Privacy Notice
LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 1, 2020
Introduction to this Privacy Notice
Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. ("We", "Us", or "Our") cares about privacy
issues and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, disclose, and otherwise
use ("Process") information about you. This privacy notice ("Privacy
Notice") describes our practices in connection with the information we
collect through our websites (the "Websites"), social media
pages that we control ("Social Media Pages"), and software
applications that we make available for use on or through computers and mobile
devices (the "Apps"), that include a link to this Privacy
Notice, and through any of our offline activities, such as when you provide your
information on the telephone via our call centers or in person ("Offline
Activities") (collectively, including the Websites, Apps, Social Media
Pages, and Offline Activities, the "Services").
Click here to read about "Your California Privacy Rights".
NOTICE TO TIMESHARE OWNERS/FINANCING CUSTOMERS: You may receive
a separate notice regarding "Your Financial Privacy" by mail. If a Service
provides you the ability to access your account online, and you agree to receive
annual notices online, we will provide you with annual notices through such
Service. Further, if we provide you with updated notices online, we will require
you to acknowledge receipt of the updated notice through such Service or another
identified Service.
Our privacy practices may vary among the countries in which we operate to
reflect local practices and legal requirements, such that our practices may be
more limited in such jurisdictions.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy practices.
What Information Is Collected and How Is It Collected?
1. We may collect "Personal Information" (information that identifies you or relates to you as an identifiable person) about you such as your:
- Name
- Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses)
- Phone number
- Email address
- Credit or debit card number
- Financial information in certain circumstances
- Social media account information
- Stay, trip, product or service information and preferences, such as your
preferred location/facilities, dates and number of people/children travelling
with you
- Special needs or conditions that may impact your stay
- Driver's license, government-issued ID, or passports
- Geolocation information
- Communication, product, service or other preferences
- Your opinions, comments, suggestions, inquiries and other communications you
provide to us.
- Demographic information
- Audio/Visual recordings such as when you call our customer service phone number or participate in having a photo taken for an activity, resort, etc.
- Internet Click Activity on our websites
- IP address or Device ID
- Account or Membership ID
2. We may collect information from you when you interact with us such as when
you:
- Register for, use, or make a payment for a product or service
- Contact us with a question or request
- Use our Services
- Make a reservation
- Stay at one of our affiliated resorts
- Provide a testimonial or story, or post or submit a photo, review or comment
- Participate in a competition, promotional activity or sweepstakes
- Participate in a survey
- Participate in any loyalty or other programs
- "Like", "Follow" or otherwise connect with or post to one of our Social Media Pages
3. Other information we collect about you:
Cookies: Our Services may use "cookies" and similar technologies (collectively,
"cookies"). Cookies are small text files this Website sends to your computer for
recordkeeping purposes; this information is stored in a file on your computer's
hard drive. Cookies make web surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your
preferences so we can use these to improve your next visit to our Website.
- One purpose of cookies is to simplify the use of the Website. For example,
cookies may save a user's login details, so that they do not need to login every
time.
- Cookies may be either "persistent" or "temporary" (or "session") cookies. A
persistent cookie retains user preferences for a particular Website allowing
those preferences to be used in future browsing sessions and remains valid until
its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A
temporary cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session,
when the web browser is closed.
- Cookies are also used for statistical or marketing purposes, to determine how
the Website is used. These cookies are provided by us or by third parties (e.g.,
advertising partners). While we do not control or have access to the advertiser
cookies we do permit them to be used on this Website to facilitate tailored
advertising and monitor patterns of buying specific goods or interest in - for
example, holidays or hobbies. These cookies run advertisements tailored to the
user based on his online buying habits.
Pixels, Beacons: We or third party ad servers, including Facebook, may use
cookies or invisible pixels or beacons on this Website to count how many users
visit certain pages or take certain actions to collect or receive information
from this Website and elsewhere on the Internet. We may use this information to
improve our marketing programs and content, and to target advertisements at this
Website and/or on other sites.
From Other Sources: We may receive your Personal Information from other sources,
such as public databases, joint marketing partners, data firms, social media
platforms, from people with whom you are friends or otherwise connected on
social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. For example, if you
elect to connect your social media account to your Website account, certain
Personal Information from your social media account will be shared with us,
which may include Personal Information that is part of your public profile or
your friends' public profiles.
Mobile Devices: When you use or access our Services from a mobile device, we may
collect information such as your unique device ID and your location. If you
download and use an App, we and our service providers may track and collect App
usage data, such as the date and time the App on your device accesses our
servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the App based on
your device number, as well as any other Personal Information specified by the
App in its terms or notices.
Do Not Track Signals: At this time, we do not respond to browser
'do not track'
signals, as we await the work of interested stakeholders and others to develop
standards for how such signals should be interpreted. Third parties, including
our service providers, may collect information about your online activities over
time and across different websites, including when you visit our website. You
can learn about how to exercise choice regarding the collection of information
about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online
services by visiting
www.aboutads.info and
www.networkadvertising.org.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us get a better understanding
of how visitors use this Website and to facilitate interest based advertising
associated with your Google Account and other devices you use. The information
generated by the Google Analytics cookie about your use of this Website is
transmitted to and stored by Google. If you do not want your activity on this
Website to be tracked by Google Analytics, you may opt out by using this link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Internet Based Advertising: We may use third-party advertising companies to
serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you
when you access and use our Services and other websites, apps or online
services, based on information relating to your access and use of our Services
and other websites, apps and services on any of your devices, as well as
information received from third parties. To do so, these companies may place or
recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel
tags). They may also use these technologies, along with information they collect
about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a
mobile phone and a laptop. If you would like more information about this
practice, and to learn how to opt out of it in desktop and mobile browsers on
the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Notice, please
visit www.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org to opt out in mobile
apps. You may also opt out in Twitter by going to your account privacy settings
and unchecking the box next to "Tailor ads based on information shared by ads
partners."
Other Non-Personal Information: In addition to any Personal Information or other
information that you choose to provide to us on the Services, we and our
third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies, now and
hereafter devised, that automatically collect certain web site usage information
whenever you visit or interact with the Services. This information may include
browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, the source of the
request, the preceding page view, and other similar information. We may use this
usage information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise
improve the Services. In addition, we may also collect your IP address or some
other unique identifier for the particular device you use to access the
Internet, as applicable (collectively, referred to herein as a
"Device
Identifier"). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to
your device, and we may identify your device by its Device Identifier. When
analyzed, usage information helps us determine how our Services are used, such
as what types of visitors arrive at the Services, what type of content is most
popular, what type of content you may find most relevant and what type of
visitors are interested in particular kinds of content and advertising. We may
associate your Device Identifier or web site usage information with the Personal
Information you provide, but we will treat the combined information as Personal
Information.
We use non-personal information in a variety of ways, including to help analyze
site traffic, understand customer needs and trends, carry out targeted
promotional activities and to improve our services. We may use your non-personal
information by itself or aggregate it with information we have obtained from
others. We may share your non-personal information with our affiliated companies
and third parties to achieve these objectives and others, but remember that
aggregate information is anonymous information that does not personally identify
you. We may provide our analysis and certain non-personal information to third
parties (who may in turn use this information to provide advertisements tailored
to your interests), but this will not involve disclosing any of your personally
identifiable information.
As aggregated or anonymized information does not constitute Personal
Information, we may use it for any purpose. If we combine anonymized or
aggregated data with Personal Information, we will treat the combined
information as Personal Information according to this Privacy Notice.
Why and How We Use Your Information
We may Process Personal Information in connection with any of the following:
1. Our business transactions with you, including, but not limited to:
- To enter into or perform a contract with you
- To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
- To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding
the Services or an event in which you are attending
- To complete and fulfill any purchases or requests for services
2. For our legitimate business interests, including, but not limited to:
- To personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you
- To allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions, and to administer these activities (each of which may have additional rules and
could contain additional information about how we Process your Personal
Information
- To facilitate social sharing functionalities of your social media account(s)
- To carry out data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, internal
quality assurance, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying
our Services, identifying usage trends, auditing use and functionality of our
Services, helping enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, helping protect our
Services, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and
operating and expanding our business activities
- Subject to your marketing preferences (which may include consent to marketing
under applicable law), to send you newsletters or marketing communications we
believe may be of interest to you, for our own products and services, and on
behalf of our Affiliates or selected third parties, via postal mail, email,
telephone or text messaging
- To allow you to send messages to a friend through the Services. By using this
functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us
with your friend's name and email address
3. In accordance with any consent you may have provided. You have the right to
decline to provide your consent and, if consent is provided, to withdraw your
consent at any time.4. As necessary or appropriate for legal reasons, including, but not limited to:
- Under applicable law
- To comply with legal process
- To respond to requests from public and government authorities, including those outside your country of residence
- To enforce our terms and conditions
- To protect our operations or those of any of our Affiliates or other third parties
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, or that of our Affiliates, you, or other third parties
- To allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages we, our Affiliates, or other third parties, may sustain
When We Disclose Your Information
We may disclose your information as follows:
- Affiliates: To any other entity that is, at the time you disclose your
Personal Information, directly or indirectly controlled by, or under common
control with us ("Affiliates") for the purposes described in this Privacy
Notice, including under "Why and How We Use Your Information", unless otherwise
prohibited by applicable law. You can find more information about our primary
operating Affiliates in our Annual Report as of the date the Annual Report was
published or by contacting us at the contact information set forth below in the
section titled "How Can You Contact Us?"
- Vendors and Service Providers: We may disclose your information to vendors and
service providers we retain in connection with our business such as: travel
services companies, financial services companies, property owners' associations,
vacation insurance companies, website hosting, data analysis, payment
processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure
provision, customer service, email delivery, credit card processing, tax and
financial advisers, legal advisers, accountants or auditing services.
- Business Partners, Sponsors, and Other Third Parties: We may disclose your
Personal Information to business partners, co-sponsors of promotions, and other
third parties in order to provide you with services that may be of interest to
you. For example, we may share your Personal Information with the owners and
operators of affiliated and unaffiliated hotels and resorts, airlines, car
rental services, retail stores, credit agencies and other third parties to
facilitate reservations, to offer you products or services, or in connection
with our loyalty program or a loyalty program of one of our partners. We may
also co-sponsor promotions, sweepstakes, or other events with a third party and
may share your Personal Information in connection with these events. Further, we
may share your Personal Information with third party providers located on-site
at hotels or resorts, such as time-share, spa, golf, concierge, and dining
providers. If you provide additional information to any of these third parties,
such information will be subject to such third parties' privacy practices.
- Third Parties: Subject to your marketing preferences (which may include
consent to marketing under applicable law), we may license, sell, or otherwise
share your Personal Information with selected third parties for compensation for
their own business purposes. Once we share your Personal Information with a
third party for such purposes, the information shared becomes subject to such
third party's privacy practices.
- Message Boards: We may make reviews, message boards, blogs, and other such
user-generated content facilities available to users. Any information disclosed
in these areas becomes public information and you should always be careful when
deciding to disclose your Personal Information. We are not responsible for
privacy practices of other users including website operators to whom you provide
information.
- Merger or Acquisition: We may disclose your Personal Information to a third
party who acquires any part of our business or the business of any of our
Affiliates, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation,
divestiture, spin-off, or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our
assets.
- Disclosure Permitted by Law: We may disclose your Personal Information to law
enforcement authorities, government or public agencies or officials, regulators,
and/or to any other person or entity having appropriate legal authority or
justification for receipt of your information, if required or permitted to do so
by law or legal process, to respond to claims, or to protect our rights,
interests, privacy, property or safety, and/or that of our Affiliates, you or
other third parties.
How Do We Safeguard Your Information?
- Security of Your Information: We will take reasonable steps to protect the
information you provide us from loss, misuse and unauthorized access,
disclosure, alteration and destruction. We have implemented appropriate
physical, electronic and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure your
information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or
destruction. Unfortunately, no security system is 100% secure, thus we cannot
ensure the security of all information you provide to us via the Services.
Other Important Information
- Information Provided on Someone Else's Behalf: If you provide us with
information about someone else, please ensure you have the person's permission
to do so for the purposes detailed in this Privacy Notice.
- Links to Websites: The Services may have links to other websites that are not
operated by us; we have no control over how these websites may collect your
information and no liability for the practices, policies and security measures
implemented on these websites. You should read the privacy notices on those
other websites before you submit your information through them.
- Social Media Sites: Please note that we are not responsible for the
collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including data
security) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft,
RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider,
operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer,
including any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through
or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
- Changes to Our Privacy Notice: From time to time we may revise this Privacy
Notice and/or use Personal Information for new, unanticipated uses not
previously disclosed to meet changes in the regulatory or business environment,
or to satisfy the needs of our customers and service providers. Updated and date
stamped versions will be posted on the Services. Unless otherwise required under
applicable law (e.g. obtaining consent from you for the relevant material
changes) the revised Privacy Notice will take effect immediately upon such
posting.
- Minors: We do not knowingly collect, maintain or use Personal Information from
individuals under 18 years of age in connection with, and no part of our
Websites, Social Media Pages, and Apps is directed to, individuals under the age
of 18. If we do incidentally collect or maintain Personal Information from
individuals under 18 years of age, you may request deletion of such information
by contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact Us?" below.
- International Transfers: We are an international company and we may, subject
to applicable law, transfer your information, to our Affiliates or selected
third parties outside the country where you are located and where information
protection standards may differ (e.g., your information may be stored on servers
located in other jurisdictions). We will utilize appropriate safeguards
governing the transfer and usage of your Personal Information, such as an
adequacy decision by the European Commission, Model Clauses or other applicable
adequacy mechanisms. If you would like further detail on the safeguards we have
in place you can contact us directly as set forth in "How Can You Contact Us"
below.
- Retention Period. We will retain your Personal Information for the period
necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Your Choices and Rights
- Changes to Your Marketing Preferences: You can opt-out from receiving future marketing communications from us at any time by:
- Using the unsubscribe function in the email you receive from us; or
- Contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact Us?" below.
- Withdrawing Your Consent: You may withdraw any consent that you have provided
to us to Process your information at any time.
- Accessing your Information: In accordance with applicable law, you may access
the Personal Information we Process about you.
Any request to access or obtain copies of your Personal Information must be made
in writing by contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact Us?" below.
We may, depending on the applicable law in your country, be entitled to charge a
nominal fee to cover some of our administration costs in connection with the
provision of such information. We may also ask you to verify your identity and
to provide further details relating to your request.
- Correcting your Information: We will take reasonable steps to ensure the
accuracy of the Personal Information we retain about you. It is your
responsibility to ensure you submit true, accurate, and complete information to
us, and timely update us in the event this information changes. You may request
that any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information held by us or on our
behalf is corrected, by contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact
Us?" below.
- Deleting your Information: Under certain circumstances, you may request we
delete Personal Information we hold about you by contacting us as set forth
under "How Can You Contact Us?" below. We will assess your request and
determine, under applicable law, whether we are required to delete this
information.
- Objecting to or Restricting Processing: If you would like us to stop or
restrict the Processing your Personal Information, you can request this by
contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact Us?" below. We will assess
your request and determine, under applicable law, whether we have any
justification for the continued Processing.
- Transferring your Information: Under certain circumstances, you may receive
your Personal Information in a format that allows you to send it to another
company or to direct us to transfer it directly to another company. You can
request this by contacting us as set forth under "How Can You Contact Us?"
below. We will evaluate your request under applicable law.
Your Nevada Privacy Rights:
Notice to Nevada Residents: If you are a resident of Nevada, under certain circumstances, Nevada Civil Code Section NRS 603A.340 allows you to request operators of websites not to sell your Personal Information. To make such a request, please send an email to our Legal Services-Privacy Department at Privacy@wyn.com or send a letter to:
Wyndham Destinations Inc.
Attn: Legal Services-Privacy Department
6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32821
Your California Privacy Rights:
- Shine the Light Law: If you are a resident of California, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows you to request information regarding the Personal Information we collected and third parties to whom we disclosed your Personal Information for the third parties' direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To send this request, you may contact us using one of the methods in the "How Can You Contact Us?" section of this Privacy Notice.
- California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"): This section 2 is intended to satisfy the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). The rights of the CCPA are in addition to any other rights applicable to you in this Privacy Notice.
a) Personal Information Definition:
For the CCPA, "Personal Information" is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household.
b) Exclusions:
Some Personal Information is not subject to the CCPA such as consumer credit reports and background checks, publicly available data lawfully made available from state or federal government records, and any other Personal Information exempt from the CCPA. This CCPA section does not apply to Our employees. A separate privacy notice applies to Our employees.
c) The Categories of Personal Information We Collect and Why We Collect Them.
Generally, where applicable, we may collect the following categories of Personal Information (as set forth in the CCPA) about you for the following purposes:
Personal Information Category |
Identifiers: Identifiers such as your real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver's license number, passport number, account number, rewards program number, and other similar identifiers. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect this information to establish a business
record of you, setup rewards and other accounts, create login
credentials for you, and for similar reasons. We may collect
this information to communicate to you about your purchases,
transactions, contracts, our business relationship we you, and
for similar reasons.
We may collect this information to
provide you with surveys for quality assurance, product
development and more. We may collect this information to
facilitate communications to you regarding products/services
that may be of interest to you. We may collect this
information to provide a list to resorts, Home Owner's
Associations (HOAs), and third party partners related to your
transactions, election activities, ownership and more.
We
may collect this information to verify your identity such as
when you request access to your Personal Information or apply
for a loan.
We may collect this information such as
government id related information in order to process your loan
application or provide information to a travel provider such as
an airline pertaining to your reservation. We may collect
this information to provide a list of your emergency contacts.
We may collect this information to meet a legal requirement
such as recording a title or similar functions. We may
collect your signature on documents like contracts, loan terms,
waivers, etc. |
Personal Information Category |
Commercial Information: Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect this information to process and/or administer
your loan applications and loans, your contracts, your
reservations, your loyalty and/or rewards accounts, and more.
We may collect this information to personalize your
services/products, provide helpful suggestions, respond to your
commercial inquiries, and facilitate communications to you of
products/services and related features that may be of interest
to you.
We may collect this information to create
efficiencies in managing reservations and recurring commercial
interactions with you or otherwise managing our ongoing business
relationship. We may collect this information to maintain a
record of your consuming history preferences and tendencies to
better serve you, to personalize an experience for you, and to
meet other needs of offering, providing and maintaining an
ongoing service relationship with you.
We may collect
your survey answers about events, products/services and more for
quality assurance, product improvement, and to facilitate
marketing that may be of interest to you. |
Personal Information Category |
Protected Classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law such as race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, citizenship status, and genetic information. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect this information where needed for a legal or
financial document such as when we collect your marital status
for a loan application.
We may collect this information
where needed for a reservation, such as where we may need your
gender to report to the airlines. We may also collect this
information like gender to address you with the proper
salutation.
We may collect this information to provide
you with the proper accommodations or assistance such as when
you notify of us health related accommodations you require
related to a reservation.
We may collect additional
information in this category as appropriate. |
Personal Information Category |
Biometric Information: physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics that can be used alone or in combination with each other to establish individual identity, including DNA, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, faceprint, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect biometric information in order for you to access portions of a resort or property or to assist in a law enforcement investigation. |
Personal Information Category |
Internet Activity: Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a resident's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, as well as physical and network access logs and other network activity information related to your use of any company device, network or other information resource. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect this information to improve our website functionality, improve transaction throughput, and personalize your experience. We may collect this information to determine what interests you to facilitate targeted communications of products and services to you. We may collect this information to judge the effectiveness of any online marketing campaigns. |
Personal Information Category |
Geolocation Data: Precise geographic location information about a particular individual or device. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect your postal address, the location associated with the device used of your internet activity in order to create demographic analysis of visits to our site and promote interests in our products to better market to and understand our customers.
We may collect this information because of differences in jurisdictional laws to be sure we are compliant in our presentation of content.
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Personal Information Category |
Audio/Visual Data: audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information such as, CCTV images and photographs, and audio recordings (e.g., recorded meetings). |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect this information for quality assurance of product/service presentations or communications, when you pose for videos/photos or provide audios at our resorts or to us in any manner in order to improve our products and services, when you participate in activities or excursions or attend other events as part of service delivery.
We may collect this information in public areas of our facilities and online to provide safe and secure facilities and to ensure quality assurance.
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Personal Information Category |
Employment History: professional or employment-related information. |
Purposes of Collection |
We may collect details of your employment history such as job title and length of time at your employment to process a loan application. We may collect employment history as part of a larger analysis of you and what products/services would be well suited for you. We may collect details of your employment history as part of your credentials if you run for an elected position within the association of your vacation ownership property. |
Personal Information Category |
Education Information: information about education history or background that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99). |
Purposes of Collection |
For example, we may collect this information in order to process a loan, in order to match your potential interest and likelihood of purchasing certain products/services, and as part of any office election you may run for as a candidate related to an HOA. |
Personal Information Category |
Profiles and Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a resident reflecting the resident's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. |
Purposes of Collection |
Purposes of Collection For example, we may infer what products or services may interest you, your predicted attachment to your purchased products, your likelihood of purchasing other products, your likelihood of exacting contract and loan terms, and more. We may demographic information about you such as your age, income, etc. |
OTHER PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING AND USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: Generally, we may use all of the above categories of personal information for the following purposes where applicable:
- Security and Monitoring. In order to monitor and secure our resources, network, premises and assets, including:
- Monitoring for, preventing investigating, and responding to security and privacy incidents
- Providing and managing access to physical and technical access controls
- Monitoring activities, access and use to ensure the security and functioning of our systems and assets
- Securing our offices, premises and physical assets, including through the use of electronic access systems and video monitoring
- Auditing, reporting corporate governance, and internal operations. We process Personal Information for the purposes of performing audits of our business operations, performing security reviews, ensuring we are meeting legal obligations, managing your business record, and other auditing functions.
- M&A and Other Business Transactions. For purposes of planning, due diligence and implementation of commercial transactions, for example mergers, acquisitions, asset sales or transfers, bankruptcy or reorganization or other similar business transactions.
- Defending and Protecting Rights. In order to protect and defend our rights and interests and those of third parties, including to manage and respond to employee and other legal disputes, to respond to legal claims or disputes, and to otherwise establish, defend or protect our rights or interests, or the rights, interests, health or safety of others, including in the context of anticipated or actual litigation with third parties.
- Compliance with Applicable Legal Obligations. Relating to compliance with applicable legal obligations (such responding to subpoenas and court orders) as well as assessments, reviews and reporting relating to such legal obligations.
d)
WHERE DO WE GET YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?: We may collect all of the Personal Information categories above primarily from you such as when you fill out a form, contact us, submit documents to us, use our websites or mobile apps, apply for a loan, and interact with us in other ways. We may collect it from our Affiliates, third party partners or data management companies. We may collect it from social media accounts such as when you connect to our websites through such an account. We may collect it from travel agents who provide it to us on your behalf or other persons who provide your information.
e)
TO WHOM DO WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?: We disclose Personal Information to Affiliates, vendors and service providers, legal and regulatory agencies under certain circumstances, third party product and service providers, third party partners, and others under certain circumstances. Please see the "
When We Disclose Your Information" section for more.
f)
SELLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: Under some circumstances as described below, we may sell or license your Personal Information.
- Partners: We may sell your Personal Information to sweepstakes, contest, promotion partners or other third parties so that they can market to you. This will only occur if you agree to participate in such promotion and will be subject to your marketing preferences.
- Affiliates: We may sell your Personal Information to Affiliates so that they can market to you their products and services provided that such sale is subject to your marketing preferences.
- Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of having your Personal Information sold. Please see the section of this Privacy Notice: "California Rights". Once we share your Personal Information with a third party for such purposes, the information shared becomes subject to such third party's privacy practices.
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California Rights:
- Right to Know: You have a right to know what Personal Information Categories we have collected, used, disclosed or sold about you in the previous 12 months and the purposes of such actions. You have a right to know the sources of collection of such information and to whom we have disclosed it to for business purposes or a sale. You also have a right receive a list of the Personal Information we have collected about you in the last 12 months from the date of your request. You may request any or all of this information up to two times in a 12 month period. You may exercise this right by filling out and submitting a Privacy Rights Request Form where one is available (See 'California Privacy Rights Request Form Link' below) or by contacting Us using one of the methods listed in the "How Can You Contact Us?" section of this Privacy Notice.
- Right to Delete: You have a right to instruct Us to delete certain Personal Information we hold about you. We will assess your request and determine, under the CCPA, what Personal Information we are required to delete. If we retain any Personal Information, we will notify you of what we have retained and why. For information we delete, we will notify you of the method of deletion. You may exercise this right by filling out and submitting a Privacy Rights Request Form where one is available (See 'California Privacy Rights Request Form Link' below) or by contacting Us using one of the methods listed in the "How Can You Contact Us?" section of this Privacy Notice.
- Nondiscrimination: You shall not incur or be subject to any price or quality of service difference from Us for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA. If you feel you have been treated unfairly for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA, please contact us immediately using one of the methods listed in the "How Can You Contact Us?" section of this Privacy Notice.
- Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Your Personal Information: You have the right to instruct Us not to sell your Personal Information. You may exercise this right by filling out and submitting this
Opt-Out Request Form or by contacting Us using one of the methods listed in the "How Can You Contact Us?" section of this Privacy Notice.
- Verification: We will require certain information from you to verify your identity as the requestor. Generally, we will ask you information that we have already collected about you to provide this verification. For instance, if you submit a "Right to Know" request, we may ask your name, address, email address, account number if applicable, and phone number. We reserve the right to ask additional questions and/or to contact you directly if in our discretion we determine we need additional verification.
- Agents: You may have an agent exercise your rights on your behalf. If an agent provides a Power of Attorney in compliance with California Probate Code Sections 4000-4464, We will process such request. If however, your agent does not provide such Power of Attorney, we will need you to provide written permission to Us of the agent's right to exercise your rights in this section on your behalf. Please include your full name, the address and email associated with your account with Us, your member number if applicable, the agent's full name and address, and the agent's email. Please send this permission to
privacy@wyn.com. Furthermore, in addition to your written permission, we may contact you and/or your agent for further verification of your request.
- California Privacy Rights Request Form Link:
https://wyndhamdestinations.com/us/en/privacy-notice/privacy-rights-access-delete
How Can You Contact Us?
- Contact Information: If after reviewing this Privacy Notice, you have any
questions, complaints or privacy concerns, or would like to make any requests in
relation to your Personal Information, or obtain further information on
safeguards used for international transfers please send an email to our Legal
Services-Privacy Department at Privacy@wyn.com or send a letter to:
Wyndham Destinations Inc.
Attn: Legal Services-Privacy Department
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL 32821
Also, you may call us at 1-800-914-8253.
If you have a complaint or concern about how we are Processing your Personal
Information then we will work to address such concern(s). You may also direct
your complaint/concern to the applicable data protection authority.