Privacy Policy
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your personal information - that is, data that identifies you, or from which you are identifiable - will be collected, processed, stored and used by us, and passed to and processed by our subsidiary and/or affiliated companies and other data processors acting under contract with us. Personal data contributed by or collected from users may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using our Site, you acknowledge and agree that you may be transferring your personal data outside of the country in which you have contributed it, and that you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to those that apply in your country. However, if we transfer your personal data outside of your country in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected in compliance with applicable data protection law and this Privacy Policy.
PROPERTY OWNERS AND VACATION PLANNING VISITORS
In order to facilitate your use of www.BookFloridaRentals.com, we may request that you provide information about yourself when you register including but not limited to: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address. If you are a property owner, www.BookFloridaRentals.com will also need to know specific information about your property including but not limited to: Amenities, rates, policies, and location. We may use your information to contact you from time to time with critical customer updates and information or to send you information about new services, opportunities, or promotions offered by www.BookFloridaRentals.com. You may also contribute your personal data to us in order to process a request or enquiry you may make concerning a property or transaction, we need to know all or some of the following: your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and, in the case of a members (advertising) listing, a method of payment. www.BookFloridaRentals.com will not share your information with third parties, except: (1) in the case of special promotions about which you have requested to be notified; (2) where a third party performs services on behalf of www.BookFloridaRentals.com and has agreed to keep such information confidential (such as processing your credit card payment or conducting an online survey and (3) the aggregate use of the information of multiple www.BookFloridaRentals.com users where individual personal information is not disclosed. www.BookFloridaRentals.com may share website usage information about users with a third-party tracking company for the purpose of reporting statistics. www.BookFloridaRentals.com may also use your information to market its services and to gain feedback on potential new services. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. Your personal data will be used to provide and promote our Site, to process payments members make to us, to provide user support, and for other purposes referred to in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions. We will also use the personal data users provide to us to contact the user from time to time with critical user or service updates, and to send other messages that are integral to the service we provide on our Site. If you have an account on the Website, we must always be able to e-mail you operational information about your account and your use of our services. In the event that we or the Site are acquired by a third party, your personal information may be transferred to any such acquirer.
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN OWNERS, RENTERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS
Users of the Website may send email inquiries to property owners and service providers via clickable links on the Website. If you choose to send an email inquiry or respond through these links, your personal information, including your email address and any other information you supply, may become known to the party with whom you are communicating. Do not share information in the email inquiry that you are not prepared to allow such parties to have, including, but not limited to, credit card and bank account information. www.BookFloridaRentals.com may also retain these email inquiries and responses. While the content of these email inquiries and responses is not shared with any other party, www.BookFloridaRentals.com may, from time to time, use third party email servers to send and track receipt of such inquiry emails, and analyze the pattern of inquiry usage via these third party tracking systems.
PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to guard against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We have security measures in place to protect our user database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each users responsibility:
* to protect against unauthorized access to your use of the Site;
* to ensure no-one else uses the Site while the users machine is "logged on" to the Site service;
* to log off or exit from Site when not using it; and
* where relevant, to keep his/her password or other access information secret.
All personal information is stored on a secure server. We do not store credit card numbers or related identifying information on any Site server. All such information is stored by our credit card processing partner, on their secured servers, and is protected via its proprietary methods. Please remember that many services and transactions are performed by our business partners. Our privacy policy and our security or common practices do not apply to other companies. We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes to which you consent under the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.
CHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Should you want to change or access your personal information, you may do so on the Website. To protect your privacy and security, www.BookFloridaRentals.com will verify your identity before granting access or making changes to your personal information. If your personally identifiable information changes you may correct and or update it by making the change on our account management system.
INQUIRIES
Site users may send inquiries to members via clickable links on Site listings. If you choose to send an inquiry through these links, your personal information, including your e-mail address and any other information you supply, will be visible to the member in question so that they might reply directly to you. If you call the member, you may be asked to leave a return telephone number. Do not share information in the e-mail or phone call that you are not prepared to allow them to have, including, but not limited to, credit card and bank account information. These inquiries are both sent to the individual member you selected and retained by us. The resulting inquiry is available for review only by the member to whom they were initially addressed and to our customer service employees, who may be asked by members for their past inquiry information. While the content of these inquiries is not shared with any other party, the Site may, from time to time, use third party e-mail servers to send and track receipt of the inquiry e-mails, and analyze the pattern of inquiry usage reported by these third party tracking systems; the resulting information is used and stored only in an annonymized form.
COOKIE
A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a Web server to store in a Web browser so that it can later be read back from that browser. We may use cookies to store some personal preferences for your future visits. Cookies allow us to recognize you more quickly; therefore, your time spent on our site can be more personalized and productive. Youll find that cookies are an industry standard and are used at most major Web sites in much the same way we use them here at our Site. We use third-party site usage tracking companies to analyze your Site visit or to conduct surveys. In the course of serving our pages, these third parties may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to the Site and other Web sites in order to help us understand how to serve you better.
We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. When you view a web page on our Site that contains advertising provided by one of these third parties, the service provider may place a cookie on or retrieve a cookie from your computer if you have not disabled your browser from receiving cookies. If you wish, you can prevent cookie files from using (non-personal) information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browsers Privacy setting higher, but doing so will mean that (a) your use of the Site will be adversely affected (and quite possibly entirely prevented), (b) your experience of this and other sites that use cookies to enhance or personalize your experience will be adversely affected, and (c) you will not be presented with advertising that reflects the way that you use our, and other, sites.
We gather and share anonymised information concerning the usage of the Site by members and travelers with one or more third-party tracking companies for the purpose of reporting statistics. In this connection, some of the pages you visit on our Site use electronic images placed in the web page code, called pixel tags (also called a "clear GIFs" or "Web Beacons") that can serve many of the same purposes as cookies. Web beacons may be used to track the traffic patterns of users from one page to another in order to maximize web traffic flow.
The Sites third-party advertising service providers may also use Web Beacons to recognize you when you visit the Site and to help determine how you found the Site.
TESTIMONIALS AND CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
www.BookFloridaRentals.com sometimes receives testimonials and comments from Website users wishing to share their booking and/or travel experiences. www.BookFloridaRentals.com may publish such content from time to time. By submitting such testimonials and comments, you grant www.BookFloridaRentals.com permission to publish such content at its discretion. Please be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit can be read, collected or used by other users of this site and you could be sent unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the information you choose to submit for testimonials.
SURVEYS OR CONTESTS
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and email address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information to award prizes and to continually improve the owner and renter experience at www.BookFloridaRentals.com. We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company is prohibited from using our users personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
INTERNATIONAL USERS APPLICABLE LAW
www.BookFloridaRentals.com collects, processes, stores, discloses and disposes of personal information that you submit to us in accordance with applicable United States law. Please note that the personal information you submit to us will be transferred to the United States to be processed by www.BookFloridaRentals.com in order to provide the Website and its services to you or for such other purposes as set forth in this Policy. If you are not a resident of the United States, you acknowledge and agree that www.BookFloridaRentals.com may collect and use your personal information, as discussed in this Policy, outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, www.BookFloridaRentals.com may store such personal information in the United States, outside your resident jurisdiction. Please be aware that United States law may offer different levels of protection for personal information than may be available in your country.
A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT PERSONS UNDER 21
Persons under the age of 21 are not eligible to use any services on the Website.
OTHER LIMITATIONS
While www.BookFloridaRentals.com takes reasonable steps to safeguard and to prevent unauthorized access to your information, www.BookFloridaRentals.com cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and www.BookFloridaRentals.com makes no warranty, express, implied, or otherwise, that www.BookFloridaRentals.com will prevent unauthorized access to your private information. IN NO EVENT SHALL www.BookFloridaRentals.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (WHETHER CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, A THIRD PARTYS UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED ON CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT OR OTHER THEORIES OF LIABILITY, AND ALSO REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ZONDER WAS GIVEN ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE THAT DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, we encourage you to contact us by submitting a form at the contact us page.