This privacy statement is applicable to virtualcountries.com and afanti-tour.com.
1.
afanti-tour.com and Your Privacy:
At afanti-tour.com it is our intent to give
you as much control as possible over your privacy in regard to your personal
information and the use we make of it in the course of our business. In
general, you can visit afanti-tour.com on the Web without telling us who
you are or revealing any information about yourself.
A. afanti-tour.com does not collect personally
identifiable information about individuals except when such individuals
specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example,
such personally identifiable information may be gathered from a contest
or sweepstakes registration, the registration process for subscription
sites or services and in connection with content submissions, community
postings (e.g., chat and bulletin boards), suggestions, voting/polling
activities, and transactional areas. Personally identifiable information
on individual users will not be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated
third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.
At such points of collection, the user will have the opportunity to indicate
whether he or she would like to "opt out" of receiving promotional
and/or marketing information about other products, services, and offerings
from afanti-tour.com and/or any third parties. Further, notwithstanding
any opt out of promotional information by the user, afanti-tour.com reserves
the right to contact a subscriber regarding account status, changes to
the subscriber agreement, and other matters relevant to the underlying service
and/or the information collected.
B. afanti-tour.com reserves the right
to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in
order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and
to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users
that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners. afanti-tour.com
will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties.
Also, users should be aware that afanti-tour.com might sometimes permit
third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services
through some afanti-tour.com site. afanti-tour.com is not responsible for
any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the
applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally identifiable
information.
C. Additionally, users should be aware
that when they voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information
(e.g., username, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards or in the chat
areas of the afanti-tour.com sites, that information, along with any substantive
information disclosed in the user's communication, can be collected and
correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages
from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control
of afanti-tour.com.
D. Users also should be aware that non-personal
information and data may be automatically collected through the standard
operation of afanti-tour.com's Internet servers or through the use of "cookies."
"Cookies" are small text files a Web site can use to recognize
repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site
and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that
will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not
programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. Generally, cookies
work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside
the assigning site. Users should be aware that afanti-tour.com cannot control
the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third
parties hosting data for afanti-tour.com. If a user does not want information
collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most
browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature; however,
users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with
certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on
the afanti-tour.com site.
E. Upon request, afanti-tour.com will
allow any user to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at
any time. Additionally upon request, afanti-tour.com will use reasonable
efforts to allow users to update/correct personal information previously
submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such activities
will not compromise privacy or security interests. Also, upon a user's
request, afanti-tour.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally
delete the user and his or her personal information from its database;
however, it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some residual
information because of backups and records of deletions.
F. The foregoing policies are effective as of October 15, 1998. afanti-tour.com
reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying users
of the existence of a new privacy statement. This statement and the policies
outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or
other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.
2.
What Information We Gather and Track:
There are times when we may need information
from you. This generally involves filling out forms so you can download
a product or order some afanti-tour.com service. When you download e-mail and
other products or services, we require you to fill out a form with your
name and e-mail address. During this process, you are given the opportunity
to decline further notification of important news and events. When you submit an order on-line,
your credit card number is submitted to the credit institution for normal,
routine processing. afanti-tour.com does not collect your personal credit
history information, and afanti-tour.com does not share credit or credit
card information with other companies or third parties, unless compelled
by law or court order to do so.
3.
What We Do With the Information We Gather and Track:
The information gathered
from the forms you fill out is used in one of three ways:
A. To provide you with information about
products, services, news, and events;
B. To allow you to purchase and download products; and
C. To gather broad demographic information about user trends.
4.
How We Gather and Track Information:
afanti-tour.com uses various methods to collect
certain other kinds of information including "cookies"; "referrer",
IP addresses, and environmentals. Here is how we use those methods.
A. A "cookie" is an element
of data that a Web site like afanti-tour.com can send to your browser,
which may then store it on your system. It can be used to provide you with
tailored information from the Web site you have visited. Some afanti-tour.com
pages use cookies, so that we can better serve you when you visit our site
by providing you with information tailored to your interests. You can set
your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance
to decide whether or not to accept it. afanti-tour.com does not require
that you accept cookies.
B. A "Referrer" is the information
passed along by a Web browser that references the Web URL you linked from,
and our Web server automatically gathers it. This information is used by
afanti-tour.com in identifying broad demographic trends and may be used
to provide information tailored to your interests.
C. Our Web server automatically gathers
IP addresses. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on
the network to identify your computer so that data (such as the Web pages
you request) can be sent to you.
D. Environment variables we gather include
time, type of Web browser being used, the operating system/platform, and
CPU speed. This information is used only for broad demographic information.
This information is used by afanti-tour.com in identifying broad Demographic
trends and may be used to provide information tailored to your interests.
E. Additionally, the afanti-tour.com
site contains links to other Web sites, however, afanti-tour.com is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
5.
What Sites This Covers:
VirtualCountries.com owns and maintains a variety
of Web sites including afanti-tour.com. Each of these sites may have their
own mailing lists or other methods of contacting customers. All of the sites
follow this policy for privacy and sharing of information with third parties.
A list of the sites and the URL you can use for removing yourself from any
mailing lists they may maintain is available here. Information collected
at afanti-tour.com is co-owned by VirtualCountries.com; however, it is only
located in the afanti-tour.com database located at the afanti-tour.com facility.
This information is collected and used as described above by afanti-tour.com.
It cannot be used by any third parties without our permission and may then only
be used in the ways described above.
6.
What We Do with Information Gathered When You Acquire Our Partners' Products:
afanti-tour.com will never sell or share personal information collected
from the distribution of afanti-tour.com products or gathered on any afanti-tour.com
Web site with third parties, except if the product or service in question
is developed or owned by a afanti-tour.com partner or licensor.
7.
Advertising:
If you have questions regarding our advertising partners' privacy policy please review the Sonar Network Privacy policy. The Sonar Network is solely responsible for the implementation of their privacy policy. If you have any questions regarding their policy please contact them directly.
8.
Contacting Us About Privacy:
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site,
you may contact:
- Rebecca Johnson
VirtualCountries.com
Post Office Box 99545
Seattle, Washington 98199
United States of America
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