COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by DTC Travel Co., Ltd.
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance
to us. At dtctravel.com, we want to make your experience
online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and
conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses what information we gather
and how we use it.
INFORMATION dtctravel.com GATHERS
AND TRACKS
dtctravel.com gathers two types
of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive
our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message
boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation
in polls and surveys:
Information dtctravel.com gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout
our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our
content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and
sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.
Under no circumstances does dtctravel.com divulge any information
about an individual user to a third party.
dtctravel.com Gathers User Information
In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some
type of voluntary submission of personal information by
users:
1.
Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic
newsletter to users. dtctravel.com gathers the email addresses
of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove
themselves from this mailing
list by following the link provided in every newsletter
that points users to the subscription
management page. Users can also unsubscribe to the newsletters
at the time of registration.
2.
Message boards/forums
Users of the site's Message
Boards and Forums must register separately for these services
(both are free of charge) in order to post messages,
although they needn't register
to visit the site. During registration the user is
required to supply a username, password,
and email address.
3.
"E-mail this to a friend" Service
Our site users can choose
to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to
someone else by clicking
"e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email
address, as well as that of
the recipient. This information is used only in the
case of transmission errors
and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email.
The information is not used
for any other purpose.
4.
Polling
We may offer interactive polls
to users so they can easily share their opinions with other
users and see what
our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or
other responses to polls are
aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user.
dtctravel.com may use a system
to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote
only once on a particular
question. This tag is not correlated with information
about individual users.
5.
Surveys
dtctravel.com may occasionally
conduct user surveys to better target our content to our
audience. We sometimes share
the aggregated demographic information in these
surveys with our sponsors, advertisers
and partners. We never share any of this
information about specific
individuals with any third party.
Usage tracking
dtctravel.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout
all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information
with data about individual users. dtctravel.com does break
down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information
from the browser string (information contained in every
user's browser).
dtctravel.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search
terms that users enter in our Search function, but this
tracking is never associated with individual users. We
use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. We do not track what individual users read, but
rather how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser
files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain
Personal Information although it will enable us to relate
your use of this site to information that you have specifically
and knowingly provided. But the only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.
A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie
files created by other sites. dtctravel.com uses cookies
to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use
this site. However, you do need cookies to participate
actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
USE OF INFORMATION
dtctravel.com uses any information voluntarily given by
our users to enhance their experience in our network of
sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content
based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily
provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and
to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message
boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and
occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
dtctravel.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with
any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or
partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas
of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic
to those areas. We do not track what individual users
read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
We track search terms entered in Search function as one
of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't
track which terms a particular user enters.
dtctravel.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners.
This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively,
and allows our users to receive advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage
patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor
will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.
We will not disclose any information about any individual
user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
dtctravel.com uses the above-described information to
tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers
better understand our audience's demographics. This is
essential to keeping our service free. We will not share
information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process
or to protect the personal safety of our users or the
public.
SECURITY
dtctravel.com operates secure data networks protected
by industry standard firewall and password protection
systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically
reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information provided by
our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical.
Such choices include: Opting not to register to receive
our electronic newsletters. Opting not to participate
in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates
the need to gather any personally identifiable information
from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by dtctravel.com. If we decide
to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances
we disclose it.
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