Who we are
Welcome to Clearwater Beach Vacation, a travel information website dedicated to providing valuable content, recommendations, and insights to enhance your travel experiences. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and share information obtained from users of our website. By accessing or using our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
We collect information from you in several ways, including when you visit our site, register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form.
Types of Information Collected:
- Personal Identification Information: We may collect personal identification information from Users in various ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, phone number, etc.
- Non-personal Identification Information: We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer, and technical information about Users’ means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized, and other similar information.
Use of Collected Information:
Clearwater Beach Vacation collects and uses Users’ personal information for the following purposes:
- To personalize user experience
- To improve our site
- To improve customer service
- To process transactions
- To administer content, promotion, survey, or other site features
- To send periodic emails
Web Browser Cookies
Our site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. Users’ web browsers place cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Third-Party Websites and Content
Our website may feature advertisements, links, or embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.) that direct to the websites and services of our partners, suppliers, and advertisers. This includes content that behaves as though you have directly visited these third-party websites.
It’s important to note that these third-party sites have their own privacy policies and data collection practices. They may use cookies, embed additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content. This could include tracking your engagement with the content if you hold an account with that site and are logged in.
We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you interact with to understand how they collect, use, and share your information.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Email Address
Should you want to contact me or subscribe to any of my informational services via email, I will never sell or give away your email address.