PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the practices of Cultural Tourism DC regarding information collected from visitors to and Members of the Cultural Tourism DC Web Site. It describes what information is collected, how that information is used and under what circumstances, if any, the information is disclosed to others. You are authorized to use the Cultural Tourism DC Web Site only if you agree to this Privacy Policy. PLEASE NOTE: Your use of this Web Site constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, and when we do, we will post on the Cultural Tourism DC Web Site a notice that the Privacy Policy has been modified. Any modification will be effective on the effective date that appears on the modified Policy. Your continued use of the Web Site following modification of the Privacy Policy will be conclusively deemed to signify your acceptance of the modification.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Cultural Tourism DC uses server log analysis tools to gather statistics regarding our Web Site's usage, such as the number of hits received, our most/least visited pages, errors experienced by users and browsers and platforms used to connect to our Web Site. The following are examples of information about your visit that is, or may be, collected for this analysis:
▪ The Internet Protocol (IP) address and domain used. (The IP address is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer.)
▪ Your user name.
▪ The type of browser and operating system used.
▪ The date and time you visited this Web Site.
▪ The web pages you visited.
▪ The action you tried to perform (e.g., get a document or post content)
▪ Codes that correspond to the status of your action (e.g., successful request, document not found, etc.)
This information may be collected via a number of technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs and other means. You can remove certain cookies by following the directions in your Internet browser’s “help” file. If you disable cookies, you may still browse our website, but your ability to use some areas of our site may be limited.

2. INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTEER
Cultural Tourism DC may collect, store and use any personal and non-personal information you volunteer. This information may include, among other things, your name, address, email address, telephone number, and if you pay by credit card, your account information. You may provide this information, for example, when you:
• Create a Member or user account, place an order for goods or services, or register to receive email notifications from us.
• Participate in surveys (information we collect may include demographic information such as age, gender and number of household members).
You have the final decision on whether to proceed with any activity that requests personal information. However, if you do not wish to provide information needed for a transaction, you may not be able to complete it.
Please note that the blog publishing service we use is Blogger, a service of Google, Inc. If you create a blog using this service, Google may solicit and collect personally identifiable information from you, and you will be subject to Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not those of Cultural Tourism DC. If we use another blog publishing service in the future, you will be subject to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not those of Cultural Tourism DC.
Cultural Tourism DC maintains your information on servers located in the United States. If you are visiting our Web Site from a country outside the United States, you acknowledge and agree that in using the Cultural Tourism DC Web Site, you may transfer information about yourself to the United States, that the data protection laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in your own country and that the transfer of this information occurs with your consent.

3. OUR USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We use both the information you provide and the information we collect automatically to improve for the following purposes:
• Send newsletters, informative e-mails or other information which has the nature of event announcements;
• Assist us in creating better, customized products and services to meet your needs;
• Create content that is relevant to you; and
• Allow you to purchase and download products, obtain access to services or otherwise engage in activities you select;
• Help you quickly find services and information important to you.

4. DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES OF INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTEER
Cultural Tourism DC does not sell or rent the personally identifiable information we collect to any third party. We may share it with our authorized service providers, for example, those who support our Web Site functionality, or who process credit card transactions for us, solely to process credit card transactions. We may also share aggregate information – that is, information that cannot reasonably be used to identify individual visitors or computers – without members, sponsors, advertisers and other interested parties. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena or court order, or in response to a request from a law enforcement or other government agency, to establish or exercise our legal rights or to defend against claims.

5. ACCESSING AND UPDATING YOUR PROFILE
If you have registered as a Cultural Tourism DC Member or visitor, you may review and request changes to the information you have provided to us, contacting us at info@CulturalTourismDC.org; by changing this information including your username, password and other Profile information; or by calling (202) 661-7581 9AM-5PM US Eastern Time.

6. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL
At any time, you can “opt out” of receiving e-mail messages from Cultural Tourism DC promoting our services, by contacting us at the address below. It may take us ten (10) days to process you request. We may send you messages regarding your membership, subscription, the purchase by you of goods or services from Cultural Tourism DC, or other transactional or relationship messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.

7. CHILDREN
The Cultural Tourism DC Web Site is intended for adults. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of thirteen.

8. SECURITY
Cultural Tourism DC maintains reasonable security procedures and practices we believerare appropriate to the nature of the personal information you provide, to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification and disclosure; and we require that our authorized service providers that have access to your personal information to implement and maintain such security procedures and practices. For example, we conduct internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices; we use industry-standard tools such as firewalls to protect your personal information; when you provide personal information through this Web Site, Cultural Tourism DC will use a secure socket layer (SSL) connection to enhance security by means of encryption. Please note that no security measures are 100% effective against hackers.

9. LINKS
This Web Site may contain links to web sites owned and operated by parties other than Cultural Tourism DC. Cultural Tourism DC has no control over such third party web sites, is not responsible for their contents and makes no representations about any material available at such sites. Our inclusion of links to such web sites is for your information only and does not imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the linked site or any material found there. Once you link to another web site, you are subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of that web site.

10. EFFECTIVE DATE; HOW TO CONTACT US
This Privacy Policy is effective February 1, 2010. If you have questions about it, please contact Cultural Tourism DC by e-mail or postal mail as follows:
Privacy Officer
Cultural Tourism DC, Inc.
1250 H Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: info@CulturalTourismDC.org