Flight Attendants.org respects your privacy, and we want you to understand the ways in which we do and don't use the information that you transmit when you visit our Web site. This statement discloses the privacy practices for all pages of Flight Attendants.org including our Discussion Forums and Member Gallery.

Basics

The information gathered by Flight Attendants.org falls into two categories: (1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our Web sites through optional registration on our Discussion Forums and Member Gallery and (2) tracking information routinely gathered as visitors navigate through our sites.

To make use of certain features on our Web sites (such our Discussion Forums), visitors need to register and to provide certain information as part of the registration process. (We may ask, for example, for your name, geographic location, e-mail address, current occupation, and optional additional information you wish to provide.) The information you supply will help us to understand where our Members originate from, who is currently in the field of aviation and who is visiting to learn about how to become involved in a career in aviation.  Additionally, the information you supply will help other Members to learn a bit about you, thus create a "Community" type atmosphere.

Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you're still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our site without registration.

Cookies

To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we invoke a standard feature found in browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we won't know who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we don't control.

We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. For example, if the majority of site visitor are viewing the site in 1024x768 resolution, we would then "optimise" our site for the majority visitors.  In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our sites visited by our users. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often. Of course, you can set your browser not to accept cookies, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of the personalized features enjoyed by other visitors to our sites.

IP Addresses

Our Web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the Web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our Web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users and to measure traffic within our sites.  Only under extreme circumstances, if it is clear to us that a visitor is causing disturbance on our site we can and will submit any offensive I.P. address, informing them of the nature of the disturbance, to the users ISP (Internet Service Provider) which may result in termination of Internet privileges.

Information Sharing and Sites Beyond Flight Attendants.org

To make our site more valuable to our visitors, we may offer some features in conjunction with other providers. Our branded e-mail program, for example, is made available through cooperative arrangements with a provider that specialize in operating such services and will receive the information you provide when you register for, and use, this service. Additionally, we may offer our visitors a sponsors product or service by way of banner ad.  To take advantage of these services, you may need to provide personal information to the other provider. And, of course, our sites include links to plenty of other Web sites whose privacy policies we don't control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you're visiting. And when you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services, even if it appears that you're on Flight Attendants.org-branded pages throughout the transaction. That policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from that sites homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

When we present information to our advertisers — to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our Web sites — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites.

Media

Media are respectfully requested to contact admin@flightattendants.org for permission to quote, in all or part, any information contained within this site and in particular on our Discussion Forums.  Members who sign their postings with their actual name should understand that Flight Attendants.org can not control whether or not the Media respects our copyright notice, and is in no way responsible for printed articles, written by journalists, who did not obtain explicit permission to reprint our Members words in their publication.  If you post an article in the Discussion Forum(s) or the Member Gallery and do not wish your identity to be revealed publicly, then please sign your posting with an "alias" thereby protecting your true identity.

Encryption and Security

All information gathered on the Flight Attendants.org Web site is not encrypted but is stored within a Flight Attendants.org-controlled database. Flight Attendants.org seeks to safeguard the information you provide and therefore any information collected about site visitors is double password protected. However, no security system is completely impenetrable, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum, photo gallery or other public-posting area is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don't want people to know your e-mail address, for example, don't include it in any message you post publicly.

Sweepstakes and Contests

From time to time, Flight Attendants.org may offer contests, sweepstakes or other promotions (collectively "contests") on our sites. If you enter a contest, you'll have to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address, and e-mail address) so that we can contact you if you win. We will NOT share this information with anyone; however, if a contest is offered in conjunction with a co-sponsor we may be required to provide them with information about you. If you don't want us to collect the information requested in the contest registration form or to provide it to contest co-sponsors, please don't enter the contest.

A Final Note:

The Internet (or 'Web') is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes here. Of course, our use of information gathered while the current policy is in effect will always be consistent with the current policy, even if we change that policy later. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please send an e-mail to admin@flightattendants.org.  Thanks for making Flight Attendants.org a part of your online experience.   We are always open to hearing your valuable comments and suggestions!

Last Updated:  December 7, 2003