PRIVACY POLICY

Iknowagreatplace.com

The policy below is applicable to Iknowagreatplace.com Your privacy on the Internet is important to responsibletravel.com Limited ("us" or "we"). We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. As part of the operations of responsibletravel.com and Iknowagreatplace.com, we gather certain types of information about users. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") explains the types of information we gather, what we do with it and how you may correct or change information that we may collect.

USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND AGREEMENT TO COMPLY WITH THE ENTIRE PRIVACY POLICY.

Information Collected by us
It is possible to visit iknowagreatplace.com and use a subset of site functionality without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. We only collect your personally identifiable information if you voluntarily provide it to us If you chose to register with iknowagreatplace.com at a minimum, we require some key information to provide a basic level of service: your name and email address Once a member, you have the option of providing additional information, to enhance the quality of this Service for both you and the larger iknowagreatplace.com community. Such items include where you live, your date of birth, a short profile, your profile picture and places you have previously visited or lived in. Certain information is also collected dynamically as you use the Service. We log all content generated by you on iknowagreatplace.com as well as information you provide when contacting us. Our servers also record your Log Data (i.e. IP address, browser type, web pages visited, search terms used).

Personal Information
Personal Information Personal information is collected when users voluntarily register for membership services. Personal information includes e-mail addresses, user registration data, passwords, external homepages, gender, birth date, interests, hobbies, travel preferences and any other user data. We may also receive personal usage and demographic information from our third-party partners, and we also collect e-mail addresses from users who send us support mail or request technical or other help.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our sites is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
  • To inform you of the status of your Travel Page, new membership benefits and features to provide you with information or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
  • To determine which questions get emailed to you
  • To notify you about changes to our services.

Communication you receive from us:

By default, we send emails to You in the following instances:
  • To confirm your site registration
  • To confirm your question has been received
  • To confirm your answer has been received
  • To confirm your question has been answered
  • To alert that a private message has been sent to you
  • To ask for your help in answering a question based on information provided by you
  • To confirm a change of your password
  • Other communications set from your site settings

You may also opt-in to receive communication from Us which we believe will be of interest and use to you.

Sharing of data with our partners
We will not sell or lease your information to any other party. If this policy is changed at any time in the future we will notify all members by e-mail, and provide you with an opportunity to opt out of this release of information if you so wish. We will provide aggregated, anonymous data to advertisers, our members and other third parties. This data will not be able to be linked to any individual.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • if iknowagreatplace.com Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets;
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use.

Cookies and IP addresses
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to a visitor's computer for record keeping purposes. Most sites on the Internet use cookies. We use cookies to tell us how and when you use the site. This helps us understand the most and least popular features of our site so that we can improve and update the site. We will provide aggregated data to advertisers, our members and other third parties. We may also collect IP addresses of those browsing the site as another way of understanding how our site is used so that we can improve it. We do not track individual persons’ activities. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting in this way, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our sites.

Third party links
In order to provide you with the best information on responsible travel we will provide links to other sites containing this information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these sites.

Security
We keep all personal information in a secure server that is only accessible by our designated employees.

Public Forum
Information posted to the question and answer pages, blogs, tips and home pages is available to the general public and becomes public information. In addition, the site offers to visitors the possibility to provide their own content. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN DECIDING TO DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. Users under the age of 18 should be particularly careful not to provide any personally identifying information while using message boards. Users of message boards must follow acceptable standards of behaviour when posting messages online. We reserve the right to, but are not obligated to, refuse or delete any content that in our sole discretion is considered inappropriate.

Children's Guidelines
No information is permitted to be either submitted to, or posted on, our sites by users under the age of 13. We rely on our users to be truthful in responding to the question of age. We will not provide any personally identifying information about users under the age of 13, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever without first requesting parental permission.

Choice to Opt-Out
We give users the option to remove their e-mail address from our database at any time and to not receive future communications and to no longer receive the membership benefits of our service. To do so, please send an e-mail to community@ responsibletravel.com.

Access to Information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with that Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10.00 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Correct/Update
This site provides users with options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

  • You can edit your personal information on your ‘My Profile’ page.
  • You can edit the content, provided by you, through ‘Edit’ links on the corresponding pages or delete the content through ‘Delete’ links on the corresponding pages.
  • You cannot delete a message after you have posted it
  • You cannot delete a question after you have posted it
  • You cannot delete an answer after you have posted it
  • You cannot delete a reply after you have posted it
  • You cannot delete a message after you have posted it

Additional Information
No transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under our control to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Any such transmission is done at your own risk.

Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, shall we be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages that result from the use of the information or materials on our sites, even if we or any of our authorized representatives have been advised of the possibility of such damages. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such changes will be posted online.

Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to community@responsibletravel.com or to;

responsibletravel.com Limited, 3rd Floor, Pavilion House, 6 The Old Steine, Brighton BN1 1ES, UK.