The Family Travel Forum Privacy Policy

In brief, at Family Travel Forum Inc., we have deep respect for your privacy. Family Travel Forum Inc. will not share, barter or sell any 'Personal Information' received during its transactions or communications with members without their prior knowledge and express permission. We encourage parents to monitor children's use of this and all other Internet sites and to have minors ask for permission to share any 'Personal Information' with this or any other site. Yet communication is important to our community of family travelers.

Receiving e-mail updates about family vacations and travel news is one of the primary benefits of registering with the Family Travel Forum company. We appreciate your interest and pledge to send only travel or parenting-related news and product information to those who register with our e-mail list. Additionally, each email will explain how to unsubscribe from our list if you ever choose to no longer receive these updates or remove your email address.

Specific Details About Information Use
Specifically, Family Travel Forum, Inc., publisher of the site www.familytravelforum.com, regards all personal information collected from you, our valued site visitors, as completely confidential. This includes personal data provided during registration processes and financial account information provided during transactions.

Family Travel Forum Inc. (FTF) pledges not to share personal data on any of its members or site visitors with outside parties. However, FTF does offer aggregated data about site visitors overall, and their travel patterns and preferences as a group, to its consulting division, marketing partners and advertisers. This includes traffic data, click-thru rates, web site geographic location, content information, and any demographic information offered by the web site member for the purpose of facilitating an advertising sale. Our goal is to provide you and your family with the best most relevant information when you visit our site.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we, or the e-commerce sites we partner with, encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html.

FTF follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send us a message on the following page http://www.familytravelforum.com/about/send_comments.html

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms/Blogs
If you use a Family Travel Forum Company bulletin board, chat room or blog linked from or on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. FTF is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, FTF members and site visitors can send their request we will change the information requested.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Ad servers or Web site.

Ad Server and Third Party Collection of Data
All users who receive an ad served by FTF's ad serving partners retain complete anonymity. As ads are delivered, advertisers may use software called "cookies" to collect information which is specific to how you use the Internet. These servers note non-personally identifying details such as, but not limited to, the server you are logged onto, the geographic location of the ISP you use, the type of browser you use, and your IP address. This information is obtained solely for the purpose of targeting ads and measuring a given ad's effectiveness on behalf of the ad server's clients and customers.

f you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from setting and/or reading cookies on your computer, you may either visit each ad server's web site individually and register your choice ("opt out") or you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative 's ("NAI") site to opt-out of many of the third-party advertising companies' cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out site.

There are instances where a user may provide specific personal information in response to an ad containing a survey, purchase agreement, or registration questionnaire. For such programs, an ad server (or a third party working in conjunction with the advertiser) acquires this information on behalf of the advertiser client. This information is used by the client so the user can receive the goods or services requested. When requested, ad servers may employ this information in a compiled format without identifying users specifically to provide to the advertiser client precise profiles of the types of individuals responding to the ads.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, FTF will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Regardless of later updates, FTF will never use the information you submit under this current policy in a new way without first providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prevent that use.

Rest assured that we have deep respect for your privacy. If you believe we have not met this commitment to online privacy for you or your family, please contact Customer Service at 212/665-6124 or via online form.