Privacy

Principles

Travelog has been built with the following principles in mind:

• Don't require any more information than is necessary
• Allow people to hide the information that is gathered
• Don't divulge any information that is gathered

As a result, you can be sure that Travelog is not doing anything with the data it holds about you than using it to make a travel-oriented blogger. We don't sell info, don't expose it unnecesarily, and generally we're good guys who aren't out to sell your soul to Santa.

Privacy features

If you are just here to read other people's travelogs, then you don't need to know anything else but this: Travelog doesn't know who you are, has no way of finding out and would rather keep out of your business anyway. There are one or two things that you should know about privacy if you are an author though:

• You can choose what information you reveal (email address, physical address etc.) using the Privacy Preferences panel. This is located by default directly below the Diary Contents when you have logged in.
• You don't have to even store most of the information that you can. All you need to start a travelog is a user name and password. The rest is entirely optional.
• You can also lock your travelog in order to prevent just anyone reading it, and also lock your articles individually, in case you just want to keep some articles private.

The upshot is that the Travelog wants you to be secure that we aren't disrespecting your privacy — you can browse here anonymously and even write travelogs anonymously.

P3P

The W3C's P3P is a mechanism for websites to announce to visitors' browsers what the site policy is with respect to protecting their privacy. Travelog's P3P compliance is limited (because it is hard to understand and there wasn't the technology available to exploit it when the site was developed) but you can see the data which P3P compliant devices use.

The most important document (and the only one that is supposed to be read by humans) is the privacy policy, here. The other two P3P documents are for processing by computers, but you can see them if you wish: the compact policy statment and the full policy.

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