Privacy Statement for CRT.STATE.LA.US

Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: louisianatravel.com.

Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. We use cookies to collect this information.

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email) and has an optional request for demographic information (like age and income level). Our site also has an order form for customers to receive additional information on our state. We use customer contact information from the registration form and order forms to send the user information about our state. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary for surveys or contest entries. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis.

This site contains links to other sites. www.crt.state.la.us is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

We have several partnership relationships throughout the site such as LouisianaRadio and Travelocity. We share aggregate user information with these partners, but any information you submit to these partners will fall under their privacy policies.

We use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. Some customer data is shared with the advertising companies.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.