Gulliver is an on-line service that, among other things, helps our users to research study abroad programs and destinations, post reviews and discussions, create a member profile, upload photos, view reviews, discussions, and profiles posted by other Gulliver users, and interact with other Gulliver users.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, a "member" is defined as someone that has created a personal profile on the www.gullivergo.com (the “Gulliver Site”), a “visitor” is someone that uses the Gulliver Site without creating a personal profile, a "user" is defined as someone using the Gulliver Site and includes both members and visitors. Subject to the settings you chose in your account, and in order to enrich our members' experience, we may request and display some personal information to other members and visitors. Such information allows our users to identify each other and expand their network of fellow travelers and friends. Gulliver members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them. For example, in your account settings you may chose to display you personal information to (i) no one, (ii) designated friends, or (iii) to all other users.

By using Gulliver, you agree to the Terms of Service and Copyright Agreement (which are incorporated herein by reference), and also permit the collection and use of your personal information as outlined below in our Privacy Policy. You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Terms of Service, Copyright Agreement and Privacy Policy.

Information we Collect & How we use it

The Gulliver Site collects user submitted information such as name and email address to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Gulliver service. Gulliver also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, travel interests and history, gender, nationality, languages, home and overseas address, educational background and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

The Gulliver Site also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes, and to provide a customized service to each member.

User Profile information including members' pictures and names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Gulliver social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Gulliver, to add users to members' friends' networks, and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a member's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network unless the member specifically chooses to do so. Users within a personal network can communicate on the Gulliver Site with each other through the Gulliver service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users' full names, home addresses, and mobile phone numbers are never directly revealed to other members unless the member specifically chooses to do so. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, the Gulliver Site allows users to search for other members using a variety of methods including, without limitation, first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the service. Members may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings" section of their member profile. From time to time, Gulliver or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on the Gulliver Site. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members

Gulliver members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. The Gulliver Site stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations Gulliver does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from Gulliver may contact Gulliver to request the removal of their information from our database.

Links

Our website may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. Gulliver does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy policies on these third party websites.

Cookies

Like most websites, Gulliver requires cookies to function properly. Cookies are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify you as a unique user. We use cookies to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of cookies allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and password every time. You should be aware that Gulliver cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or any information advertisers may gather from their use of cookies. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) available on the Gulliver Site.

Controlling Your Personal Content

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to study abroad program reviews, discussions, and public sections of your personal profile, that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

As a registered Gulliver user, you can modify your personal information at any time by accessing the "Edit My Profile" section of the site. Also, upon your request, Gulliver will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally remove you and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained by Gulliver.

Security

Gulliver member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Gulliver tries very hard to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. Your password is securely encrypted such that we are not able to access, view or change it. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

You hereby acknowledge that Gulliver is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

Emails and Opt-out

At this time, registered members cannot opt-out of personal messages initiated by friends and users.

Minors

This website is not directed to minors, and Gulliver does not knowingly solicit information from any minor under the age of 18. Should a minor whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that minor (or a parent or guardian) to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information Gulliver Collects

Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Gulliver will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by the Gulliver site, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce Gulliver's Terms of Service (including all other agreements, policies, rules and guidelines referred to therein) or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Gulliver reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Gulliver or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted If, however, we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.