Five Rivers Guide Service is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Five Rivers Guide Service site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Five Rivers Guide Service site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Five Rivers Guide Service collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Five Rivers Guide Service also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Five Rivers Guide Service. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Five Rivers Guide Service for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Five Rivers Guide Service site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Five Rivers Guide Service public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Five Rivers Guide Service does not read any of your private online communications.
Five Rivers Guide Service encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Five Rivers Guide Service so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Five Rivers Guide Service is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Five Rivers Guide Service and Five Rivers Guide Service family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Five Rivers Guide Service collects and uses your personal information to operate the Five Rivers Guide Service Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Five Rivers Guide Service also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Five Rivers Guide Service and its affiliates. Five Rivers Guide Service may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Five Rivers Guide Service does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Five Rivers Guide Service may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Five Rivers Guide Service may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Five Rivers Guide Service, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Five Rivers Guide Service does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Five Rivers Guide Service keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Five Rivers Guide Service, in order to determine what Five Rivers Guide Service services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Five Rivers Guide Service to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Five Rivers Guide Service Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Five Rivers Guide Service or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Five Rivers Guide Service; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Five Rivers Guide Service, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Five Rivers Guide Service Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Five Rivers Guide Service pages, or register with Five Rivers Guide Service site or services, a cookie helps Five Rivers Guide Service to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Five Rivers Guide Service Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Five Rivers Guide Service features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Five Rivers Guide Service services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Five Rivers Guide Service secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Five Rivers Guide Service secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Five Rivers Guide Service will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Five Rivers Guide Service encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Five Rivers Guide Service is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Five Rivers Guide Service welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Five Rivers Guide Service has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Five Rivers Guide Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.