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Privacy Statement for DiscoverFrance.net
The Wharton Group has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: DiscoverFrance.net.
IP Address
[Definition: An IP address is the number assigned to your computer during a live connection to the Internet. For users who access the Internet through an ISP or services such as AOL and Prodigy, this number changes each and every time you make a new connection.]
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web Site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information. An example of this would be to ascertain if visits originated from an ".edu" domain (educational institution) or certain geographic regions throughout the world. This helps us ultimately to provide material which is relevant to both our broadest audience as well as certain special interest "niches". Such information is NOT used to identify individual users.
Browser
Our administration software can usually determine which Browser you use to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, AOL, etc.), as well as its version number (4.0, 5.0, etc.). This information helps us to tailor content and special browser features which are compatible with the majority of our visitors' systems. The use of such features as colored table backgrounds, JavaScripts, and alternate type styles are among the design criteria that webmasters must consider, based on this information.
Cookies
[Definition: A "cookie" is a short descriptor stored on your hard drive in an ENCRYPTED text file, which is often used so that repeat visitors to a secure site are not obliged to re-enter passwords or other information repeatedly every time they visit. Some sites use cookies to customize content according to your interests -- such as news or stock reports -- when you set up a personal "Home Page" for your browser. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to find out the identity of any user. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Users can enable or disable their browsers from accepting cookies at any time; in some browsers, users can selectively choose which ones to accept.]
Our site uses cookies to make sure you don't see the same banner ads repeatedly. We use cookies for other purposes, such as to provide tracking to vendors from whom you make purchases, identifying that your visit originated from DiscoverFrance.net. This ensures that your purchases help to defray operating expenses and to support ongoing research, development, and growth of the resources at DiscoverFrance.net. We respectfully request that you enable cookies in your browser when making such purchases at DiscoverFrance.net, as an indication of your support.
DiscoverFrance.net works with a third party that serves ads to this site. These ads may contain cookies, which help the ad company to track the response of certain promotions and the number of "page views" their ads receive at DiscoverFrance.net. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web Site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. To find out more about how Engage manages the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads on this site (including your ability to opt out of the Engage system), please go to http://www.engage.com/privacy/.
Guest Book and E-mail Subscriptions
Our online survey asks visitors for contact information (like their email address) and other feedback regarding their experience at DiscoverFrance.net. Our online subscription form asks visitors for their e-mail address. We use contact data from our surveys and subscription forms to send the user periodic bulletins, featuring new topics on our Web Site, as well as current events pertinent to France. Other data and commentary collected in our surveys help us to improve our content and better respond to the interests of our visitors. None of this data is shared with or sold to any third parties. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings (see the choice/opt-out section below).
Personal Information
Information collected by our business partners -- such as the vendors featured in the DiscoverFrance.net Boutique, Bookstore, and Travel Center -- is subject to their own Privacy Policies. We have chosen our affiliations with such partners carefully to ensure that their practices do not violate our principles of trust and privacy. However, any transactions that you make with such vendors is private, between YOU and the VENDOR alone: vendors do not furnish personal information (such as credit card numbers) to anyone at DiscoverFrance.net. Their confidential reports to us only track the total products, quantities, "click-throughs" from our site, and commissions attributable to DiscoverFrance.net.
Links
This site contains many links to other sites throughout the world. These links are provided for informational and educational purposes only. DiscoverFrance.net is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web Sites, and visitors follow such links at their own risk. However, all links to other sites are evaluated on an individual basis before being published on DiscoverFrance.net, and every effort is made to ensure that such other sites do not violate our Guidelines.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or newsgroups 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. DiscoverFrance.net will make every effort to remove material posted to our own message boards which could violate community standards of taste, or which encourage racial bigotry, hatred, violence, or illegal acts.
Please be aware that postings you make to Usenet newsgroups are beyond our control, become immediately visible to Internet users throughout the world, and are stored on a number of international servers indefinitely. We recommend that you practice discretion and consideration whenever posting to newsgroups.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. This extends to both electronic correspondence between visitors and staff at DiscoverFrance.net, as well as to commercial transactions made between visitors and vendors endorsed on this site. When visiting each vendor, we encourage you to read about their own particular security measures and warranties.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
- You can send email to mail@discoverfrance.net. Please indicate all names and e-mail addresses at which you have received correspondence from us. (This is particularly relevant if your request is sent from a server or e-mail service different from your own customary address.)
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
- You can send email to mail@discoverfrance.net. Please indicate all names and e-mail addresses at which you have received correspondence from us. (This is particularly relevant if your request is sent from a server or e-mail service different from your own customary address.) Since we maintain separate e-mail databases for varying demographic groups (such as educators, travelers, webmasters, students of French language, etc.), it would be helpful if you indicated the nature of your affiliation with the francophile community.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web Site, you can contact us at mail@discoverfrance.net, or send correspondence via U.S. Mail to:
DiscoverFrance.net Webmaster c/o The Wharton Group P.O. Box 310185 Newington, CT 06131-0185 U.S.A.
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