Since the Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is committed to presenting a rich Internet experience, we have prepared this Privacy Policy to disclose our information collection, utilization, and dissemination practices for this web site. Any questions or comments about this policy should be directed to our Webmaster at webmaster@visiteauclaire.com. 

We want to build on the loyal relationship Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau has with its visitors and customers. Our commitment to you begins with respecting your privacy. As you choose to share your interests and preferences with us, we will be able to make your online experience more enjoyable and rewarding.

• If you choose to provide us with personal information, we will be better able to reciprocate by providing you a more personalized experience over time. But, it's your choice. And, we will protect your privacy as explained in this policy.

• If you choose, we will contact you regularly by e-mail. You'll be able to use your "My Account" page to make decisions about the goods and services you tell us are of interest to you.

• We will ask you to tell us what you like and what we should add or change. If you don't want to participate, just tell us. 

• If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes, we will not.

2. Types and Uses of Information Collected from You 

3. Access to Personal Information for Reviewing, Editing, and/or Removing 

4. Security 

5. Acceptance of Terms 

6. Contacting Us 

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau collects a variety of information in several ways.

Personal Information - Generally, you can visit our site without revealing any personal information about yourself. At times, though, we may need information about you. Unless otherwise indicated, the information we request is optional. We will specify which information is mandatory at the appropriate data entry points.

If you chose to provide us with personal information that we or the companies doing business with us may need (for example, to process an order or to correspond with you), we will use such information, in accordance with this policy. If you ask us to not use this information as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your request.

Our site collects information from our registration form, order form, online survey, and other contest or subscription registration forms. At these places, we ask you to give us contact information (like name, email address, and personal interests). On certain occasions our website will provide online shopping functionality. While it's necessary to provide your credit card information at the time you make a purchase, we don't store your credit card information on our servers.

• We may use contact information to (i) send you information about our company, and promotional material from the businesses doing business with us; (ii) contact you when necessary.  As stated below, you may opt-out of being contacted in the future. 

• We may use unique identifiers to verify your identity, for use in our record system, and for marketing purposes.

• We may use demographic and profile data to tailor your experience at our site. This data allows us to show you content that we think you might be interested in and to display content according to your preferences. Aggregated demographic and profile data may also distributed to the companies doing business with us to provide them with information about our visitors.

We may perform statistical analyses of your behaviors and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to inform advertisers of such information, as well as the number of visitors that have been exposed to or clicked on their advertising banners.

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to the subscriber/visitor agreement, and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected.  If you do not want to receive correspondence related to the Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau or other promotions or products, please indicate your preference by opting-out as described below.

Information From Your Computer - Our site recognizes information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system, IP address, and the home server from which you access the Internet. We keep track of the domains from which people visit our site. Your IP address is used to help identify you, gather broad demographic data, identify trends and statistics, help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We may use your IP address information when compiling and reporting aggregate information to companies doing business with us. We normally do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information; however, when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, visitors, or others, we may use IP addresses to identify a visitor.

Cookies - Our site uses "cookies" to provide information on your computer. Cookies are pieces of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. Cookies save your preferences while you are at our site, and we may use them to provide you with tailored information. Our site may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, track visitor trends and practices, to save your password so you do not have to enter it every time you visit our site, to store visitor names and passwords, store and retrieve log-in information, and to otherwise customize your experience. In addition, cookies allow us to measure and report aggregate information to advertisers such as the number of people who see their ad and the number of times people see their ad. Also, cookies help us determine which areas of our site are popular by tracking hits to those areas. With the exception of your password, we may share this information with third parties. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent, or to reject cookies.

Outside advertising companies display advertisements on our site, some of which may contain cookies. We do not control these cookies. Cookies received with banner advertisements are collected by the advertising companies and we do not have access to this information.

As indicated above, we share some customer data with advertising companies.

Other Information Practices - We supplement information received from you with information received from third parties.

In addition to the situations described above, we may disclose visitor information in special instances when we have reason to believe disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with the Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau 's rights or property, other visiteauclaire.com visitors, or anyone else. We may disclose visitor information when subpoenaed, for government investigations, and when we otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires it.

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau may, from time to time, share information received from you or your computer with other entities such as advertisers on our web site or companies doing business with Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.

www.visiteauclaire.com contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites. You should check the privacy policies of these other Web sites when providing personally identifiable information.

You may, at any time, review, edit, and/or remove any information we have stored on you by contacting www.visiteauclaire.com through e-mail at webmaster@visiteauclaire.com. We will promptly comply with any request to review, edit, or remove information.

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services. You transmit information to us at your own risk. However, when you transmit credit card information to us, the credit card information is encrypted with SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Once we receive your transmission, we and our vendors make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to amend this policy at any time by notifying visitors of the existence of a new privacy policy. This privacy policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party. By using this site, you signify that you understand the terms of the www.visiteauclaire.com Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau web site following the posting of changes or amendments to these terms constitutes acceptance of such changes and amendments.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site, please contact:

Eau Claire Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

4319 Jeffers Road, Suite 201

Eau Claire, WI 54703

(888) 523-3866