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Privacy Policy
General
- This policy
covers how TravelBlogger.net including its joint
venture partners and affiliates and their respective
directors, officers, employees and agents (together
called "TravelBlogger.net") treats personal
information that it collects and receives in the
course of providing goods and services to you relating
to TravelBlogger.net. Personal information is information
about you that is personally identifiable like your
name, address, email address, or phone number, and
that is not otherwise publicly available.
- TravelBlogger.net
will always be open and honest about the way in
which we manage personal information.
Collection of Information
- TravelBlogger.net
collects personal information when you subscribe
for or other otherwise use TravelBlogger.net products
or services, when you visit TravelBlogger.net pages
or the pages of certain TravelBlogger.net affiliates,
and when you enter any promotions which may be offered.
- When you
subscribe we ask for information such as your name,
e-mail address, and country of origin. Once you
subscribe to TravelBlogger.net's products or services,
you are not anonymous to us.
- TravelBlogger.net
will not collect information that you post on your
Personal Travel Website other than the information
described in this section. In particular, TravelBlogger.net
will not collect information about your racial or
ethnic origin, political views, membership, details about your health,
or any other information considered sensitive.
- TravelBlogger.net
collects information about your transactions with
us, including information about your use of financial
products and services that we offer.
- TravelBlogger.net
automatically receives and records information on
our server logs from your browser, including your
IP (Internet Protocol) address, TravelBlogger.net
cookie information, and the page you request.
- TravelBlogger.net
monitors traffic patterns and site usage both to
our site and to Personal Travel Websites to help
us develop the design and layout of the TravelBlogger.net
System, and to provide our users with information
relating to access to their Personal Travel Websites
(tm).
- TravelBlogger.net
may share the information which it collects from
you with certain of its affiliates, and affiliates
related to such affiliates, whose brands are associated
from time to time with TravelBlogger.net products
and/or services which we provide to you (Affiliates).
All Affiliates with whom we share your information
are required to conform with the terms of this Privacy
Policy in the same manner as does TravelBlogger.net.
Use of Information and Your Privacy
- TravelBlogger.net
uses information for the following general purposes:
to fulfill your requests for products and services,
improve our services, contact you, conduct research,
and provide information on our products and services
or promotional activities.
- We limit
access to personal information about you to persons
within or related to TravelBlogger.net who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with that information
to provide products or services to you or in order
to do their jobs. All such persons are subject to
the same requirements of confidentiality and security
as is TravelBlogger.net.
- At times
TravelBlogger.net may partner with another party
to provide specific services, including credit card
processing, and shipment of goods which you have
ordered. When you use these services you will provide
your name and other contact information that is
necessary for the third party to provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally
identifiable information except for the purpose
of providing these services.
- TravelBlogger.net
will not rent, sell, or share personal information
about you with, or permit access to cookies by,
other people or companies except under the following
circumstances:
- To provide
products or services you've requested, when we have
your permission, or to respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise
TravelBlogger.net's legal rights or defend against
legal claims;
- Where we
believe it is necessary to share information in
order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety
of any person, violations of TravelBlogger.net's
terms of use, or as otherwise required by law;
- To transfer
information about you if TravelBlogger.net or its
assets is acquired by or merged with another company.
In this event, TravelBlogger.net will notify you
before information about you is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- TravelBlogger.net
may provide aggregate statistics about our customers,
sales, traffic patterns, and related site information
to reputable third parties, but these statistics
will never include personally identifying information.
Your Ability to Edit Your
Account Information and Preferences
- You can edit
your TravelBlogger.net account information at any
time;
- You can opt
out of receiving future communications on TravelBlogger.net
products or promotional activities or you can unsubscribe
by following instructions contained in the messages
you receive;
- We reserve
the right to send you certain communications relating
to the TravelBlogger.net service, such as service
announcements, product use advice, administrative
messages and newsletters, that are considered part
of the service furnished to you by TravelBlogger.net,
without offering you the opportunity to opt out
of receiving them.
Confidentiality and Security
- Your TravelBlogger.net
account information is password-protected.
- In certain
areas TravelBlogger.net uses industry-standard encryption
technology to protect data transmissions.
- TravelBlogger.net
will take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we hold about you is protected from
misuse and loss or from unauthorized access, modification,
or disclosure. TravelBlogger.net will also take
reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify your
personal information when we no longer need it.
Surveys and Contests
- At times TravelBlogger.net
may request information from users through surveys
or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests
is completely voluntary and the user therefore has
a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Information requested may include contact information
(such as name and shipping address), demographic
information (such as country of abode, age level),
and opinions. Contact information will be used to
notify the winners and award prizes. If consent
is sought and granted, TravelBlogger.net may publish
names of contest winners and their cities or towns
of residence to ensure transparency in the contest
process and for promotional purposes. Survey information
will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving
the use and satisfaction of our products and services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- TravelBlogger.net
may update this policy. We will notify you about
significant changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice to the primary email
address specified in your TravelBlogger.net account
or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
If you have any questions about
this privacy statement, the practices of this site,
or your dealings with this Web site, feel free to
contact us.
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