Privacy Policy

Privacy and Conditions for Use Statement for the Meet Minneapolis™, Official Convention + Visitors Association

GENERAL
Meet Minneapolis™, Official Convention + Visitors Association maintains this site for your personal information, education and communication. Sites operated by Meet Minneapolis include: www.meetminneapolis.com, www.minneapolis.org, www.minneapolismeetings.com, www.minneapolisattendee.com, www.glbtminneapolis.org, www.minneapolis-art.com, www.minneapolisconventioncenter.org, www.tctix.com, www.meetminneapolis.com/members, www.minneapolis-riverfront.com and http://weddings.minneapolis.org.

You may browse all "public" areas of this site. You 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 Meet Minneapolis.

Meet Minneapolis uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on this site and makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Meet Minneapolis assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this site.

This site does contain links to other sites. Meet Minneapolis is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any site other than our own.

Meet Minneapolis does not require any personal information for accessing this site. You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question. We will use the information you provide us to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we will forward your e-mail to Meet Minneapolis members or to other visitor service agencies that may be better able to help you. Meet Minneapolis may gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. We will use the information to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make the site more useful to visitors like you.

"Cookies" are data files that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the site. These data files include information that allows our site to remember important information that will make your use of the site more efficient and useful to you. Our sites use cookies for a variety of purposes. We use cookie technology and IP addresses to obtain non-personal information from on-line visitors, and also to provide registered visitors with the best possible personalized on-line experience.

Visitors to our sites use different web browsers and different computers. To make your visits as easy as possible with the technology you use, we automatically keep track of the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape) and operating system (e.g., Windows, Macintosh) used by a visitor, and the domain name of the visitor's Internet service provider. We also track the total number of visitors to our site in an aggregate form to allow us to update and improve our site; personally identifiable information is not extracted in this process. This data tells us if more visitors prefer certain features or areas to others, which helps us keep our site fresh and interesting to the majority of our visitors.

Cookie technology helps us deliver content tailored to a visitor's interests, and allows us to make ordering products, entering and participating in sweepstakes and contests, and offering other functions at our site easier for our visitors. Sites that offer online shopping use cookies to remember and process the items in your shopping cart. Where permitted, we may associate personal information with a cookie file in such instances.

If you don't want cookies, you can set your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or turn off all cookies through your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator). (Check your browser HELP menu to learn the correct way to change or update your cookies.) If you disable cookies, you may be unable to access some of the features noted above.

Meet Minneapolis may at times revise these terms and conditions by updating this posting and may also make changes to the content or any links at any time. You are bound to periodically visit this page to review the terms and conditions for use.

Your trust and privacy is of the greatest importance to Meet Minneapolis. We may ask for your opinion or interests on certain programs or information available from Meet Minneapolis. The information gathered is used to customize our responses to your online requests. We will not share, sell or rent this information.

MEMBERS
Meet Minneapolis members include corporations, businesses and organizations that have joined together to service the Minneapolis convention and tourism industry.

Private areas of this site are password protected and intended for the use of Meet Minneapolis members only. Passwords are provided only to Meet Minneapolis members in good standing and may be terminated, changed or reassigned at any time by Meet Minneapolis.

Meet Minneapolis uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on this site and makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Meet Minneapolis assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this site.

This site does contain links to other sites. Meet Minneapolis is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any site other than our own.

Meet Minneapolis does not require any personal information for accessing this site. You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question. We will use the information you provide us to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we will forward your e-mail to Meet Minneapolis members or to other visitor service agencies that may be better able to help you.

EMAIL POLICIES
When providing your personal information online including email addresses, we do not buy or sell contact lists for any reason with third parties.

To ensure that our email servers are not "blacklisted" as a source of SPAM, we ask that you do the following please add your regular contacts at Meet Minneapolis to your personal and organization's contact databases or address books.

Taking these steps will help legitimate email coming from Meet Minneapolis bypass most spam-blocking measures, and help ensure that important messages, member opportunities and event notices will reach your email inbox.

CHILDREN
We care about personal privacy and take special care with young children. Different jurisdictions define a "child" somewhat differently, based on their own laws. Young children are in the following jurisdictions children who are under: Argentina 18 years, Australia 18 years, Austria 14 years, Brazil 12 years, China 18 years, Czech Republic 18 years, Denmark 18 years, Finland 18 years, Germany 14 years, France 16 years, Italy 18 years, Japan 16 years, Mexico 12 years, Netherlands 16 years, Norway 15 years, Poland 14 years, Portugal 18 years, Russia 18 years, Slovakia 16 years, Spain 16 years, Sweden 13 years, Switzerland 14 years, U.K. 16 years, USA 13 years and for all other countries, 13 years.

In areas where we may collect information from young children, we urge you to monitor and supervise your children's Internet activities. We also ask children to tell us their age to restrict them from accessing certain sites or areas. We may ask them to provide a parent's email address so that we can contact the parent to notify them of our privacy policy, and/or obtain parental consent where required.

Any time we know that a young child has given us personal information, it will not be shared with or sold to third parties, including our affiliates, absent parental consent. Personal information about young children is available only to those who work at or on the site or who provide technical and other fulfillment support services to the site. We do not require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in a newsletter, contest, game or other activity as a condition of participation. Upon proper identification, parents may review the personal information we have collected about the child, request deletion, or refuse to allow further collection or use.

We recommend that you, as parents, monitor your children's on-line activities and learn about and use software or other tools which can help you assure that children experience the fun and entertainment of an on-line experience in a manner that reflects your own preferences. We hope that you and your children enjoy our site and visit us often!

We will collect a child's email address to sign the child up for our email newsletter or for an online sweepstakes or contest, or to register to participate in certain features at our sites. Where we know the user is a young child (we may ask for age or birth date to find this out), we may ask the child to provide a parent's email address and send an e-mail notice to the parent regarding the child's request. Those notices give the parent a chance to opt-out of the information-collection on behalf of the child, or, where necessary offer instructions on how to provide consent. To enter certain sweepstakes or contests, we may ask a child if they're a boy or a girl, or ask them what they like and don't like in general - hobbies, activities, taste preferences, school interests, pets, and the like. We may sometimes ask visitors to respond to polls or surveys. Often, information can be provided anonymously and won't be associated with a visitor's name, address, email address or the like. Some contests may offer children a chance to express themselves creatively by sending or e-mailing stories or pictures. We will not post pictures of users whom we know are young children along with personally identifying information online (such as full name, home address, or email address) without parental consent.

We use personal information to respond to a child's question or request, such as a request for homework help, signing them up for our periodic email newsletters, or entering them in a contest or sweepstake. We may use a parent's email address provided by a child to notify parents that the child has won a sweepstake or contest, or to ask parents of winners for home address information to send a parental consent form or affidavit of eligibility to sign on behalf of their child. As noted above, we will not provide your child's personal information to third parties without your consent.

ONLINE BOOKING
To provide online travel booking throughout our websites, Meet Minneapolis has partnered with World Choice Travel. Read the WCT privacy policy here.

If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please exit the site immediately.