Suppression of the Confidentiality Breaches  Associated with  Pervasive Credit Card Customs in Hospitality

• Dissociative Merchant Names Protecting the Itinerary of Your Services

  Charging Merchants

  Avoiding Unintended Breadcrumbs of
  the Dates and Exact Location of Your Forthcoming Services

  By requesting that charges be applied to your credit card, unless via an in-house method (specifically PayPal™) you are authorizing us to apply charges to external merchant.

  As primarily a professional-services firm, many non-consultative costs are simply charged at cost. Regardless, merchant references are typically hospitality-transaction processors (including online agencies), financial services, general merchants, and hospitality providers (with whom we discreetly coordinate services for clients). Merchant transactions (if any) are incidental to client transactions, and are vendors selling goods and services for the respective values; they are not responsible for your services.

  Avoidance of Recognizable Relevance to Dignitary Discretion or Your Travels

  As often as possible, we enable countermeasures away from suggestions of hospitality from Dignitary Discretion, endeavoring to suppress attempts in the present or future by manipulators who seek to infiltrate your activities and locations via your credit card records (such as by exploiting dishonest international legalism). As an especially powerful countermeasure) we can usually include a non-affiliated hotel principal.

  Individual transactions are typically less than the outstanding balance. Transactions are usually split, and there is usually a small uncharged balance, against which we simply reduce the refundable deposit/retainer amount. We deliberately maximize the use of non-recurring odd amounts (not rounded to whole dollars) that are both individually and accumulatively materially misaligned with the dollar amounts that we publish.

  Structured for Sophisticated Niches

  Please coordinate an individual solution if you are a staff employee using a corporate card or filing an expense report.

  The extraordinary privacy protections are superlative for our niches who must maintain compartmentalized confidentiality. The procedures are valued by independent professionals, B-D executives, I-bankers with cost-center autonomy, pre-event corporate insiders, corporate suitors, and many other principals. However, the same procedures that are crucially valuable for these niches are awkward or noncompliant for non-executives who are using corporate expense accounts or corporate cards.

  Please coordinate a different payment method at the time of your reservation/requisition if you do not wish to have charges applied to a debit or credit card in such a privacy-protective manner, or if you cannot lawfully make such arrangements.

  Upon Request

  Coordinated Diversionary Breadcrumbs

  Limited • Must Be Lawfully Honorable

  Counterespionage via diversionary breadcrumbs can be strategized for application with card transactions. Such situations must be lawfully honorable.

  Your responsibility for lawfulness is assumed—with no NTK—if such a request is made by a bona fide US official who is somehow loosely in a foreign-affairs role, or by a sworn US military officer. Please click here for the hypothetical example of safety protections for a high-value foreign asset (friendly, but inherently without clearance, and thus relegated to private-sector vendors like us).

• Refunds

  Refunds

  We are responsible for your charges. Any applicable refunds are provided via separate payment methods.

  Please click here for more information about refunds.

  The originally charging merchants are deliberately not affiliated, as a function of our sophisticated privacy protections of card transactions.

  The inability to issue a refund by reversing a charge is the primary reason that we normally do not charge refundable deposits to credit cards. For PayPal transactions, however, reversals are indeed often possible.

  Please click here for our deposit policies.

• Payment Submitted via a Travel Web Site

  

  Necessary Coordination
  when You Place Your Reservation

  Regardless of whether you reserve directly, via a travel site or other travel agency, or any other method, the paradigm of individualized arrangements requires that you please contact a concierge with Dignitary Discretion--day or night--promptly upon placing your reservation.

  Confirmation codes are conditional per our rate policies.
  
  The generic policies and confirmations of online travel services do not override these conditions.
  
  Submission of a credit card to a travel service does not complete the payment process.
  

  Please click on the picture or any of the topics above for more information.

• Split into Multiple Transactions Instead of one transaction, multiple charges are distributed to two or more vendors.

  Transaction Amounts

  Reduced Conspicuousness to Support Unhindered Business Progress

  Transaction amounts are deliberately odd (not rounded dollar amounts, thereby indicating ordinary retail transactions). You shall be provided promptly with specific names and amounts.

• Remittances of Deposits Please remit via a method that can be refunded appropriately.

  Remittances for which Refunds Are Anticipated

  Considerations of Remittance Methods

  Our protective compartmentalization for charging debit and credit cards generally prevents us from being able to reverse a charge to issue a refund. There are various complications that can develop from issuing substantial checks as refunds for transactions that were initially charged to cards, especially for relatively recent payments. Therefore, most deposits should be tendered via check, bank wire transfer, or other method besides a debit or credit card.

• Protective Processing by Default if We Do Not Hear from You Please liaise with a concierge upon placing your reservation.

  As an important protection desired by most clients referred to us who wish to pay via a charge card, we have learned from regrettable client complications that we have a protective duty to enable these protections by default, even if the client does not provide us with a communication method with which to collaborate.

  Please coordinate with us when you place your reservation for optimization of the transaction methods for your confidentiality needs, corporate policies, and/or cost accounting for subcontracted governmental services. In-house processing of card transactions is available upon request.

  Liaising when reserving is a requirement of all services,
  regardless of the financial arrangements.