Privacy Policy

The personal information of our users is important to us. Our Privacy Policy has been put in place to demonstrate that importance and to share with you how we use personal information that we gather from you. Please read the following Privacy Policy and understand that it pertains to this website and, with limitations, to third party sites which utilize TripReviews content and that it applies to all TripReviews users.

Personal Information

Certain personal information is collected when users voluntarily register for a membership on the website. Personal information collected from membership registrations includes users first and last name, screen name, email address, birth date month and year, membership registration date and country of residence. Optional information that is collected includes city of residence and state/province or residence. This information is used to create a member profile that is shared on the website. Other information that may be collected includes users personal usage of the website and demographic information of where our users are located. We may also collect name, email and telephone number information for users who submit support or questions through our website feedback form.

We use members email addresses to provide periodic information to them regarding the website including any news, changes, features, website problems and membership benefits. Users may also choose to register their email address and “opt-in” to receive special promotions and sales of travel products and services present from TripReviews by our various third parties.

Registered members may remove their membership, including all their personal information from TripReviews by sending an email including their username and email to unregister@tripreviews.com. Upon receipt of this email, TripReviews will send a email to the email address provided on the membership confirming the request to delete membership.

Aggregated Information

TripReviews also collects information on your use of the website, including which pages you access, how long you stay on those pages and which links you click. This information is tracked and collected by IP (internet protocol) addresses. IP addresses are numbers that are assigned to computers that use the internet and are used to track a computers use on the internet. TripReviews uses IP addresses to track our website usage by logging your IP address when you click on pages and links on our website. We use this information to diagnose website problems, improve website functionality, gather demographic information and to provide aggregated information to advertisers about the usage and volume of users on our website. IP addresses may also be used to identify users who are in violation of our terms and conditions of use.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that can be placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. You can determine, by adjusting the settings on your computer, whether or not you wish to allow cookies to be placed on your computer, however, some parts of our website, including the members area, will not work if you choose not to accept cookies. TripReviews uses cookies to gather certain information which is used to improve the users experience on the website, this includes remembering passwords and user viewing and access preferences. Cookies also allow us to measure the popularity of certain pages, promotions and features on the website by tracking user activity which is used to make improvements and updates and to enhance your experience on the website. Cookies used by TripReviews are not used to retrieve any information from your computer.

Links from Third Party Advertisements

Throughout the website there are various advertisements by third parties that are in placed to provide you with access to various services and products that being promoted by various advertisers. These advertisements, which may be in the form of both text and/or images, link to external websites which are not controlled by TripReviews and are not controlled by our terms and conditions of use or privacy policy. It is your responsibility and our recommendation, that you review the terms and conditions of use and the privacy policy of these third party websites if you choose to use them. TripReviews is not responsible in any way for the manner in which these third parties use, collect, control, maintain, store or divulge any information that they may collect from you as a result of using their website.

TripReviews use XXXXX as a third party advertising company to display the advertisements on our website. These advertisements are placed on our website from XXXX and may contain cookies which are used to trace the performance of ads and/or to gather other information. TripReviews does not have access to any information that XXXX may collect.

Shared Information

TripReviews allows third parties to place TripReviews user generated content onto their website(s). This information may include any content that a registered member submitted to the website along with their screen name and the location of residence which they provided during their membership registration. Our third party content users are bound by terms and conditions of use that restrict their use and protect the information of TripReviews content, whether generated by TripReviews or our users.

Minimum Age of Users

In order to register as a member of TripReviews, you must be at least 13 years of age. TripReviews does not endorse the registration of users under the age of 13 and does not permit or allow any postings or submissions by anyone under the age of 13. The record of members birthdates is based on users being truthful in their registration and TripReviews encourages parents and guardians to monitor and be aware of the sites their children visit. Any users know by TripReviews to be under the age of 13 will have their personal information permanently removed from our database.

Security

TripReviews is aimed at safeguarding the information of our users. We employ accepted industry standard means to physically and electronically protect the personal information of our users, both during transmission and once received, from unauthorized access. However, no method of information transmitted over the internet or form of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use the best possible methods to protect our user’s personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If any known breach in security or confidentiality of any information stored or transmitted to TripReviews is made, we will make any legally required disclosure to you via email or through posting on this website.

TripReviews reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time with any such changes being posted on this website. BY USING THIS SITE YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN FULL.

If you have any questions related to our privacy policy or how your personal information is used, please contact us by using our feedback form.