American Airlines shares your personal information with a broad network of partners including airlines, hotels, car rental companies, credit card issuers, travel agents, and tour operators when you use your AAdvantage account or book travel through partner channels.
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Your travel and loyalty data, including booking details, transaction history, and contact information, flows to a wide range of third-party businesses whose own privacy practices are not governed by this policy.
Providing your AAdvantage number to earn or redeem miles with partner airlines, hotels, or credit card companies results in your personal information being shared with those partners, each of whom applies their own privacy practices to that data.
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"Our travel and loyalty business partners that you interact with as an American customer or loyalty member, such as travel agents, other airlines (e.g., code share and alliance partners), travel and hospitality service providers (e.g., transportation or tour operators), and other loyalty partners (e.g., our credit card partners). Information about your transactions with our loyalty or business partners, such as another airline, hotel, car rental, or credit card company that you have provided your AAdvantage® account number for purposes of earning or redeeming miles or receiving loyalty benefits.Excerpt from American Airlines's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Third-party data sharing engages GDPR Article 13 and 14 disclosure requirements for EU/EEA data subjects, which require identification of recipients or categories of recipients at the time of data collection.
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Your travel and loyalty data, including booking details, transaction history, and contact information, flows to a wide range of third-party businesses whose own privacy practices are not governed by this policy.
Providing your AAdvantage number to earn or redeem miles with partner airlines, hotels, or credit card companies results in your personal information being shared with those partners, each of whom applies their own privacy practices to that data.
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