ABOUT US: Definition
“Spirit of Place” - definition
“Spirit of Place” is the translation of “Genius Loci”, a Latin expression used by the old Romans to indicate the special atmosphere and meaning of a place. Before building a house, a temple, a palace or even a city, they first wanted to interpret the site, nature, views and understand the ‘spirit’ of that place. Then they placed windows, columns, porticoes and rooms in the right position to emphasize, interpret and welcome that Spirit. Now, the whole country of Italy is a collage of Spirit of Places. Through the centuries people always felt the need to describe and capture this “Italian Spirit” of unique places in architecture, writings, films, music, poetry, photography and other ways of communication. For the foreigner, it is something to be discovered, understood and being fascinated by.
ABOUT US: Philosophy
Traveling is to be surprised by the view of a striking coastline
A dramatic mountain landscape fields full of grapes
A beautiful sunset
Traveling is about curiosity. Finding out what Po around the corner.
Feeling the "spirit" of a place tasting history
Meeting new people
Traveling is about sharing tasting a perfect wine
Savoring a wonderful meal being in the right company
"drunk on love"
Traveling is using all your senses seeing a fine piece of art
Listening to beautiful music tasting the salty sea
A summer breeze on your skin
Traveling is an experience. Living your dreams
Creating precious memories a way to enlarge your horizon
A way to enrich your soul
Traveling is a passion an escape from daily routine
It's about exploring the road from your head to your heart
Traveling is about feeling free and young again
It is about enjoying life
...Life at its purest
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Spirit of Places Ltd. respects your privacy and it is committed to protect the personal information you have decided to share with us. Spirit of Places Ltd. understands that sharing travel information and some of your personal data involves a great deal of trust on our and your part. We take this trust very seriously and this is why we collect your data and assign you a personal Identification Number (I.D.) before connecting you to outside suppliers and providers of travel services you choose, at least in the initial correspondence phase, and before you seriously commit with their offers. In other cases, when you decide to manage your own travel needs, reservations and bookings by using our affiliated travel suppliers, which are totally independent companies from us, you will be linked to their availability, reservation and booking systems which carry their own Terms and Conditions for you to accept and be regulated by and over which Spirit of Places Ltd. does not have any control whatsoever. In these cases, you are giving your personal data to these outside reputable and known companies and you are under their Privacy Policies, not Spirit of Places Ltd.’s.
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- Collection of Information: When you start browsing Spirit of Places Ltd. web site and have not signed-in/registered yet for online services and travel information from Spirit of Places Ltd., you browse anonymously. Spirit of Places Ltd. however, uses “cookies”, “clients variables” to collect statistical information about how the web site and server are used and to recognize you as a returned online service user. Before sharing important information in our exclusive Portfolio of collected Travel Services with the web user, Spirit of Places Ltd.’s policy requires that you, the web user, sign-in/register with Spirit of Places Ltd. and accept all its Terms & Conditions. Therefore, you voluntarily accept to share some of your personal data with us and this is to enhance your site experience, expedite communications, accept your travel requests, put you in touch with outside specific-to-your-needs travel suppliers of services, and help you design and plan the best possible quality travel experience. Allowing Spirit of Places Ltd. to collect some information about you, such as name, location, email, contact phone number, etc. will expedite our communication with you and share with you specific important information collected by us during years of travel experience, knowledge and passion for the discovering of special places and special interest services.
- Use of collected information: Spirit of Places Ltd. uses your personal information, voluntarily given to us by you, only for the purpose of responding and processing your requests for Spirit of Places Ltd.’s travel services and, if necessary, will have to share your data only to those authorized and trusted outside travel service providers/suppliers partnered and/or affiliated with Spirit of Places Ltd. (but over which Spirit of Places Ltd. does not have any control whatsoever) and who need them to provide with their own travel services to you. After signing-in, you will be assigned your own Customer ID number with which you will be initially put in touch with outside providers/suppliers of travel services and therefore furthermore protect your privacy until your personal data is necessary to finalize the reservation/booking of travel services. Therefore, we may use personal information you have given us within the group of companies, which could provide further specific travel services to you.
- Control of your personal data: During the sign-in process, you can choose your own User Name and Password and you will receive a confirmation by email with your personal Identification Number (I.D.) assigned by us. This will facilitate your future logins and at the same time you will be able to edit your own information as necessary.
- Become a Spirit of Places Ltd. member: The sign-in process allows you to become a Spirit of Places Ltd.’s member and to access important additional information within our portfolio of travel services. This is important because only those who sign-in will be able to benefit of many additional important and valuable information collected by our many years of searching and selecting quality places, facilities, services. When you sign-in/register to become a member of Spirit of Places Ltd., we use your information to create your member account.
- Cookies: Spirit of Places Ltd. does, however, use “cookies”, “clients variables” and “session variables” to collect information about how the site and server are used and to recognize you as a Spirit of Places Ltd. online service user when you re-enter our site. We strongly suggest that you choose to accept “cookies” in your browser preferences because if you do not you will not be able to access many travel services and planning tools offered to you by Spirit of Places Ltd.
- Membership Cancellation: If you choose so, you can always contact us in writing to be cancelled from our membership list of signed-in web users.
You should be aware that other Internet sites to which you link to from Spirit of Places Ltd. site may contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of our Privacy Policy. Spirit of Places Ltd. is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of other such sites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this site.