Your pri­vacy is crit­ic­ally import­ant to us. At Travel-Junkie.com we have a few fun­da­mental principles:

• We don’t ask you for per­sonal inform­a­tion unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand ser­vices that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no appar­ent reason.)
• We don’t share your per­sonal inform­a­tion with any­one except to com­ply with the law or pro­tect our rights.
• We don’t store per­sonal inform­a­tion on our serv­ers unless required for the on-going oper­a­tion of one of our services.

It is Travel-Junkie’s policy to respect your pri­vacy regard­ing any inform­a­tion we may col­lect while oper­at­ing our website.

Web­site Visitors

Like most web­site oper­at­ors, Travel-Junkie.com col­lects non-personally-identifying inform­a­tion of the sort that web browsers and serv­ers typ­ic­ally make avail­able, such as the browser type, lan­guage pref­er­ence, refer­ring site, and the date and time of each vis­itor request. Travel-Junkie.com’s pur­pose in col­lect­ing non-personally identi­fy­ing inform­a­tion is to bet­ter under­stand how Travel-Junkie.com’s vis­it­ors use our web­site. From time to time, Travel-Junkie.com may release non-personally-identifying inform­a­tion in the aggreg­ate, e.g., by pub­lish­ing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Travel-Junkie.com also col­lects poten­tially personally-identifying inform­a­tion like Inter­net Pro­tocol (IP) addresses. Travel-Junkie.com does not use such inform­a­tion to identify its vis­it­ors, how­ever, and does not dis­close such inform­a­tion, other than under the same cir­cum­stances that it uses and dis­closes personally-identifying inform­a­tion, as described below.

Gath­er­ing of Personally-Identifying Information

Cer­tain vis­it­ors to Travel-Junkie.com’s web­sites choose to inter­act with Travel-Junkie.com in ways that require Travel-Junkie.com to gather personally-identifying inform­a­tion. The amount and type of inform­a­tion that Travel-Junkie.com gath­ers depends on the nature of the inter­ac­tion. For example, we ask vis­it­ors who sign up to provide a user­name and email address. Travel-Junkie.com does not dis­close personally-identifying inform­a­tion other than as described below. And vis­it­ors can always refuse to sup­ply personally-identifying inform­a­tion, with the caveat that it may pre­vent them from enga­ging in cer­tain website-related activities.

Aggreg­ated Statistics

Travel-Junkie.com may col­lect stat­ist­ics about the beha­vior of vis­it­ors to its web­sites. For instance, Travel-Junkie.com may mon­itor the most pop­u­lar blogs on the Travel-Junkie Com­munity site. Travel-Junkie.com may dis­play this inform­a­tion pub­licly or provide it to oth­ers. How­ever, Travel-Junkie.com does not dis­close personally-identifying inform­a­tion other than as described below.

Pro­tec­tion of Cer­tain Personally-Identifying Information

Travel-Junkie.com dis­closes poten­tially personally-identifying and personally-identifying inform­a­tion only to those of its employ­ees, con­tract­ors and affil­i­ated organ­iz­a­tions that (i) need to know that inform­a­tion in order to pro­cess it on Travel-Junkie.com’s behalf or to provide ser­vices avail­able at Travel-Junkie.com’s web­sites, and (ii) that have agreed not to dis­close it to oth­ers. Some of those employ­ees, con­tract­ors and affil­i­ated organ­iz­a­tions may be loc­ated out­side of your home coun­try; by using Travel-Junkie.com’s web­sites, you con­sent to the trans­fer of such inform­a­tion to them. Travel-Junkie.com will not rent or sell poten­tially personally-identifying and personally-identifying inform­a­tion to any­one. Other than to its employ­ees, con­tract­ors and affil­i­ated organ­iz­a­tions, as described above, Travel-Junkie.com dis­closes poten­tially personally-identifying and personally-identifying inform­a­tion only when required to do so by law, or when Travel-Junkie.com believes in good faith that dis­clos­ure is reas­on­ably neces­sary to pro­tect the prop­erty or rights of Travel-Junkie.com, third parties or the pub­lic at large. If you are a registered user of an Travel-Junkie.com web­site and have sup­plied your email address, Travel-Junkie.com may occa­sion­ally send you an email to tell you about new fea­tures, soli­cit your feed­back, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Travel-Junkie.com and our products. We primar­ily use our vari­ous product blogs to com­mu­nic­ate this type of inform­a­tion, so we expect to keep this type of email to a min­imum. If you send us a request (for example via a sup­port email or via one of our feed­back mech­an­isms), we reserve the right to pub­lish it in order to help us cla­rify or respond to your request or to help us sup­port other users. Travel-Junkie.com takes all meas­ures reas­on­ably neces­sary to pro­tect against the unau­thor­ized access, use, alter­a­tion or destruc­tion of poten­tially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cook­ies

A cookie is a string of inform­a­tion that a web­site stores on a visitor’s com­puter, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the web­site each time the vis­itor returns. Travel-Junkie.com uses cook­ies to help Travel-Junkie.com identify and track vis­it­ors, their usage of Travel-Junkie.com web­site, and their web­site access pref­er­ences. Travel-Junkie.com vis­it­ors who do not wish to have cook­ies placed on their com­puters should set their browsers to refuse cook­ies before using Travel-Junkie.com’s web­sites, with the draw­back that cer­tain fea­tures of Travel-Junkie.com’s web­sites may not func­tion prop­erly without the aid of cookies.

Pri­vacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Travel-Junkie.com may change its Pri­vacy Policy from time to time, and in Travel-Junkie.com’s sole dis­cre­tion. Travel-Junkie.com encour­ages vis­it­ors to fre­quently check this page for any changes to its Pri­vacy Policy. If you have a community.travel-junkie.com account, you should also check your account’s dash­board for alerts to these changes. Your con­tin­ued use of this site after any change in this Pri­vacy Policy will con­sti­tute your accept­ance of such change.