The Travel Advisory News Network, TANN, and its advertisers, affiliates and third party partners are deeply concerned about privacy on the Internet. As such, to better protect your privacy, TANN has pro-vided this notice explaining its online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used on this Site. Furthermore, this Privacy Policy works in conjunction with the Terms of Use but does not modify or supercede these documents.
TANN's Collection and Use of Your Information
In the course of using this Site, TANN does not collect any personally identifiable information about you such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address. However, TANN does collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows '98 or Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink), ag-gregate data about the number of visits to the Site and/or aggregate data about the pages visited.
How TANN Uses the Information
TANN uses the non-personally identifiable information ("Aggregate Data")
to analyze Site usage as well as create products and services to fit your needs.
Also, TANN may share this Aggregate Data with TANN sponsors, advertisers and
other third-party vendors. TANN shall own such Aggregate Data and maintain copies
of such as part of its records.
In some cases, you may voluntarily provide personal information in response to a specific ad (this ad may ask you to fill out a survey or provide your zip code). If this does occur, TANN may collect this information on behalf of itself or of an advertiser. Information provided to an advertiser is used by that advertiser to respond to your request. In addition, TANN may combine this information with other users' information and review it in an aggregate form to understand the type of individuals who view a specific type of ad or visit a particular kind of website.
Except as otherwise indicated, TANN uses the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") you provide: (a) to fulfill your requests for our products and services and those of our sponsors and busi-ness affiliates and to respond to your inquiries about our offerings; (b) to communicate with you and to assist you with any questions you have (c) for internal marketing purposes; (d) to cooperate with govern-ment officials or parties in litigation under process of law, or as otherwise required by law; (e) to protect the security or integrity of the Site; (f) to protect against a threat of safety or destruction of property; and/or (g) to protect against legal liability. In all cases, however, TANN's agents, employees and contrac-tors who have access to Personal Information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with the Privacy Policy. TANN will not use the Personal Information, except as set forth herein, without your permission; provided, however, TANN shall own all such Personal Information and maintain copies of such as part of its records.
TANN may use the Personal Information that it collects to offer you other products or services that TANN believes may be of interest to you. Some of TANN's third party distributors and/or entities related to you transaction may be supplied with your Personal Information and may use your Personal Information for their own marketing purposes or to send you information regarding products and services that may be of interest to you, however, as with TANN, any parties with access to such Personal Information are re-quired to act in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. TANN also may make its mailing list avail-able to companies carefully screened, whose products and services may interest you. If you so not with to receive any such information as described in this paragraph, please contact TANN in the manner identi-fied in the "Opt-Out" section below. The Aggregate Data and Personal Information may be transferred, distributed or sold as part of TANN or its assets.
How to Contact TANN to Opt-Out
You may choose not to receive such information and/or to allow TANN to use your
information in the manner described above by simply notifying TANN directly
at info@tann.com. Please indicate whether you are opting out of email marketing
communication only or all marketing communication. If you do not indicate one
of the foregoing, we will construe your "opt-out" as pertaining to
email only. Upon receipt and processing of an "opt out" request, TANN
will, within its commercially reasonable amount of time, remove your information
from any future marketing communications.
Security: No Liability
TANN has implemented security measures to help protect against the risk of loss,
misuse and alteration of any information under TANN's control. Nevertheless,
such security measures may not prevent all loss, misuse or alteration of information
on this Site, And TANN is not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating
to any such security failures. Furthermore, this Site contains links to other
sites. TANN is not re-sponsible for nor can TANN ensure the privacy practices
or content of such other sites.
IP Addresses and Cookies
Like other web sites, TANN uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with
TANN's servers, to ad-minister this Site and for security purposes. "Cookies"
are pieces of data sent from a Web server to a Web browser that enable a Web
server to identify users that visit a site hosted by that server. TANN may use
Cookies in order to identify you to our site so that TANN can provide more customized
information and services to you. In general, if you choose, you can disable
the use of Cookies by reviewing your browser's preferences and options.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to you by DoubleClick, our Web advertising partner. Information about your visit to this site, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad, is used to serve ads to you on this site. For more information about DoubleClick, cookies, and how to "opt-out", please click here.
<http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy>
Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertisers
may place or recognize unique cookies on your browser.
Modification of Privacy Policy
TANN may change this Privacy Policy at any time, consistent with the terms set
forth in the Terms and Conditions of Use, including by posting the changed or
amended Privacy Policy on the Site. Your contin-ued viewing of or use of this
Site following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify
your assent to any such changes or amendments.
How to Contact TANN for Any Reason
You may contact TANN with questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy,
updating and Personal Information or anything else related to TANN and/or this
Site at info@tann.com.