• General
  We care about providing you with tools and information to manage and protect your online privacy. We have developed this privacy policy to inform you about what information this web site collects, who may receive that information, what we may do with the information, and how long we keep it. While we have made every attempt to make this policy as clear as possible.
  
• Your Information
  We will not give out any personal information you submit at our site to any third parties except in compliance with a bona-fide request of a law enforcement agency. Under no circumstances will your name, e-mail, or address be sold to, or given to any other parties. We will never willfully sell, lease, or rent any of your or your business' personally identifiable information to any third party.
• Collected Information
  Your personal information is collected through our contact forms, newsletter, and survey only The survey and newsletter will set a cookie on your computer that stores information about your form responses such that if you want to return and view, or modify, your data, you may do so. The information you provide when you register for our survey is used for that purpose only.
• Weather
  The weather information on the weather page, which is ported from The Weather Channel, may set cookies on your computer if you follow its links, but we have no control over, or, access to, those cookies. Furthermore, many blocking applications, such as Ad-Aware, can block these sort of cookies from being set.
• email
  This web site currently has no applications or programs that gather information from your computer without your consent. Users are required to give us contact information (e.g., your name and email address) Certain information, such as your email address, is collected in order to verify your identity and for use in our records, thereby enabling us to reply to you, if necessary.
• Electronic Newsletters
  The Blackthorne Inn offers free electronic newsletters to users. We gather the e-mail addresses and other demographic information of users who voluntarily subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the instructions contained in every newsletter.
• Surveys
  The Blackthorne Inn occasionally conducts customer surveys to better target our content and services to our customers. We never share any information about specific individuals with any third party, except if directed by competent legal authority.
• Contests and sweepstakes
  The Blackthorne Inn ocassionally offers contests and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal information. These contests and sweepstakes are conducted in full accordance with United States federal and state laws. The full rules and all information about such contests are clearly posted during such events. Information gathered is used only to verify user identity and to contact winners and/or prize recipients, except when specifically noted otherwise. Again, we do not share information about specific individuals with any third party, except if directed by competent legal authority.
• Usage tracking
  The Blackthorne Inn tracks user traffic patterns throughout our website and this information is correlated with data about individual users. Overall usage statistics, according to a user's domain name, browser type and MIME type gotten by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser), are also broken down.
• Cookies
  A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such including a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. The Blackthorne Inn uses cookies to track the items you add to your planig cart.

  If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie.

  You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. However, you may find that browsing the The Blackthorne Inn website operates differently

• Use of the information
  The Blackthorne Inn uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in ourf site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
  
  As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and enable users to participate in polls. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a recurring schedule and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. We never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties.
  
  We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you
  
  The Blackthorne Inn uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help us better understand our audience demographics. We do not share information about individual users with any third party, except if directed by competent legal authority.

• Summation
  If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, please contact us.

For reservations contact us at 540-592-3848

The Blackthorne Inn
10087 John S. Mosby Highway
Upperville, Virginia 20184-1742