions or information regarding your travel reservations, reminder notices, surveys about your trip, travel alerts, or travel information related to your trip. If you wish to opt out of communications or disclosures of nonpublic personal information to unaffiliated companies, you may contact us: By Mail: Boscov’s Travel, ATTN: Marketing Department, P.O. Box 4309, Reading, PA 19606-0009; By Phone: 1-800-755-8020; By Email: [email protected].
Children’s privacy
Our website is not directed toward children under 13 and it is our site's policy not to knowingly collect personal information about any person under 13 years of age.
Policy changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When such a change is made, we will post a revised version on this site. Changes will be effective when they are posted and will apply to all information previously collected.
This Privacy Policy was last updated June, 2018.