Privacy Policy
The North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development
is committed to protecting your privacy on this Web site.
We collect personal information from our visitors on a voluntary basis
only. Personal information may include name, address, phone number,
email address and other relevant data. We do not require this personal
information to obtain access to most of our site.
We do, however, require it in order to properly respond or to fulfill
requests for the following:
- Brochures or other mailed information
- Email newsletters
- Sweepstakes entries
- Saving personalized Trip Planner itineraries and folders
- Sharing your opinions through surveys
- Using Contact Us for correspondence
- Submitting an RFP for Group Tour Planning
We do not share email addresses you provide us when you use
the email-a-friend feature. When you contact us via email, we will only
use the information to respond to your request. We may occasionally redirect
your message to another government agency or person who is in a better
position to answer your question.
Public Disclosure
The personal information we request is used by us in order to process
a request for information by you or for marketing our products or services.
We do not collect, track, sell or rent personal information to other
organizations.
If you provided us with personal information through this web site, you
have the option to request that we not contact you in the future. If
you allow us to contact you in the future, the North Carolina Division
of Tourism, Film and Sports Development’s tourism partners and
businesses may provide you with current and future information about
travel opportunities in the state of North Carolina. Information about
you or your requests will not be shared with any other organizations.
What Information Do We Collect?
Our web servers collect the domain names, but not the e-mail addresses,
of visitors to our website. This information is aggregated to measure
number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, and
other relevant statistics.
We collect the following information:
- The Internet domain and IP address from which you access
our site
- The date and time you access our site
- The length of time you spend on our site
- The pages you visit
- The URL of the site you came from, if applicable
We collect this information to measure the use of our site,
to improve the content of our site, to evaluate technical performance
and to identify problem areas.
Cookies
To enhance your experience on our site, many of our web pages use cookies.
Cookies are small text files that we place in your computer's browser
to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your
email address or other personal information unless you choose to provide
this information to us by, for example, registering at our site. Once
you choose to provide a web page with personal information, this information
may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie is like an identification
card. It is unique to your computer and can only be read by the server
that gave it to you.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and
offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize
your experience on our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when
you return to our site). We also may use cookies to provide you tailored
offers of products and services. Cookies are essential to the proper functioning
of VisitNC.com.
If you want to control which cookies you accept, you can
configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time
a website’s server offers a cookie. Most browsers automatically accept
cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies
and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser.
Disclaimer
The North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development has compiled
content and information contained in this site based on data provided by local
tourism partners and business entities. While every effort is made to ensure
the accuracy of this information, the North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film & Sports
Development makes no representations, guarantees or warranties as to the accuracy,
completeness or suitability of the information provided on this web site. All
data is subject to change without notice. Travelers are advised to contact individual
businesses or organizations to obtain the most current information before traveling.
The VisitNC.com website contains links to other sites and we attempt
to only link to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy.
Links to third-party websites are provided as a convenience for our site
visitors and do not constitute endorsement or control of their content.
Copyright
© 2007 + North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism,
Film and Sports Development.
Contact Information
Additional questions or concerns about these policies should
be directed to: Contact Us at VisitNC.com |
