Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Destination Wake Forest (“We”) values your privacy. We collect very little identifiable data about our registered users. We require registration to post or comment and for other special features of the site. As part of the registration process, you will need to type in a special code to prove you’re not a “spam-bot”.  The purpose of this is to prevent spam crawlers from commenting, posting, or corrupting, site content.

Username and e-mail Address

During the registration process, two fields are required:

•    Username

•    E-mail address

Your username can be your real name or a “handle” by which you wish to be known. Your username will be displayed on the site when you post comments or stories. If you configure the contact information in your profile, other registered users will be able to e-mail you via a form, but your e-mail address will not be exposed.

Your e-mail address will never be made public by this site.

Destination Wake Forest may, on occasion, e-mail users directly to notify them about site news. Such mass e-mails will be infrequent. In the future, we may add the ability to opt-in (or opt-out of) e-mail distribution lists, which may be used to bring you news of third party entities, including advertisers. 

We will never sell or give away the e-mail addresses of registered users. Nor will we grant access of this list to a third party. Should you receive a suspicious e-mail claiming to be from Destination Wake Forest, on behalf of Destination Wake Forest, or with the endorsement of Destination Wake Forest, please contact us immediately for verification.

Cookies

The registration process creates a cookie that will be used to identify you as a returning user. This is done by many sites, generally for the benefit of the user. For example, the cookie will let the site know the last time you logged in so it can show you new information such as comments or posts. Nothing else is done with this information.

At present, Google AdSense and our OpenX are being used for our banner advertising. Some of these banners may also use cookies for statistical purposes.

To measure our traffic, we use Google Analytics and Quantcast. These do not track individual users, but instead record general traffic information.  This is helpful for us to serve our users and to show our advertisers the breakdown of our traffic. These tools may also use cookies for statistical purposes.

You may choose to disable, delete, or clear cookies within your Web browser. Each browser has its own method of allowing you to do this. Please consult the Help for your browser if you are not familiar with making this change. Also, note that disabling, deleting, or clearing cookies in your browser may result in re-entering information into certain Web sites, and the loss of certain customizations.

Some advertising partners (such as Google AdSense) may use something known as “Web beacons,” which display advertising based on factors such as your particular geographic area. Again, this does not identify individuals, only general locations based on IP Addresses.

Other information

Certain standard “log” information is collected on each visit by our servers. This information records details such as the time of visit, pages viewed, the type of browser used, IP address, whether the user came from another site, and if so, which site. This is not used to create individual user profiles. It is used, like the tracking software mentioned above, to see what is generating the most interest.

If you have any questions about our privacy and cookie polices, please contact Dennis Hebert or Tim Lavallee at contact@destinationwakeforest.com.