Effective 2008-05-28

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Treehouse Cityguide website. You have the option of registering for an account. However, you are not required to register an account to browse through the website. If you register, you will be required to enter a valid email address. No other personal information is required to create an account. If you so choose, you can enter other information about yourself to share with other Treehouse Cityguide visitors or access additional features of the site. Information that you do not fill out in a form on our site will not be available to us.

Every time you visit any website on the Internet, some basic information about your network connection, such as your IP address, and the type of browser your use is sent to the website, as well as any advertisers that website uses. This is also true of this site. By itself, none of this information is personally identifiable.

Our chat room features a "chat log" function, which allows users of our chat rooms to view the messages that other users have written. Posting a message to any of the chat rooms is like posting to any of the forums on the site -- your message will be published and saved for others to see.

In the course of third party advertisements being served on this site, those third parties may be using cookies or web beacons to collect information. This is a standard practice and will be true of all web sites that use similar third party ads. You can delete cookies and choose which sites are not allowed to set cookies using your browser settings.  Additionally, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on the Treehouse Cityguide site.  Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users of the Treehouse Cityguide site may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

The Way We Use Information

We use your email address as a tag to group together content that you add to the Treehouse Cityguide. This is necessary to properly clean up after malicious users who vandalize the site. If you sign up for notifications from us (for example from our forums), we will also use your email address on record to send you your notifications. Your email address is also used during initial account registration to verify that it is valid and in case you forget your password.

If you send us email, we will use your return email addresses to answer that email. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

We may share non-identifying and aggregate information with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website in a period of time. However, we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

Security of your password

Your password is stored in our database in an encrypted form, which would be very difficult to unencrypt. In fact, if you forget your password, we ourselves do not have the facilities to break the encryption, and you will be required as part of the forgotten password procedure to pick a new one.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by going to your profile page, the link to which is available at the top of every page after your log in. If any of your information is incorrect, you can also change it using your profile page.

How To Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please kontaktieren sie uns.