The Savannah Area Convention & Visitors Bureau ("SAVSavannah Visit") respects the privacy and confidentiality of individuals who visit the SAVSavannah Visit web site located at www.savannahvist.com or www.savcvb.com. The SAVSavannah Visit maintains this Privacy Policy to help you understand the commitment of SAVSavannah Visit to safeguard the privacy of the information you provide to the SAVSavannah Visit on the SAVSavannah Visit Web site. This Privacy Policy outlines the information which SAVSavannah Visit will collect from you on the SAVSavannah Visit Website and how SAVSavannah Visit will use that information.

Collection of Your Personal Information by SAVSavannah Visit
The SAVSavannah Visit's mission is to provide you with personalized services and offerings designed to enhance your Savannah experience. To do so effectively, SAVSavannah Visit collects the following information:

(a) Personally Identifiable Information. SAVSavannah Visit, through the use of the SAVSavannah Visit Web site, only collects personally identifiable information about you when you voluntarily provide such personally identifiable information to SAVSavannah Visit using the SAVSavannah Visit Web site. If you do not wish your personally identifiable information to be collected, please do not submit it.
(b) Information from the Use of "Cookies". The SAVSavannah Visit Web site employs "cookie" technology. Cookies are small pieces of data stored in files on your computer allowing the SAVSavannah Visit Web site to track your use of the SAVSavannah Visit Website as you visit and revisit the SAVSavannah Visit Website. The use of cookies by the SAVSavannah Visit Website complies with generally accepted programming standards and practices. Please note that you can choose to block the use of cookies through settings in your web browser but be advised that certain features of the SAVSavannah Visit Website may not work properly without them.

Use of Your Information by SAVSavannah Visit
It is the policy of the SAVSavannah Visit not to sell, share, transfer, or rent to third parties any information you provide to the SAVSavannah Visit, through the use of the SAVSavannah Visit Website, without your written consent except as required by operation of the law or in compliance with legal authorities; provided, however the SAVSavannah Visit may share your personal information with certain third parties ("Target Third Parties") without your written consent in order to further the purpose for which you voluntarily provide the SAVSavannah Visit with the information. Additionally, the SAVSavannah Visit engages third party information management service providers to help maintain efficient operations. Because such information management service providers may access our systems, such information management service providers may have access to your information. The SAVSavannah Visit does not transfer or relinquish ownership of information maintained about you within SAVSavannah Visit systems and databases to such information management service providers but requires these information management service providers to sign confidentiality agreements to keep all confidential information and other proprietary information found in our systems confidential.

The SAVSavannah Visit routinely collects, compiles, and reports statistics and information reflecting the use of the SAVSavannah Visit Website and information services in order to enhance membership services, advertising services, improve marketing and promotional efforts, analyze SAVSavannah Visit Website usage, improve the SAVSavannah Visit Website's content and layout, generate aggregate reports on trends, interests and behavior and enhance service offerings.

The SAVSavannah Visit reserves the right to take any action the SAVSavannah Visit deems prudent or necessary to safeguard the SAVSavannah Visit Website and your information in the SAVSavannah Visit systems and databases from malicious or unwarranted attack by viruses, hackers, or other miscreants.

Collection and Use of Your Information by Third Parties
Please note that third parties offer goods and services on and through the SAVSavannah Visit Website. We assume each such third party has its own internal privacy policy and data collection and use practices. The SAVSavannah Visit does not have any responsibility for their practices.

Changing and Deleting Your Personal Information
You may request the SAVSavannah Visit change or delete your personal information in SAVSavannah Visit systems and databases by submitting a detailed description of the desired action.

Please note that after the SAVSavannah Visit processes a change or deletes your personal information from active SAVSavannah Visit systems and databases, it is possible that non-active residual copies of your information may still exist in SAVSavannah Visit systems and on archive or backup media.

Your Consent
By using the SAVSavannah Visit Website, you consent to the collection and use of the above-described information by SAVSavannah Visit (and Target Third Parties, in which case, once such Target Third Party is in possession of your information, we can not control such Target Third Party's use of your information). If you do not agree with the terms and conditions stated in this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the SAVSavannah Visit Website.

Your Questions and Concerns
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or any of SAVSavannah Visit's use of your information, please contact the SAVSavannah Visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
On occasion the SAVSavannah Visit may amend or change this Privacy Policy by updating or revising this posting, with the revised terms taking effect as of the date of its posting.

Last Updated on February 17, 2004