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Effective
Date: October 1, 2008
Travel N Cruises is committed to
preserving your privacy and
safeguarding your credit card and
other sensitive information. The
following statement describes the
general information-gathering and
usage practices of our web site and
service.
Collecting Personal Information
for Travel N Cruises
When you submit an inquiry,
online payment, or subscribe to
our eNewsletter we collect your
personal and organizational
information such as: name,
address, email address,
organization name, credit card
number, etc. We collect this
information so that we can
process set-up fees, monthly
fees, or mailing lists. We may
contact an client to verify
information. The set-up fees and
monthly fees are processed
through a credit card processing
company. This company does not
retain, share, store or use
personally identifiable
information for any secondary
purposes.
When you register for one of our
Workshops, we collect your
personal and organizational
information such as: name,
address, email address, phone
number, etc. This information is
collected and fees are processed
through an event registration
vendor who shares the
information with us. This
company does not retain, share,
store or use personally
identifiable information for any
secondary purposes.
Travel N Cruises provides links to
other web sites as a resource
for those who are interested in
additional opportunities. We
encourage you to view their
privacy policies as well. Any
information you share with these
web sites is subject to their
policies and practices and is
independent of Travel N Cruises.
Travel N Cruises uses "session
cookies" while a visitor is
using our website. "Cookies" are
bits of information that are
stored by your browser on your
hard drive. We use "session
cookies" so that we can properly
verify a customer's identity as
they move from one page to the
next. For our online catalog
customers, we also use "session
cookies" and "persistent
cookies" in addition to
verifying personal information,
so that we can provide secure
access to customer information.
These session cookies are not
linked to personally
identifiable information.
Like most web site
administrators we use log files
that record information such as
Internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type,
Internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, platform
type, date/time stamp, and page
navigation. We gather this
information to track web site
visitor movement in the
aggregate, and to gather broad
demographic information for
aggregate use. Our goal in
gathering this information is to
learn how our customers and the
public are using our service. IP
addresses that are recorded by
our log files are not linked to
personally identifiable
information.
Protecting personal information:
Travel N Cruises takes every
precaution to protect
information. When you submit
sensitive information via our
web site, the information is
protected both online and
off-line. When a form asks to
enter sensitive information
(such as credit card number or
address), that information is
encrypted and is protected with
the best encryption software in
the industry - SSL. While on a
secure page, such as a form, the
lock icon on the bottom of Web
browsers such as Netscape
Navigator, Firefox and Microsoft
Internet Explorer becomes
locked. Please make sure the
page is Locked before entering
any critical personal
information.
While we sometimes use SSL
encryption to protect sensitive
information online, we also do
everything in our power to
protect client information
off-line. All of our
information, not just the
sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our
offices. Only employees who need
the information to perform a
specific job (our customer
service team) are granted access
to personally identifiable
information. All employees are
kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices.
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