Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Statement

For the web site of Cultural Crossroads, LLC.

Contact Information
Cultural Crossroads
20 Meadowcrest Lane
Barre, VT 05641-5512, USA

We can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]
or you can reach us by telephone at 1-802-479-7040, Monday to Friday,8:30am-4:30pm, Eastern Time Zone (GMT -5:00).

Overview
At Cultural Crossroads your privacy is important. This statement discloses the information practices for Cultural Crossroads Web sites. This statement includes what type of information is gathered and tracked, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.

Cultural Crossroads abides by the Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the United States Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of information collected from the European Union by a Web site on the culturalcrossroads.com domain.

Cultural Crossroads, LLC is a global organization, with business partners, that cross borders. Our privacy practices are designed to provide protection for your personal information, all over the world. We may share your personal information within Cultural Crossroads and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business. Some countries may provide less legal protection for your information. In such countries Cultural Crossroads will still handle information in the manner we describe here.
Cultural Crossroads does not collect personal information when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us. Cultural Crossroads does not exchange, sell, or release personal information to outside parties without consent.

Information Gathered Automatically
For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes and records certain pieces of information. This information is used to track the usage of our Web site in order to make improvements. This information is stored and used in aggregate form only, and it is not possible for us to use this information to identify or contact you.

Our Web servers automatically collect the following information:
The IP address from which you access our Web site.
The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account).
The type of browser and operating system used to access our Web site.
The date and time you access our Web site.
The pages, files, documents and links that you visit.
The Internet address of the Web site from which you linked to the Cultural Crossroads Web site.

Collection of Personal Information
During the use of the Cultural Crossroads Web site, it may become relevant for you to provide us with additional personal information. The Cultural Crossroads Web site will only collect personal information which you knowingly and voluntarily provide;for example, sending e-mails, registering for tours, responding to surveys.Cultural Crossroads does not exchange, sell, or release your personal information to outside parties without your consent. If consent is given, we consider it valid until revoked by you.
The personal information that Cultural Crossroads, may ask for includes:
Name
Address
E-mail Address
Passport Number
Telephone Number
Emergency Contact Information

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
The information Cultural Crossroads collects is used primarily to contact customers in regard to the services we provide. All contact that is made through the use of personal information will be done so to fulfill customer requests. If you supply us with an e-mail address, your postal address, or a telephone number online you will only receive the information for which you provided us your contact information. We also use the information in aggregate form to improve the content of our Web site.

We may also contact you to provide information about Cultural Crossroads, membership and development opportunities, activities, programs, products, and special events that may interest you. If you do not want to receive contact from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at the above address or writing to us at the above address.

Cultural Crossroads occasionally shares personal information, such as name and address,with sub-contracted third parties with whom we have partnered to provide specific services to our company or to our customers, or with travel companies with whom our customers have contracted for the purpose of facilitating travel reservations.

Personal information will be disclosed when we are legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Web site and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Web site.

Personal information may be passed on to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, sale of assets or other corporate change respecting the Web site.
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Website to notify you of these changes and we will use for these new purposes only data collected from the time of the policy change forward. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Message Board
Please be aware that any messages, information or materials posted on our message board are not subject to the terms of this policy. Please do not submit any information to our message boards that you would like to be kept private or secure. The message board is a public place and any information posted there will be available to all visitors of the Cultural Crossroads Web site.

Children Under the Age of 13
Cultural Crossroads does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register on the Cultural Crossroads Web site. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for the Cultural Crossroads Web site or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or non the Cultural Crossroads Web site or the Cultural Crossroads message board. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe that we have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact information listed above.

Cookies
Cultural Crossroads uses cookies to store visitor’s preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site.
Records Request
Upon request we provide visitors to our Web site with access to all information[including proprietary information] that we maintain about them, financial information that we maintain about them, transaction information that we maintain about them, communications that the visitor has directed to our site(e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g., name, address,phone number) that we maintain about them. You can access this information by sending us an e-mail at the above address or by writing to us at the above address.

Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, and transaction information. You can have this information corrected by sending us an e-mail at the above address, writing to us at the above address. Before Cultural Crossroads is able to provide you with any information or correct anyinaccuracies, we may ask you to verify your identity and to provide us withother details to help us to respond to your request. We will contact you within30 days of your request.

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.
Assurance
If you feel that the Cultural Crossroads Web site is not following this stated privacy and information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number.
This privacy policy wasupdated Sep. 15, 2010.