Phoenix Travel respects your privacy, and we want you to understand the ways in which we do and don't use the information that you transmit when you visit our Web site. This statement discloses the privacy practices for all Privacy Travel Web sites.

A Note to Kids
If you're exploring the pages that Phoenix Travel has to offer -- good for you! Do a little digging and have some fun! But remember, you should still get permission from your parents before sending any information about yourself (such as your name, email address and phone number) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. And a note to parents: We won't knowingly allow anyone under 13 to register with any of our sites or to access those features that require registration.

Basics
The information gathered by Phoenix Travel falls into two categories: (1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our Web sites through optional registration and (2) tracking information routinely gathered as visitors navigate through our sites.

To make use of certain features on our Web sites (such as Travel Tips, Travel Gallery and the Phoenix Travel Books and Storefront), visitors may need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration process. (We may ask, for example, for your name, email address, gender, age and zip code, and we might request information on your interest in science, animals, nature, travel, sports, books, television programs and the like.) The information you supply will help us to offer you more personalized features, to tailor our sites to your interests and to make them more useful to you.

The more you tell us about yourself, the more value we can offer you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary. But if you don't supply the information we need, we may be unable to provide you with services we make available to other visitors to our sites.
For example, we can't offer you online travel reservations without knowing how to book your trip, or give you information regarding trips or offerings if you don't tell us which programs and topics you're interested in. And we can't send you email alerting you to any new service we're offering or breaking news that may interest you if you don't tell us your preferences and give us your email address. Similarly, we can't notify you that you've been lucky enough to win a prize in a promotional contest if we don't know how to contact you.

Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our sites without registration.

Cookies
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we may invoke a standard feature found in browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we don't control.

We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our sites visited by our users. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often. Of course, you can set your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors to our sites.


IP Addresses
Our Web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our sites. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the Web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our Web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users and to measure traffic within our sites.

Information Sharing and Sites Beyond Phoenix Travel
To make our sites more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some features in conjunction with other providers. Our travel email fan clubs, for example, are made available through cooperative arrangements with providers that specialize in operating such services and that will receive the information you provide when you register for, and use, these services. To take advantage of these services, you may need to provide personal information to us and to the other provider. And, of course, our sites include links to plenty of other Web sites whose privacy policies we don't control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you're visiting. And when you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services, even if it appears that you're on Phoenix Travel branded pages throughout the transaction. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site's homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Web sites — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites. From time to time, we may share information on visitors to our sites with those marketing products and services that we believe might be of interest to you. Please indicate on our registration form if you'd prefer we not share such information with them. If you so indicate on our registration form, we won't share information about you with anyone other than those identified when the information is collected. And, of course, you are always free not to input the information we request (though this may make it impossible for us to provide certain services we make available to other visitors to our sites). If you want to change your election (or review, update or delete the information you provided on registering), just return to the registration form, enter the changes you want to make and resubmit the form. Sometimes, we might also contact you directly about our own or others' products and services. If you'd prefer that we not do so, just indicate on your registration form that you prefer not to receive offers and information. And remember, you can always change your preferences.

Encryption and Security
All information gathered on any Phoenix Travel Website is encrypted for storage within a Phoenix Travel-controlled database. Phoenix Travel seeks to safeguard the information you provide. As effective as encryption technology is, however, no security system is completely impenetrable, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public-posting area is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don't want people to know your email address, for example, don't include it in any message you post publicly.

Phoenix Travel Books and Storefront
Phoenix Travel knows that the confidentiality of purchase-related information is of special concern to visitors who purchase items through Phoenix Travel. Phoenix Travel is committed to safeguarding this information. We will not share any personally identifiable information (such as your name, address or telephone number) that you provide us when you make a purchase through Phoenix Travel with any other company, except where necessary for the vendor to fulfill the order. However, to help provide you with the best possible shopping experience, we may provide our strategic partners, vendors and advertisers with aggregated information (information that doesn't identify anyone personally) about those who have purchased items through the Phoenix Travel Books and/or Storefront. We may also use the information you provide us when you make a purchase through Phoenix Travel Books and/or Storefront to tell you about new products, services and special offers that we believe might be of interest to you. If you would prefer not to be contacted about such products, services or special offers, please let us know by checking the box marked "No Special Notices" located in the checkout section of the Phoenix Travel Books and/or Storefront.

Travel
We are committed to safeguarding the information you submit to us when you make travel reservations and purchase travel services through Phoenix Travel. We will not share any of the personally identifiable information (such as your name, address or telephone number) that you provide when you request information about a trip, make a reservation or purchase travel services through Phoenix Travel, except to the company (for example, an airline, tour operator, hotel or travel agent providing such services. We encourage you to enjoy Phoenix Travel and all it has to offer, but please note that if you do request information or reserve or book a trip, sometimes one of our preferred online travel providers will be fulfilling your request and receiving your personal information.

A Final Note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes here. Of course, our use of information gathered while the current policy is in effect will always be consistent with the current policy, even if we change that policy later. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please send an email to info@phoenix-travel.net. Thanks for making Phoenix Travel a part of your adventures online!

1. Phoenix Travel Content
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The contents of the Phoenix Travel Internet service are intended for the personal, noncommercial use of its Users. All materials published on Phoenix Travel (including, but not limited to, feature articles, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips and video clips, also known as the "Content") are protected by copyright and owned or controlled by Phoenix Travel, StarFire Creations Unlimited or the party credited as the provider of the content, software or other materials. User shall abide by all additional copyright notices, information or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Web site.

1.2
Phoenix Travel is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other copyright laws. User may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit any of the Content, software, materials or service, in whole or in part.

1.3
User may not download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on this Web site for personal use. User shall not store any significant portion of any Content owned by or licensed to Phoenix Travel in any form.


2. Forums, Galleries, and Discussions

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User shall not upload to, or distribute or otherwise publish through the Web site any Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or otherwise violates any law.

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The Forums and/or Galleries shall be used only in a noncommercial manner. User shall not, without the express approval of Phoenix Travel, distribute or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services.

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While Phoenix Travel does not and cannot review every message posted by Users in the Forums and is not responsible for any content of these messages, Phoenix Travel reserves the right to delete, move or edit messages that it, in its sole discretion, deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable. Users shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages.

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User acknowledges that any submissions (e.g., letter to the editors, articles) may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted and displayed by Phoenix Travel. In addition User warrants that all moral rights in any uploaded materials have been waived.


3. Access and Availability of Service and Links

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Phoenix Travel contains links to other related World Wide Web Internet sites, resources and sponsors of Phoenix Travel. Since Phoenix Travel is not responsible for the availability of these outside resources or their contents, User should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or Webmaster.

4. Representatives and Warranties

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Phoenix Travel does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information displayed, uploaded or distributed through the service by any User, information provider or any other person or entity. User acknowledges that any reliance upon any such opinion, advice, statement, memorandum or information shall be at User's sole risk. Phoenix Travel reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the Web site.

The Web site and all downloadable software are distributed on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. User hereby acknowledges that use of the Web site is at User's sole risk.


Disclaimer

The material in this Web site could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. The User's use and browsing of the Web site is at the User's risk. Neither Phoenix Travel nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Web site shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of the User's access to, or use of, the Web site.

Phoenix Travel does not warrant that the functional aspects of the Web site will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that this Web site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to particular Users. Phoenix Travel reserves the right to make changes to this Web site at any time without notice.


Last updated: Sunday, April 29, 2007