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Privacy Policy

Personally Identifiable Information

Gatlinburg Tennessee Department of Tourism gathers personally identifiable information (name, e-mail address, etc.) and/or demographic data (zip code, interests, etc.) that you submit when you: 1) contact us or request a proposal, 2) complete a survey, 3) register for a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes, 4) sign-up for our mailing list, or 5) send us an e-mail. This information may be gathered through both on-line and off-line means. We may use this information to process and maintain your account, compile demographic statistics about our users, and display to you information that matches your interests and profile.

Web Traffic Data
Gatlinburg Tennessee Department of Tourism servers gather industry standard information (domain, IP address, referrer, browser used, etc.) via Web server traffic logs. From time-to-time, Gatlinburg Tennessee Department of Tourism will analyze these logs to better understand the traffic patterns of our site visitors. We use this data to better understand how our site is being used which helps us upgrade it appropriately for increased ease-of-use and functionality.

E-mail Communications
To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities. We also compare our user lists to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending unnecessary messages to you. If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please make a request to our database administrator (see below).

Cookies
Cookies are small bits of alphanumeric information that are placed and stored in your browser by our Web site. Gatlinburg Tennessee Department of Tourism uses cookies to calculate unique visitor sessions, keep a continuous session state when you visit, and know if you have seen our Shockwave Flash introduction movie or not, for example.

Correct/Update/Remove
At anytime, you may request to have your information corrected, updated, or removed from our database.

To make a request to our database administrator, please use our Contact Us page.

Questions?
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you may contact us.

Note: Gatlinburg Tennessee Department of Tourism may, from time-to-time,
update this privacy statement without notice.

Last updated 01/28/2009.