When you visit the Avis websites, we initially store your IP address only, in order to acquire general information and the origin of data traffic on our website. Therefore, only your Internet service provider is determined; no personal information is obtained.
Personally related data are only stored if you expressly announce and send corresponding information.
We then store, process and forward these data to the extent described below.
Within the framework of the Avis websites, we request such personal data of you such as name, address, telephone number and e-mail account. We store and process these data in order to handle your reservation, to contact you if we have problems with your enquiry and to confirm your reservation electronically. Such enquiries can also be made within the framework of competitive games or other context, e.g. an online survey.
Therefore, the data are not only stored and processed to handle your reservation, but also in general for marketing purposes and so that we can better tailor our offers to your requirements. If you already have a Wizard number, we link it to the information on you that we have already stored in our main-client database, thus speeding up the reservation process. It is possible that we will add further information to our database in addition to client name and address (such as data on reservations), in order to improve our service even more.
As part of an international group that jointly operates the Avis Rent-A-Car System, we will forward information from time to time in connection with our activity as a car rental firm to other companies in our group, within Europe or beyond. Your personally-related data may also be included in this information.
In the event that Avis forwards your data to third-party enterprises (e.g. in connection with competitive games), you will be informed separately thereof.
From time to time, Avis will be sending information via e-mail or the post on new services, novelties on the websites or current special Internet offers.
With every announcement of personally-related data, you give your consent to storing, processing and forwarding these data for the purpose described and to the extent indicated, as well as Avis’s sending of information. You may inspect the data we have stored concerning you and personally related at any time, and/or revoke your consent to storing, processing and/or forwarding these data, as well as to the sending of information.
If security measures need be taken to protect information, such as credit-card data, we use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) coding technology.
