****** Question

[jjk3]

I apologize if this has been asked before. I searched past threads and could not find it...

I am intrigued by the ****** website and its features as I recently had to reschedule a fall trip due to the school board changing break dates and am struggling to piece together my stay. However, I am concerned about handing over my login and password. My question is this: Does anyone know how ****** uses your login information? I read that ****** requires it to confirm that you are a DVC owner and authorized to see the availability data. So, do they login in to your account once to confirm this? Or do they login to your account regularly to confirm this?

The reason I ask is I thought I might go in to my DVC account, change my password, and then submit it to ******. Then I could go back into my DVC account and change my password back, thereby protecting my account. Would this cause an error with ******? Or is this an acceptable way to protect my DVC account?

Thanks for all of your help!

 

[davper]

Curious myself

 

[_auroraborealis_]

RAT has no API, so ****** has to be using someone's personal credentials to log in, possibly more than one or else the number of requests would get it locked out.

 

[jjk3]

So, ****** uses registered users' login and passwords to monitor the RAT? Is that accurate? I am pretty sure the creator of the website is on this forum, maybe they will chime in.

I wonder if that means that the process described above will get me booted off of ****** since it would be detected that my login and password combo was no longer working.

 

[disneynutz]

Disney take a dim view of people using other peoples logins. They also changed the rules on associates due to booking activity being done by a company. Once Disney feels that a company or person is taking away revenue or violating their terms of service, they will take action.

Bill

 

[_auroraborealis_]

So, ****** uses registered users' login and passwords to monitor the RAT? Is that accurate? I am pretty sure the creator of the website is on this forum, maybe they will chime in.

I don't know what they use, but it has to be more than one login in play to not get locked out.