We Hate Spam & Fraud as much as you do

Travel2help.org does not share, sell, loan or give your email, name or other personal information to any one. We take the protection of your information seriously. We hate Spam and Online Fraud and we have taken a series of steps to protect you.

Optional & Fully-Verified Opt-In Email Subscription Lists

We may offer a number of free subscriptions to e-newsletters and e-lists. You will NEVER be required to sign up for any of these lists. Additionally, we use fully-verified opt-in to prevent spam and ensure that any emails sent to you are because you have specifically requested it. Anyone can type an email address that does not belong to them into a form for more information. Only verified opt-in ensures that the email address entered actual belongs to the person who entered it. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communications or by emailing us at info@travel2help.org.

We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name and email. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.

Newsletters

If you wish to Subscribe to our newsletters, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Optional & Fully-Verified Opt-In Email Subscription Lists” section.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information from you to help us personalize and improve your Travel2help.org experience, to process your online requests, and to send you communications to which you have subscribed. You are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

In addition, when you register for a program, we collect demographic information (age, occupation, school, etc) for our own internal use and the internal use of partner charities and host families. This information helps to accurately describe the types of participants in each program we offer and give some general information about you, the participant, to the schools and host families where you will attend. This sharing of information is a quality control measure which helps insure the best matches in various program components. This information collected is limited to use within Travel2help.org. Travel2help.org does not sell contact information to third parties.

Travel2help.org does NOT collect any credit card information. Any email from Travel2help.org asking you yo share such details is possibly a fraud. All credit card payments go through a third party for the express purpose of protecting you and Travel2help.org from fraud and any other liability. We have performed due diligence and determined that the third party is trustworthy and responsible. Should you have any concerns about using a credit card, we encourage you to use a bank transfer to transmit funds to us.

Travel2help.org is the sole owner of the information collected on www.travel2help.org. Travel2help.org collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

We will send you service-related announcements when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if you register for a project, you will receive confirmation by email that a place has been reserved for you in the project. If you have applied to one of our projects, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature.

Service Providers

We use the services of Moneybookers, a third party, to facilitate the online payment on our site.

Any third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Cookies

We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We may use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We may use session ID cookies. We may use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser. We may set a session ID cookie to provide you with better information regarding what you might be accessing at that moment. Session ID cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site may be limited. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

Links

Our website contains links to other Internet websites which may or may not be owned or operated by us. We have not reviewed all of the websites that are linked to our website, and we have no control over such sites. We are not responsible for the content of such websites, any updates or changes to such sites or the privacy or other practices of such sites. The fact that we offer links to other websites does not indicate any approval or endorsement of any material contained on any linked site. We are providing these links to you only as a convenience. Accordingly, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with the terms of use and practices of any linked site. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or materials you download (whether from our website or other sites) are free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, easter eggs, web bugs, cancelbot, “spyware,” defects, date bombs, time bombs and other items of a destructive nature.

Dealings with Third Party Providers

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions sponsored by, any third party providers of goods or services found on or through our website, and any terms, conditions, warranties, or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party provider. You agree that we are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred in connection with any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such third parties’ materials on our website.

Legal Disclosure

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing our Customer Support at info@travel2help.org or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below:

Travel2help.org

Läntinen Pitkäkatu 18 c 61

20100 Turku

Finland

About Changes to This Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by e-mail, or by means of a notice on our home page.

This privacy policy was last modified in November 2007. Travel2help.org may revise this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes, we will post those amendments on our Web site so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it and how you can access or update your personal information.

By using www.travel2help.org and Travel2help.org services you indicate that you agree to the collection and use of your personal information by Travel2help.org as outlined in this Privacy Policy.