Cruzino.com's Privacy Statement

Policy

Cruzino.com's privacy policy is to never intentionally disclose any information about a user without explicit permission from the user to do so. Although we do collect information about registered users in our discussion boards area, this information will not be sold to advertisers, used for bulk email advertising, or given to anyone without explicit permission from the user.

Keep in mind that information collected as part of registering to post on our system is displayed to other users reading the messages on our system. While users are encouraged to provide real information about themselves, we understand that this can be concerning to some people, so we make no effort to validate the information provided. Users who do not wish to provide accurate information are permitted to use aliases.

Limits of liability

Since we cannot verify the information provided by our users, other users agree not to hold Cruzino.com liable for the accuracy or inaccuracy of information provided on the site.

We only offer our services to adults over the age of 21. IF YOU ARE NOT AN ADULT, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OR OTHERWISE USE OUR SERVICE.

Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for cruzino.com. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.cruzino.com/. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://www.cruzino.com/about/privacy.html Users may go to http://www.cruzino.com/ for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information. We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by e-mail at mikec@cruzino.com.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern. Disputes: If any problems with this policy are found on the site, please contact us via email with a description of the problem, and we will look into the matter immediately.

Additional Information

This policy is valid until 31 Dec, 2003 at 12:00:00 PST.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 5 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained seperately.

Group "Access Log Information"

We collect the following information:

URI stem
Query-string portion of URI
Request date
Request time
Full IP address
HTTP request method
Data bytes in response
Response status code

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Web site and system administration.
This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Data collected from all Web users: access logs, and search strings (if entered).

Group "Cookies"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

One-time tailoring. The user must opt-in to this usage.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cookies are used for greeting users by a handle. Use of this greeting is purely optional. No information is gathered from the cookie for tracking users through the site. The content of the cookie is the handle provided by the user, and it is not used on the site.

Group "Hotel Reviews"

We collect the following information:

Nickname

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

City
State or Province
Country Name
Home e-mail address
Home Page Address
Content

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Users are encouraged to submit hotel reviews on this site. No data about the user is collected when reviews are submitted except the IP address that is provided by the user. Users submitting data have the opportunity to provide their name, email address, and website, however all of this information is completely optional, and need not be real. Users are requested to provide accurate, useful information in the hotel reviews. Rude, obscene, or offensive comments may be removed by Cruzino.com editorial staff.

Group "Mailing List"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Home e-mail address

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Contacting visitors for marketing of services or products.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cruzino.com maintains a completely optional mailling list. Users can add themselves or remove themselves from the list from our website. Email addresses collected for the mailing list are never sold, shared, or otherwise given to anyone outside of cruzino.com. Purposes are solely for occasional newsletters sent from the Cruzino.com editorial staff.

Group "Search Engine"

We collect the following information:

Search terms

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from. The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cruzino.com maintains a search engine. Searches done on the site are purely confidential, no information other than access log information is retained about the search. Occassionally, cruzino.com editorial staff will look at the frequent search terms to help update the index to better suit the needs of cruzino.com customers.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

User targeting

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is: CP="NOI DSP CURa ADMa DEVa TAIi CONa OUR STP IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM CNT" The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
CP=	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
NOI	No identifiable information is collected, so no access is possible.
DSP	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
CURa	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
ADMa	The data is used for site administration.
DEVa	The data is used for research and development.
TAIi	The data is used for tailoring the site, if the user selects it.
CONa	The data is used for contacting the user.
OUR	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
STP	The data is kept for the stated purpose only.
IND	The data will be kept indefinitely.
PHY	Physical contact information is collected.
ONL	Online contact information is collected.
UNI	Unique identifiers are collected.
COM	Computer information is collected.
NAV	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
INT	Interactive data is collected.
DEM	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.
CNT	Content data is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.