PRIVACY STATEMENT - TO PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND OUR RELATIONSHIP

• Tracking Activity on Our Web Site
• Information We Collect When You Register
• Information We Collect After You Have Registered
• How We Use Personal Information
• How We Use Your E-mail Address


• Setting Your Cookie Preferences


• Ads That Link to Our Web Site


• Children Under 13

Tracking Activity On Our Web Site
When you browse homebasedtravelagents.com and have not registered for any online services from HomeBasedTravelAgents.com, you browse anonymously. Personally identifiable information—such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address—is not collected as you browse.

However, we track how our site is used by both anonymous visitors and our registered customers. One way we track is by using a small string of text that is sent to your browser known as a "cookie." Cookies collect information that includes the server your computer is logged onto, your browser type (for example, Netscape or Internet Explorer), and whether you responded to an HomeBasedTravelAgents.com banner ad from outside our site or through an e-mail link. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address or any other personally identifiable information. Please note that accepting cookies is required if you want to view personal or confidential information online, because they are essential for site administration and security.

Another way we track site activity is by using transparent electronic images called "clear GIFs," "Web bugs," or "Web beacons" on homebasedtravelagents.com Web pages. These images count the number of users who visit that page from specific banner ads outside homebasedtravelagents.com or through e-mail links. A similar image, sometimes called a "Spotlight Tag," is used on homebasedtravelagents.com Web pages where transactions take place. The Tag collects numeric information, such as the agent list resulting from a search, to help us understand usage of the site. We do not use any of these electronic images to collect personally identifiable information.

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Information We Collect When You Register
When you become a registered user on our site(s), you provide us with personal information such as your e-mail address and your telephone number. Becoming a registered user enables you to review confidential account information for the service(s) that you are enrolled in, and perform other confidential transactions.

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Information We Collect After You Have Registered
HomeBasedTravelAgents.com collects the following information after you have registered with us for an online product or service:

• Your usage of homebasedtravelagents.com.
• Your usage of the HomeBasedTravelAgents.com online service in which you are enrolled.

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How We Use Personal Information
Once you've become a registered homebasedtravelagents.com user, we use this information to deliver the products and services you enroll in, and to process transactions you conduct on our website. We also use it, together with information we have about you as an HomeBasedTravelAgents.com customer, publicly available information, and preferences you indicate, to customize your online experience and to provide you with more relevant online and offline travel offers and updates.

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How We Use Your E-mail Address
We may use your e-mail address to send you the following types of e-mail messages:

• Occasional updates about our products and services as well as HomeBasedTravelAgents.com marketing offers.
• Regularly scheduled e-mail newsletters related to the HomeBasedTravelAgents.com products or services you are enrolled in.
• Valuable offers from our business partners that WE send you on their behalf.
• Service notifications related to your account(s).

You can also signup to receive the following types of e-mail messages from us:

• Optional HomeBasedTravelAgents.com e-mail newsletters. We occasionally invite customers to signup for these newsletters via e-mail or other communications, and we also post signup forms on the HomeBasedTravelAgents.com site.
• HomeBasedTravelAgents.com e-mail services. For example, registering to manage your account(s) online.

You may decline to receive e-mail offers from HomeBasedTravelAgents.com at any time. Click here to find out how.

We do not share your e-mail address with other companies for them to market their products or services to you. If we hire vendors to deliver e-mails to you on our behalf, they cannot use your e-mail address for any other purpose.

To make our e-mail offers more relevant to you, we may use information you provided in your initial registration with us, in surveys, from information we have about you as an HomeBasedTravelAgents.com customer — such as travel preferences or lifestyle — and information available from external sources such as census bureau data.

When we send e-mail to you, we may be able to identify information about your e-mail address, such as whether you can view graphic-rich HTML e-mail. If your e-mail address is HTML-enabled, we may choose to send you graphic-rich HTML e-mail messages.

These e-mail messages may contain "clear GIFs" or "Web beacons" to measure the offer's effectiveness so we know how to serve you better. We do not collect personally identifiable information through "clear GIFs" or "Web beacons."

You may also receive e-mail offers from another company for HomeBasedTravelAgents.com products and services if you have actively requested that the company send you offers from its partners and/or advertisers. HomeBasedTravelAgents.com does not provide these companies with personal information about you. To decline offers from other companies who may send offers on our behalf, follow the instructions provided by that company.

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Setting Your Cookie Preferences
You can adjust your computer browser settings so that you are informed when a cookie is being placed in your browser. You can also set your browser to decline or accept all cookies. However, you must accept cookies if you need to access HomeBasedTravelAgents.com site pages that enable you to review or use your confidential account information. These cookies are essential for site administration and security. Newer browsers provide sophisticated controls for accepting or rejecting cookies, including the ability to notify you when your browser encounters a cookie at a Web site. Refer to your browser or ISP's help feature to find out more about how to set these controls.

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Ads That Link to Our Web Site
HomeBasedTravelAgents.com hires other companies to place our banner ads on other Web sites and to perform tracking and reporting activities ("third-party advertisement servers"). They do not collect personally identifiable information in doing this work for us, and we do not give any personally identifiable information to them.

Third-party advertisement servers are subject to their own privacy policies. If you would like more information about the privacy policies of these third-party advertisement servers, including information on how to opt out of their tracking methods, please click here to visit the Network Advertising Initiative Web site.

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Children Under 13
We do not knowingly solicit data online from or market online to children under the age of 13.

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