Privacy Policy
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Travel Writers Coop and its members (collectively, "TWC") recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information that may be provided to us by individual users or viewers of TWC content online. Accordingly, we have adopted a privacy policy to govern how we treat such information. TWC may change this privacy policy from time to time, in its sole discretion, and any such changes will become effective when the TWC posts the revised privacy policy online. Your continued use of this Web site indicates your consent to TWC's privacy policy and the most current version then in effect.
What information do we collect?
TWC may collect personally identifiable information when you specifically and knowingly provide it to us, such as when you provide your personal information such as your e-mail address, name, phone number or address or when you submit credit card information for payment of services. TWC may also collect individual user information that you provide to us offline and TWC will treat such information in the same manner as if it was collected off of this Web site. TWC, or third parties on our behalf, may also collect non-personally identifiable information via the use of cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used to assist you in using site information and content by saving your user preferences. Cookies are also used to collect aggregate information about Web site users on an anonymous basis.
What does Travel Writers Coop do with the information that it collects?
TWC will use the personally identifiable information directly submitted by you solely for the purpose for which you have provided it. We will only use and disclose the credit card information submitted by you as necessary to process your payment transaction. We may also use the information you provide to us to contact you for reasons related to your original communication to us. Additionally, we may periodically send you promotional e-mails about existing or prospective products and services offered by Travel Writers Coop, as well as to obtain information to better understand our users.
With regard to non-personally identifiable information, TWC is currently using and has contracted with third party vendors to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from our users to administer our content in order to improve our services. We may also perform statistical analysis of user behavior in order to measure interest in our online products and services for product development purposes. TWC will not disclose any personally identifiable information about our current or former users to anyone, except as permitted or required by law, or as described herein. TWC will endeavor to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the information that we collect online.
With whom does Travel Writers Coop share the information that it collects?
As a general rule, TWC will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except under one of the following circumstances: we have your permission; we determine in good faith that it is legally required to be revealed by any relevant statute, regulation, ordinance, rule, administrative or court order, decree, or subpoena; information revealed during the course of TWC's enforcement of the policies and procedures of this Web site; information that we determine must be disclosed to correct what we believe to be false or misleading information or to address activities that we believe to be manipulative, deceptive or otherwise a violation of law; where you are otherwise notified at the time we collect the data; where we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested; when disclosed to an affiliate of TWC or when such disclosure is made subject to confidentiality restrictions in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition of all or a portion of the business conducted by the Web sites to which the TWC privacy policy applies. TWC may share the non-personally identifiable information that TWC gathers, in aggregate form only, with advertisers and other partners.
Children's Policy
TWC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database.
International Usage
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using this Web site, you consent to this transfer.
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