This Privacy Policy was last changed February 15, 2007.
Overview
The following Privacy Policy explains how TripMania.com gathers and
uses personal information that is provided by our customers. Our Privacy
Policy may change from time to time and TripMania.com
reserves the right to change or modify our Privacy Policy at any time with or
without notice.
TripMania.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy. We do not rent or sell our
customer database or newsletter subscriber list to third parties. We do not share
customer information in ways different from what is disclosed in this
statement. Mailings to the TripMania.com subscriber list will be sent by either TripMania.com or BookingBuddy.com.
If you have any questions or concerns over TripMania.com's Privacy
Policy, please feel free to contact privacy@TripMania.com.
By accessing a TripMania.com publication and by subscribing to a
TripMania.com newsletter, you agree to our current Terms of Use.
Site Registration
TripMania.com's registration form requires members to provide basic contact and demographic
information. We use or may use your contact information (such as email
address) from the registration form to send you newsletters and occasional
information about our services and partners, inform you if you are the
potential winner of a contest or promotion, personalize your experience with
TripMania.com, or investigate cases of suspected fraud or
abuse. You may opt out of receiving future communications; see the Opting Out
of Further Communications section below.
In order to customize your experience with our email newsletters we may receive a
confirmation when you open email from TripMania.com if
your computer supports such capabilities. Clicking on a link in a
TripMania.com newsletter may also be tracked on a
per-user basis to allow us to present content, which closely matches your
interests. Demographic and profile data (such as state, zip code, age, or
gender) may be used to customize your experience at our site or in our email
newsletters, showing you content and advertising that may best suit your
needs. This information is shared with advertisers and other third parties on
an aggregate basis only. Individial user click behavior is never shared with
advertisers and partners.
If you enter TripMania.com via a reward or incentive program,
TripMania.com may share your email address with the
program through which you entered TripMania.com to
ensure you are credited with your incentive.
You may also
register for TripMania.com and/or specific
TripMania.com newsletters at web sites operated by third
parties. These third parties may share contact, demographic, or profile data
that you voluntarily provide during the registration process with
TripMania.com. You also may provide personal information to third parties when you
register at a third party web site and specifically request that your
information be forwarded to us so that we can send you information
about our product and service offerings.
TripMania.com does
or may in the future use this information in the same manner as information
collected directly by TripMania.com. This Privacy Policy
does not bind sites that collect information on behalf of
TripMania.com, and TripMania.com is
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
To better
serve you, we may also store information you present to us via email or
telephone communications with TripMania.com's Customer
Service Department. This information is or may be used in the same manner as
information directly collected using TripMania.com's
registration form. We may also use information you provide us via email or
telephone to pursue the matter for which you contacted us.
TripMania.com also may obtain information from you in
our online forums. This information may not be disclosed except as consistent
with Terms of Use.
In order to
better communicate with registered users about their registration status,
TripMania.com may acquire information about users from
third-party sources, including but not limited to a user's mailing address.
The information collected will only be shared, if at all, on an aggregate
basis only with third parties.
Email
Communications: To help us make emails more useful and interesting, we often
receive a confirmation when you open email from
TripMania.com if your computer supports such capabilities.
Data Sharing
We will share
aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is
not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual
person.
TripMania.com
uses third parties to perform certain tasks such as package delivery.
Personal information may be provided to these agents as is necessary to
perform their functions.
TripMania.com
partners with third-party companies to provide services to
TripMania.com members. When you sign up for one of these
services, the information you provide in signing up for the service is shared
with the third party and is protected in accordance with the third party's
Privacy Policy.
TripMania.com
hosts content on behalf of certain other web site partners. These pages can
be identified as they have the navigation of the partner site. Information
collected on these pages may be shared with the partner site. These pages,
and any information shared with the partner site, are subject to the Privacy
Policy of the partner site.
Occasionally,
TripMania.com participates in reward programs. In order
to properly credit you for your reward, we may share basic customer
information with the reward-giver.
Smarter Travel Media LLC Product
TripMania.com
is a product managed by Smarter Travel Media LLC. Smarter Travel Media LLC from time
to time may compare, merge, or append information collected on
TripMania.com with data from one or more other sites
managed by Smarter Travel Media LLC. Similarly, information you provide on other
Smarter Travel Media LLC managed sites may be compared, merged, or appended to
information you provide via TripMania.com.
Sweepstakes, Online Surveys, and Order Forms
TripMania.com
occasionally runs sweepstakes, hosts online surveys, or uses order forms on
our website in which we ask for contact and demographic information.
Participation in sweepstakes and surveys and usage of order forms is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. We use or may use your contact information (such
as email address) from your sweepstakes entry, survey registration, or order
form to inform you if you are the potential winner of a contest or promotion,
personalize your experience with TripMania.com, send you
newsletters (should you opt in for these newsletters) and occasional
information about our services or partners, or investigate cases of suspected
fraud. You may opt out of receiving future communications; see the Opting Out
of Further Communications section below.
Demographic
and profile data (such as zip code, age, or gender) may be used to customize
your experience at our site, showing you content and advertising that may
best suit your needs. This information is shared with advertisers and other
third parties on an aggregate basis only. In the event that
TripMania.com partners with a third party to run a
sweepstakes, TripMania.com may share demographic and
profile data with such third party only as indicated in the official
sweepstakes rules.
Tell-a-Friend and Email This Deal
TripMania.com
offers services to allow our users to send information about our site to
their friends. If a user elects to use our Tell-a-Friend referral service for
informing a friend about our site, or elects to use our Email This Deal
service to inform a friend about deals on our site, we ask them for the
friend's email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time
email inviting them to visit our site. We store this information for the
purpose of sending this one-time email and investigating suspected fraud.
Children Under 13 Years Old
TripMania.com and its affiliated sites do not
knowingly collect, maintain or use personal information from our
websites about children under age 13. Children under the age of 13
may not participate in any online activites on Smarter Travel Media LLC's
web sites. If a child whom we know to be under age 13 sends personal
information to us online, we will only use that information to respond
directly to that child, notify parents, or seek parental consent.
IP Addresses
TripMania.com
uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our website, and help
diagnose problems with our servers. IP addresses are also used to gather
broad demographic information and to prevent, investigate, and take actions
in the case of suspected fraud or abuse.
Web Analytics
TripMania.com
uses a web analytics company to track and generate reports on visitor use of TripMania.com.
We use the web analytics company to analyze visitor activity so that we may better understand
how visitors make use of TripMania.com, and so that we may better tailor content to meet our
visitors' needs. This data may include individual visitor click behavior.
However, no personally identifiable information is shared with the web analytics company.
Although our web analytics company logs the information coming from TripMania.com on our behalf,
we control how that data may and may not be used. Visitors who wish to opt-out of this website
analysis tool may do so by clicking here http://www.omniture.com/privacy/optout.html
(This is an external link to our web analytics company and will open in a new window).
Cookies
A cookie is a
small piece of data that a Web server places on a user's computer.
TripMania.com employs the use of cookies to ensure that
you do not see the same ad repeatedly, to track marketing promotions, to
estimate and report audience size and traffic, and to customize and
personalize your experience at TripMania.com.
Furthermore,
TripMania.com uses outside media companies to display
advertisements on our site. These ads may contain cookies, which are
collected and tracked by the outside media company.
TripMania.com has no access to or control over these
cookies.
Most Web
browsers provide users the ability to limit the use of cookies by allowing
users to adjust privacy settings. If a user has their cookies disabled,
TripMania.com will still be accessible, however some
sections of the website will not perform as well as they normally would with
cookies enabled.
Links to Other Sites
TripMania.com
contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such websites. We encourage you to be aware when
you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that
collects personally identifiable information.
Security, Fraud, and Abuse
This site has
security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. TripMania.com regularly
reviews these measures to better protect users. Occasionally information may
be provided to TripMania.com fraudulently or by an
individual unauthorized to provide such information. TripMania.com
may use all information it collects for reasonable investigation and
prosecution of suspected fraud and/or abuse.
TripMania.com may provide all information it collects to
third parties as necessary to comply with law enforcement requests or other
legal requirements.
TripMania.com
does not ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us
over the Internet.
Service and Partner Updates
We send our
users service and partner announcements from time to time. Members are not
able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain information
about our services and partners, without opting out of all
TripMania.com newsletters. You may opt out of receiving
future communications; see the Opting Out of Further Communications section
below.
We communicate
with our users to provide requested services and in regards to issues
relating to their account via email, telephone, or postal mail.
Opting Out
of Further Communications and Updating Personal Information
TripMania.com
subscribers may opt out of receiving future
TripMania.com communications or update their personal
information using any of the following methods:
To opt out of future communications from
TripMania.com's partners, please contact the partner
directly. For assistance with this, please contact
TripMania.com Customer Service: feedback@TripMania.com
Notification of Changes
If at any point we decide to share personally
identifiable information to third parties FOR REASONS NOT OUTLINED IN THIS
PRIVACY POLICY, we will notify our users by way of an email, so that users
are made aware. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner.
Business Assets
As part of operations,
TripMania.com may sell, transfer, or merge particular
businesses, newsletters, and/or other assets to a third party. As part of
such a transaction, personal information users have provided to
TripMania.com may be given to a third party.
TripMania.com attempts to
comply with all legislative and judicial orders. These orders will take
precedence over the details stated in the policy above.
If you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy or your dealings with TripMania.com, please
contact:
Smarter Travel Media LLC
Attn: TripMania.com
465 Medford Street
Suite 400
Boston, MA 02129
Phone: 617-886-5555
Fax: 617-886-5501
Email: privacy@TripMania.com
