Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how The Travel Spark Company LLC handles information in connection with Tourism Gatlinburg at tourismgatlinburg.com. It covers this website; separate booking, tourism and other websites have their own policies.

Information you choose to provide

If you use the contact form, we receive the name, email address and message you submit. We use this information to understand and respond to your request, review corrections and maintain relevant correspondence. Please do not include payment details, identification documents, passwords or other sensitive personal information.

If you subscribe to a newsletter, we use your email address and the subscription choices or confirmation information collected by the sign-up service to manage the subscription and send the updates you requested. You can use the unsubscribe option included in newsletter messages. A contact message does not itself subscribe you to a newsletter.

Technical information and security

The website and its hosting and security services may process technical details such as an IP address, browser information, request times, requested addresses and security events. These details help deliver pages, investigate errors, limit abuse and protect the website. Our contact form uses verification and rate controls to reduce automated misuse.

Essential browser storage may be used to keep necessary features working and remember choices. Travel tools may use additional storage or request information needed for their features. You can review or remove cookies and local storage through your browser settings; doing so may reset choices or affect some functionality.

Travel tools, affiliate links and external services

Tour and accommodation features may obtain information from travel services and load images or other resources from their systems. Those requests can reveal technical information, including an IP address and browser details, to the service receiving the request. Where travel tools ask for information, review the relevant notices before providing it.

Some booking links are affiliate links. If you follow a link, the destination website and its partners may use a referral identifier or other tracking information to attribute a booking or visit. We may receive a commission for a qualifying purchase. We do not receive your payment-card details through an ordinary outgoing booking link and do not control the external checkout or reservation.

Brevo supports newsletter management and contact-message delivery where those features are available. Hosting, security and other service providers may process information on our behalf as needed to provide their services. We may also disclose information where required by applicable law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, security or the integrity of the service.

Purposes and retention

We process information to provide the website, respond to requests, deliver requested updates, maintain records and prevent misuse. Where applicable law requires consent or another basis for a particular activity, we use the relevant basis and respect the choices available for that activity.

We retain information for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including correspondence, security, legal and recordkeeping needs. Different categories of records may have different retention periods. Removing information from an active service may not immediately remove it from protected backups.

Your choices and requests

You may unsubscribe from newsletters, limit optional information you provide and manage browser storage. Depending on applicable law and your circumstances, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion or restriction of certain information, or to object to certain processing. To make a privacy request, use the Contact page and describe the request. We may need information to verify that the request concerns your data.

Information may be processed in locations different from where you live by the services involved in operating the website. Privacy protections and legal requirements can differ between locations. External websites, embedded services and booking partners are responsible for their own practices; review their policies when you use them.

Children, changes and contact

This website is a general travel guide and is not directed to children. A parent or guardian who believes a child has provided personal information through the site may contact us to request review.

We may update this policy as the website or its practices change. The policy available on this page is the current version. Questions about this policy or our handling of information can be sent through the Contact page.