Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

When you use this website, The Travel Academy may receive some kinds of “personally identifiable information,” including your IP address, email address and message content. When you fill out a form or otherwise request a transaction with us we may collect more personally identifiable information and will ask you to voluntarily share the information we need. We may ask for information including, but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, and email address. You may also be asked to voluntarily share your street address, city and state of residence.

We never collect your email address unless you actively, voluntarily provide it to us so that we can communicate with you.

Our server and third-party tracking tools collect information about which pages on this site are accessed, as well as the duration of a visitor’s time on the page. The Travel Academy is able to see whether accessed this site through a search engine like Google, or from a specific external banner or hyperlink.

How do we use your information?

Your IP address may be used for various purposes, including:

to diagnose service or technology problems reported by you that are associated with your IP address.
to estimate the total number of users visiting the Site from specific locales, countries or regions of the world.

In order to provide you with a better user experience we may gather information about your operating system, browser, Internet service provider (“ISP”), connection type and email program that you are using. The Travel Academy also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP Address and the page you requested. Your IP address is not linked to your email address.

When a Web page on this site is requested by your browser or your email application, that request is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page and the date and time of the request.

We use server log files for system debugging and troubleshooting. IP addresses and access times are not linked to your email address or any other personally identifiable information.

The Travel Academy may collect personally identifiable information from you when you voluntarily complete a form online, or offline by sharing this information through the mail, in person or by telephone. This information may be collected by forms operated by third parties. The Travel Academy or a third party may ask you to provide personally identifiable information including your name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers, birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, social security number, employment information, personal interests and such other information as may be requested from time to time. Completing forms is voluntary and you are under no obligation to provide personally identifiable information to The Travel Academy or a third party.

How do we share your information?

The Travel Academy is an educational institution. We may sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any other party in addition to that listed below:

The Travel Academy reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information, as required, to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Legal Notices or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or to protect the property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.), and to ensure the security of our network and services.

How do we use cookies, web beacons, and tracking technologies?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computers and then stored on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie cannot obtain information from your hard drive, destroy files, or transmit viruses. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser, if your browser’s preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser normally only permits a website to access cookies that it has previously sent to you, but not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

You do not need to accept cookies in order to use the The Travel Academy service. If you request certain services from us, The Travel Academy may attempt to set cookies on your computer and later access those cookies. You can normally refuse cookies by setting preferences in your browser.

You can normally configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will still be able to use The Travel Academy services.

A web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page, but can also be used to transfer your unique user identification to a database and associate you with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows The Travel Academy to track certain websites you visit. Web beacons may be used to track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes to determine products or services you may be interested in.

We also use 3rd party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google AdWords tracking cookie. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet, specifically on the Google Content Network (GCN). As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of Google’s or any other 3rd party remarketing system.

The third-party vendors, including Google, whose services we use – will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. – Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website. This allows us to make special offers and continue to market our services to those who have shown interest in our service.

How do we protect your information?

To protect “personally identifiable information” that you have voluntarily provided from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with applicable federal and state laws. These measures may include device safeguards and secured files and buildings as well as oversight of our third party service providers to ensure information remains confidential and secure. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards, in accordance with applicable state and federal standards, to protect your personal financial information against risks such as loss, destruction or misuse. These measures include computer safeguards, secured files and buildings, and restrictions on who may access your personal information. In the event of a system compromise, The Travel Academy will implement all reasonable measures to ensure the integrity of the website’s database is protected and ensure proper notice is provided under the law.

How can you control what information is collected and used?

You can normally refuse cookies by setting preferences in your browser. You do not need to accept cookies in order to use The Travel Academy. If you request certain services from us, The Travel Academy may then attempt to set cookies on your computer and later access those cookies.

When you fill out a form or otherwise request a transaction with us you may voluntarily share the information we need. We never collect your email address unless you actively, voluntarily provide it to us so that we can communicate with you.

How can you access your information?

You may request a report of the information we have gathered about you by making a request via email here.

How can you opt out of your subscription?

You may opt out of your subscription by making a request via email here.

How can you contact us with privacy questions?

If you have questions about this Policy, you may contact us here.

Third-party links

The Travel Academy exercises care and supervision of third-party links.

Terms and conditions

By using this website you give your consent for The Travel Academy to use and disclose information about you as described in this Policy.

Please print and retain a copy of this privacy policy for your records.

Internet technology develops rapidly, and The Travel Academy strongly encourages individuals to revisit this Policy for updates regarding its use of new technology. Our Privacy Policy will indicate the date when it was updated. Your continued use of our website will signify your acceptance of the changes to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the changes to how your information will be used, please do not continue to use our website. By using this website, you signify your consent to  The Travel Academy Privacy Policy.