1. Company Statement
Your privacy is important to us and we strive to guarantee the privacy of our users, visitors and members. Your Virtual Listings.com. (the “Company”) adopted and implemented this Privacy Policy as part of our commitment to protecting your personal information from misuse while using www.yourvirtuallistings.com and other sites owned and operated by the Company. Please note the websites are not directed at children under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not provide any personal information on the websites. The essence of our privacy statement is that we hate spam, spammers and we will never ever sell your personal information to anyone. If you are interested, the complete statement is below.
2. Information Types
The Company and www.yourvirtuallistings.com collects both personal and aggregated information on its sites.
3. Personal Information
You are not required to provide personal information in order to use the website, however, particular services offered by the Company may from time to time require you to supply certain personal information. For example, when purchasing products, subscribing to newsletters, answering surveys, participating in promotional offerings you may be asked to contact information, demographic information and financial information related to your use of the Company’s services. Personal contact information is used to respond to your customer support and technical inquiries as well as to send regular issues of the Company’s e-newsletter, to which you may have subscribed. The Company may share contact information that with our parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies and we may send periodic mailings with information on products and services that may be of interest to you, updates to the websites, or upcoming events. We may also forward information to you regarding third-party products or services, without disclosing your personal information to such third parties. If you no longer wish to receive such mailings, you may unsubscribe (hyperlink) from our mailing list at any time. We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law, to comply with legal or governmental requests, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the websites, their users, or the public.
4. Aggregated Information
We collect information pertaining to traffic levels on our websites - for example, the total number of users visiting particular pages - as well as aggregate demographic information. We may share this information, which does not personally identify our users, with our Affiliated Companies, advertisers, business partners, or other third-party vendors. The Company uses IP addresses to calculate our traffic levels and whenever you are on the Internet, an IP address is assigned to your computer. This number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit one of our websites. Demographic information, as well as usage data calculated from logging IP addresses, is only shared with advertisers and third parties on an aggregated basis.
5. Cookies
Cookies are a standard industry tool used by most websites that can facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of a particular website. The Company will use cookie technology to improve its customer experiences as well as temporary cookies which will track the products you have chosen to purchase. Temporary cookies expire once you have completed marking your purchases. We may use cookies and other technologies to harvest non-personal information to track the popularity of certain pages of the websites; the success of our e-mail notifications and ad campaigns on third-party sites, based on click-through rates; and other similar information, all of which assists us in improving our websites and related services. To disenable cookies most web browsers offer a simple procedure to decline the use of cookie technology. However, by doing so you may impair your ability to access certain features of the websites.
6. Public Forums and Message Boards
The Company may make public forums, message boards and chat rooms available to its users. Any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and common sense should be practiced when posting any information.
7. Service Providers
The Company works with, and has relationships with, third parties who provide services such as website hosting, credit card clearance, order processing and fulfillment, technical support, e-mailing and other administrative services. The Company may share personal information, including financial information, with third parties but only to the extent necessary for such parties to provide those services.
8. Unsubscribing and Opting Out
To use certain services of travelhistory.com you may need to provide certain personal information. You may at some future date, however, choose to "opt out" of receiving promotional information or other materials from the Company. If, after registering, you would like to discontinue receiving materials from us, you can contact us with your preferences.
9. Security
The Company uses sophisticated security measures to protect against the loss or misuse of information under our control. When a credit card number is requested, the number is transmitted using an encrypted industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) format. However, no Internet data transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While the Company strives to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information provided to us through the Sites, and you provide all such information at your own risk.
10. Assignment
The Company reserves the right to transfer any and all information, including personal information, that we collect from the website to a third party in the event that we sell or transfer substantially all of our assets related to the websites to such third party.
11. Revisions to Privacy Statement
Any of the policies described herein may be changed at any time without prior notice. Use of any of the Company’s websites constitutes acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Statement then in effect.