Privacy Policy

About this policy

Mytripguru is a fun site for people passionate about traveling. At the same time, the privacy of all users of Mytripguru is very important to us and with this privacy policy, we have aimed to address any privacy concerns that might arise. Please read this policy carefully to learn more. You may also contact us at support@mytripguru.com if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.

Mytripguru is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Mytripguru may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from September 1, 2009.

What we collect

When you sign up as a member of the site, we may collect the following information:

- your name

- contact information including email address

- demographic information such as preferences and interests

- other information pertaining to your travels which you provided as part of your travel reviews

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide users of the site with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

- As a part of your public profile as a Trip Guru.

- For internal record keeping.

- We may use the information to improve our products and services.

- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. You can opt out of these infrequent emails by logging into your profile and changing your privacy settings.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.

Mytripguru uses Google Analytics to track non-personally identifiable information to improve the site's features, services and usability. Please refer to Google Analytics Privacy Policy for more information.

Google and other third party vendors use cookies to serve ads on the site.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to Mytripguru and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Third-Party Web Beacons: We use third-party web beacons from Yahoo! to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our website. Yahoo! may also use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Yahoo!, click here.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes

- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by deactivating the selection on the privacy page in your user profile.

- You may request to have your profile deleted entirely from the site by contacting us at support@mytripguru.com

- We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

We do not hold any more information about you than what is shared within your public profile.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.