This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at VisitingNewEngland.com. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or giving us any personal information. By using the site, you accept the practices described in this privacy policy. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be posted and alterations will not apply to activities on a retroactive basis. Please review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you submit will be used.

Please note that the privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for the VisitingNewEngland.com site only. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those individual sites.

Collection of Information
We collect personally identifiable information, including names, towns of residence, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by our visitors. The information you provide is used to fulfill your specific request. This information is only used to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner, for example to add you to our newsletter mailing list.

Providing of Personal Information
Visitors may provide VisitingNewEngland.com with personal information through our blog or any review postings. We may retain the content of any email messages sent by visitors, including names and emails addresses.

Cookies and Other Tracking Tools
VisitingNewEngland.com only uses cookie and tracking technology for gathering basic information such as browser type and operating system, tracking how many visitors look at the site, and understanding how visitors specifically use the site. Personal information will not be collected via cookies and other tracking technology, even if you previously provided personally identifiable information. Aggregate cookie and tracking information will not be shared with third parties. Please note that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers. For example, Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on VisitingNewEngland.com, as well as our other sites. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to our sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Children's Guidelines

We care about children and understand that they have special privacy needs. Therefore, we have adopted the following privacy policy regarding children:

1. We will NOT collect, use, or distribute to third parties personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent.
2. We will NOT give the child access to unmonitored chat rooms, message boards, email accounts, or other services that would give the child the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable information without prior verifiable parental consent
3. When verifiable parental consent is not obtained, we will only use the online contact information (such as email) to:
a. Respond directly to the child's request on a one-time basis and not use that information to re-contact the child for other purposes.
b. Request the name or online contact information of a parent for the purpose of obtaining verifiable parental consent or providing parental notification.
c. Respond more than once directly to a specific request from a child (such as in the case where a child requests a newsletter subscription) and not used to re-contact the child for other purposes. We will use our best efforts to provide parental notification, which will include the nature and intended use as well as an opportunity for the parent to prevent the use of the information and participation in the activity.

4. We will NOT entice the child to divulge more information than is needed to participate in any activity, game, or service.
5. We will provide the parent a description of the specific types of a personally identifiable information collected from their child upon request. We will allow the parent to refuse further use or future online collection of personally identifiable information and provide a way for a parent to obtain any personally identifiable information collected from their child.
6. We will provide notice to children in age appropriate terms of what personally identifiable information is to be collected.
7. We will NOT provide any links to Web sites that are unsuitable for children.
8. We will encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.