Privacy Policy
We built MeetOnCruise.com to help cruisers with similar interests meet and share great cruise experiences. To do that, we collect personal information about you. We understand this personal information is YOURS. As such, we give you control over your personal information. MeetOnCruise helps you share information with other cruisers and make new friends. You choose what information to put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. You can control all of this, down to the individual field, through your Account Settings page on your Profile page.This Privacy Policy describes how we use and protect your personal information. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Service during registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on October 15, 2009
What Information Do We Collect?
You can browse most of our site without telling us who you are. In order to meet others on your cruise, post a cruise review or participating in the forums, you are required to register. If you choose to give us personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States. We may collect and store the following personal information:- * email address, physical contact information, gender;
- * general information about you such as full name, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies;
- * information based on your activities on meetoncruise.com (such as your cruises, reviews or posts to the forum);
- * community discussions, dispute resolution, correspondence sent to us; and
- * standard web log information, such as connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from our site, ad data, and IP address
How Secure Is The Information We Collect?
Your information is stored on our web host's servers located in the United States. MeetOnCruise is committed to industry best practices concerning security to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information in our possession. However, as you know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.How Do We Use Your Information?
The personal information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web pages and the quality of our service. We will only share this information with companies or individuals outside of MeetOnCruise under the following limited circumstances:- * We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- * It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.
- * We transfer information about you if MeetOnCruise is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, MeetOnCruise will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.