Privacy Statement for 4**** South America Tours and Travel Vacations

This confirms that 4starSouthAmerica is an advocate in privacy protection, and exceeds web standards set by companies such as TrustE. Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices. An independent web organization has reviewed:

1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally identifiable information that is collected from you through the web site
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under 4starSouthAmerica's control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Bradley Nehring, Privacy Supervisor, by calling 1-800-747-4540, faxing 1-202-318-0569, emailing privacy@Suedamerika-Reisen.travel or writing Privacy / Universal Understanding LLC / 1712 Eye St NW Ste 602/ USA.

4starSouthAmerica by Universal Understanding LLC has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for all our interlinked websites.

We shall never share your personally identifiable information (name, postal address, phone number, email address, etc.) with any third party. We shall never contact you without your explicit permission. Your information is stored in our secure database.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used only for statistical purposes.

Our site's registration form encourages users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information from the registration form to send the user information about our company and other travel-related news. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary, for example, to deliver flight tickets. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders and information about our company to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to check the users' qualifications and bill the user for products and services. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

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This privacy statement only applies to the sites listed above and not to any sites linking to or from this site; please read the privacy statement of each you visit before submitting any personally identifiable information (PPI)

Notification of changes

If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usuage practices that affect your Personally Identifiable Information, we shall notify you by email of the relevant changes. At the time of this message, you will be able to opt-out of this information usage by sending a message through this link. Please also check this posted privacy statement for changes.

Site and Services Updates

We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

Sharing of information
Universal Understanding shares information including names provided by you with airlines and hotels for the purpose of ticketing and rooming. These agencies are instructed not to disclose any information to 3rd parties.

Domain Names
Please note that our website can be accessed through http://www.Suedamerika-Reisen.travel. Our secure site is https://Suedamerika-Reisen.travel

Information collected through our payment systems
When making tour payments and deposits, we collect some personal information, depending on how the payment is made:

Card Services International captures credit card payment information, and provides Universal Understanding with access to address information, as well as the first and last 4 digits only of the cardholder's credit card number. This information is stored on Card Service International's secure servers only, and is used for reference only. Credit card information is never added to the users file. Address information may be added to the user's file for distribution of tour vouchers and flight tickets.

Paypal.com captures credit card and other payment information, and provides information of payment and amount only, as well as a reference number. No information of credit card numbers or address are made available. Address information may be added to the user's file for distribution of tour vouchers and flight tickets.

Paybycheck.com - online check processing - provides Universal Understanding with payee's name, telephone number and address, as well as check number and amount. No bank details are supplied. Address information may be added to the user's file for distribution of tour vouchers and flight tickets.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact

US & Canada 1 (800) 747-4540 UK/IR/SE/NL/DE/AT/NZ/CH/ZA Toll-free 00(800) 747-45400 Germany Toll-free 0800-747-4540 Australia Toll-free 0011 (800) 747-45400 Mexico Toll-free 01 (800) 681-1860 Other Countries +1 (202) 517-0145
SouthAmerica.travel Tollfree (800) 747-4540 1 (202) 517-0145 Fax 1 (202) 318-0569 322 SE Parkhill Dr Chehalis WA 98532 8am-8pm Mo-Fr, 9am-5pm Sat EST	SouthAmerica.travel - Universal Understanding GmbH (Europe) Tel (0800) 747-4540 Tel +49 (711) 914-1201 Fax +49 (711) 856-6971 Hauptstr. 131 D-70563 Stuttgart 10am-midnight Mo-Fr	Flights only (Int'l + Airpasses) Tollfree (800) 747-4541 ext FLY 1 (202) 517-0145 ext FLY Fax 1 (202) 318-1260 9am-8pm Mo-Sa EST
SA puncto Travel (Argentina) Reg: 12882 From US/Canada (888) 206-9253 +54 (11) 5355-2711 Fax +54 (11) 4032-0002 Suipacha 530 2º Piso C1008AAL Buenos Aires • Argentina 9am - 7pm Mo-Fr	SouthAmerica.travel do Brasil Reg: RJ.10.05.030.718/0001-44 From US/Canada (800) 746-4599 Tel +55 (21) 3523-0379 Fax +55 (21) 3724-0812 Av NS Copacabana, 1059 / 605 Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro 22060-001 8am-7pm Mo-Fr	SouthAmerica.travel del Peru Reg: 001278 From US/Canada (888) 206-9546 +51 (1) 719-7792 Fax +51 (1) 241-4011 Jr. Elías Aguirre 141 - Of. 313 Miraflores, Lima 18 10am - 7pm Mo-Fr

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