Privacy Policy
Your Privacy
VacationRentalsLounge respects your privacy. Our goal is to be
your trusted, objective source of travel and vacation information. We want you to make the most of our
services and feel confident while doing so online. We have a clear privacy
policy: we collect no private, personal information unless you voluntarily
supply it. This privacy statement explains under what circumstances we gather
your individually identifiable information, how we use it, and who may access
that information. It also provides you the means to "opt out" of providing
personal information that you do not wish to provide and to access, change, or
remove any identifying information already collected.
We believe that your privacy is of the utmost importance, which is why this
statement regarding privacy of personally identifiable information provided
online conforms to the Federal Trade Commission's fair information practices of
notice, choice, access, and security. We hope that you will provide comments on
how we can improve our privacy policy so that we may better accommodate your
needs. Please provide any comments to .
Please note that this privacy policy applies only to the vacationrentalslounge.com and vacationrentalslounge.com
web sites, and specifically does not apply to other companies' or organizations'
web sites to which we link. We have attempted to mark each of our web pages with
the VacationRentalsLounge trademark so you will always know where this policy applies.
Personal Information We Collect Online
When you visit vacationrentalslounge.com, we do not collect any personally
identifiable information without your consent. If you are simply perusing our
site and have not registered for any of our specific services, we collect no
personally identifiable information from you. In order to register for our services, however, we require that you provide us with your first and last
name, your mailing address (including street, city, state, country and postal
code), email address and your telephone number.
On certain pages within this web site, you are invited to order products and
services from VacationRentalsLounge. In order to complete an online order, information
such as name, address (including street name or post office box, city, state,
and postal code), credit card number, and email address are required. If you
prefer not to provide such information online, but are still interested in
receiving VacationRentalsLounge products or services, you may address your inquiry to
.
Surveys and Contests
From time to time our site requests information from users
via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is
completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to
disclose this information. Information requested may include contact and
demographic information. Contact information will be used to notify the winners
and award prizes.
How We Protect Your Information
VacationRentalsLounge is dedicated to the security of your
personal information, and we take every commercially reasonable precaution to
maintain that protection. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, maintain
data accuracy, and facilitate the appropriate use of information, we use
physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to attempt to protect the
personal information we collect online. Encryption tools are used when
collecting or transferring sensitive information such as credit card numbers.
Additional database content is protected either by means of encryption and/or
being located behind a firewall using security software.
If you have any questions about the security at vacationrentalslounge.com, please contact us by
email at .
Do We Employ "Cookies"
"Cookies" are small data files stored on your own
computer's hard drive. They are generated by web sites such as vacationrentalslounge.com to
provide users with a personalized and enhanced online experience. By assigning
and storing a random user name cookie on your hard drive, we are able to offer
you personalized collection, filtering, and delivery of information that we feel
will be of the greatest interest and value to you. This includes not only our
web site's original content, but also advertisements especially targeted to you
in accordance with your content preferences and traffic patterns, as revealed by
the cookie. Overall, aggregated usage information helps us improve our offerings
by showing us how different areas of the web site are being used.
Be assured that cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to reveal or discover the
identity of the individual user; your acceptance of our cookie will not
compromise your anonymity while using our web site. If you choose to reject the
cookie, you may still use our web site although certain functions and
applications may be disallowed as a result, and you will not benefit from the
personalized and enhanced services discussed throughout this policy.
Our Use of Your Personal Information
At this time, VacationRentalsLounge does not rent, sell or
otherwise share your personally identifiable information with any third party.
Our primary use of the personal information you volunteer is for billing
purposes with regard to the services you purchase from us. Acclivity Technology, LLC. also
may store and use your personal information for our own internal purposes
including list management and demographic matching with other internal database
information. We specifically reserve the right to access, monitor, and retrieve
password-protected information to ensure your compliance with our Terms of Use
and to comply with law.
Additionally, composite tracking information generated
by cookies for traffic accounting and content analysis may be shared with third
parties for the purpose of documenting site activity and other trends. We
emphasize that the foregoing statistical information is not linked to any
personal information and cannot identify any individual user of our web site.
Our Retention of Your Personally Identifiable Data
Once you have registered with VacationRentalsLounge, we will
store and maintain the personally identifiable information you have volunteered
for so long as you maintain your VacationRentalsLounge account and for approximately 24
months thereafter (so long as you have not directed us otherwise), or for so
long as we are required by law. Our retention of your data allows us to continue
providing you with highly personalized services without interruption.
Choice
VacationRentalsLounge believes that choice is one of the most
important privacy principles. You have the choice not to submit any personally
identifiable information to us (although under such circumstances you would be
unable to register as a user). You also may choose to submit only those
mandatory fields of data absolutely required for registration on our web site.
Additionally, although we do not currently share personally identifiable
information with third parties, you may choose to limit the future use of or
access to your personally identifiable information by requesting that we refrain
from sharing all such information with any third parties. You may
opt out in this way at any
time simply by contacting us at .
Likewise, should you prefer not to receive email communications from us, we
provide a mechanism for opting out of this service by clicking off the box that
states "Yes, I'm willing to receive email updates pertaining to special
promotions and upcoming events relevant to my business" or similar language.
Additionally, each email message we send you will clearly state how you may
remove your name from the email list.
Access and Accuracy
VacationRentalsLounge aims to keep your personally identifiable
information as accurate as possible. As an online user, you will have the
opportunity to access and change your information at any time. Simply go to the
"My Account" area of www.vacationrentalslounge.com and modify your contact information. By doing
so, you may add, delete, or change individual fields of data in your personal
profile. Should you at any time desire to remove your name from our list of
vacationrentalslounge.com registrants, you may contact us at . After receipt of such a request, we will remove your
personal information from our records as soon as commercially reasonable.
If the "My Account" feature is not available, either because
it is under development or upgrade, you will not be able to register as a user
at the time, and therefore no personal information can be collected. Likewise,
no personal information can be edited either. If you are worried about your
privacy but cannot access the "My Account" feature please send us a message to
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Links
This web site contains links to other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable
information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by
VacationRentalsLounge on this web site, and VacationRentalsLounge does not bear any
responsibility for any actions or policies of such third party web sites.
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to the collection and
use of information as set forth in this privacy policy. You also acknowledge our
right to change this policy, without prior notification, and our commitment to
post any such changes on this page so that you are fully informed of the types
of information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any,
it is disclosed.
Give Us Your Feedback
Our goal is to protect your privacy. To comment on or help
us improve this privacy policy, please contact us by email at
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Policy Review
This policy is in place as described on
this page starting with 01/01/2009.