miFOOT Privacy Policy miFOOT is an online service that provides recommendations for hotels, resorts, food, entertainment, shops, attractions and lots more. We understand that providing information online involves a great deal of trust on your part. We take this trust very seriously, and make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us. Before submitting your personal information to our Web site, please read this Policy carefully to learn about our privacy practices. By visiting miFOOT's Web site, www.mifoot.com, you are accepting the practices described herein. • What information we collect from you • How we use your information • With whom we share your information • How you can access your information • Your choices with respect to the collection and use of your information • How we protect your information • Children's privacy • External links • Your privacy rights • Changes to this Privacy Policy • How you can contact us What information we collect from you In General We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), including your first and last name, telephone number, postal and e-mail addresses, user name, password and other personal informations. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to enjoy the benefits of being a registered member. For example, only registered members are able to post travel reviews, sending messages, e-mail miFOOT content to themselves and others, and access members-only content. Information About Others You will have the opportunity to provide contact information for other people through our Web site. You should obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing miFOOT with their personal information. Automatic Information We automatically collect some information about your computer when you visit mifoot.com . For example, we will collect session data, including your IP address, Web browser software, and referring Web site. We also may collect information about your online activity, such as content viewed and pages visited. One of our goals in collecting this automatic information is to help us understand the interests of our users and customize your user experience. Cookies and Other Web Technologies Cookies are small data text files and can be stored on your computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits). miFOOT.com and its affiliated websites use cookies for the following general purposes: • To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our site. For example, if you register on our site, we may use cookies to remember your registration information, so you do not need to log into our site each time you visit. • To help us customize the content, website experience, and advertisements provided to you on our websites and on other websites across the Internet. For example, when you access a web page, a cookie is automatically set by us, our service providers, or our partners to recognize your browser as you navigate on the Internet and to present you with information and advertising based on your apparent interests. See Display of Advertising/Your Choices for more information about our online advertising practices and your choices. • To help measure and research the effectiveness of website features and offerings, advertisements, and e-mail communications (by determining which e-mails you open and act upon). The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers should tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable most types of cookies. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to access many of the travel tools offered on our sites. Our sites also may use Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or Web bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are placed in the code of a Web page. We use Web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our sites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party Web site, and to improve site performance. We also may allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help us understand which emails have been opened by recipients and to track the visitor traffic and actions on our site. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our content and other offerings. Display of Advertising/Your Choices We do not share your personal information (such as email addresses) with unaffiliated third parties so they can serve you with advertisements. Data collected by business partners and ad networks to serve you with relevant advertising Many of the advertisements you see on the miFOOT.com are served by miFOOT.com or its service providers. But we also allow third parties to collect information about your online activities through cookies and other technologies. These third parties include (1) business partners, who collect information when you view or interact with one of their advertisements on our sites, and (2) advertising networks, who collect information about your interests when you view or interact with one of the advertisements they place on many different Web sites on the Internet. The information gathered by these third parties is used to make predictions about your characteristics, interests or preferences and to display advertisements on our sites and across the Internet tailored to your apparent interests. Please note that we do not have access to or control over cookies or other technologies these third parties may use to collect information about your interests, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies. How we use your information miFOOT uses the information we collect about you for the following general purposes: for registration and to manage your account, including to facilitate your access to and use of our site; to communicate with you in general, including to provide information about miFOOT and invitations from the miFOOT community; to enable us to publish your reviews, messages, and other content to the miFOOT community; to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and Web site; to notify you about special offers and products or services available from us or our partners that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with miFOOT; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection. With whom we share your information If you choose to create a profile on miFOOT, certain information in your profile will be publicly viewable and identifiable via your screen name. You will have the ability to view your profile as members of the public will see it. Additionally, if you choose to leave comments or messages, other miFOOT members may contact you by using miFOOT as an intermediary; however, miFOOT will not share your email address with any other members nor display it any public manner. All miFOOT members have the option to turn off the member-to-member communication features at any time. Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information. We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors our Web site receives or the most popular hotels and vacation destinations. This information does not contain any personal information and is used to develop content and services we hope you will find of interest. How you can access your information We take reasonable steps to ensure that your information is relevant to its intended use, accurate, and complete. You can access and update your contact information by visiting the Member Profile page on the miFOOT Web site. You can close your miFOOT account by contacting us at the email address listed below. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. Please note that after you close an account, you will not be able to sign in or access any of your personal information. However, you can open a new account at any time. Please also note that we may retain certain information associated with your account in our archives, including for analytical purposes as well as for recordkeeping integrity. Your choices with respect to the collection and use of your information • As discussed above, you can choose not to provide us with any information, although it may be needed to take advantage of certain features offered on miFOOT. • You also can add or update information and close your account as described above. • As a registered miFOOT member, you can modify your e-mail subscription choices at any time on the Member Profile page. Whether registered as a miFOOT member or not, you also will be given the opportunity to unsubscribe from promotional messages in any such e-mail we send. Please note that we reserve the right to send you other communications, including service announcements, administrative messages, and surveys relating either to your miFOOT account, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. • The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies from miFOOT, you will not be able to access portions of our site. How we protect your information We want you to feel confident about using miFOOT, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no Web site can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they only may do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your personal information between your system and ours, and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information. Children's privacy miFOOT is a general audience site and does not offer services directed to children. Should an individual whom we know to be a child under age 10 send personal information to us, we will delete or destroy such information as soon as reasonably possible. External links If any part of the miFOOT's Web site links you to other Web sites, those external Web sites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements posted on those other Web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information. Visiting our Web sites from outside Canada If you are visiting our Web site from outside Canada, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in Canada where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of Canada and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, but please be assured that miFOOT does take steps pursuant to laws in Canada to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy miFOOT may update this Privacy Policy in the future. We will notify our members about material changes to this Privacy Policy by either sending a notice to the e-mail address you provided to us or by placing a prominent notice on our Web site. How you can contact us If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: Email: admin@mifoot.com