Privacy policy
Muir’s Tours has provided this privacy policy because we value your right to privacy. This policy describes the types of information Muir’s Tours gathers from its users and how that information is used. Please read this policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. If you have questions about this policy, e-mail us at info@nkf-mt.org.uk  

 
Information we collect

1. Unregistered users

We encourage you to register with us in order to take advantage of Muir’s Tour' monthly newsletters and personalised trip planning. However, you may choose not to register and still have full access to our site.

If you do not register, then the information we collect from you is limited. We log your IP address in order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Web site and track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same, depending on whether you access our site through an always-on type of Internet connection (e.g., cable modem or DSL), or through a dial-up connection (e.g., AOL or Earthlink). Either way, it would be extremely difficult for us to identify you through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so. If you reached our site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site, then we also log that information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure, and to understand the interests of our users. All of this information is collected and used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not individual reports.

We also place a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site, and to help us to improve our site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so, you may find that your browser reacts strangely when visiting not only our Web site, but other Web sites as well. Since cookies don't provide us with any information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one on your computer.

If you visit our site by "clicking-through" from a site operated by one of our partners, and you have registered with that partner, then certain information about you that you have provided to that partner may be transmitted to us. You should review the privacy policy of the Web site from which you reached our site in order to determine what information was collected and how you agreed that our partner could use that information. Regardless of what information was transmitted to us, however, we don't keep it unless you register with us.

2. Registered users

The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better. Among other things, these benefits include a personalised product suggestion service tailored to your profile and interests. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that Muir’s Tours has to offer!

If you register with us, we will collect personal information from you. That information may include your name, postal address, telephone number and travel preferences. The information we collect may vary, but we only collect the information that you manually enter into our forms.  

How we use the information we collect

We use the information we collect to improve our service to you. We might use the information to enable us to notify you of special offers and for other similar reasons. However, we will do so only if you specifically authorize us to in the registration form. You can change your registered details at any time by advising us by email  and we will make every reasonable effort to honour your request. We may also use the information you provide to allow us to contact you for administrative purposes.

You can cancel your registration with us by email and adding your name to the subject of the e-mail. We will send you an e-mail to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation, we will remove your information from its active database, but some information may remain in our archives.  

Disclosure of your information

Muir’s Tours does not sell or rent any personally identifiable information to any third party, other than our partners, as necessary to make your travel arrangements.

As you might expect, Muir’s Tours must cooperate with legal authorities, and may in some circumstances be required to disclose personally identifiable information in response to requests from law enforcement authorities, or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We don't expect this to happen, but if it does, we will provide only the information required. In other words, we will not simply turn over our database in response to a specific legal requirement. We can also turn over information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation of the law, and by accepting this policy, you consent to our doing so, in our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing information about you in the course of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so will assist us in enforcing our legal rights.

Of course, Muir’s Tours will take reasonable measures to secure the information you provide us, using industry-standard methods. However, there is a remote possibility that internet transmissions containing your personal information may be intercepted by others. There is no way for us to ensure the privacy of your information before it arrives at our site or after it leaves our site.

We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make significant changes, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to cancel your registration.