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Performance Media Group, LLC
Internet Privacy Policy
UPDATED AS OF March 4, 2009
Performance Media Group, LLC (PMG) publishes
this Internet Privacy Policy to inform you of our practices concerning the
collection and use of information you provide us through interactions with
this website and the other PMG-affiliated websites and all PMG publications.
This policy is not applicable to information gathered by other methods or
controlled by other agreements.
How We Collect Information
PMG collects personal information in a variety of ways, including when
you register with PMG on this website, when you subscribe to PMG services
through this website, when you use PMG products or services via the website,
when you visit PMG websites or the websites of certain PMG partners, and
when you enter Internet-based promotions or sweepstakes sponsored or
administered by PMG.
User Registration
When you register on our website, we ask for and collect information
such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation,
and industry. For some products and services we may also ask for your
address and information about you or your business assets or income. Once
you register with PMG and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to
us.
e-letters
Users may elect to participate in a variety of PMG e-letters (email
services), ranging from daily news to supplier hot specials. PMG collects
personal information in connection with the registration for use of such
services.
Contests
Users may elect to participate in promotions and/or promotional contests
that PMG conducts from time to time on behalf of its clients. PMG collects
personal information in connection with user registration for and
participation in such promotions and contests.
Educational Programs and Seminars
Users may elect to participate in educational programs and seminars that
PMG conducts from time to time. PMG collects personal information in
connection with user registration for and participation in such programs.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser
on your computer’s hard drive. PMG or its advertisers may send a cookie to
your computer through your browser. PMG uses cookies to track page requests
and the duration of each user’s visit and the use of cookies allows us to
provide a user’s browser with information tailored to the visitor’s
preferences and needs and to also streamline the user’s visits to our
website. You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings
of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or allow
your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to
accept cookies, your experience at our website and other websites may be
diminished and some features may not work as intended.
IP Addresses
PMG automatically receives and records information on our server logs
from your browser, including your IP address, PMG cookie information, and
the website page you request. PMG uses this information to help diagnose
problems with our servers, for system administration, and to examine our
website traffic in aggregate. The information may be collected and used to
improve the content of our Web pages and to customize content and/or layout
for each user.
Use of Information
If you elect to provide us personal information, we use it primarily to
deliver the service you requested. PMG may use personal information in a
variety of ways including the following:
o PMG may use personal information to collect through its website to send
out targeted email promotions on behalf of its advertisers and industry
partners.
o PMG may combine information about you that we have with information we
obtain from business partners or other companies in order to better deliver
products and services that may be of interest and benefit to you.
o PMG may use personal information to contact users regarding renewing
subscriptions to PMG services and products.
o PMG may use personally identifiable information to send notification of
PMG or our partners' products and services by such methods as email and/or
postal mail.
o PMG may send product announcements or special edition e-letters to online
registrants.
o If you participate in a PMG educational program, seminar, or other
time-sensitive program, we may contact you to remind you of upcoming
deadlines or additional information concerning these programs.
o If you graduate from a PMG Travel Agent Academy educational program, your
contact information may be posted on the course sponsors’ consumer websites
in order to provide you with consumer leads.
o PMG occasionally conducts subscriber and/or user surveys to better target
our content to our audiences. The aggregated information collected is
sometimes shared with our advertisers; however, we will do not share
specific individual information with a third-party.
o PMG operates several websites featuring its travel-related content and
services. PMG may share personal information collected from users of its
websites internally across these websites to better serve its users.
PMG has numerous products and services and therefore numerous email and
promotion lists. In an effort to allow users to tailor their participation
in PMG services and promotions, PMG provides users the ability to choose
specific lists or products of interest and opt-out options are product and
use/list specific. All email promotions sent from PMG provide an opt-out
link at the bottom of the email pursuant to which users can opt-out of
specific products and promotions. If you receive one of these emails and
wish to unsubscribe please follow the instructions given in each email or
contact remove@pmgemail.com.
From time to time we may use customer information for new, unanticipated
uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information
practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes
to our website.
Sharing of Information Collected With Third Parties
In general, PMG does not rent, sell, or share personal information about
you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products
or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the
following circumstances:
o We may provide personal information about our users to trusted partners
and vendors who work on behalf of or with PMG under confidentiality and
similar agreements prohibiting such parties’ further use of the information.
These companies may use your personal information to help PMG communicate
with you about offers from PMG and our marketing partners. However, these
companies do not have any independent right to use or share this
information.
o When you register for an educational program, contest, or other promotion
that is sponsored by a third party, the third party will be provided
personally identifiable information unless otherwise posted in connection
with the promotion.
o PMG may from time to time share personal information such as email
addresses with trusted third parties who deliver content that is likely to
be of interest to the user and subject to opt-out obligation on the part of
such third party.
o We may share personal information where we have a good faith belief that
such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court
order, or legal process served on PMG, or to establish or exercise our legal
rights or defend against legal claims.
o We may share such information where we have a good faith belief that it is
necessary in order to investigate (or assist in the investigation of),
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud,
situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person,
violations of Peg’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
o If PMG is acquired by or merged with another company; we will transfer
information about you to this other company in connection with the
acquisition or merger.
Discussion Groups
Email discussion groups are available for our users on some of our websites.
Participants should be aware that information disclosed in these discussion
lists is made available to all members and thus becomes public information.
We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal
information in such discussion groups.
Security
This website takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your
personal information. When we transfer and receive certain types of
sensitive information such as credit card and payment information, we
re-direct users to industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted
servers. As a result, sensitive data you submit to our website such as
credit card and payment information is transmitted securely over the
Internet.
Disclaimers
PMG is not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of
any third parties that receive the information. PMG also links to a wide
variety of other sites and contains advertisements of third parties. We are
not responsible for their privacy policies or how they treat information
about their users.
About Children's Privacy
This PMG website is not intended for use by children and PMG does not
knowingly collect information from children. You must be 18 years old to
access or use this site.
Update/Change Your Data
To update your email address or change your email preferences please
contact
support@travelagentacademy.com
Changes to this Privacy Policy
PMG reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to,
change, update or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change,
update or modification on the website. Any such change, update or
modification will be effective immediately upon positing on the website.
Users will be informed of changes to this Privacy Policy via the updated
link on the PMG website.
What Else Should I Know About My Privacy When Online?
The PMG websites contain many hyperlinks to other websites. The PMG
website also contains advertisements of third parties. PMG is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party
websites or advertisers. PMG does not share any of the individual personal
information you provide PMG with the websites to which PMG links, except as
stated elsewhere within this Privacy Policy, although PMG may share
aggregate data with such websites (such as how many people use our Site).
Please check with those third party sites to determine their privacy policy.
When PMG embeds third party content into one of its PMG web pages, PMG will
use reasonable efforts to advise our users that they have exited a PMG
operated website and are entering a third party controlled website.
Customers/users should read and understand any privacy policy noted on all
third party websites.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal
information online - for example through email, discussion lists, or
elsewhere - that information can be collected and used by others. In short,
if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public,
you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your
personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're
online.
Your Consent To This Policy
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of
information by PMG as specified in this policy. Please also note that your
use of the website is governed by the PMG Terms and Conditions. If you do
not agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy or the Terms and Conditions,
please do not use the website, products and/or services.
Please send any questions about PMG's Privacy Policy to
privacy@pmgemail.com |
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