- Overview
- Best Travel deals is founded on the principles of helping people to discover the best deals in the travel industry by enabling them to share what they find with one another via this community. Best Travel Deals understands that our members care about how personal information is used and shared, and we take this matter seriously. We encourage you to read the information provided below to learn more about the Best Travel Deals privacy policy. By visiting Best Travel Deals, you are accepting the information specified in the Privacy Policy below.
- The Privacy Policy discusses Best Travel Deal’s treatment of personal information gathered when users participate with the website and when Best Travel Deal services are used. This does not apply to the practices of third parties that Best Travel Deals does not own or control, or to individuals that Best Travel Deals does not employ or manage.
- Information Collected by Best Travel Deals
- We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website, which is to enable users to discover and share travel deals with one another. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We do not process this information in a way that is incompatible with this objective. We collect the following types of information from our Best Travel Deals users:
- Information You Provide to Us:
- We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. Users are not required to give all information; however, this may hinder the user experience as you will not have access to the full functionality of Best Travel Deals.
- Registration: In order to use Best Travel Deal services, including submitting new deals, a registrant form must be completed. The registration form requires select personal information (including your name, city, state, and email address).
- User Profile: The personal user profile allows members to express themselves beyond the basic information supplied during registration. The personal profile allows members to share things such as a personal bio, favorite links, instant messaging IDs, and personal photos. Members have full control over what is and is not displayed in their profile through profile settings.
- Automatic Information:
- Best Travel Deals receives and stores certain types of information whenever users interact with the web site. Best Travel Deals automatically stores and records certain web metrics on their server logs and from your browser including your IP address, Best Travel Deal cookie information, and the page you requested. Best Travel Deals uses this information to assist in diagnosing problems as well as finding ways to improve the user experience.
- Best Travel Deals may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User Profile pages.
- Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While Best Travel Deals will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.
- Email Communications
- Best Travel Deals is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. Best Travel Deals may send out e-mails with Best Travel Deals-related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions. You may also receive notification e-mails from Best Travel Deals, which inform you of actions (e.g. friend requests) that have been performed on the site. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us, please visit the preferences section of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
- Cookies
- Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Best Travel Deals cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.
- The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of Best Travel Deal's features.
- Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
- Sharing Your Information
- Because Best Travel Deals enables people to discover and share travel deals with one another, information about the people who use Best Travel Deals is an integral part of the experience. Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.
- Best Travel Deals Employees: Best Travel Deals Employees and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Best Travel Deals business.
- Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Best Travel Deals, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
- Protection of Best Travel Deals and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Best Travel Deals, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Best Travel Deals users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on Best Travel Deals where we allow you to tell other Best Travel Deals users about yourself and your interests. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the Privacy Settings section of your User Profile.
- Member Directory: The e-mail address that you submit upon registration will be searchable by other Best Travel Deals users who know you by your email address, unless you choose to opt out of this feature. This is primarily so that other users can find you to establish friendship through Best Travel Deals. You may opt-out of this feature by visiting the Privacy Settings section of your User Profile.
- Social sharing of data: Best Travel Deals allows other users to browse deals that you have voted on, submitted, blogged, or commented on. This information is made available publicly via your User Profile, or within the permalink URL of the deal on which you performed the action. Best Travel Deals may choose to post this data on other site features.
- Friends' Activity: Much like other online social networks, Best Travel Deals allows non-friends to browse your friends' activity.
- API: Best Travel Deals will allow third parties access to all Best Travel Deals data this is already publicly available through the Best Travel Deals website. Best Travel Deals will keep private any passwords and blog settings.
- Syndication: Best Travel Deals allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the Best Travel Deals website.
- With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
- Keeping Information Secure
- Your Best Travel Deals account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.
- Only employees who need personal information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to it. All of our employees are kept up to date on our privacy and security practices.
- Ways to Control Display and Use of Your Information
- As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website, such as posting new links.
- By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add or delete personal information on our website. When you update information, however, we often maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records.
- You may request deletion of your Best Travel Deals account by e-mailing us at info@besttraveldeals.net.
- If you do not wish to receive e-mail from us or other Best Travel Deals users, please visit the Email Preferences section of your User Profile and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted e-mail message.
- However, please note that you will continue to receive all system e-mails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us.
- If you do not wish to have people who know you by your email address find you via the Member Directory service, please visit thePrivacy Settings section of your User Profile to opt out of this feature.
- As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
- Children Under 18 years of Age
- You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Best Travel Deals website. As a result, Best Travel Deals does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Best Travel Deals has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents' permission before using Best Travel Deals or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
- Changes to Privacy Policy
- Best Travel Deals may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Best Travel Deals website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
- Conditions of Use
- If you decide to visit Best Travel Deals website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of New York state law.
- Effective Date of this Privacy Policy
- This Privacy Policy is effective as of 4/15/09 and last updated 4/15/09
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