We respect the privacy of those who visit our web site and those who become subscribers. In accordance with this, we have created this policy in order to demonstrate our privacy commitment to our users:

What this Privacy Policy Covers

• This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on our site, and when you use our services. This policy also covers our treatment of any personally identifiable information that third parties share with us.
• This policy does not apply to the practices of organizations that we do not own or control, or to people that we do not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use

• We collect personally identifiable information when you register for an account, when you use our services, and when you visit our pages. We may also receive personally identifiable information from third parties.
• When you register with us, we ask for your name and email address, and you may also supply other personal details and interests if you want to. Once you register with us and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
• We use this information for three general purposes: to customize the content you see, to fulfill your requests for certain services, eg forum features, and to contact you about services if you request it.
• We also automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, cookie information and the page you requested. This information is not linked to your account and will not be used to identify you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
• We will only send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
  • We have your consent to share the information;
  • We respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process; or
  • We find that your actions on our web sites violate the Terms of Service

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

• We give you the ability to edit your Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want us to contact you about new services.
• You may request deletion of your account by sending an email to accountremove@ travelsignposts.com.

Security

• Your Account Information is password-protected for your privacy and security.
• In certain areas we use industry-standard SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas become public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information [9].

Purchasing on the Web site

Travel Signposts is an Associate of Amazon.com and information provided during all purchases made on this website from Amazon is protected by Amazon's Security and Privacy policies.

We also offer our own e-books for sale through Digibuy, a subsidiary of Digital River, whose privacy and security policies strictly protect any information supplied to them during the purchase process.

To purchase items from this website, a purchaser needs to complete an order form that gives us contact information (like their name, email address and delivery address), and financial information (like their credit card numbers) to Amazon and/or Digibuy. Credit cards details are protected by SSL encryption. All information is stored in our partners' secure databases and is only accessible by authorised staff.

Third Parties

This site provides links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, usability or the content of such Web sites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

The privacy policy is subject to modification from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. Any significant changes to our privacy policy will be announced on our home page. If you do not agree with the changes in our policy you have the ability to remove your account information. This can be done by sending email to account_remove@travelsignposts.com.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions complete a feedback form or send an email to privacypolicy@travelsignposts.com.

 Privacy Policy for ____.com

The privacy of our visitors to ____.com is important to us.

At _____.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit _____.com, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on ____.com to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements).  This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”).  The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey).  DART uses “non personally identifiable information”.  It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.  You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx  

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program.  Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.