We understand that sharing personal information involves a great deal of trust on your part; we take this trust very seriously, and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personally identifiable information ("PII") you provide us. (PII includes information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address.)

As a visitor to our Web site, www.VacationRentalsClub.com ("VacationRentalsClub.com"), you have the right to understand our information privacy practices prior to providing VacationRentalsClub.com with any of your PII.

What information we collect from you

VacationRentalsClub.com only collects PII that you voluntarily provide to us.

How we use your information

VacationRentalsClub.com uses your PII for the purposes of responding to and processing your requests for VacationRentalsClub.com travel products and services. In case of advertisers we request for financial information to secure payment.

Who we share your information with

VacationRentalsClub.com will only share your PII with our authorized service providers that perform certain services or functions on our behalf or as required by law. VacationRentalsClub.com does not sell or rent your PII to anyone.

How you can control the use of your information

VacationRentalsClub.com provides you with choice and control over the collection and use of your PII, as well as a means of updating, correcting, or removing any PII stored in your customer profile.

How you can decide what marketing communications you'll receive

VacationRentalsClub.com provides you with the opportunity to specifically choose the promotional marketing communications you wish to receive from VacationRentalsClub.com. For promotional e-mail, this can be accomplished at any time by updating your preferences in My Home. If you choose not to receive any of the promotional marketing services that VacationRentalsClub.com provides, then VacationRentalsClub.com will not send them to you.

By providing you with this Privacy Statement, VacationRentalsClub.com is pledging our continued commitment to protecting the information you provide us. VacationRentalsClub.com regularly examines our information privacy practices to determine whether we are adhering to the disclosures about the collection, use, sharing, and protection of your PII made in this privacy statement.

VacationRentalsClub.com's Privacy Statement

This VacationRentalsClub.com Privacy Statement discloses the information privacy practices for VacationRentalsClub's United States Web site, www.VacationRentalsClub.com. The VacationRentalsClub.com Web site is intended for users that are over 18 years of age.

Information collected about you

VacationRentalsClub.com collects personally identifiable information ("PII") about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide. PII includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. Although you are required to register as a member of VacationRentalsClub.com in order to use selected travel planning tools, and some PII is needed in order to process and fulfill travel requests, many areas of VacationRentalsClub.com can be accessed without providing any PII.

VacationRentalsClub.com collects PII when you:

Become an VacationRentalsClub.com member
Complete a traveler profile
Purchase advertisement space
Participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes
Contact VacationRentalsClub.com

Member information
VacationRentalsClub.com collects your Member ID, password, e-mail address, city, state and country when you register to become a member of our Web site.

Property and Travel related purchase information
VacationRentalsClub.com collects the billing address of the credit card that is used to purchase property. We will also collect credit card information, including card number, card type, cardholder name, and expiration date, in order to bill you for additional services/products purchased through VacationRentalsClub.com. All personal information is stored on a secure server; however, we Do Not store credit card numbers or identifying information on a Vacapedia server.

Contests and sweepstakes information
Occasionally, VacationRentalsClub.com may offer our members and site visitors an opportunity to participate in a contest or sweepstakes. Information collected by VacationRentalsClub.com when you participate in a contest or sweepstakes may include your full name, e-mail address, and street address.

Surveys
VacationRentalsClub.com may offer our members and site visitors an opportunity to participate in surveys regarding their experience with our site. For our members, we may also send these surveys via e-mail. You are under no obligation to respond to any survey, and you may unsubscribe from receiving these e-mail surveys by following the unsubscribe instructions in any e-mail survey you receive. Information collected by VacationRentalsClub.com when you participate in a survey may include your full name, e-mail address, and street address.

Our partners
VacationRentalsClub.com has partnered with reputable third parties to offer our members and site visitors a variety of products and services. All travel services throughout VacationRentalsClub.com that are provided by a third-party partner are described as such. Although we only work with reputable third parties, our business partners may have different privacy policies and practices than VacationRentalsClub.com. We encourage you to review our business partners' privacy policies to further understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.

Other information we collect
Some information is collected automatically every time you visit VacationRentalsClub.com (e.g., cookies and computer information). In addition, information may be collected from other independent, third-party sources.

Cookies and other Web technologies
When you visit VacationRentalsClub.com we collect information about your computer and assign you a "cookie" (a small, unique identifier text file). You do not provide this information-it is collected automatically as a means of supporting your visit to our site. This cookie does not contain any PII. You can always choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your Web browser to refuse cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie. Be advised that, by refusing to accept a cookie, you will not be able to access many travel services and planning tools offered by VacationRentalsClub.com.

Information from other sources
To improve services and enhance personalization, we may periodically obtain information about you from other independent third-party sources and add it to our account information. Additionally, authorized Vacapedia personnel may update your profile to accurately reflect any new profile information included in communications received from you.
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Use of your information

Information collected on VacationRentalsClub.com may be used to:

Register you as an VacationRentalsClub.com member
Notify you of Last Minute Deals, Off Season Specials, New Properties, etc
Send marketing communications or surveys to you
Respond to your questions or suggestions
Improve the quality of your visit to our site

Member registration information
When you register to become a member of VacationRentalsClub.com, we use your information to create your member account. You will then receive a "Welcome to VacationRentalsClub.com" e-mail that contains your Member ID and describes the benefits of using VacationRentalsClub.com for planning and purchasing your travel needs.

Marketing notifications
As a registered VacationRentalsClub.com member, you may receive e-mails from us about special promotions, surveys, contests, sweepstakes or other travel opportunities on VacationRentalsClub.com and its marketing partners. If you choose to receive our Last Minute Deals and New Properties service, your e-mail address will also be used to notify you of these only for the cities you have selected. To assess the effectiveness of these e-mails, we may attach a Web beacon that provides confirmation when you open an e-mail from VacationRentalsClub.com. This only occurs if your computer supports such technology.

You may also receive postal mail notifications from us about special promotions, surveys, contests, sweepstakes, flight specials, trip information, or other travel opportunities on VacationRentalsClub.com and its marketing partners. E-mail or postal marketing notifications containing offers for our marketing partners will be sent by VacationRentalsClub.com on our partners' behalf.

Responses to your questions or suggestions
We will use your e-mail address or telephone number to respond when you submit a question or suggestion, or request assistance with viewing your itinerary, logging on to VacationRentalsClub.com, or accessing your account.

Improving the quality of your visit to our site
We collect certain information (e.g., travel information) based on your navigation of our site in order to better understand and serve our customers. This data allows us to streamline your ability to navigate the site and develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our members and site visitors. No PII is collected unless you explicitly provide it.

This information can also be used to display targeted advertisements. Advertisement information is taken from data you explicitly provide on the VacationRentalsClub.com Web site, such as a flight origin or destination. No PII is used to deliver targeted advertisements.
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Sharing your information

VacationRentalsClub.com does not sell or rent your PII to anyone.

Service providers
VacationRentalsClub.com will occasionally share aggregated information with our service providers. This information does not contain any PII and is used to develop featured programs and content that will be of interest to our members and site visitors.

VacationRentalsClub.com may contract a reputable third party to facilitate the distribution of survey, promotion, or sweepstakes programs. Upon completion of these projects, all information is returned to VacationRentalsClub.com.

Trusted business partners
In addition, we have partnered with various third-party Web sites to offer VacationRentalsClub.com travel services. These trusted third-party companies have added travel sections to their Web sites in order to offer VacationRentalsClub.com provided travel services. We will not share any of your PII with these trusted third-party companies, even if you register on VacationRentalsClub.com through their Web sites.

Our obligations
VacationRentalsClub.com may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining our travel products or services. VacationRentalsClub.com may also disclose information against someone who poses a threat to VacationRentalsClub.com's interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others. In addition, it may be necessary for VacationRentalsClub.com to provide customer information to third parties, such as credit card companies, for the purpose of resolving disputes that arise in the normal course of business.

Other Web sites
There are several places throughout VacationRentalsClub.com that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under VacationRentalsClub.com's information privacy practices. When you click through to these Web sites, VacationRentalsClub.com's information privacy practices no longer apply. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements for all third-party Web sites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.
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Control over and access to your information

VacationRentalsClub.com believes that members and site visitors should have control over the collection and use of their PII. You have access to your information in the following areas of VacationRentalsClub.com:

My Home
The My Home page on VacationRentalsClub.com allows members to view and change their account settings.
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Communications from VacationRentalsClub.com

Members will receive communications from VacationRentalsClub.com when they:

Sign up to become an VacationRentalsClub.com member
Request to update an account
Purchase Properties
Elect to receive Last Minute Deals, Off Season Specials, New Properties, or other special promotional marketing communications
Win a contest or sweepstakes
Contact VacationRentalsClub.com with questions/suggestions
Are asked to complete a survey about their experience on our site

Protecting your information

We want our members and site visitors to feel confident about using VacationRentalsClub.com to plan and purchase their travel for vacation rentals, so we are committed to protecting the information we collect.

Our systems are configured with data encryption, or scrambling, technologies, and industry-standard firewalls. When you send personal information to VacationRentalsClub.com over the Internet, your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.

Changes to the VacationRentalsClub.com Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement was produced and posted on VacationRentalsClub.com on April 1st, 2008. VacationRentalsClub.com reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Statement at any time and for any reason. If there are material changes to this statement or in how VacationRentalsClub.com will use your PII, VacationRentalsClub.com will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.

Regardless of later updates, we will abide by the information privacy practices described in this Privacy Statement at the time you provided us with your information.

If you have questions about our Privacy Statement, please e-mail us .
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