Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Global Sightseer we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We only ask you for personal information if we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Global Sightseer collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Global Sightseer’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Global Sightseer’s visitors use its website.

Global Sightseer also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments. Global Sightseer only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Global Sightseer’s websites choose to interact with Global Sightseer in ways that require Global Sightseer to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Global Sightseer gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Global Sightseer updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Global Sightseer collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Global Sightseer. Global Sightseer does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Global Sightseer may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to this website. For instance, Global Sightseer may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Global Sightseer may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Global Sightseer does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Global Sightseer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those at Global Sightseer, contractors and organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Global Sightseer’s behalf or to provide services available at Global Sightseer’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those at Global Sightseer, contractors and organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Global Sightseer’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Global Sightseer will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to those at Global Sightseer, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Global Sightseer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Global Sightseer believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Global Sightseer, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Global Sightseer website and have supplied your email address, Global Sightseer may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Global Sightseer. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. Global Sightseer takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Global Sightseer uses cookies to help Global Sightseer identify and track visitors, their usage of Global Sightseer website, and their website access preferences. Global Sightseer visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Global Sightseer’s website, with the drawback that certain features of the Global Sightseer website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Global Sightseer, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Global Sightseer goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Global Sightseer may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Global Sightseer and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Global Sightseer may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Global Sightseer’s sole discretion. Global Sightseer encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.