Baltimore Harbor Guide Website Privacy Policy
Impact Associates strives to maintain the highest degree of privacy and security for all who visit our site. For this reason, we maintain strict guidelines concerning the secure use of the limited, but important data required for transactions on this site. Impact Associates may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 1, 2015.
Collected Information
Giveaways: When you register or enter for a giveaway, we ask for and collect your name and email address only. We must have this information in order to contact you if you win. We may from time to time email you about other giveaways or promotions on our website or on behalf of our affiliates. We do not give your name or email address to any other entities. If you do not wish to receive further emails from us, you may opt out of receiving our emails.
Winners: If you win a giveaway, in order to send your prize, we will need your name, address and phone number. (We need your phone number to contact you if there are any problems delivering your prize and, if necessary, to confirm that you did receive your prize. We will not contact you by phone for promotional purposes.) Also, additional information may be required, as outlined in #8 of our Baltimore Harbor Guide Giveaway(s) Official Rules. (Link) For smaller prizes, most of the additional information in Rule #8 will not be needed. We will only need the information mentioned in this clause, above. However, for larger prizes we may require some or all of the information for use as outlined in Rule #8. If this extra information will be required, i.e. photos of you receiving your prize, etc., you will be informed when entering that if you win, the extra information will be required to receive your prize. We will publish all winners’ names and general locations, i.e. city or town and state on the Baltimore Harbor Guide website and any other venues we deem appropriate, primarily for, but not limited to, the purpose of informing the public that winners were declared and the prizes were awarded. For each prize won, the winner’s full name and address (not phone number) may be provided to the merchant who will be fulfilling the prize given by Impact Associates (Sponsor). For some prizes, if required by the merchant or Impact Associates (Sponsor), you may be required to show your identification at the time of redeeming the prize to prove that you are the winner.
Normal Order Placement: Information collected from normal order placement, i.e. name, address, credit card numbers, phone numbers, etc., is used to process your transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We offer the use of a secure server for purchases made on our website. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via secure socket layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s database. If you are not comfortable giving your credit card information over the web, an order may be placed over the phone at 410-668-1843.
Use of Information
Impact Associates will not sell, rent, or give out any private information to any other company for any other reason. The information we collect from you may be used in any of the following ways:
To personalize your experience – your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs; we may use the information to customize our website according to your interests; we will continually strive to improve our website and its offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To improve customer service – your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests.
For internal record keeping
To process transactions and, where appropriate, provide our shippers with the information necessary (i.e. your address) for them to deliver your order.
To send periodic emails – we may periodically send promotional emails about Baltimore, new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided. On each email you will be given the option to opt out of further emails.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. We employ a system through your web browser which places a very small cookie on your hard drive (if you allow it) which enables the site or our service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and remember certain information. Cookies are used to understand and save your preferences for future visits. Your web browser will use this cookie to store information and preferences which will ease your future use of this website. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information for statistical analysis only. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
Links to Other Websites
Our website contains links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should be aware that we do not have control over the other websites. These other sites have separate and independent privacy policies. Therefore, we assume no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these independent linked sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. We want to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Children and Privacy
This site is a general audience website and is not directed to children under the age of 13. We will never knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide us with personally identifiable information of any kind whatsoever. If we become aware that a user is under the age of 13 and has submitted personal information, we will remove all of his or her personally identifiable information.
Your Consent
By using this site you consent to the above website privacy policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at info@baltimoreharborguide.com

This agreement was last modified on January 1, 2015. 
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