At Vacations by Adventure Tours, we believe that it is extremely important to protect the privacy of our customers.

We are providing this privacy policy to help you better understand the ways in which your personal information is gathered and used on the [ www.vacationsbyadventure.com ] website. Vacations by Adventure Tours is wholly owned by The Mark Travel Corporation. The Mark Travel Corporation and its affiliated technology and marketing agencies, and travel agency distributors, gather, store, and process the information from the Vacations by Adventure Tours website. They help Vacations by Adventure Tours use customer information to create and distribute products, specials, promotions, and website features for our customers Vacations by Adventure Tours, The Mark Travel Corporation, and their affiliated technology and marketing agencies, and travel agency distributors (hereafter "Vacations by Adventure Tours") will not sell or share your personally identifiable information with any third party company or agency without your permission. If you have any comments or questions regarding this privacy statement, please contact Vacations by Adventure Tours via our online [ Customer Service ].


The Vacations by Adventure Tours website collects customer information in a number of ways: when you fill out a Customer Service request, when you send a information request to a travel agent via their agency profile, and when you forward a web page to a friend.

The types of information collected on these pages are:

• Customer Name
• Traveling Companion Name
• Mailing Address
• Email Address
• Telephone Number
• Credit/Debit Card Information
• Reservation Number
• Age Range
• Gender
• Destination Information Desired
• Other Information Desired
• Travel Habits

The information you supply when you send in a [ Customer Service ] request is used to assist you with your request. It may also be used to help Vacations by Adventure Tours review and improve its products, promotions, and customer service.

The information you supply when you send a request to a travel agent via an agency profile is a confidential communication between you and the travel agency. Vacations by Adventure Tours does not monitor these communications or collect data from them, except the total number of requests sent. Vacations by Adventure Tours makes no guarantees as to the way in which the travel agencies will use or protect the information you send them via their agency profile information request form. The information you supply when you send a suggestion or comment to the email suggestion link is used to reply to your comment. Your information may also be forwarded on to the relevant product team or Customer Service team to further process your comment or to help improve Vacations by Adventure Tours product, promotions and customer service.

The information you supply when you send a web page to a friend is used to forward the relevant web page information. Vacations by Adventure Tours will not send additional emails or mailings to your friend. Your friend must provide information himself/herself through one of the other available means before Vacations by Adventure Tours will contact him/her.

Information collected through some/all of the methods listed above may be used by Vacations by Adventure Tours to improve products, processes and customer service. Vacations by Adventure Tours may also use some/all of the information to create customer mailing lists and may occasionally send our customers promotional pieces or other mailings. Mailing lists compiled from the information you provide will only be used by Vacations by Adventure Tours for its own marketing and promotional efforts, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties. Vacations by Adventure Tours may also use non-identifying or aggregate information to improve our website, track promotional success, and/or to share website usage information with our hotel, airline or other business affiliates. This information may include number of page views, visitor sessions, session length, hits, number of unique visitors, browser type, number of visits by each visitor, most requested pages, most accessed pages, top paths through the site, number of returning users. Not all of this information is shared with our business affiliates, but some aggregate numbers such as page views on a particular page during a particular time frame may be shared. However, no personally identifiable information about you will be shared with any third party.


Vacations by Adventure Tours uses cookies to track visitors to our site. Vacations by Adventure Tours gathers the number of unique visitors as well as the number of page views each visitor makes. The information is used for promotional and marketing purposes only and in the compilation of web usage reports. The reports generated do not recognize any information specific to your location, or anything specific to your individual machine. Cookies are tiny files that are placed on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies do not extract private or personal information from your computer.


To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, there are appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use SSL (Secure Socket Layers) to encrypt and protect your personal information.


Protecting the privacy of children is very important to Vacations by Adventure Tours. Vacations by Adventure Tours does not collect or maintain information from our website from those known to be under 13 years of age. No part of our website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 13.


Information you submit through any of the online methods may be used to create customer mailing lists. Vacations by Adventure Tours may occasionally send our customers promotional pieces or other mailings. Mailing lists compiled from the information you provide will only be used by Vacations by Adventure Tours for its own marketing and promotional efforts, and will not be sold or shared with any third parties.


If at some future date, Vacations by Adventure Tours determines that it will change the manner in which it uses the information it collects on the website, you will be notified at least 30 days prior to Vacations by Adventure Tours making the change. You would have the option of choosing to continue or not continue to be a member of the Vacations by Adventure Tours database receiving emails, and would have the option of unsubscribing. Information collected prior to any information-use changes would be managed according to the Privacy Policy in place at the time it was collected. Only new information collected online would be subject to any new information-use policies.


If you have any questions or comments regarding the Vacations by Adventure Tours privacy policy, please contact Vacations by Adventure Tours via our online [ Customer Service ].