Introduction

Marriott has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers and visitors of this Web site, including respecting your concerns about privacy. Marriott is a proud supporter of the Children's Miracle Network and we have developed this Web site to provide more information about Children's Miracle Network, our involvement and how you can contribute if you choose. 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 ("Statement") to inform you of the privacy principles that govern this Web site.

This Statement contains numerous general and technical details about the steps we take to respect your privacy concerns. We have organized the Statement by major processes and areas so that you can quickly link to 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.

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

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

Browsing
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Requests for Personal Information
Other Sites
Legal Issues
MarriottPride.com Changes to Your Privacy Rights

Browsing

This Web site does not collect personally identifiable information when you browse this Web site and request pages from our servers unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide it to us. This means that we will not know your name, your email address, or any other personally identifiable information just because you browse the Web site.  When you request a page from our Web site, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information that is provided in the HTTP header. We collect the HTTP request header information in order to make our Web site function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see on this Web site. We also use this information to better understand how visitors use our Web site and how we can better tune it, its contents, and functionality to meet your needs.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Since the purpose of this Web site is primarily to provide information about Children's Miracle Network and Marriott's involvement, we do not ask you to provide any personally identifiable information on this site. You may donate Marriott Rewards points by printing a form provided on this Website and then faxing it for processing.  You will be required to provide personally identifiable information in order for us to process the Marriott Rewards points donation.  Please note that if you choose, you may also make a financial contribution online and that you will be doing so by linking to another site such as the Children's Miracle Network or other site.  The privacy statements on those Web sites will explain the measures those sites take to protect your personally identifiable information such as credit card information.  Marriott is not responsible for the information use or privacy practices of those other sites.

Requests for Personal Information

Please note that Marriott will never send you email requesting your user name, password, credit card number or social security number. If you receive an email that looks like it's from Marriott, but asks you for your credit card number or social security number, it's a fraudulent email, or "phish." We recommend that you do the following:

• Forward the email to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357) to report it. The FTC uses the spam stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive email.
• Delete the email.

If you believe "phishers" have gotten access to your personal or financial information, we recommend that you also do the following:

• Change your password.
• Contact credit reporting services and have a fraud alert attached to your credit report file. Please be aware that the perpetrator may attempt to use your information to establish accounts or obtain credit at other businesses in their name.
  

Other Sites

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.

Legal Issues

This is a United States Web site and is subject to laws of the United States and the State of Maryland. Marriott will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith 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 reside 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, you may request a statement of this fact in writing by sending an email to privacy@marriott.com or letter to Marriott International, Inc., 10400 Fernwood Road, Dept. 52.923.26, Bethesda, MD 20817.

MarriottPride.com Changes to Your Privacy Rights

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 August 16, 2006.