TravelGuide.com’s Privacy Policy
TravelGuide.com is committed to protecting your online privacy while providing you with the most useful and enjoyable Web experience possible. While you can use many features of TravelGuide.com anonymously, you are required to provide personal information to gain access to some of our premium content and services.
How We Collect and Use Personal Information
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Our Discount Travel News service lets you sign up to receive regular e-mail announcements about current travel deals from various travel providers. In order to send you the specific discount travel news that meets your personal preferences, we will keep a profile that may include any of the following: email address, name and travel preferences. You may unsubscribe from the Discount Travel News newsletter at any time by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link provided in each mail.
Send This Page to a Friend
In order to allow our users to send a link to a page and share information they have found useful on our site, we collect the following information: our name and email, your friends name and email, the address and title of the page you are sending and a personal message. Once the email is sent, we purge any personally identifiable information and only keep anonymous statistics on pages sent.
Product Purchases
Some, but not all, of the companies that promote products for sale on TravelGuide.com, provide us with information on products purchased by TravelGuide.com customers. This may include personally identifiable information as well as details of the product purchased. TravelGuide.com keeps this information on file in order to provide assistance to TravelGuide.com’s customers should they encounter any problems or require assistance in changing or canceling reservations or other assistance regarding products purchased from companies promoting products or service on TravelGuide.com.
When making purchases, your credit card information may be collected by our product and service partners, however, TravelGuide.com does not ever collect or store any credit card information from our customers.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
TravelGuide.com stores personally identifiable information for only as long as necessary to fulfill our commitment that we made to you when we collected the information. TravelGuide.com makes reasonable effort to insure that all information is stored in a secure manner. TravelGuide.com never accepts or stores credit card or any other financial information from our customers.
How We Use "Cookies"
As you probably know, "cookies" are small pieces of information that some Web sites store on your computer's hard drive when you visit them. From time-to-time TravelGuide.com may use cookies to track users on our site and to improve the customer experience.
What We Provide to Third Parties
While TravelGuide.com does not provide any third-party access to your personal information except to facilitate your own attempts to register with our partners or receive offers from select partners as mentioned elsewhere in this policy, we may provide third parties with aggregate statistics about our customers, traffic patterns, and related site information. This data reflects site usage patterns gathered during millions of customer visits to our Web site each month, but it does not contain behavioral or identifying information about any individual member unless that member has given us permission to share that information.
TravelGuide.com may use third-party web site analysis software that tracks web site usage statistics. This software tracks information about how you use the site, but does not record any personally identifiable information.
Obtaining Your Consent
By using our Web site, you give TravelGuide.com permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you register at TravelGuide.com, you authorize TravelGuide.com to use information you provide to personalize the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data. As a registered member, you give TravelGuide.com and our agents permission to send you e-mails related to the subscription e-mail services to which you subscribe and the Free Product Info topics you select.
If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide your name, e-mail address, or any other identifying information without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law.
Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Tell Us What You Think
TravelGuide.com welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you have.