The Travel Hub has provided this privacy policy because we value your right to privacy. This policy is effective as of December 1, 2005 and governs the collection of personal information through this website on or after this date. When you browse The Travel Hub website, you do so anonymously. Personal information, including your E-mail address, is not collected. This policy describes the types of information The Travel Hub collects from its users and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. If you have questions about this policy, e-mail us at admin@thetravelhub.net.
I. Information we collect
A. Unregistered users
We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of The Travel Hub’s personalized travel quotes and travel consultation and to receive our newsletter which is specifically designed to your travel preferences. However, you may choose not to register and still take advantage of any feature of our site.
If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Web site and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on whether you access our site through an always-on type of Internet connection (e.g., cable modem or DSL), or through a dial-up connection (e.g., AOL or Earthlink). Either way, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so. If you reached our site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then we also log that information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure, and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not reports about individual visitors.
We also place a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site, and to help us to improve our site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so, you may find that your browser reacts strangely when visiting not only our Web site, but other Web sites as well. Since cookies don't provide us with any information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer. Regardless of what information was transmitted to us we do not keep it unless you register with us.
B. Registered users
If you choose to register with us, you will be informed of specials and promotions that fit your travel needs and personal tastes and you will be able to add content to our site. You will be able to add travel reviews and be able to email The Travel Hub content to yourself and others. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we develop our site further. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that The Travel Hub has to offer!
If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you in addition to the non-personal information described above. That personal information may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, travel interests, user name and password. The information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you manually enter into our forms. Additionally, authorized The Travel Hub personnel may update your registration information to accurately reflect any new information included in communications received from you.
II. How we use the personal information we collect
If you provide us with your E-mail address, or have done so in the past, we may upon occasion send you E-mail offers or an e-mail newsletter. We may use information you have given us only for the purpose of sending you advertising information pertaining to The Travel Hub. As we mentioned above, registering with us allows you to personalize our web site so that it is most useful to you. We may also use this information to periodically contact you with news or important information from The Travel Hub or to request your feedback on our site. In addition to these periodic updates, we may email you additional materials, but only if you specifically request them. These might include opt-in newsletters and other materials that you proactively request from The Travel Hub.
In addition to these communications, if you have provided an email address, we may use your personal information to send you notifications about special offers on travel. You may opt-out of any or all marketing communications from The Travel Hub in any commercial e-mail we send or at any time, as well as access and update your personal information, by clicking on any “profile” link and visiting the Guest Login page.
We will not send you any other advertising material or sell or trade your personal information to any other source. You can cancel your registration with us by e-mailing us at admin@thetravelhub.net, and removal of your registration information from our database. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from our active database, but some information may remain in our archives.
III. Declining E-mail Offers
The Travel Hub provides customers with an easy means to decline receiving E-mail offers. At any time, you may request to discontinue receiving these offers from us by simply replying to the E-mail and informing us of your preferences. All E-mail offers that you receive from Travel Impressions will inform you of how to decline receiving further E-mail advertisements.
IV. Disclosure of your personal information
The Travel Hub does not sell or rent any personal information to any third party. We may aggregate personal information from all of our users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that information will not be in a form that will allow any third party to identify you personally.
V. How you can review and update your personal information
You can review and update the personal information you have provided through the registration process by clicking on any “profile” link and visiting the Guest Login page.
VI. Steps we take to protect your personal information
The Travel Hub has implemented security procedures to help protect the personal information stored in our systems. For example, we limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information. We also employ processes (such as password hashing, login auditing, and idle session termination) to protect against unauthorized access to your personal information. But please know that there is no way for us to guarantee the security of your personal information.
VII. Children's Privacy
This website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.
VIII. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make material changes that will affect personal information we have already collected from you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to amend or cancel your registration.
IX. Company Commitment to Policy
In keeping with our long-standing leadership in consumer Privacy protection, Travel Impressions is actively involved with current industry initiatives to preserve individual privacy rights on the Internet and in all aspects of electronic commerce. For additional information about our commitment to protecting the privacy of our customers both online and offline, please read the Travel Impressions Customer Privacy Principles. The Travel Impressions Customer Internet Privacy Statement is currently applicable only to our United States customers and visitors to our website. As we develop websites for international audiences, they will maintain their own additional rules and practices, which are fully consistent with this statement, and which they may modify as needed for particular products and services, or to conform to local laws or customs around the world. If you have any questions about this statement, you can reach us at 1-877-640-3265.
