Privacy Policy

Last Update on January 21, 2008

Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Halogen Guides Travel Web site. On some pages, you can make requests and register to receive materials. The only type of personal information that we currently collect at these pages is an email address.

You may opt-out and unsubscribe from receiving any previously requested material or communication from www.halogengetaways.com by contacting us at .

On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you read an article and want to forward it to a friend, you will need to submit the recipient’s address. In this circumstance, the only type of personal information currently collected is an email address.

If you choose to use the referral service to tell a friend about an article or our site, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. The email sent will come from your email address and delivered to your friend’s email address. We do not store this third party email address for any purpose and we will not contact your friend.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies [log files] to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate (e.g., usage and volume statistics) to assess the traffic on our site.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

We use persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file. Visit Wikipedia’s site at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie for more information about cookies.

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by halogengetaways.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. See the “Third Party Advertisers” section.

Third Party Advertisers

The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by Google, our advertising partner. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party (Google) for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.

For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please visit http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Halogen Guides Travel. Please be aware that we, Halogen Guides Travel, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Bulletin Boards/Forums/Comments

If you use a bulletin board or place comments on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. Halogen Guides Travel reserves the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with our Terms of Use.

The Way We Use Information

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an request only to complete that request. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that request.

We use the information you provide about someone else when forwarding an article only to send the article via email. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that request.

We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

Our Commitment To Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at .

Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Web site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our Web site is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by emailing us a request from the account you used to submit your original data. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.

You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 415-543-0520 or send us an email at .

Changes in this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.