GuidepostUSA Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 1, 2007

Your privacy is important to us. Please read the following information carefully before using our website.

This Privacy Policy describes the online information collection practices of GuidepostUSA™, Inc. (“GuidepostUSA”, “we” or “us”.) Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using the GuidepostUSA.com website (the “Site”), and the ways in which we use this information. By visiting and using this Site, you agree that your use of our Site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions of Use.

This Site contains links to other sites. When linking to another site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. GuidepostUSA is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any third-party web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statement of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Non-personal information
When you visit GuidepostUSA.com, some basic non-personal information may be passively collected (automatically sent to us by your web browser.) Basic information that may be collected is as follows:

The Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our Site;
The type of browser and operating system used to access our Site;
The date and time you accessed our Site;
The specific pages you visited; and
If you linked to our Site from another web site, the address of that web site.

This information may be disclosed in aggregate form to our travel industry partners. It will be used solely to generate statistics and reports about site traffic and browsing patterns in an effort to make our Site more beneficial for everyone and to learn about the number of visitors to our Site and the types of technology they use. All of this helps us ensure that this Site is as useful as possible. It is not possible for us to gather personal information from your domain name or internet address.

Cookies
Cookies are data that a website transfers to an individual's hard-drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies, which are an industry standard used by most websites, including this Site, can facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of a site. A cookie itself does not contain any personally identifiable information. We utilize cookies to recognize you and your access privileges on GuidepostUSA.com, as well as to track site usage. Please note that cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of some areas of this Site.

Personally identifiable information
We consider the following, among other things, to be personally identifiable information: first and last name, e-mail address, street address and phone number.

During the registration process prior to accessing certain areas of this Site, we require that you supply a unique user name, password, e-mail address, name and title. This information is for internal use only and will not be accessible to the public. GuidepostUSA does not share, sell or rent this information to anyone.

Using the email address provided at registration, we may contact you regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement, and to confirm registration or remind you of your password. We use return email addresses only to answer the email we receive. Again, we do not share, sell or rent e-mail addresses.

Children
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.

Data Submission
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting information about a tourism destination or event to this Site, you are granting us permission to use this information in connection with the operation of our Site, including without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your submission. This information will not be directly shared or sold to third parties but can be publicly viewed during a search on our site.

The purpose of the online submission form is to collect information for potential future use on GuidepostUSA.com. Filling out this form does not guarantee that your business or organization will be listed on the Site, nor does it guarantee that all of the information you submit will be listed on the Site free of charge. GuidepostUSA reserves the right to add, edit, or delete listings, at our sole discretion, in order to comply with what we deem appropriate for our website.

GuidepostUSA has no obligation to monitor incoming data. However, we reserve the right to review submitted materials, and to remove any materials at our discretion. We also reserve the right to terminate your access to any and all of the Site functions at any time, for any reason whatsoever.

Payment Information
We use a third party payment service to collect annual subscription fees. Personal and/or credit card information submitted for payment is never seen nor stored by GuidepostUSA but is transmitted in an encrypted format directly to our payment service. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

Your Responsibility
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username, password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by us or another party due to someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without the permission of the account holder.

Compliance With Legal Process
We may disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of GuidepostUSA.com; or (4) protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).

Security
This Site has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our database is supported by a robust, password-protected administrative back-end. Only authorized personnel have access to the information you provide us. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we take many precautions to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

How You Can Access Your Information
You can access and revise all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by logging on as a Member. The link to Member Login is located in the upper right corner of every page on GuidepostUSA.com.

If you would like to review the information we have about you and cannot access it online, send your request to info@GuidepostUSA.com. With any request, please provide us with a means to identify you and contact you if necessary.

Changes to this Policy
GuidepostUSA reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this page periodically to view the most current policy. Changes will be posted at least seven (7) days prior to taking effect. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.