While browsing our website, visitors are not required to provide any personal information unless they choose to send us a message using the Contact Us section of our website.  We take great care in handling the personal information of our website visitors.  All personal information provided by visitors through the Contact Us section, such as names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and telephone numbers, will be used only to respond to visitor inquiries.  We do not sell or rent personal information to third parties.

Grand American Travels, Inc. (GAT) uses Google Analytics, a web analytics tool operated by Google, to assist it in understanding how visitors engage with its website.  GAT uses the Google Analytics reports to gauge which of its tour pages get the most visits and are the most popular.  The following is a summary of the service Google provides to GAT:

Google Analytics allows GAT to view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with its website so GAT can improve it.  Google Analytics collects this information anonymously and reports website trends to GAT without identifying individual users.

Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions.  These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been on GAT’s site before, and what site referred the visitor to GAT’s webpage.  Browsers do not share first-party cookies across domains.

Google Analytics collects the IP address of GAT’s website visitors in order to provide GAT a sense of where in the world its visitors come from.  This method is known as IP geolocation.

By visiting GAT’s website, users consent to the collection of their visitor data, including their IP address by Google.  GAT website users have the option to opt out of having their data collected by Google Analytics.  In order to opt out, users can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for their current web browser at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

For more information on Google Analytics and Google’s Privacy Policy, please visit:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html; andhttp://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.