Visitors Info
We respect and protect the privacy of our users.
Expatica promises never to sell, exchange or release your personal information without your consent to any third parties. Personal information includes name, e-mail address, postal address and answers to survey questions. Expatica.com does not monitor individual traffic patterns on our site - only aggregate reader behaviour is collected. We use this information only to help us develop Expatica to make your user experience more pleasurable.
Optional Registration
Expatica.com offers free, voluntary registration to users. By registering users will have complete access to all content and resources on the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password and email address, and must answer mandatory survey questions about age, gender, nationality, postal code.
Electronic Newsletters
Expatica offers electronic newsletters to users. Expatica.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page or by unsubscribing in the newsletter subscription area of our website. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
"Mail this Story to a Friend" and "Mail this Site to a Friend"
Expatica Article Mailer service allows a reader to electronically forward a news story or the Expatica homepage to someone else by clicking the appropriate link at the top of that story. The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the story. The information is not used for any other purpose.
Surveys
Occasionally Expatica conducts user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
Email Updates
Subscribers can receive various email updates that are sent out on a daily/weekly basis containing selected stories, together with some advertisements and hyperlinks to the Expatica site. Any subscriber who wishes to be removed from the mailing lists of one or more of these updates can do so at any time by emailing our Customer Service Department at info@expatica.com.
Discussion Forums
Expatica.com provides message boards for user discussion of various topics. Although any user may read messages posted to the boards, only registered users are permitted to post on the boards. Contributors to our forums have the option of remaining anonymous to other users.
Contests
Expatica sometimes offers contests in which certain personal information is required for registration, for purposes of verifying the entrants' identities and notifying the winners. If a third party is administering the contest, this information will be disclosed to that third party.
How do we use Cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to help track an individual's movements around the Expatica websites and monitor the presentation of advertisements. Cookies can be necessary when ordering a product online.
Cookies are not related to any personally identifiable information. They are not used to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. Advertisers may use cookies on Expatica solely for monitoring and tracking advertisement impressions.
If you prefer not to receive cookies, you are able to set your browser to refuse them. However, doing so may impair the functionality of some parts of the Expatica site.
Use of the Information
Expatica.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, Expatica uses information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to move seamlessly through the website. We send out our newsletter to subscribers on a regular schedule, and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly Interested in something we are doing.
We use tracking information to determine which areas our site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. Expatica does not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Expatica creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because Expatica doesn't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.
Expatica does allow select advertisers to mail promotions to registrants and newsletter recipients who have given us their permission to do so, and to include information with mailings and newsletters sent by Expatica. We do not give third parties direct access to your details without your permission. All promotions are pre-approved by Expatica and all mailings are conducted by a reputable third party mail house to ensure the names are not mis-used or used more than once. Our users have the option of "opting in" or "opting out" when their information is collected, if they would prefer to not receive promotions from our partners. You may change this designation at anytime.
Opt-in/Opt-out Policy
Expatica gives users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opt-in/Opt-out to receive our electronic newsletters when registering.
- Opt-in/Opt-out to receive periodic e-mails from Expatica.com regarding upcoming events and contests.
- Opt-in/Opt-out to receive correspondence from carefully chosen third-party advertisers.
Correcting Information
Expatica.com offers users the ability to correct or change the information collected during registration for any site (see above). Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems or who have any questions about how our services work can contact us at info@expatica.com.
Cancelling Subscriptions
A subscriber may at any time cancel his or her subscription by emailing feedback@expatica.com. Questions regarding this policy should be directed to info@expatica.com or our feedback forms.
Expatica.com reserves the right to modify this policy at any time without prior notice.
