The protection of our user’s privacy is important to TouristCoup. This document outlines how the information we collect from our users is acquired, transmitted, stored and the life cycle of such data. Under no circumstances will personally identifying information collected from our users be sold, leased, rented, loaned or given to external companies, organizations, individuals or clients without prior user notification and / or permission. However, TouristCoup cannot be held liable in the event that private information is stolen, hacked or otherwise obtained due to circumstances beyond the control of TouristCoup. Users wishing to obtain a listing of, or make changes to the private information stored by TouristCoup, must make a formal written request to info@touristcoup.com allow 10 to 15 business days for processing and responding to your request. In the event TouristCoup is acquired by a third party, the private information of TouristCoup users will be passed on, and continue to be bound to this privacy policy until such time that users are adequately notified of policy changes.
All information which TouristCoup obtains from its users is kept secure and confidential to the best of our abilities at all times. This includes security protection of the physical devices storing the information and computer based protection in the form of passwords, encryption, signed certificates and other means. Access to the private information of our users is limited to the employees and authorized subcontractors of TouristCoup and technicians of its hosting provider. Exceptions include:
third party personnel requiring access to servers for the sole purpose of routine, scheduled or emergency maintenance; and or upgrading of hardware, software or configurations;
law enforcement or government agencies in order to comply with local laws and regulations;
companies specifically authorized to perform monitoring, technical, analytical or diagnostics services or tasks on our servers and or other equipment.
TouristCoup collects, stores and utilizes personal information in the following ways:
Email Newsletter
Personal information collected includes email address, optional demographic information, IP address and date / time stamp. This information is retained indefinitely in a secured database environment as an account for the newsletter subscription. The personal information is used for distribution of the email newsletter, account administration and customer service purposes only. This information is collected directly from the subscriber. Private information such as telephone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses and postal addresses will not be used for the purpose of marketing third party products, services or organizations – and are strictly retained for purposes relating directly to TouristCoup.
Web Traffic Statistics
Individually identifying information collected includes the IP and host address information of our users. This information is collection without notification to the user. The information is used purely for general web traffic statistics and reports. The information is not used to monitor, track or report on the usage of individual users unless the user is suspected of illegal or unauthorized usage of any component the TouristCoup infrastructure is comprised of. Additional information collected on users which is considered non-personal, and is collected without prior knowledge of the user includes: browser version, time and date stamp of all transactions against the TouristCoup server, referral information, country of origin, city of origin, hosting provider.
Cookies
During usage of particular functions within TouristCoup cookies may be saved to the client workstation that improve the efficiency and quality of service.
We use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve ads to you and collect information from you when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this website, other sites, and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
Cookie advertising features include:
Marketing with Google Analytics
Google Display Network Impression Reporting
DoubleClick Platform integrations
Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
Google’s use of cookies enables it to serve ads to our visitors on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy and https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our legal or privacy policies, we welcome you to contact us at info@touristcoup.com.