Privacy Statement

FreeTechMail.org provides interactive environments on the Internet to enable travel professionals from around the world to find, use and share the information for the purpose of selling travel. We recognize and support the need to protect the privacy rights of our visitors through disclosure of our practices for collection and use of visitor information.

You can visit the Travel-Italy.com site on the Web at any time without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We log the IP address, type of operating system and browser software used by each visitor to the Travel-Italy.com site, and from this information we can derive the identity of the visitor's geographic location and Internet Service Provider. We use this data in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful facilities by analyzing the collective characteristics of our members and measuring usage of each area of our sites. We also provide statistical information based on this aggregate data to our advertisers, potential advertisers and other business partners.

In some circumstances, such as in connection with entering certain Travel-Italy.com sponsored contests and promotions, and newsletter signup, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information such as name, email address, mailing address. In order to learn more about our users, we may request optional demographic information such as year of birth, gender, job functions, etc..

We will not provide information about you to third parties. In all cases where we ask you for personal information we will:

• notify you that such information is being collected, and
• identify which informational items are required and which are optional

Travel-Italy.com does not sell this personal information to third parties.

Correcting/Updating Personal Information

You may view your personal and demographic information you have provided and change most information by using the "Update Information" link in the .Newsletter Home. section of this site. This section of the web site is password protected.

Cookie Disclosure Statement

"Cookies" are files written to the hard drive of your computer by your browser so that we may track activities on the web site. Travel-Italy.com uses cookies to help track activity on the site so that we can make the web site more interesting and useful to visitors. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and ads, to determine how often particular pages are visited, and to track the most popular areas of the site. Cookies also allow us to make our site more convenient to use by allowing us to save your password so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit Travel-Italy.com or ensure that you do not receive duplicate information.

A cookie will NOT permit a web site operator to learn any personally identifying information about you, such as your real name or address, unless you have previously provided that information to the web site operator or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide this information. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it. Our primary use of cookies is to facilitate the login process for our users and to track the login history. We may use cookies to correlate usage of our web site with our users' personal information.

Information collected through cookies is for the exclusive use of Travel-Italy.com and is used for statistical purposes.

Third Party Links

The Travel-Italy.com site may contain links to other Internet sites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, Small Italian Hotels is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Tell A Client or Colleague

We encourage all of our visitors to "tell a client or colleague" about Travel-Italy.com. We do not keep these e-mail addresses or store them in any way. The form simply sends your friend an invitation to look at FreeTechMail. The sender's IP address is automatically sent with the invitation to discourage possible misuse.

Subscription/Unsubscription Process

We require user contact information when subscribing to any of our newsletters or any of our Partner Publisher newsletters on our web site. All subscriptions use the opt-in method of subscribing. If a user wishes to subscribe to any newsletter(s), we ask for personal and demographic information such as name and e-mail address.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletters and for some of our Partner newsletters using the same interactive process as subscribing, however not all our Partner newsletters have this option. To unsubscribe from those that do not, please follow the instructions provided by each Publisher within the body of their newsletter. There can be a delay of up to 1 week before all subscribe or unsubscribe requests are completed.

Choice/Opt-out

Our site provides users the opportunity to choose to opt-out of receiving communications from Travel-Italy.com at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site gives users the following additional options to cancel their membership accounts, to not receive future communications, or to no longer receive our service.

Travel-Italy.com reserves the right to send to our members email notices and announcements that may be of interest to our web site users. To not receive any communication from Travel-Italy.com, users should request that their login account be canceled by sending the request by email to Travel-Italy.com.

Legal Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.

Notification of Change

If at some point in the future, there is a change to our information usage practices that affect your Personally Identifiable Information, we will notify you by email of the relevant changes. At that time you will be given an easy way to opt out of any future communications from Travel-Italy.com.

We review our privacy practices from time to time, and our practices are subject to change. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you can contact us using the information in the Travel Agent Only Section.