Privacy Policy
TravelingBetter.com values its users on the TravelingBetter.com web site (herein after the "Web Site") and the services offered on it (herein after the "Services"). TravelingBetter.com recognizes that users may be concerned about TravelingBetter.com’s collection, use, and disclosure of users personally identifiable information (herein after "Personal Information") that may be collected when users use the Web Site and the TravelingBetter.com Services. Your privacy is very important to TravelingBetter.com. Accordingly, TravelingBetter.com has implemented this Privacy Policy to inform you, the user, of the information that TravelingBetter.com collects from you, how TravelingBetter.com collects this information, and what TravelingBetter.com’s does with it after it is collected. By using the TravelingBetter.com Web Site you are accepting the practices described in this policy. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact TravelingBetter.com at: admin@travelingbetter.com.
Does TravelingBetter.com Ever Make Changes to its Privacy Policy?
TravelingBetter.com may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time. TravelingBetter.com will notify you of any changes by sending you an email, Private Message, or posting a notice on the TravelingBetter.com Web Site, after TravelingBetter.com has made changes. If you receive notification of a change in TravelingBetter.com Privacy Policy, you must review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand TravelingBetter.com practices and procedures before using the TravelingBetter.com Website and any Services.
What Types of Information Does TravelingBetter.com Collect From Me?
Personal Information. For each visitor to the TravelingBetter.com Web Site, the TravelingBetter.com Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name, but not the e-mail address (where possible).
TravelingBetter.com collects the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with TravelingBetter.com via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.
Non-Personal Information. TravelingBetter.com also collects "non-personal" information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous web site you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your IP Address. This information ("Non-Personal Information") cannot be easily used to personally identify you.
How and When Does TravelingBetter.com Collect This Information?
Providing Information to TravelingBetter.com. TravelingBetter.com collects Personal Information from you when you provide it to us. For example, when you register with the TravelingBetter.com web site, TravelingBetter.com may collect your username, email address, and other information that TravelingBetter.com requests in the registration process, and any additional information that you provide on your profile page (e.g. contact information). If you sign up to receive an email notification, TravelingBetter.com will collect your email address.
Communications With TravelingBetter.com. If you communicate with TravelingBetter.com regarding the Web Site or the TravelingBetter.com Services, TravelingBetter.com’s will collect any information that you provide to TravelingBetter.com in any such communication.
Analytic and Reporting Technologies. Like the operators of most web sites, TravelingBetter.com uses analytic and reporting technologies to record Non-Personal Information such as Internet domain and host names, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser software and operating system types, clickstream patterns, and the dates and times that the Web Site and the TravelingBetter.com Services are accessed.
How Does TravelingBetter.com Use My Information?
TravelingBetter.com uses Personal Information and Non-Personal Information primarily to improve the content of TravelingBetter.com Web page, used to notify consumers about updates to the TravelingBetter.com Web site, used by TravelingBetter.com to contact consumers for marketing purposes, not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
When Will TravelingBetter.com Disclose My Information to Third Parties?
Generally speaking, TravelingBetter.com does not intentionally disclose your information to third parties without your consent. However, TravelingBetter.com reserves the right to do so because it is necessary to the operation and continued growth of TravelingBetter.com or to protect the rights of others. These instances are discussed below:
Disclosure to Successors. TravelingBetter.com may disclose your Personal Information to any successor-in-interest of TravelingBetter.com, such as a company that acquires TravelingBetter.com. In the event TravelingBetter.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email or by a notice on the TravelingBetter.com Web Site of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Disclosure to Unaffiliated Third Parties. TravelingBetter.com may disclose your Personal Information to prevent an emergency, to protect or enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party, or as required or permitted by law (including, without limitation, to comply with a subpoena or court order). TravelingBetter.com may disclose your information to a third party that alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights. Similarly, if you allege that a user allegedly infringed on your intellectual property rights, TravelingBetter.com may disclose your information to that user.
Disclosure to Third-Party Service Providers. TravelingBetter.com may contract with various third parties who help TravelingBetter.com provide and maintain the Web Site or the TravelingBetter.com Services. TravelingBetter.com cannot guarantee that such third parties will not disclose your Personal Information. Additionally, please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While TravelingBetter.com Forums strives to protect your personal information and privacy, TravelingBetter.com cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk. However, if you violate the rules, TravelingBetter.com Forums reserves the right to disclose any and all user activity to the public, third parties and or law enforcement agencies. With respect to Ad Servers: To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, TravelingBetter.com has relationships with other companies that allow other companies to place ads on the TravelingBetter.com Web Site. As a result of your visit to TravelingBetter.com site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and clickstream information.
What About Cookies?
A cookie is a message that is sent to your computer from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. With respect to cookies: TravelingBetter.com does not set any cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by TravelingBetter.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Does TravelingBetter.com Protect My Personal Information?
Personal Information. Whenever TravelingBetter.com obtains your Personal Information, TravelingBetter.com uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect it from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, TravelingBetter.com is not an insurer of the security of your Personal Information. Accordingly, TravelingBetter.com assumes no liability for any disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third party access or other acts of third parties, or acts or omissions beyond TravelingBetter.com reasonable control.
Web Site Content. The content that you store, post, or transmit on or through the Web Site, such as message board postings, your profile page, and images you upload to the Web Site, may be accessed by other users, including people that you do not know. TravelingBetter.com is not responsible for the actions of others. Therefore, you should use care in communicating with other users and only disclose your Personal Information to other users that you know to be trustworthy. You should not assume that your content will be kept private.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to TravelingBetter.com.
TravelingBetter.com follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Information submitted to TravelingBetter.com, both during transmission and once TravelingBetter.com receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while TravelingBetter.com strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, TravelingBetter.com cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Does This Privacy Policy Apply When I Access Third Party Web Sites?
You may be able to access third-party web sites directly from the TravelingBetter.com Web Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access such web sites. TravelingBetter.com cannot control how third parties may use Personal Information you disclose to them, so you should carefully review the privacy policy of any third-party web site you visit before using it or disclosing your Personal Information to its provider.
What About Children's Privacy?
Under Thirteen. The TravelingBetter.com Services are only for users ages 13 and older. Accordingly, TravelingBetter.com will delete any information that TravelingBetter.com knows originates from a child under the age of 13.
Thirteen to Seventeen. TravelingBetter.com insists that prospective users between the ages of 13 and 17 using the TravelingBetter.com Services should be under their parents' or legal guardian's supervision while accessing the Web Site to ensure their privacy.