Privacy Policy
WorldForexTour.com respects the privacy rights of our online visitors and recognizes the importance of protecting all information that you may choose to share with us. To further this commitment, we have adopted this Online Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") to guide how we collect, store, and use the information you provide us. For your convenience, we have put together our privacy statement in a question and answer format.
Question 1.
What information does this Privacy Statement cover?
The Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected on the websites where this Privacy Policy is posted, and does not apply to any other information collected by other means.
The Privacy Policy applies to the use and sharing of personal information collected on and after the date that this Privacy Policy is posted.
Please note that the Privacy Policy applies only to information submitted and collected online, and does not apply to information that may be collected offline. It applies only to websites maintained by WorldForexTour.com or its parent company, and not to our international affiliates, or any websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we link. WorldForexTour.com is therefore not responsible for the content or activities provided on those websites.
Question 2.
What types of personally identifiable information are collected?
We do not require personal information to access our website but we do require a limited amount of personal information if you elect to participate or access member’s only sections of the website. Personal information is information that identifies you and may be used to contact you. To offer our guests certain features on our website, we collect several types of personal information.
Children
We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age required by governing local authorities. We take children's privacy seriously, and encourage parents to play an active role in their children's online experience at all times.
Information You Provide to Us
All of the personal information we receive comes directly from our guests. We collect personal information from our guests who wish to:
- Utilize online services we have developed for fun or real money
- subscribe to our newsletters
- join our message boards and forums
- participate in polls, surveys, and questionnaires
- participate in tournaments, sweepstakes, or other promotions
- participate in tell-a-friend features
- purchase a product
- receive customer or technical support
Typically, the information we collect includes:
- name
- email address
- telephone number
- shipping and billing address, and
- for those with real money accounts or purchasing products online, credit card, e-currency and/or banking information.
We may also collect other types of non-personal information (known as demographic information) such as your age or date of birth, gender, hobbies, occupation, preferences, and other preferences. This demographic information may be associated with your personal information.
Information Collected Through Technology
We collect information through technology to make our websites more interesting and useful to you and to ensure that WorldForexTour.com’s operations are anti-money laundering compliant. For example, when you come to one of our websites, we collect your IP address. An IP address is often associated with the portal through which you enter the Internet, like your ISP (Internet service provider). By itself, your IP address is not personally identifiable. At times, we also use IP addresses to collect information regarding the frequency with which our guests visit various parts of our websites. We may combine this information with personally identifiable information.
Cookies
Our websites also use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a Website sends to your computer while you are viewing the Website. We and other companies use cookies for a variety of purposes. For example, when you return to one of our websites after logging in, cookies provide information to the website so that the website will remember who you are. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your web experience smoother, like the features mentioned above, and some of our services may not function properly.
Web Beacons
Our websites may elect to use a variety of technical methods for tracking purposes, including web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of websites. We also use these technical methods to analyze the traffic patterns on our websites, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts of our websites. These technical methods may involve the transmission of information either directly to us or to another party authorized by us to collect information on our behalf. We also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send our guests to determine whether our guests have opened those e-mails or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable.
Finally, once you've clicked on an advertisement and have left any of our websites, our Privacy Policy no longer applies and you must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on their website.
Question 3.
How is your personally identifiable information used and shared?
We don't share, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties without your consent. We will only collect information to the extent reasonably necessary to fulfill your requests and our legitimate business objectives.
WorldForexTour Tools and Updates
Information collected from those who voluntarily submit it to us is used to provide services like newsletter subscription, updates on special events, news, and email announcements of interest to our users. If you register for access to our forums or message boards, we will only use the personal information you approve in order to enable you to view and post messages on the boards. However, you should understand that community forums, blogs, and message boards are tools that allow you to communicate with members of the online community. As such, whenever you give out personal information in public areas, that information can be harvested and used by people you don't know.
Operational Uses
We may also use your personal information for other purposes such as "Operational Uses." For example, we may use your information to send you administrative communications either about your account with us or about features of our websites, including any future changes to this Privacy Policy.
We may on occasion use other companies, agents, or contractors to perform services necessary to our operations. For example, we have partnered with other companies for our sales sites both physical product and digital downloads to process sales transactions including the processing of credit cards. We may also provide postal addresses to the Post Office for delivery purposes. In the course of providing such services, these companies may have contact with your personally identifying information. These entities have agreed to securely store and maintain the personal information received from us.
Aggregate Information
We may take your personally identifiable information and make it non-personally identifiable, either by combining it with information about other individuals (aggregating your information with information about other individuals), or by removing characteristics (such as your name) that make the information personally identifiable to you (de-personalizing your information). Given the nature of this information, no restrictions apply under this Privacy Policy on our right to aggregate or de-personalize your personal information, and we may use and share in any way with third parties the resulting non-personally identifiable information.
Business Information
For practical reasons, we treat personal information submitted to us in a business capacity different from information we receive in a non-business capacity. Personal information submitted to us in a business capacity (e.g. resumes, event sponsorship, etc.) may be shared with third parties, depending on the nature of the inquiry.
Purchase or Sale of Businesses
From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses and your personally identifiable information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. If we purchase a business, the personally identifiable information received with that business would be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy, if it is practicable and permissible to do so. If we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable information in the same manner required by this Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this Privacy Policy). The provisions of this paragraph will also apply if we are sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
Disclosures Required By Law and Disclosures to Help Protect the Security and Safety of Our Websites and Others
We will disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to: enforce our Terms of Use; enforce tournament, sweepstakes, promotions, and/or game rules; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our websites or third parties.
Question 4.
What choices do you have about the collection, use, and sharing of your personally identifiable information?
As mentioned above, you have control over the personal information you submit to us. If at any time you decide to remove your personal information from our database, you may do so by emailing us via your registered email address.
Question 5.
What kinds of security measures do we take to safeguard your personally identifiable information?
The security and confidentiality of your information is extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access and improper use. From time to time, we review our security procedures to consider appropriate new technology and methods. However, please understand that, despite our best efforts, no security measure is perfect or impenetrable.
Question 6.
How can you update your personal information and profile?
You can access and update the contact information you gave us during registration (that is, your e-mail address or any other information that would directly enable us to contact you), by accessing your online profile or by emailing us with via your registered email address.
Question 7.
How can you ask questions, or send us comments, about this Privacy Policy?
If you have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, please send us an e-mail us with your questions.
Question 8.
How will you know if we amend this Privacy Policy?
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, or share your personal information, we will notify you by sending you an email at the last email address that you provided us, or by prominently posting notice of the changes on the websites covered by this Privacy Policy. Any material changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective 30 days following our dispatch of an email notice to you or 30 days following our posting of notice of the changes on the Websites covered by this Privacy Policy.
Please note that, at all times, you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us your current email address. If the last email address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any other reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the email containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice.