SEC FORM 4 SEC Form 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
PARKS J MICHAEL

(Last) (First) (Middle)
17655 WATERVIEW PARKWAY

(Street)
DALLAS TX 75252-8012

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
ALLIANCE DATA SYSTEMS CORP [ ADS ]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) X Other (specify below)
Chairman of the Board / CEO and President
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
11/28/2003
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3) 2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4) 6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock 11/28/2003 S(1) 20,000 D $30 127,177(2) D
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3) 2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8) 5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) 6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4) 8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5) 9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4) 10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4) 11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. The sale reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on November 3, 2003. The trading plan was established to sell up to 40,000 shares of the Company's common stock. Portions of the shares may be sold on specified dates or any time the stock achieves certain pre-arranged minimum prices and may take place beginning on November 6, 2003 and ending on August 1, 2004, unless sooner terminated. The Reporting Person will have no control over the timing of any sales under the plan and there can be no assurance that the shares covered by the plan actually will be sold. The Reporting Person entered into the plan for personal tax and financial planning purposes and will continue to have a significant ownership interest in the Company.
2. The total number of securities beneficially owned includes: (a) 96,800 out of an original 120,000 shares of restricted stock granted 9/1/00, of which 48,800 shares are vested; (b) 4,500 shares purchased in the open market; (c) 18,661 shares of performance-based restricted stock granted 6/24/03, of which 0 shares are vested; (d) less 2,640 shares given as a gift; and (e) 9,856 shares acquired by the exercising of vested employee stock options.
Remarks:
Alan M. Utay, Attorney in Fact 12/01/2003
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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REVOCATION AND APPOINTMENT OF POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
revokes and rescinds the Power of Attorney dated December 2001,
which appointed Alan Utay, Carolyn Melvin and Jeanette Fitzgerald
as attorneys-in-fact, for purposes of completing, executing and
filing any applicable Forms 3, 4 and 5 as further set out in that
Power of Attorney.

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Alan M. Utay, Leigh Ann K. Epperson and
Jeanette P. Fitzgerald as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Alliance
Data Systems Corporation (the "Company"), any filing in connection
with the undersigned's holdings of or transactions in securities
issued by the Company, including but not limited to, Forms 3, 4 or
5  in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder, or Form 144 in
accordance with Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and the rules thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Form, including but not limited to, Forms 3, 4, 5
or 144, and timely file such form with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority;
and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by,
the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this
power of attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms
and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-
in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents
and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally
present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights
and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any
of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.

	This power of attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5, or
144, or any other form with respect to the undersigned's holdings of
and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this power of
attorney to be executed as of this 19th day of November, 2003.


	/s/ J. Michael Parks
	Printed Name:   J. Michael Parks