TourGuideMiKE's Privacy Policy
TourGuideMiKE, L.L.C. is committed to protecting your privacy. We maintain
the privacy of your information using the latest security technologies
and adhere to policies that prevent the unauthorized use of your personal
information.
We have prepared this Privacy Policy Statement to explain when and
how we might use your personal and non-personal information to provide
the best possible experience on this site. Our Privacy Policy applies
to all visitors of our free vacation information and to those that purchase
and use our TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™.
We invite you to review our Privacy Policy in its entirety. However,
the following links are bookmarked to specific information on this
page for your convenience:
Our
Free TourGuideMiKE "Good Scoop" Bulletin
TourGuideMiKE.com
and Children
User
Reviews
Our
TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™
Targeted
Email Updates and Feedback
Cookies
Privacy
Policy Changes
Our Free TourGuideMiKE "Good Scoop" Bulletin
We deliver complimentary bulletins to the email address of anyone that
would like to receive general tips and hints for visiting the Central
Florida area. We also use this medium to disseminate information about
the benefits of our TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™.
These bulletins may contain brief articles, special offers, and links
from other services and web sites. We will only include
their content with ours if we believe they can be of service
to someone visiting the Central Florida area. We do not offer, provide,
nor sell any of our user-provided information (i.e. your email address)
to these third parties or anyone else.
TourGuideMiKE, L.L.C. cannot assume responsibility for the content or the
privacy polices and practices of such web sites. (Although we will not
knowingly expose our users to a site or service if we disapprove of
their current privacy policy.) We encourage you to review the privacy
policy statements of these linked sites before providing any personal
information as their privacy practices may differ from ours.
You may easily cancel your subscription to our free TourGuideMiKE "Good
Scoop" bulletin at any time. For your convenience we provide clear
instructions on how to accomplish this at the bottom of every
issue.
TourGuideMiKE.com and Children
We realize that our site and the TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™
will be used by families of all ages. However, children are not eligible
to use our services directly and we request that minors (ages 17 and
under) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor,
you may provide user reviews and interact with the TourGuideMiKE Automated
Vacation Planner™ only with the involvement of your parent(s) or
guardian(s).
User Reviews
We provide all of our site visitors with the opportunity to post their
opinions and feedback on attractions, hotels, restaurants, and activities.
The only personal information we request is your email address. We need
it so that we can contact you should we wish to verify something you
wrote or if we need to edit it in some manner. We do not offer, provide,
nor sell any user-provided information to third parties.
We request that you please provide accurate information about your
stay, experiences, and party member ages, but also fully respect your
right to privacy. For that reason, we invite you to use your discretion
when deciding to provide your actual name, initials, 'anonymous,' or
an alias.
We at TourGuideMiKE, L.L.C. are very concerned with the underhandedness
that spam providers use to gather email addresses. They send data gathering
'web-bots' to popular Internet sites to collect email addresses left
by users of posting boards, reviews, chat rooms, and any other public
domains that have email addresses in view. This private information
is then sold to multiple companies and sites for the sending of unsolicited
and unwanted advertisements.
We do not want to assist these companies and, therefore, do not post
any of our user's email addresses. We hope this will help to reduce
this highly invasive practice.
Our TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™
To process your purchase of our TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™
we need to know your name, email address, billing address, your credit
card account number, and your card's date of expiration. We also provide
you with the option to use your checking account in place of a credit
card. We do not offer, provide, nor sell any user-provided information
to third parties.
We use our Secure Online Order System to process your purchase request.
Your personal and financial information is sent encrypted, and we do
not store your credit card or checking accounts on our servers.
(Some shopping Internet sites do this as a convenience for their
repeat-users to provide a quicker purchase process.)
Once we receive your payment confirmation you are automatically sent
to the four secure pages we use to gather information about your
vacation and party preferences. The information you submit is secure
and confidential. The first three pages display the questions we need
to ask; the fourth page provides a review of all your answers for your
convenience.
We use your responses to recommend the best vacation choices and to
format the features that come with your TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation
Planner™. For example, we use your email address and vacation information
to send you automated email reminders. We designed this system to assist
you with the customized information you need to reserve your intended
activities and restaurants.
You can also format your own email reminders for any topic you wish.
These programmed reminders appear on your home page. If you wish to
not be sent the email reminders you may check them off as completed.
Targeted Email Updates and Feedback
We use your contact information periodically to send you customized
notices about special offers, new products, services, promotions, and
other similar information unless you have indicated to us that you do
not wish to receive such email.
We designed this targeted email system exclusively for the users of
our TourGuideMiKE Automated Vacation Planner™. This allows us to
send advisories to only those users that we believe can benefit from
the information. For example, if a special discount offer becomes available
for residents of a certain state or during a specific vacation period,
we have the ability to send the news to only those users that are eligible
for the possible savings.
We might also request additional information from you in other areas.
You may always choose to not provide this information. For example,
we might ask for feedback about our site or information about your future
vacation interests. We are committed to continually improving our site
and expanding our services, and we believe the best way to accomplish
this is to learn from our users.
Cookies
In addition to the information we collect directly from you, we also
monitor and track usage of our site, viewing and traffic patterns, user
behavior, and other similar information. TourGuideMiKE, L.L.C. utilizes
visitor log files (cookies) to gather this data. A "cookie"
is a small line of text that is stored with your Web browser for record-keeping
purposes.
Your browser has options to accept, reject, or provide you with notice
when a cookie is sent from any site you visit on the Web. (You can find
this information in your browser's "Internet Preferences,"
or use your browser's help files to look up more information about cookies.)
Once a user enters our site, a cookie follows them through the pages
(of only our site) that they decide to review. Examples of information
being collected by these cookies include the sections and pages they
visit, the length of time they spend on our site, and the path they
took to get here.
We use the data collected from these visitor log files in aggregate
form only and do not collect any personal identifiable information.
For example, we may learn that 64% of our site visitors visit our ticket
introduction page, but that only .02% review our information on vacationing
with a friendly ferret.
Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to our privacy policy at any time.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post the changes
here so that you always know what information we gather, how we might
use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. We
will also send notification of any changes to our privacy policy via
e-mail to all of our registered users.
The privacy practices of sites that may be linked to TourGuideMiKE.com
are solely the responsibility of those providers and we make no representations
and bear no responsibility regarding the privacy policies of others.
