Privacy
Policy

Who we are

Visit Fairmont is a tourism marketing organization with the purpose of promoting the importance of tourism and educating partners and stakeholders to attract new visitors and encourage return visits. Our actions will facilitate overnight stays and strengthen the quality of life and economic vitality of our community. It starts with a visit.

General

The Fairmont Convention & Visitors Bureau (“Visit Fairmont”) respects the privacy and confidentiality of individuals who visit the Visit Fairmont website located at www.visitfairmontmn.com (“the Visit Fairmont Website”). Visit Fairmont maintains this Privacy Policy to help you understand the commitment of Visit Fairmont to safeguard the privacy of the information you provide to Visit Fairmont on the Visit Fairmont Website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that Vist Fairmont will collect from you on the Visit Fairmont Website and how Visit Fairmont will use that information.

Collection of Your Personal Information by Visit Fairmont:

When you engage in certain activities on the Visit Fairmont Website, such as signing up to receive our newsletter, purchasing products on the Visit Fairmont Website, or providing feedback on the Visit Fairmont Website, we may ask you to provide personal and other information. Visit Fairmont’s goal is to provide you with personalized services and offerings designed to enhance your Fairmont, Minnesota, experience. To do so effectively, Visit Fairmont collects the following information:

(a) Personally Identifiable Information: Visit Fairmont, through the use of Visit Fairmont’s Website, only collects personally identifiable information about you when you voluntarily provide such personally identifiable information to Visit Fairmont using the Visit Fairmont Website. In order to engage in some of the activities on the Visit Fairmont Website, you will be required to provide information that lets us know the specifics of who you are, such as your first name, last name, mailing address, zip code, e-mail address, travel information, credit card and/or other information. It is optional for you to engage in these activities. Depending upon the activity, some of the information we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some is voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to engage in that activity or you limit your ability to use all or a portion of the Visit Fairmont Website. If you do not wish your personally identifiable information to be collected, please do not submit it.

(b) Information from the Use of “Cookies”: The Visit Fairmont Website employs “cookie” technology. Cookies are small pieces of data stored in files on your computer allowing the Visit Fairmont Website to track your use of the Visit Fairmont Website as you visit and revisit the Visit Fairmont Website. The use of cookies by the Visit Fairmont Website complies with generally accepted programming standards and practices. Please note that you can choose to block the use of cookies through settings in your web browser but be advised that certain features of the BCVB Website may not work properly without them.

Use of Your Information by Visit Fairmont:

It is the policy of Visit Fairmont not to sell, share, transfer, or rent to third parties any information you provide to Visit Fairmont, through the use of the Visit Fairmont Website, without your written consent except as required by operation of the law or in compliance with legal authorities; provided, however Visit Fairmont may share your personal information with certain third parties (“Target Third Parties”) without your written consent in order to further the purpose for which you voluntarily provide Visit Fairmont with the information. Additionally,  Visit Fairmont engages third party information management service providers to help maintain efficient operations. Since such information management service providers may access our systems, such information management service providers may have access to your information. Visit Fairmont does not transfer or relinquish ownership of information maintained about you within Visit Fairmont systems and databases to such information management service providers but requires these information management service providers to sign confidentiality agreements to keep all confidential information and other proprietary information found in our systems confidential.

Visit Fairmont routinely collects, compiles, and reports statistics and information reflecting the use of the Visit Fairmont Website and information services in order to enhance membership services, advertising services, improve marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Visit Fairmont Website usage, improve the Visit Fairmont Website’s content and layout, generate aggregate reports on trends, interests and behavior and enhance service offerings.

Visit Fairmont reserves the right to take any action Visit Fairmont deems prudent or necessary to safeguard the Visit Fairmont Website and your information in the Visit Fairmont systems and databases from malicious or unwarranted attack by viruses, hackers, or other miscreants.

Electronic Newsletters:

We offer free, electronic newsletters, updates and e-mail reminders as a service to our registrants, based upon your voluntary subscription. You will only receive an electronic newsletter if you have requested it (opted-in) and provided us with your email address. We use your email address to send electronic newsletters, but do not share our mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers or partners.

Content:

Visitors may browse all public areas of this site. Visitors may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, or use the content of the site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, maps, etc., without the written permission of Visit Fairmont. Visit Fairmont strives to include accurate and up-to-date content and information on their sites, but makes no warranties or representations as to their accuracy. Visit Fairmont assumes no liability or Visit Fairmont websites contain links to other sites. Visit Fairmont is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any site outside their own site content.

Questions and Concerns:

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or any of Visit Fairmont’s use of your information, please contact Visit Fairmont at the following e-mail address: [email protected]