Blue Ridge Mountain Host www.ncblueridge.com Effective July 1, 2010
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Blue Ridge Mountain Host website. On some pages, you can learn about Blue Ridge Mountain Host members, view documents, make requests, and register to receive materials.
The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
The Way We Use Information: We use the information you provide about yourself when visting our web site to provide you with news and information about the Blue Ridge Mountains and about the member businesses of the Blue Ridge Mountain Host organization. We do not share this information with other outside parties.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive or to distribute group wide email correspondence if you voluntarily subscribe to our email mailing lists. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with other outside parties. You can register with our website if you would like to receive our printed Travel Guide as well as updates about Blue Ridge Mountain events and travel-related activities or about on our members'products and services. Information you submit on our website will not be used for this purpose unless you fill out the registration form. You may opt-out of our email mailing lists at anytime.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with our members and advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses. Our Commitment To Data Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by clicking upon a personalized link that appears within each group email message, if you previously voluntarily subscribed to our email mailing lists, or if we receive a written request to remove your information from our records. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information. You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us:
Blue Ridge Mountain Host
P.O. Box 1806
Asheville, NC 28802 USA
(828) 285-9907
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at (828) 285-9907 or send us an email at info@ncblueridge.com
