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Privacy Policy


Gordon's Travel Guide understands that online privacy is very important to you. We have adopted this privacy policy as part of our commitment to your privacy. This privacy policy applies to personal information we obtain from you via GordonsGuide.com and AdventureBargains.com. The privacy policy describes what personally identifiable information we may collect or obtain about, provides examples of how we use personal information, and explains your options regarding our use and disclosure of personal information.

How Gordon's Travel Guide Uses the Information It Collects
In order to ensure the integrity of your personal information, all of your data is stored in our secure databases. Gordon's Travel Guide collects and uses your personal information to operate the GordonsGuide.com website and deliver the services you have requested. Gordon's Travel Guide also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Gordon's Travel Guide. Gordon's Travel Guide does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Vacation Information Requests
Gordon's Travel Guide site users can request information from Vacation Providers regarding specific travel reservation requests, inquiries or questions submitted online via GordonsGuide.com. In this case, Gordon's Travel Guide will request your name, e-mail address, phone and other desired trip related information so that our Vacation Providers may reach you to assist in your travel needs. Use of this service is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to disclose this information.

Gordon's Travel Guide Newsletters
You may choose to sign up for a subscription to the "AdventureBargains Newsletter". You will be asked to provide your email address. You may, at any time, decline to receive these e-mail newsletters by clicking the "unsubscribe" link that is provided at the bottom of each email that is sent.

Email This Page and Send an E-card
Gordon's Travel Guide site users can choose to request that a GordonsGuide.com website page be sent to another person or can choose to send an e-card to another person. When you elect to do this, you will be required to enter your e-mail address, the receiver's e-mail address and text of the message that will go to the receiver. This will generate a preformatted e-mail message that will go from you to the receiver's e-mail box with your message embedded in the text of the e-mail. Email This Page and Send an E-card are completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to disclose this information.

Links
GordonsGuide.com and AdventureBargains.com contain links to other partner sites. Please be aware that Gordon's Travel Guide is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage site users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by the website mentioned above.

Third Party Advertising
We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our website. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser.

Third Party Cookies
In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

Cookies
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to recognize you. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The only personal information a cookie contains is the information you provide yourself. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can set your browser to block them in the future. When you enter personal information on GordonsGuide.com or AdventureBargains.com, your personally identifiable information will be linked to a cookie on your computer.

IP Addresses
Gordon's Travel Guide collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the web. The computers that deliver web pages to you automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When you request a page from one of our sites, our servers log your IP address. This information is used 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.

Sharing Information with Gordon's Travel Guide Partners/Affiliates
When you inquire about a trip through GordonsGuide.com, we provide only the information about you that you have provided to us during the inquiry process to the Vacation Provider to ensure the successful fulfillment of your trip arrangements.

Safeguards to Protect the Loss, Misuse, or Alteration of your Information
Gordon's Travel Guide takes every precaution to protect our users' personal information. When users submit sensitive information via the site, your information is protected both on and off-line. All information you provide to Gordon's Travel Guide online is stored on a secure database on our servers.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will publish a revised version of our privacy policy on this page, accessible from our homepage. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.