Virginia Odysseys - Privacy Policy

VIRGINIAODYSSEYS.COM PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the virginiaodysseys.com Web site and reviewing our privacy policy. The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site. The essence of our privacy policy is simple and clear: we will collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you voluntarily choose to provide that information to us, for example, by entering information in a voluntary online form, sending us an email, registering for an online subscription, or by performing an online service transaction using an assigned user ID and password.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our Web site:

If you visit our site to browse through the Web site, read pages, or download information: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. Your web browser software transmits most of this information to us. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit: The numeric IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access the virginiaodysseys.com Web site. Our software can then map these IP addresses into Internet domain names, for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain; The type of browser and operating system used to access the virginiaodysseys.com Web site; The date and time you access the virginiaodysseys.com Web site; The pages you visit, including graphics loaded from each page and other documents you download, such as PDF (Portable Document Format) files and word processing documents; and If you linked to the virginiaodysseys.com Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site. Like No. 2 above, your web browser software transmits this information to us. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

“Cookies”

A "cookie" is a small text file that a Web site can place on your computer's hard drive in order, for example, to collect information about your activities on the site or to make it possible for you to use an online "shopping cart" to keep track of items you wish to purchase. The cookie transmits this information back to the Web site's computer which, generally speaking, is the only computer that can read it. Most consumers do not know that "cookies" are being placed on their computers when they visit Web sites. If you want to know when this happens, or to prevent it from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a Web site attempts to place a "cookie" on your computer. We discourage the use of web cookies on our Web site. Temporary cookies, however, may be used when necessary to complete a transaction.

If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email or by using our online forms:

Virginiaodysseys.com may ask for your e-mail address in order to process various applications available through virginiaodysseys.com – for example, to receive the email newsletter. When you use our online reservation service and pay by credit card, we ask for the cardholder’s name, address, account number, and card expiration date. When you perform a transaction using an online service, we will log the user’s login name for billing purposes or for other purposes required by law. In addition, as virginiaodysseys.com grows, it may offer services such as a business or consumer portals or customization features, and will likely ask for your e-mail and other information. All of these activities are purely voluntary. You will always have the option of whether to perform the transaction and provide this information. Please understand, however, that in order to open an online service account or perform a service transaction, you will be required to provide some personal information. Whether to perform the transaction is up to you. If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as when you fill in an online registration for online services, send an e-mail to site administrator, or someone else, or by filling out some other form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our Web site -- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We treat e-mails the same way we treat letters sent to our mailing address.

You may choose to subscribe to our online newsletter describing new services and updates on the site. You may unsubscribe at any time.

Registered users can edit or delete their account information by e-mailing, phoning, or faxing.

Virginiaodysseys.com does not collect information for commercial marketing.

We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

Virginiaodysseys.com will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies, agencies, or people when: We have your consent to share the information; We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested. For example, we use a third party billing company, and we send information for billing purposes only; We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of virginiaodysseys.com to provide a product or service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us); We are required to do so by law, subpoena, court order or legal process; or We find that your actions on our Web sites violate the virginiaodysseys.com Terms of Service or any of our usage guidelines for specific products or services.

Links to Other Sites

The virginiaodysseys.com Web site contains links to private organizations, with their permission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Security

We take very seriously the integrity of the information and systems that we maintain. As such, we have instituted security measures for all information systems under our control so that information will not be lost, misused or altered. For site security purposes and to ensure that our Internet services remain available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual. Your virginiaodysseys.com account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas, as with credit card transactions, virginiaodysseys.com uses industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption to protect data transmissions.

Who Owns and Runs this Site?

This Site is owned, developed, and maintained by Virginia Odysseys, LLC., whose address is 109 Woodmere Drive Williamsburg, VA 23185.

Contact Us

We welcome your comments, questions or concerns. You may contact us at:
Virginia Odysseys, LLC.
109 Woodmere Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23185

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