Effective Date: March 1, 2006
Corporate Privacy Policy
Online Privacy Policy
If you prefer that we not share your personal information with Joint
Marketers, please click here, and follow the instructions provided.
INTRODUCTION
Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc.
and all of our subsidiaries, affiliates, casinos and resorts have an unwavering
commitment to providing outstanding products and services to visitors to our
properties. This Privacy Policy explains our practices for the following
properties: Harrah’s Phoenix Ak-Chin,
Harrah’s Rincon, Harrah’s Joliet,
Harrah’s Metropolis, Horseshoe Hammond, Harrah’s Bluffs Run, Harrah’s Council
Bluffs, Harrah’s Prairie Band, Harrah’s Louisiana Downs; Harrah’s Lake Charles,
Harrah’s New Orleans, Horseshoe Casino Bossier City, Horseshoe Casino Tunica,
Harrah’s North Kansas City, Harrah’s St. Louis, Bill’s Lake Tahoe, Harrah’s Lake
Tahoe, Harrah’s Las Vegas, Harrah’s Laughlin, Harrah’s Reno, Harveys Lake Tahoe,
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, Harrah’s Atlantic City, Showboat Atlantic
City, Harrah’s Cherokee, Harrah’s Chester, Bally’s Las Vegas, Paris Las Vegas,
Caesars Palace, Flamingo Las Vegas, Caesars Indiana, Caesars Atlantic City,
Bally’s Atlantic City, Grand Casino Gulfport, Grand Casino Biloxi, Grand Casino
Tunica, Sheraton Tunica, Reno Hilton, Wild Wild West Atlantic City, Claridge
Atlantic City, Poarch Creek Atmore and the corporate offices of Harrah’s
Operating Company, Inc. (collectively "The Properties" and/or "We").
CORPORATE PRIVACY POLICY
We value you as a
customer and take your personal privacy seriously. In the course of providing
you with credit or other financial services we collect certain personal
information about you that we understand you may consider private or
confidential. This information may be contained in applications and other forms
you submit to us, gathered from your gaming activity with us, or obtained from
our affiliates and other third parties such as credit bureaus. We are therefore
providing you with this notice to explain our policies for collecting, using and
sharing this information with others.
OUR PRIVACY PRINCIPLES
We protect, according
to strict standards of security and confidentiality, all nonpublic personal
information we collect about our customers. We maintain physical, electronic and
organizational safeguards to protect this information.
We contractually
require any person or organization providing products or services to customers
on our behalf to protect the confidentiality of this information.
We afford
former customers the same protections as existing customers with respect to the
use and sharing of their information.
We permit only authorized employees,
who are trained in the proper handling of this information, to have access to
it.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
We collect and use
information we believe is necessary to administer our business and provide you
with the financial services you request.
We may collect and maintain several
types of information needed for these purposes, such as those stated below.
Information we receive on applications for credit or other financial
services, such as your name, address, telephone number, Social Security number
and other identifying information.
Information we receive about you from
others, including credit bureaus, relating to your credit history and financial
transactions with others.
Information about your transactions with us,
including your payment history and/or gaming activity with Harrah’s Operating
Company, Inc. and its affiliated entities.
ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to the Harrah's
Operating Company, Inc. ("Harrah's", "Harrahs.com") web site. Harrah's
Operating Company, Inc. has created this privacy statement in order to
demonstrate our company's commitment to privacy for our website users. The
following paragraphs disclose our information gathering and dissemination
practices for the site.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
If you use this
Site to send personal data to Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., your
transmission will be protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL is a
technology employed by Harrah's that encrypts your information during
transmission.
We automatically track and collect the following information when you visit
our Site, including your: (i) IP address, (ii) domain server, (iii) type of
computer, and (iv) type of Web browser (collectively "Traffic Data"). Traffic
Data is anonymous information that does not personally identify you, but is
helpful for marketing purposes or for improving your experience on the Site.
We collect and use Customer information we believe is necessary to administer
our business and provide you with the most personalized service and experience.
We may collect and maintain several types of information needed for these
purposes, such as those stated below.
Customer information is collected when a customer chooses to book a
reservation, sign up for email, enter an online promotion, request information,
submit an application for employment or provide feedback in a survey. The types
of information we collect can include: Total Rewards number, date of birth,
first name, last name, address, phone, email address, credit card # (for those
booking a reservation only), and social security # (for those submitting
applications for employment only).
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE TO AFFILIATED
ENTITIES
If necessary, we may share information as set forth above
with our affiliates, including our owned, operated, and managed casinos licensed
under the Harrah's, Horseshoe, Rio, Showboat, Harveys, Caesars, Bally's, Paris,
Grand, Sheraton Tunica, and Flamingo brand names. Doing so allows us to better
serve our customers.
INFORMATION DISCLOSURE TO NON-AFFILIATED
ENTITIES
We share the information we collect about our customers with
credit bureaus, collection agencies, and other non-affiliated third parties only
as permitted by law.
If you are a participant in our Total Rewards® Program, we may share certain
limited information about you with other businesses with which we contract, who
may contact you as part of a joint marketing or promotional program (Joint
Marketers). These businesses include financial services companies, such as banks
and insurance companies, other service providers, such as airlines and car
rental agencies, and retailers. The information we share with them - such as
your name, address, telephone number, is gathered solely from your participation
in the Total Rewards Program.
CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY
Over time, it may be
necessary to modify or supplement our Privacy Policy. Any such changes will be
posted on this page and Harrah's will inform Site users by adding a notice to
the Site home page.
INFORMATION WE MAY SHARE
Notwithstanding
anything herein, we may also share your information when Harrah's has a good
faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with legal process or
other legal requirements of any governmental authorities, including but not
limited to gaming regulators; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property to
Harrah's; (iii) enforce this agreement; or (iv) protect the interests of users
of this Site other than you or any other person. Harrah's does provide certain
information in aggregate form collected from and relating to you to third
persons such as advertisers.
EMAIL PRIVACY
If you prefer not to receive
further emails from Harrah's, you may click here to opt
out or click on the "unsubscribe" link found on the bottom of all our email
communications. If you are a Total Rewards member, click
here to sign in and update your profile. If you had multiple email addresses
at various Harrah's (including Caesars) properties, as part of our one time data
conversion process for each Caesars property, we will use only your opted in
email addresses. If you wish to opt this address, and thus your entire account,
out of further email, you may click here.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Links to other websites do not
expressly or impliedly endorse the materials disseminated at those websites, nor
does the existence of a link to another site expressly or impliedly mean that
the organization or person publishing at that site endorses any of the materials
at this Site. Links to other websites are provided only as a convenience to
Harrah's users. Harrah's is not responsible for the content, validity, privacy
policies or reliability of any website linked to this Site.
USER ABILITY TO ACCESS, UPDATE AND CORRECT PERSONAL
INFORMATION
As a Total Rewards member, in order to ensure that all of
your Personal Information is correct and up to date, you may review and update
your profile online once you sign in with your Total Rewards number.
COOKIE POLICY
We use cookies to be reminded of
who you are and to help us to access your account information (stored on our
computers) in order to keep track of your Total Rewards credits or points and to
deliver to you a better and more personalized service. "Cookies" are text files
that store very small bits of information that help to identify you and your
session interacting with a website. Harrah's uses cookies to help us to identify
you as a returning user to allow us to deliver a more seamless and personalized
experience for you. Currently, Harrah's tracks when you sign in and erases the
information when you sign out. Harrah's reserves the right to extend the use of
cookies but only with our strategic partners. Other third parties may be able to
see information outside of Harrah's control. Harrah's assume no legal
responsibility for such use. To learn more specifics about how cookies work,
please refer to the help section of your web browser.
OVER 21 POLICY
As a rule of law, persons under
the age of twenty-one (21) are not permitted to loiter on any of our casino
properties. As a rule of law, we do not permit them to participate in gaming. As
a matter of policy, we do not sell rooms to persons under the age of twenty-one.
Thus, any offers we make or any contests we conduct, unless otherwise noted, are
not open to persons younger than 21 years of age. Persons younger than 21 year
of age are not allow to use our Site, accept offers, or win contests, and we do
not knowingly collect information from such persons. We reserve the right to
verify age at any time for any reason and may reject a person who does not have
valid age identification from participating on any part of this Site.
CONTACTING OUR WEBSITE
Should you have
additional questions, comments or concerns, please contact us:
- by visiting the Customer Service section of the site or
- by writing us at:
Harrah's Operating Company, Inc. ATTN.: Loyalty
Marketing
P.O. Box 98905
Las Vegas, NV 89193-8905