Cruise Bruise is an electronic only site, and as such we conduct all communications through the internet. This privacy policy governs the electronic or non-electronic communication with Cruise Bruise, either by posting to the web, email, snail mail, phone, or fax. While you may chose to write me by snail mail, that contact does not circumvent the privacy policy. The privacy policy includes all communications, in any form. In addition, please be aware that since we do all our communications electronically, any written snail mail communication you send me, may not reach me for three to six months, or more, as I travel extensively, nor do I get much snail mail, and most frequently am not in one place long enough to have my mail forwarded. I handle all the details of my life electronically, and am comfortable with that. It is in your best interest to communicate with me electronically, for fastest response. Cruise Bruise reserves the right to modify our privacy policy, disclaimer and overall terms of service at any time without warning. It is the view of Cruise Bruise that it is the visitor's responsibility to check the terms of service, privacy policy, about, and disclaimer pages each time they arrive on any website that does not require an account in order to view content. Please check this site pages related to terms of service, privacy and disclaimer each time you visit. Not visiting the pages does not exempt you from compliance with our terms of service. If you don't want to visit the pages upon each visit, do not surf this site. Our terms of service, privacy, disclaimer pages and other informational pages are found in links at the bottom of every page on this personal site.
Businesses - Governments And Their Employees Privacy Policy
This portion of the privacy policy covers cruise lines, airlines, travel agents, tour operators, attorneys, private detectives, media, government leaders, government agencys including police departments and other businesses which may not be related to the cruise industry, but have an interest in a specific case or cases whether for business reasons or personal reasons, where the company or government agency is identified as the owner of the computer by our visitor tracking system, not by information added manually by the visitor when contacting us..
When a visitor arrives on our website, we have statistical programs that gather visitor statistics. Those facts include where the visitor is located, the day and time they arrived, how long they stayed, how they found our site, what pages they visited on our site, how long they visted each page, and how often they come back. Visitors are identified by their IP address as well as city, state, and country.
If they came via a search engine result for some query they made, we know that too. These facts help us design a site that is targeted to the majority of our visitors and to update cases and as well as add new cases of major interest. In most cases, it ends there. We don't know the visitor's name, or home address. We don't need to know that information. But, this is really not the case for all visitors.
There are some visitors who use their business computer to surf the web, and when they do that, it ties their visit to their employer, the employer's address and phone, when a technician sets up the computer to reflect the company name as the owner of the machine. We see that. That is how we know that the office of a certain country's president has been on our website numerous times. It also told us that a certain law firm visits our website often, checking up on another lawyer who is involved in one of our major cases. We know which cruise lines are on our site, and how often. We know which government offices on our website, and which cases are of interest to them.
I want to caution all employers and employees, using employer's computer systems, that their statistics stand out in our statistics, and any and all of those statistics can, and will be posted on this website where Cruise Bruise determines, that the posting of such information is a benefit to our visitors and their research. If you do not want that information posted, do not use your company computer and do not submit a contact related to a complaint for your company. Do your research from home, where you are protected under of our Personal Users Privacy Policy, see below. Effective September 1, 2006, Cruise Bruise will begin posting these business visitors statistics to our site, that are gathered from September 1, 2006 and later.
We reserve the right to posts those statistics that include employer identified computers and to post the statistics of specific dates, times and pages those companies and/or their employees visited. We are a news gathering website, and our visitor statistics are very much apart of the cruise news.
If you, the business owner, business employee acting behalf of the company or government employee choose to submit content or contacts through our contact form, direct email, letters to the editor, or case submission forms, we may publish your name, company name, website address, phone number, street address as well as the entire content of the information you submitted, or information we aquired by other means as a follow-up to your contact, and/or any portion thereof.
Personal Users Privacy Policy
This section of the privacy policy provides language for personal users of this site. A personal user is defined as any one who contacts us in an unofficial capacity, having not first arrived on a cruise related industry computer, for the purpose of discussing case details that are NOT a complaint. We, Cruise Bruise, may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
If you choose to submit content or contacts through our contact form, letters to the editor, case submission forms or other contacts, we may publish your name and other information you have provided to us, with the exception of phone numbers and street addresses. If you contact us to complain about a case, you can be assured we may post that email, omitting only the email address and phone number, posting all other information contained within the contact, and the transmission of the contact form. All contacts to us whether the original contact, or subsequent contacts are goverened by our complete terms of service, which includ our TOS, our Privavcy Policy and our Disclaimer.
In the case of sexual assault case submissions, we require the victim's name, but allow the submission to specify the name be withheld from the case details.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
In the case of those visitors who arrive at our site thorugh search engine results in response to a search query made, we reserve the right to post those search terms on our site, and do so. One example of such postings is The Cruise Bruise Porthole.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In addition, we may transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information that is protected by our privacy policy, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Cruise Bruise sites covered by this Privacy Notice will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses where the information has been gathered from a personal computer, not a computer identified as owned by a business or government entity. For our policy on business and employee visitors, see below. To enhance your experience with our sites, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
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 at our web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
Partner's Privacy Policy
The above Cruise Bruise privacy policy does not apply to our partners, Cruise Bruise values our partnerships and as such gives our partners the highest level of privacy and security. We will never post any contact from a partner, submitted in any form, without first consulting with and gaining advance approval from the partner or their representative.
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Parter Sites & Links To Other Sites From Cruise Bruise
Certain Cruise Bruise affiliate sites may disclose personally identifiable information to companies whose practices are not covered by this privacy notice (e.g., other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you.
Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
More About Our Privacy Policy
About Our Privacy Policy, is a more thorough explaination of why this Privacy Policy changed. You will find it here. You may find it very inrteresting reading, especially if you are not very web savy, or have very little understanding of how websites work. It explains how we track visitors and why. It also explains what webmasters know about you and how they know it.
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