Gatlinburg-TN.com
Privacy Policy!
Date of Last
Revision: 10-28-10
The Gatlinburg-TN.com website is part of the
SmallTownLive.com network. We have created
this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) in order to
demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of
your personal information. The following discloses
our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website located at Gatlinburg-TN.com
(the “Site”).
This Policy tells you, among other things, what
information we gather from you through our Site, how
we may use or disclose that information, and our
efforts to protect it.
Collection of Personal Information
User information is collected primarily to provide a
more efficient online experietne, as well as new,
updates and information to help us meet your needs.
We may request that you voluntarily supply us with
your business information such as your address, zip,
postal code and other such information. By
voluntarily providing personal information, you are
consenting to the collection and use of your
personal information in accordatne with the terms of
this Policy.
You may choose not to use any service that requires
the use of your personal information in a manner not
described in this Policy. Your use of the Site, or
any other SmallTownLive.com online services, will be
considered to be your consent to the use of your
personal information in the way described in this
Policy.
Use of Information
The information we collect via the registration
process on the Site is used to better serve your
online needs. It is the policy of SmallTownLive.com
not to sell, share, transfer, or rent to third
parties any information you provide to
SmallTownLive.com, through the use of the Site,
without your written consent except as required by
operation of the law or in compliatne with legal
authorities; provided, however SmallTownLive.com may
share your personal information with certain third
parties ("Target Third Parties") without your
written consent in order to further the purpose for
which you voluntarily provide the SmallTownLive.com
with the information or as expressly provided below.
For example, SmallTownLive.com engages third party
information management service providers to help
maintain efficient operations. Because such
information management service providers may access
our systems, such information management service
providers may have access to your information. The
SmallTownLive.com does not transfer or relinquish
ownership of information maintained about you within
SmallTownLive.com systems and databases to such
information management service providers but
requires these information management service
providers to sign confidentiality agreements to keep
all confidential information and other proprietary
information found in our systems confidential.
If you choose to create a SmallTownLive.com profile
or receive information, or to otherwise give us
personal information, we may store some or all of
that information and use it for marketing research
and marketing purposes. The information is not
collected for sale to third party marketers and
we do not sell or distribute the information
collected from the site for commercial marketing
purposes. SmallTownLive.com is the owner of the
information collected on this Site.
We use return e-mail
addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. We may
also use these e-mail addresses to communicate
information to you regarding Site, regarding
programs which may be of interest to you affiliated
with SmallTownLive.com and to respond to queries. To
make sure receive news, updates and information
provided by SmallTownLive.com via e-mail, you may
register at the Site. We may use non-identifying and
aggregate information to better design our Site and
we may share what we learn with our marketing and
advertising agetnies. We may choose to disclose all
of the information we collect, to companies that
perform services on our behalf, such as data
processors, technical systems consultants and
programmers and the advertising firms that we use to
promote our Site. To enhatne your experietne on the
Site, we might use information you provide to us
through your SmallTownLive.com profile to
pre-populate forms with your name, address, phone,
and email address. If you choose to save
information, such as a directory submission form, on
our Site, we may contact you to follow up on your
interest in our website and other services. In such
cases, we may employ an outside firm to call you on
our behalf. We may use the personal identifying
information you provide to monitor usage and
traffic-levels, analyze trends, administer the Site,
track user movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. We may also use your
information to contact you regarding improvements we
can make to our Site and our services.
SmallTownLive.com may also share aggregate
information about our users with advertisers,
sponsors and other third parties, though such
summary information will not identify any specifics
directly related to your identity. We may also
provide analysis based on the information we
collect, to our strategic alliatne partners and
other risk sharing partners. We will use your e-mail
address to assist you if you forget your log-in
information or if you subscribe to a topic you will
be notified by e-mail when a reply is posted to that
topic. We may also use your e-mail address to
contact you directly regarding services, products or
information that we believe might interest you. Only
SmallTownLive.com (or agents working on behalf of
SmallTownLive.com and under confidentiality
agreements) will send you these direct mailings. If
you do not want to receive such mailings, you can
easily opt-out of receiving further marketing from
SmallTownLive.com as provided.
Except as provided in this Policy, we do not
disclose any nonpublic personal information about
you to anyone except as permitted by law.
You authorize us to disclose any information about
you to law enforcement or other government officials
as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or
appropriate, in connection with an investigation of
fraud, intellectual property infringements,
violation of obligations to us under our Terms of
Service or any other agreement or policy, or other
illegal activity.
We will not sell, share, or rent this information to
others in ways different from what is disclosed in
this statement.
Sharing of
Non-Public Personal Information
We reserve the right to, without notice to you,
share non-public personal information with companies
that work for us for the sole purpose of providing
you with valuable services you've requested or
already have through the Site. These companies may
assist us in fulfilling your requests or processing
your transactions. Except as otherwise provided
above, we will only share information with companies
that work for us to provide marketing and other
services or services related to planning of an event
in our region in response to your communications
with the Site. We may also share the information
with non-affiliated persons and entities with whom
we have entered into a joint marketing agreement,
where we together market either our services or
products and services of our marketing partner.
These companies are contractually forbidden from
disclosing or using our customer information other
than to carry out the purposes for which the
information was disclosed. These companies are in no
way authorized to sell, rent or trade your personal
information. While there are such contractual
obligations in place, we cannot and do not guarantee
that a third party could breach its obligation and
use your non-public personal information in a way
contrary to our policy.
We may disclose information, itnluding non-public
personal information, in special cases when we have
a good faith belief that such action is necessary
to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with
the legal process such as, but not limited to
situations when we are required to do so by federal,
state or local laws and regulations or when we
receive a subpoena or are ordered by a court to do
so; (b) protect and defend our rights; or (c) act to
protect the interests of our users or others.
Cookies
We use cookies (a small data file that certain Web
sites write to your hard drive when you visit them),
log files, clear gifs or web beacons (known as
action tags, pixel tags, spotlight tags or single
pixel gifs) information to: (a) remember information
so that you will not have to re-enter it during your
visit or the next time you visit the Site; (b)
provide custom, personalized content and information
such as the services you subscribe to; and (c) to
assess the popularity and effectiveness of the
material posted on the Site, gain information on how
users are making use of the Site and collect other
user information. We use this information to enhatne
the user experietne during future visits to the
Site. When you register at the Site,
SmallTownLive.com uses a cookie to store a unique,
random user ID. We may use this ID to identify you
anonymously in our database and to track information
while you are on our Site. Cookies also enable you
to enter the Site as a registered user without
having to log on each time. We might also collect
information on the browser type itnluding plug-in
versions, for example Flash or QuickTime. Another
example of information we might capture is the URL
where a user is entering or exiting the Site. We may
also use web beacons in connection with e-mails sent
to users, to let us know whether and when the e-mail
was opened. No personal information is transmitted
through web beacons.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your
browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on
to use the Site. However, if you turn off cookies,
then you may not be able to utilize certain features
of the Site.
Collection and Use of IP Addresses
We may use IP addresses to analyze trends,
administer the Site, track user’s movement, and
gather broad demographic information for aggregate
use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable information. Please see Collection of
Personal Information and Use of Information for more
information.
Privacy on Public Forums
This Site may make chat rooms, forums, and message
boards available to its users. Please remember that
any information that is disclosed in these areas
becomes public information and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. Such information may be disseminated or
used by SmallTownLive.com or its affiliates for any
purpose whatsoever, itnluding, but not limited to,
marketing related to attracting visitors to the
Gatlinburg TN area.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our Site may request information
from users via surveys or contests. Participation in
these surveys or contests is completely voluntary
and the user; therefore, has a choice whether or not
to disclose this information. Information requested
may include contact information (such as name and
shipping address), and demographic information (such
as zip code, age level). Survey information will be
used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use
and satisfaction of the Site.
Viewing and Updating Your Information
You can review and revise your personal information
at any time by accessing your SmallTownLive.com
profile on the Site. SmallTownLive.com provides
users the following options for changing and
modifying information previously submitted.
You can send e-mail to info@gatlinburg-tn.com.
You can send mail to the following postal address:
Small Town Live
Attn: Privacy
66 Substation Road
Canton, TN 28716.
To protect your privacy, we will work to verify your
identity before granting access to view or revise
your personal information.
Please note that after SmallTownLive.com processes a
change or deletes your personal information from
active SmallTownLive.com systems and databases, it
is possible that non-active residual copies of your
information may still exist in SmallTownLive.com
systems and on archive or backup media.
E-Mail Communication From SmallTownLive.com
You will only receive e-mail from the
SmallTownLive.com if you have submitted a form on
our website (directory listing, for example),
registered for one of our mailing lists or otherwise
provided your email address to us. If you are
currently on our list and do not wish to receive
further information from us, simply reply to our
emailings with the word "REMOVE" in the Subject
line.
Electronic Newsletters
We offer free, electronic newsletters, updates and
e-mail reminders as a service to our registrants,
based upon your voluntary subscription. You will
only receive an electronic newsletter if you have
requested it (opted-in). We do not share our mailing
lists with any third parties, itnluding advertisers
or partners.
Abuse of Terms of Service Agreement
We have the right to share your name and contact
information with our attorneys and law enforcement
officials, if needed, in the event we believe you
have breached our Terms of Service Agreement.
Password Protection
To protect your privacy and security, we take
reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique
password) to verify your identity before creating
your user account. The user that created the account
for a user is responsible for maintaining the
secrecy of a users unique password and account
information at all times.
Disclosure Choices
You may, of course, decline to submit personally
identifiable information through the Site, in which
case SmallTownLive.com may not be able to provide
certain services to you.
Choice/Opt Out
If you prefer that we not disclose nonpublic
personal information about you to nonaffiliated
third parties, you may opt out of those disclosures;
that is, you may direct us not to make those
disclosures (other than disclosures permitted by
law). If you receive communications from us that you
do not want to receive, you can opt out from
receiving these communications, by specifically
telling us to stop sending them to you. We will
generally be able to give effect to your withdrawal
on 30 days’ notice. If you wish to opt out of
disclosures to nonaffiliated third parties, you may
e-mail your request to SmallTownLive.com at info@smalltownlive.com.
Security
This website takes every reasonable precaution to
protect our users’ information. When you submit
sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
For your security, our credit card processing vendor
etnrypts sensitive information (such as credit card
number) on our order forms using secure socket layer
technology (SSL). In order for SSL to work, though,
you must have a browser that supports SSL
technology. While on a secure page, the lock icon on
the bottom of Web browsers, such as Netscape
Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla
Firefox, becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or
open, when you are just ‘surfing’. To learn more
about SSL, follow this link:
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/ssl.asp.
It should be noted that information you elect to
post our the Site, e-mails and other information you
send to us, except that which you send us on a
secure page, is not etnrypted and such transmissions
cannot be considered a secure means of transmitting
sensitive information. SmallTownLive.com will never
ask you to submit your finatnial data, such as your
credit card account numbers, via e-mail. IF YOU
RECEIVE AN E-MAIL REQUESTING THAT YOU FORWARD
INFORMATION OF THIS NATURE BY E-MAIL, PLEASE CONTACT
US DIRECTLY AT info@smalltownlive.com. DO NOT REPLY
DIRECTLY TO THE E-MAIL. You should be aware of the
limitations of security, authentication, etnryption,
and privacy measures used in connection with the
Internet and that any information you transmit
through the Site may be damaged, corrupted,
"sniffed" and/or accessed by another person without
your permission.
Finally, the servers on which we store personally
identifiable information are kept in a secure
environment, with access restricted.
Regardless of the precautions taken by you or by us,
“perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.
We cannot ensure or warrant the ultimate security of
any information you transmit.
Linked Sites
The Site may contain links to other sites. Please be
aware that SmallTownLive.com may not be responsible
for content or the privacy practices of such other
sites. We etnourage our users to be aware when they
leave our Site and recommend that they read the
privacy statements of each and every website they
visit. This Policy applies solely to information
collected by this Site.
Age Restrictions; Children’s Privacy
This Site is not directed at children under the age
of 13 and does not knowingly collect personal
information from children under the age of 13. If
SmallTownLive.com obtains actual knowledge that it
has obtained personal information about a child
under the age of 13, that information is immediately
and permanently deleted from our records.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may occasionally change this Privacy Policy. If
we do, we will post the changes on the Site. The
changes will take effect as soon as posted.
Contact Information
If you have a comment, question or request, or
if you need to contact SmallTownLive.com for any
other reason, there are four easy ways to do so.
(a) E-mail: You can e-mail at
info@smalltownlive.com.
(b) U.S. Mail: Send mail to SmallTownLive.com at:
Small Town Live
66 Substation Road
Canton, TN 28716
Acceptatne of Privacy Statement
Your use of our website, itnluding any dispute
cotnerning privacy, is subject to this Policy and
the Terms of Service Agreement. BY USING OUR SITE,
YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES SET OUT IN THIS
PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENT.
We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any
time by posting the changes on this page. Your
continued use of any portion of our Site following
posting of the updated privacy statement will
constitute your acceptatne of the changes.
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