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Last Updated: 05/29/2007
Privacy Philosophy
The information provided in this Privacy Policy covers your interactions on the different areas of the CapeCodLeisure.com. This Privacy Policy does not in any way apply to the specific policies of business listed in the CapeCodLeisure.com directory. As third parties, each business is solely responsible for the way in which is handles user information and for providing its own Privacy Policy. As a company, CapeCodLeisure.com believes strongly in protecting consumer privacy and sharing user information only with trusted partners who can provided relevant and valuable services to our users.
Information Collection
Occasionally we ask may you to provide us certain personal information such as your name, email address, or a list of your interests and hobbies. You never have to answer these questions, although not answering them may limit the services that we can offer you. On certain pages, credit card numbers may collected in order to conduct a transaction. We utilize a trusted third party e-commerce specialist to process all credit card and e-check transactions.
Registration
Users may register an account to create a business listing as part of this website. Certain features and services, such as adding reviews, are only available to registered members. In order to register, the user is required to give certain information, such as:
- Username
- Password chosen by the user
- Name (First and Last)
- Name of Company
- Address
- City
- State
- Phone Number
- Fax Number
- Email Address
- Website Address of Business Being listed
- Zip or Postal Code
Additional information about the individual or the business being listed may be required in certain cases. Furthermore, a user may have the opportunity to enter additional optional information about the nature of their business. Business are solely responsible for the content they list in the CapeCodLeisure.com directory and understand that CapeCodLeisure.com reserves the right to edit, delete, or republish such content at any time with or without notifying the user. CapeCodLeisure.com requests that business who list in our directory do not provide inaccurate or misleading information. CapeCodLeisure.com regularly audits our listings to ensure that information businesses provide is accurate and "in good faith". CapeCodLeisure.com reserves the right to immediately terminate the account and remove the listing of any business found to be posting inaccurate, false, or potentially damaging information. For more information on our policies regarding the accuracy of listing information please view our Terms of Use.
During the registration process users may be asked whether they wish to participate in programs offered by companies that have partnered with CapeCodLeisure.com. In order to participate in these programs, additional information may be required. If a user chooses to participate in a partner program CapeCodLeisure.com may share the user's personal information with the partner. The partner's use of the user's personal information would then be governed by the partner's privacy policy.
Use of Member Information
CapeCodLeisure.com uses the information collected from members to help target advertisers, sponsors and email offers from CapeCodLeisure.com and its business partners based on members' demographic information and preferences, and to customize its services. CapeCodLeisure.com also tracks the number of visitors to our site in aggregate form to help us administer and improve the site, and make it more responsive to our users.
We make available the user information we collect in aggregate form to describe and identify our users for the creation of co-branded sites, and to advertisers and potential business partners, as well as to the general public.
Cookies
CapeCodLeisure.com's site may feature banner advertisements from outside companies, which we believe will be of interest to many of our users. It is possible that some of these advertisements may contain "Cookies", which consist of data which is stored on the user's hard drive and contains information about the user. CapeCodLeisure.com does not have access to this information or control over the data collected.
CapeCodLeisure.com also may use cookies in order to facilitate the ease and efficiency of use of our site by a registered user - for example, to recognize a User and to remember the User's preferences.
Policies for Users Under 18
Individuals under 18 years of age are welcome to browse the website and contact vendor and contact vendors listed. However, CapeCodLeisure.com makes no claim to the nature of descriptive content in our listings including "User Reviews" and "Vendor Descriptions". Parents of any person under the age of 18 are solely responsible for the individuals use of our website and understand that the individual browses listings at his or her own risk. Furthermore, parents understand that by allowing their child to use our site they waive any right to prosecute CapeCodLeisure.com for perceived damages suffered by the child browsing our site. Furthermore, In keeping with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPA) restricting collection of data from children under 13, CapeCodLeisure.com strictly forbids any individual under the age of 13 from listing a business in our directory.
NOTICE TO PARENTS OF USERS UNDER THE AGE OF 18:
When a user registers to list a business this website, we ask the following information:
- Username
- Password chosen by the user
- Name(First and Last)
- Name of Company
- Address
- City
- State
- Phone Number
- Fax Number
- Email Address
- Website Address of Business Being listed
- Zip or Postal Code
We may also ask for other information, such as specific characteristics of the business being listed. CapeCodLeisure.com assumes that anyone listing a business in our diectory is over at least legal working age in the
The above information is gathered for the purposes described above under " Use of Member Information". If you have futher questions about our policies regarding the use of our site by persons under the age of 18, please contact us.
Parents and Legal Guardians should also carefully review our Terms of Use and the entirely of this Privacy Policies page, including sections labeled Online Ordering, Cookies, and Security.
Disclosure and Sharing of Personal Information
CapeCodLeisure.com may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CapeCodLeisure.com; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CapeCodLeisure.com, the site or the users of CapeCodLeisure.com, and (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CapeCodLeisure.com, the site or the public.
CapeCodLeisure.com may also disclose personal information with or without the user's consent to relevant strateigc and business partners of CapeCodLeisure.com. CapeCodLeisure.com will never disclose personal information to irrelevant or unrelated third parties known to have aggressive or unfavorable marketing practices.
CapeCodLeisure.com's Privacy Policy DOES NOT apply to information users disclose to businesses listed in the CapeCodLeisure.com directory. By contacting a business listed in the CapeCodLeisure.com directory or registering on website linked to by CapeCodLeisure.com the user accepts that CapeCodLeisure.com is in no way liable for how information is used by the party being contacted. Please be aware that once the information is provided to a third party, it becomes then subject to that party's privacy policy.
CapeCodLeisure.com makes every effort to list only businesses that are verified as providing the services they claim to offer. However, CapeCodLeisure.com makes no guarantee to the accuracy of information provided by businesses listed in the directory and cannot be held responsible for inaccuracies, or misinformation.
Email Contact Form Disclaimer
The CapeCodLeisure.com web sites make extensive use of email forms to facilitate communication for users of the site with other users and with our staff. Email forms are used to enable email to be sent to businesses listed in the directory and to contact the staff of CapeCodLeisure.com. There may be additional uses of email forms not described above. The messages sent through email forms are stored in databases. These messages may be viewed by staff of CapeCodLeisure.com as they maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, or analyze use of the CapeCodLeisure.com websites. No message sent using email forms should be considered private. Only use email contact forms if you agree that your message may be viewed by CapeCodLeisure.com staff.
Online Ordering
There are certain areas of this site in which it is possible to place online orders for the purchase of various products or services. To the extent we use outside companies for shipping, order fulfillment or billing, the information is made available to these companies. Billing information and personal data collected for transactional purposes is never stored on CapeCodLeisure.com's servers and is handled entirely by fully-secured 3rd party e-commerce specialists.
User Reviews
CapeCodLeisure.com allows users to contribute reviews of our listed vendors. Note that by reviewing any vendor on this site you give CapeCodLeisure.com permission to re-publish your review in any way we see fit or to alter or delete your review at any time. The vendor who has been reviewed my also have the ability to alter or remove your review at any time. Furthermore, CapeCodLeisure.com makes no claim to the content of User Reviews and advises all users to read such reviews at their own risk. CapeCodLeisure.com makes no claim to the accuracy or validity of claims in such reviews and cannot be held accountable for any false or misleading information published in User Reviews. It is important that any user writing a User Review is aware that any information disclosed by he or she becaomse public information.
PARENTS OF CHILDREN UNDER 18 SHOULD BE AWARE that if your child is registered as a User of this site, he/she may participate in any of our public forums, and may have a personal email account. We encourage parents to carefully review the options available to your child on this site and to determine what is appropriate for your child.
Security
CapeCodLeisure.com takes the security of information very seriously. Information collected by CapeCodLeisure.com is stored in secure operating environments. This site has security measures in place such as user names, passwords, data encryption, and backup systems, to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All billing information and transaction processing is handled by 3rd party e-commerce specialists. Billing data is NOT stored on CapeCodLeisure.com's servers.
Questions About Privacy Statement
If you should have any questions about CapeCodLeisure.com's Privacy Policy, or privacy concerns about your use of this website, please contact us.
Notification of Changes
CapeCodLeisure.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If CapeCodLeisure.com changes this Privacy Policy with respect to the disclosure of your personally identifiable information, we will post an update of the Privacy Policy on this Web site. Users are responsible for regularly checking our website to view the latest updates to our Privacy Policy.