Your Privacy
"Nothing is more important to us than the trust and confidence of our readers. You have my word on it."
-- Ken Petchenik, Editor and Publisher, Passport Newsletter
Passport Newsletter is committed to protecting the privacy of our online visitors. We collect information from online visitors who ask to be on our newsletter mailing list and/or receive periodic email announcements and/or opt-in for reports or special offers. We use this information to communicate back to those individuals and/or to deliver information or products to them. Anyone who wishes may choose to be removed from our mailing list at any time.
In addition, online visitors who wish to purchase a subscription through our website must provide their name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and credit card number with expiration date. All credit card transactions occur over a secure connection and are processed by a reputable third party processor such as Verisign, PayPal, 1shoppingcart, and/or others. Your credit card or e-banking information is not transmitted to Passport Newsletter by these processors.
Our server uses the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol for encryption. This means that credit card transactions are secure for browsers that support SSL.
All online visitor data collected by PassportNewsletter.com is protected against unauthorized access. We will not sell, trade, or give your personal information to other companies or organizations outside of those owned by the Remy Publishing group.
Surveys and Comments
From time to time, we ask our subscribers and others to participate in marketing surveys. The purpose of these surveys is to help us improve our business and our publications. The information collected in these surveys is used in the aggregate by our staff in a responsible way as part of our on-going management process. It is also used in helping us plan the editorial content of our publications. Individual comments received from subscribers and other consumers (by means other than survey) are also shared among our staff and used in the same way and for the same purpose. Statistical summaries of our survey information as well as comments and opinions obtained from our subscribers may be released to selected third parties. In all cases, such comments and opinions will remain anonymous. Occasionally we will make public comments made about our publications and products as testimonials, and in such cases we will either (a) obtain permission in advance to attribute the comment to the commenter or (b) use a pseudonym to protect the identity of the individual commenter.
We are very grateful to those who take the time to share their thoughts and participate in our marketing surveys, and offer our most sincere thanks.
Blog and Forum
Please note, if you participate in any blog or any forum on the Internet, any comments you make and any identity you use become public in a permanent way. This is an Internet reality that applies to all blogs and all forums. If you wish to shield your identity, we recommend you choose a blogger/forum identity (such as “Happy Traveler” or “A. Smith”) and avoid sharing details that could let others trace your identity.
Cookies
Passport Newsletter employs cookie technology to obtain information about browser types and operating systems. This information has helped us know, for example, that the number of visitors using Mozilla Firefox and Safari has grown quite a bit in the past year or so, which in turn helps us to make sure our systems work well for those visitor preferences. The purpose of the cookie is to improve technical performance. It is not the purpose of the cookie to obtain personally identifiable information; but if future cookie technologies should enable such information, then we will use information only in the aggregate for statistical purposes.
“Double-click DART” Cookies and Advertiser Activities
In March, 2009, Google advised us of the imminent launch of “double-click DART” cookies, as follows:
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this and other websites.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based on their visits to this site and 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.
Although Passport Newsletter does not use advertising in its print pages, we reserve the right to use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Passport Newsletter website, or any other website operated by the Remy Publishing group. These advertising companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We have no control over these practices, and the information gathered from your visit to any advertiser is not known to us or retained by us. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Other Marketing
Passport Newsletter and Remy Publishing group are responsible marketers. We do not believe in over-mailing and we work hard to obtain permission from consumers in environments, such as electronic media, where permissions is required in advance for marketing messages; we respect anti-spam and do-not-call marketing guidelines. If you have received a marketing message from us that you believe has been sent inappropriately or in error, please accept our apologies and use the "unsubscribe" feature at the bottom of the message to prevent further messages from being sent to you; or send an email to request no further messages from Passport Newsletter, with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line, to custsvc@passportnewsletter.com.
If you have received a message that purports to be from Passport Newsletter and/or Remy Publishing group, and you suspect it might be have been sent illegitimately or from a sender that is not actually connected to Passport Newsletter or Remy Publishing group, please report that message to us at reportabuse@passportnewsletter.com.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have personal information on a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our systems.
Passport Newsletter and Remy Publishing encourage parents to go online with their kids. Here are a few tips to help make a child’s online experience safer:
- Teach kids never to give personal information, unless supervised by a parent or responsible adult. Includes name, address, phone, school, etc.
- Know the sites your kids are visiting and which sites are appropriate.
- Look for website privacy policies. Know how your child’s information is treated.
Visit the FTC's site for more tips about protecting children's privacy online.
Our Privacy Policy is reviewed periodically by Passport Newsletter and/or Remy Publishing and may be subject to change at any time without prior notice.
Law Enforcement Cooperation
Passport Newsletter’s policy, and Remy Publishing’s policy, is to fully cooperate with any legitimate law enforcement authority or court which might ask us the identity of someone who posts messages to our blog or forum, or who interacts with us in other ways
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or concerns about privacy at Passport Newsletter, please contact us by email right away at one of these addresses:
privacy@PassportNewsletter.com
reportabuse@PassportNewsletter.com
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