Privacy Policy

I hate junk mail and unsolicited ads, and I certainly wouldn’t subject anyone to more of it, so Travel Info Exchange, Inc.(my company) does not use any contact information you disclose to me or Turkey Travel Planner for any purpose except the one you intended, and I do not furnish any contact information to anyone else for any purpose whatsoever.

For example, if you subscribe to the TurkeyTravelPlanner.com Forums, I do not use your email address for any purpose other than to maintain your Forum subscription.

If you send me a private message (ie, not a Forum posting), I do reserve the right to post edited excerpts from your messages (without disclosing your full name, location or contact info) on the Turkey Travel Planner website to help other travelers and to demonstrate the types of services provided by TTP, but if I thought you really cared about this I’d check with you in advance (as I often do).

If you don’t mind my using your real name or city of residence on TTP, please say so in your message to me. If you don’t say so, I won’t reveal this information without first obtaining your permission.

If you really don’t want a single word of anything you say or write to us to be posted, just let me know and that’s what’ll happen.

If you give me financial information (such as credit card info—for example, to pay for an itinerary consultation or a copy of my book, Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea), I use that information one time only, for the purpose you intended, and then I delete it. I do not retain any financial information. If you contact me again and want to make another purchase, you’ll need to give me the info again, and I will delete it again after one use.

Although Travel Info Exchange, Inc. and I collect and use information only as stated above, other website functions may collect and use information from your visit in the following ways:

Visitor Statistics

As do most websites, we use automated programs such as
Google Analytics that collect and evaluate data including IP (Internet protocol) addresses, ISP (internet service provider), browser type, referring and exit pages, time of visit, and the number of clicks. This information tracks user movements within the site to show which pages are being visited and for how long, but IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information, and the information collected is only for statistical purposes.

“Cookies”

A “cookie is a piece of data stored on a user’s computer tied to
information about that user. Travel Info Exchange, Inc. doesn’t use cookies, except for the phpBB3 software used for the TTP Forums, which may place a cooking on your computer to help you to login to the Forum on future visits if you enable that function.

You can control the presence or absence of cookies on your computer by means of the Tools menu of your web browser software.

Some of our business partners, such as Google AdSense, do use cookies in conjunction with the ads they place on this website. However, we have no access to or control over those cookies or the information in them.

Web Beacons

A web beacon is a transparent graphic image placed on a website to track the movements of visitors for statistical or navigation purposes. Web beacons can be used to manage the information collected by cookies, and if you have opted out of cookies, your visit will be recorded as anonymous. We do not use web beacons on this site but some of our business partners may do so in conjunction with their advertising. We have no access to the information collected by third party web beacons.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of those other sites.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.