Privacy and Confidentiality
What Information Do
We Collect?
When you visit our
Web site you may provide us with two types of
information: personal information you knowingly
choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis and web site use information
collected on a aggregate basis as you and others
browse our web site. You can browse our site without
telling us who you are or revealing any personal
information about yourself. Once we obtain that
information you are consenting to the transfer and
storage of your personal information in our visitor
and customer database. Personal Information You
Choose to Provide:
1) Registration
Information
You will provide us
information about yourself, your firm or company,
and your practices when you register to be a member
of Shipdetective.com (not required at this time),
register for certain services (Community Forum) or
register for email newsletter and alerts. You may
also provide additional comments on how you see
Shipdetective.com servicing your needs and
interests.
2) Email Address
Similar to other
commercial websites, our web site utilizes standard
technology called “cookies” (small data file placed
on your hard drive) to help analyze our web page
flow and customize our services to help serve you
better. We use Cookies and web sever logs to collect
information on how our Web site is used. Information
gathered through cookies and web server logs may
include the day and time of visits, pages viewed,
and the time spent at our web site. At no time will
we ever give you email address to anyone or sell
your email to anyone.
3) Shipping &
Billing Information
We may collect and
store the following information when you make a
purchase from the Shipdetective.com Travel Store:
Your shipping and billings address, contact phone
number, credit card or bank account numbers, and
transactional information based on your activities
on our site.
4) Feedback and
Cruise Survey Information
We collect feedback
from consumers to evaluate and improve our service
delivery. Feedback comments generally are not made
public, however on certain occasions,
Shipdetective.com may be interested in publishing
some of your comments and your initials on our Web
site. We will contact you prior to publication of
any feedback comments. Information including name,
address, phone number and any other personal
information will not be disclosed. Cruise Review
Survey
When you submit to us
your our completed Cruise Review Survey, you agree
to allow Shipdetective.com to use the information
contained in the survey and the results published in
its entirety or in a edited format on our Web site,
or any other media publication distributed by
Shipdetective.com, Inc. such as newsletters and our
Custom Cruise Guides. We do not collect personal
information such as name, address and phone number
for the purpose of reporting the results of our
Survey. We may collect shipping information for the
purpose of delivering gifts or promotional items.
With Whom We May
Share Information
We may share certain
information about you with those of our vendors who
are responsible for handling your account or
performing other services that you require. Although
we may share sensitive financial information (I.e.,
credit card numbers, banking information), security
information and personal communications with such
vendors where necessary and appropriate, we will not
share such information with other third parties,
except law enforcement or other governmental
official, in response to formal requests (e.g.,
subpoena or court order) relating to a criminal
investigation or alleged illegal activity; (In such
events we will disclose name, city, state, telephone
number, and email address.
How We Put
Information to Good Use
We use information
about you for purposes of monitoring and improving
our internal operations, as well as to improve the
experience of the users of our Web site. We use Web
site traffic information that helps us determine how
much our customers use parts of the site, allowing
us to enhance it to fit the needs of as many of our
visitors as possible.
For More Information
Regarding our Policies and Procedures, Please see
our
User Agreement.
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