Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Smoo Cave Tours we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Smoo Cave Tours collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Smoo Cave Tours’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how Smoo Cave Tours visitors use its website. From time to time, Smoo Cave Tours may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Smoo Cave Tours also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Smoo Cave Tours only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the blog administrators where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Smoo Cave Tours website (www.smoocavetours.com) choose to interact with Smoo Cave Tours in ways that require Smoo Cave Tours to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Smoo Cave Tours gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive Smoo Cave Tours updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Smoo Cave Tours collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Smoo Cave Tours. Smoo Cave Tours does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Smoo Cave Tours may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Smoo Cave Tours may monitor the most popular pages on the smoocavetours.com site or use spam screened by the CleanTalk service to help identify spam. Smoo Cave Tours may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Smoo Cave Tours does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Smoo Cave Tours discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information to process it on Smoo Cave Tours’ behalf or to provide services available at smoocavetours.com, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using smoocavetours.com, you consent to transfer such information to them. Smoo Cave Tours will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Smoo Cave Tours discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a court order or other governmental request or when Smoo Cave Tours believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Smoo Cave Tours, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Smoo Cave Tours website and have supplied your email address, Smoo Cave Tours may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Smoo Cave Tours and our products. We primarily use our various blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example, via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Smoo Cave Tours takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Smoo Cave Tours uses cookies to help Smoo Cave Tours identify and track visitors, their usage of smoocavetours.com, and their website access preferences. Smoo Cave Tours visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the website, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Smoo Cave Tours, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Smoo Cave Tours goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Smoo Cave Tours may continue to use your personal information as outlined in this policy.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to CleanTalk anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Smoo Cave Tours may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and at Smoo Cave Tours’ sole discretion. Smoo Cave Tours encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.