We at ActiveAttractions.com,
L.P. ("we" or "ActiveAttractions.com")
have created this privacy policy
to demonstrate our firm commitment
to protecting your personal information
and informing you about how we handle
it. This privacy policy only applies
to transactions and activities in
which you engage, and data gathered,
on the ActiveAttractions.com Website,
ActiveAttractions.com Messenger
and double blind email communications
between ActiveAttractions.com members
(collectively, the "Site")
but does not apply to any other
Website or offline point of contact
between ActiveAttractions.com, or
any other company, and consumers.
Please review this
privacy policy periodically as we
may modify it from time to time. This
privacy policy was last revised on
March 21, 2003. Each time you visit
the Site
or provide us with information, by
doing so you are accepting the practices
described in this privacy policy at
that time.
Your IP Address
Like most e-commerce
Websites, each time you visit the
Site, we automatically collect your
IP address and the web page from which
you came. In order to administer and
optimize the Site for you and to diagnose
problems with our Site, we use your
IP address to help identify you and
to gather broad demographic information
about you.
Cookies
Like most Websites,
the Site uses cookies to keep track
of your purchases and other activity
on the Site and enhance your experience
on the Site. We also use cookies to
deliver content specific to your interests,
to save your password, and if you
choose, to save other personal and
financial information so you do not
have to reenter it each time you visit
the Site. Third party advertisers
on the Site may also place or read
cookies on your browser. If you wish
to disable these cookies, the "help"
portion of the toolbar on most browsers
will tell you how. However, if you
set your browser to disable cookies,
you may not be able to access certain
areas on the Site.
Information We Collect
From You
In order to operate
the Site and to provide you with information
about products or services that may
be of interest to you, we may collect
"personal information" (i.e.
information that could be used to
contact you directly (without using
the Site) such as full name, postal
address, phone number or email address),
"financial information"
(i.e. credit card numbers or passwords)
or "demographic information"
(i.e. information that you submit,
or that we collect, that is neither
personal information nor financial
information; this may include, but
is not limited to, zip code, postal
code, hometown, gender, username,
age/birth date, purchase history information,
browsing history information, searching
history information, registration
history information, and the content
of communications between you and
other members over the Site), subject
to the rest of this paragraph. Demographic
information is divided into two categories:
1) "non-public information",
which consists of purchase history
information and one-on-one communications
between you and other users of the
Site; and 2) "public information",
which consists of all other demographic
information. We ask that you do not
enter personal information or financial
information into your “Profile”
(for example, don’t use your
address or passcode as your username,
or include your name or address in
your written responses), because if
you do then it may be posted publicly
on the Site, and the information will
then be treated as "demographic
information" that is "public
information." Please note that
nowhere on the Site do we knowingly
collect personal information from
children under the age of 18, as we
require that all users represent to
us that they are at least 18 years
old.
Information Other
Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place
links to other Websites operated by
other parties. Some of these other
Websites contain our brand names and
trademarks and other intellectual
property that we own; others do not.
When you click on these links and
visit these other Websites, regardless
of whether or not they contain our
brand names, trademarks and other
intellectual property, you need to
be aware that we do not control these
other Websites or these other Websites’
business practices, and that this
privacy policy does not apply to these
other Websites. Consequently,the operators
of these other Websites may collect
different kinds of information about
you, and may use and disclose that
information in different ways than
we would if it were collected on the
Site. We encourage you to review their
privacy policies and remind you that
we will not be responsible for their
actions.
How We Use Personal
Information
We use your email
address and your other personal information
to help us efficiently operate the
Site, to contact you in connection
with your transactions and other activities
on the Site (including, but not limited
to, confirmation emails or important
news that could affect your relationship
with ActiveAttractions.com), and to
forward messages to you from other
ActiveAttractions.com users. These
types of communications, are known
as "Operational Communications."
In some cases, Operational Communications
may also contain commercial messages,
such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to
send you newsletters, information,
offers and other promotional materials
for ActiveAttractions.com’s
or third parties’ goods or services.
We attempt to send you offers that
are of value to you, such as discounts,
exclusive offers or special event
information. The Site provides you
with options to decline to receive
communications from ActiveAttractions.com
(other than those contained in Operational
Communications). Some of these options
may only be for a certain category
of communications; others may be more
general. By posting a profile on the
Site, you are opting in to receive
the ActiveAttractions.com by Mail
email. To stop receiving ActiveAttractions.com
by Mail, go to the "Email Options"
section of your account settings and
change your desired frequency"
to "Never."
To operate the Site, including processing
your transactions and supporting your
activities on the Site, we may share
your personal information with our
agents, representatives, contractors
and service providers so they can
provide us with support services such
as authorization of credit card transactions,
email origination, receipt or support
services, customer relationship management
services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes
and promotional fulfillment. We require
these entities not to use your information
for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making
reservations for, products or services
offered or sponsored by third parties
on the Site, or electing to receive
communications (such as emails or
magazine subscriptions) or electing
to participate in contests, sweepstakes
or other programs (such as discount
or rewards programs), offered or sponsored
by third parties on the Site, you
consent to our providing your personal
information to those third parties.
Those third parties may use your personal
information in accordance with their
own privacy policies. You will need
to contact those third parties to
instruct them directly regarding your
preferences for the use of your personal
information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose
all such information so submitted
to such third parties in the same
manner in which we are entitled to
use and disclose any other information
you submit to us.
In some cases, we may enter into a
promotional relationship with another
company in which we prominently display
their brand name or trademarks on
pages of the Site. These pages are
known as "Co-Branded Pages"
and these companies are known as “Co-Branded
Companies.” If the page on which
you submit information is a Co-Branded
Page, or was accessed by clicking
on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then
we may share your personal information
with the associated Co-Branded Company.
Co-Branded Companies may use your
personal information in accordance
with their own privacy policies. You
will need to contact Co-Branded Companies
to instruct them directly regarding
your preferences for the use of your
personal information by them. Additionally,
you agree that we may use and disclose
all such information so submitted
to such Co-Branded Companies in the
same manner in which we are entitled
to use and disclose any other information
you submit to us. Some Co-Branded
Pages may contain an action tag (also
known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel
.gif file) that a third party, such
as the advertising company Avenue
A, may use to read cookies that it,
or its clients, may have placed on
your browser at other (non-ActiveAttractions.com)
web sites before your visit to ActiveAttractions.com.
This technology is used to measure
the effectiveness of advertisements
on such other Websites that promote
Co-Branded Pages. Further, Avenue
A, or such other third parties, may
use the information collected through
this
technology to learn more about your
visits to this Site and other Websites
in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services of interest
to you. We have been informed by Avenue
A that unless you are otherwise notified,
they do not use your name, address,
e-mail address or telephone number,
and do not link your online actions
to any information that can be used
to identify or contact you. However,
as we may not verify that this is
the case, we ask that you seek Avenue
assurances yourself and do not hold
us accountable for the accuracy of
the above statement. If you would
like Avenue A to provide you with
more information about their practices,
click here.
Any third party with whom we are allowed
to share your personal information
is authorized to use your personal
information in accordance with our
contractual arrangements with such
third parties and in accordance with
their own privacy policies, over which
we have no control, and you agree
that we are not responsible or liable
for any of their actions or omissions.
Those who contact you will need to
be instructed directly by you regarding
your preferences for the use of your
personal information by them.
Please read the information below
under the heading "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial
Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your personal
information.
How We Use Financial
Information
We use your financial
information to check your qualifications,
to bill you for products and services
and to enable you to participate in
discount, rebate and similar programs
in which you may elect to participate.
By making a purchase, or engaging
in any other kind of activity or transaction
that uses financial information, on
the Site, you consent to our providing
your financial information to our
service providers and to such third
parties as we determine are necessary
to support and process your activities
and transactions, as well as to your
credit card issuer for their purposes.
These third parties may include the
credit card companies and banking
institutions used to process and support
the transaction or activity. By purchasing,
or registering or making reservations
for, products or services of third
parties offered on the Site, or by
participating in programs offered
on the Site that are administered
by third parties and that require
you to submit financial information
in order to use them, you also consent
to our providing your financial information
to those third parties. Additionally,
if the page on which you submit information
is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed
by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded
Page, then we may share your financial
information with the associated Co-Branded
Company. Any of these various third
parties (including Co-Branded Companies)
may be authorized to use your financial
information in accordance with our
contractual arrangements with such
third parties and in accordance with
their own privacy policies, over which
we have no control, and you agree
that we are not responsible or liable
for any of their actions or omissions.
Additionally, you agree that we may
use and disclose all such information
so submitted to such third parties
in the same manner in which we are
entitled to use and disclose any other
information that you submit to us.
Please read the information below
under the heading "Special Cases
in which we Share Personal and Financial
Information" to learn more ways
in which we may share your financial
information.
Special Cases in
which we Share Personal and Financial
Information
Your personal information
or financial information may be passed
on to a third party in the event of
a transfer of ownership or assets,
or a bankruptcy. We may also disclose
personal information or financial
information when we determine that
such disclosure is necessary to comply
with applicable law, to cooperate
with law enforcement or to protect
the interests or safety of ActiveAttractions.com
or other visitors to the Site. We
also may disclose your personal information
or financial information to our subsidiary
and parent companies and businesses,
and other affiliated legal entities
and businesses with whom we are under
common corporate control. Whenever
personal information or financial
information is disclosed under this
paragraph, we may also disclose your
demographic information along with
it, on a non-anonymous basis. All
of our parent, subsidiary and affiliated
legal entities and businesses that
receive your personal information,
financial information, or non-anonymous
demographic information from us will
comply with the terms of this privacy
policy with respect to their use and
disclosure of such information.
How We Use Public Information and
Other Demographic Information
We may review all
demographic information. We may use
public information to enable other
users to find your profile, to determine
whether they are a match for you and
to communicate with you. We may use
demographic information to tailor
the Site and communications to your
interests. We may also share demographic
information with advertisers on an
anonymous
and aggregated basis (i.e., without
telling the advertisers your identity).
One of the reasons we may do this
is to increase the likelihood that
our advertisers’ goods and services
will appeal to ActiveAttractions.com’s
users, so that we may target specific
ads at specific demographic groups.
Our sharing of demographic information
with advertisers is anonymous (i.e.,
we do not tell advertisers which particular
ActiveAttractions.com users are members
of which demographic groups), subject
to the rest of this privacy policy.
When you respond to an advertisement,
however, we ask you to remember that
if that ad that is targeted to a demographic
group and you decide to give the advertiser
your personal information, then the
advertiser may be able to identify
you as being a member of that demographic
group. Please also be aware that when
we disclose your financial information
or personal information to a Co-Branded
Company, as described above, we may
also disclose to that Co-Branded Company
your demographic information, other
than the content of one-on-one communications
between you and other members. Please
also be aware that we may disclose
your demographic information on a
non-anonymous basis as described above
in the paragraph titled "Special
Cases in which we Share Personal and
Financial Information." Also,
to read further details about how
we may use your public information,
see our Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security
measures in place to protect against
the loss, misuse and alteration of
the information under our control.
Our secure server software (SSL) is
the industry standard and among the
best software available today for
secure commerce transactions. We encrypt
all of your personal and financial
information as it travels over the
Internet and we store your financial
information on our servers in encrypted
form. Your information may be transferred
to and maintained on computer networks
which may be located outside of the
state, province, country or other
governmental jurisdiction in which
you reside, and the country or jurisdiction
in which these computer networks are
located may not have privacy laws
as protective as the laws in your
country or jurisdiction.
Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously
Gathered Information
If at any point we
decide to use particular personally
identifiable information in a manner
different from that stated at the
time it was collected, we will notify
users by way of an email or by providing
30 days notice on the Site. Please
note that we will continue to have
the right to change our privacy policy
and practices, and how we use your
personally identifiable information,
without notice, as described in the
first paragraph of this Privacy Policy,
provided that such changes shall only
apply to information gathered on or
after the date of the change.
How You Can Access and Update Your
Email Preferences, Personal Information
and Public Information
We give you the opportunity
to opt-out of certain communications
and modify personal information or
demographic information you have provided
to us, and to hide demographic information
from, or make demographic information
visible to, the public users of the
Site, at anytime by going to the Account
Settings or My Profile section of
the Site. Please be aware that it
may take several hours for the changes
you make to take effect on the public
areas of the Site. We thank you for
your patience. Please note that changing
or deleting your information through
the "Account Settings" or
"My Profile" section of
the Site, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications
from ActiveAttractions.com, will only
change or
delete the data in our database for
purposes of future activities on the
Site and for managing future communications
from ActiveAttractions.com. These
changes and deletions will not change
or delete emails or information that
we may have already forwarded to other
users or credit card companies or
any other third parties, all as provided
above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions
or concerns about this privacy policy,
the practices of the Site, or your
dealings with the Site, you can contact
us at legal@ActiveAttractions.com.
You can also send us mail to: Privacy
Officer, ActiveAttractions.com,
c/o Legal Department, 2505-1331 Alberni
Street Vancouver BC v633s1
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