Privacy Policy

The St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (the “SLCVC”) respects the privacy of users of the www.explorestlouis.com website (the “Site”) and other sites operated by the SLCVC. We will take steps to protect your information. We will use the personal information you voluntarily provide exclusively to facilitate services that we provide to you.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

This Site only collects personal information when you voluntarily provide it. The SLCVC does not knowingly solicit personal information from children or send them requests for personal information.

The Site automatically logs anonymous navigation information about you from your browser when you visit the site, such as your IP address, the pages you visit, the date and time of your visit, and similar information, but it does not collect any personal information about you during that process. This Site may place and access cookies when you visit the Site A cookie is a small data file that web sites may send to your browser when you visit them. A cookie file contains information that can identify your computer each time you visit the site to customize it for your visit. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your e-mail address. This site uses cookies as a way to measure activity and traffic patterns on the Site. You may choose to set your computer to reject cookies from this Site if you wish.

From time to time, you may be asked to voluntarily provide us with personal information about you at various places on the Site. Such personal information includes your name, location, e-mail address, company affiliation, telephone number, and other similar information.

If you have provided us with your personal information, we will use it to keep you up to date on the latest SLCVC announcements, service updates, special offers and other information we think you’d like to hear about. We may also use it to customize the Site for your future visits.

SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

The SLCVC is not in the business of selling or renting your personal information. However, the SLCVC may share such information about you with businesses and other merchants in the St. Louis area for the purpose of providing you with information about these businesses and promoting the St. Louis area. The SLCVC may also share information about you with others under the following circumstances:

• when necessary to third parties who work for the SLCVC in order to process your requests;
• when you consent to disclosure;
• by operation of law, when such information is transferred as a part of sale of assets including the assets represented by this Site;
• to comply with law, court orders, subpoena or legal process; or
• to enforce or apply the SLCVC’s agreements or protect the SLCVC’s rights.

The Site may contain links to other websites. The SLCVC does not share your personal information with those sites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. Please contact those companies for more information on their privacy policies.

CORRECTING AND DELETING INFORMATION

If you wish to view the personal information the SLCVC has obtained about you, or if you want to modify it or remove it from the SLCVC’s files, please e-mail your request to:

webmaster@explorestlouis.com

With any request, provide SLCVC with a means to identify you and contact you if necessary. The SLCVC will respond to appropriate requests within a reasonable time.

DISPUTES AND CHANGES TO POLICY

The SLCVC may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If the SLCVC decides to change its privacy practices for this Site, it will post those changes to the Privacy Policy on the Site in advance of the changes taking effect. You should periodically check the Site to review changes. Any privacy-related disputes arising out of use of this Site are subject to the Site’s terms and conditions of use.

Posted March 24, 2011