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Privacy Policy
Beach Life Vacations and the beachlifevacations.com internet
site, collect information in order to serve you better--by
providing better information and discounts, and creating a
valuable community in which to discuss your thoughts, issues
and experiences with other students. We will use the information
we collect to provide you with valuable services, and we will
not sell your information to other companies without your
consent
1.What information we gather and how we gather it.
Cookies -- At times, we send your Web browser
a "cookie," a small data file that's stored on your
hard drive, to help us provide you with customized services.
We do not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information
from your computer.
Membership Application and Online Registration
-- To process your Beach Life Vacations membership and/or
your online registration, we may ask you common required information
including name, address, email address, school, class, date
of birth, school ID (for student verification). To process
a Beach Life Vacations purchase, separate from the Beach Life
Vacations membership, we will also require credit card or
checking account information. In order to access your online
account, you will be asked to select a username and password.
We then ask for additional optional information including:
student status, gender, expected graduation date, and class
affiliations. In the future, you will also have the option
to personalize your own site by providing additional optional
information including: interests, Greek affiliation, major,
and more.
Co-branded Membership Applications and Offers
-- In order to receive special offers from BLV and/or other
BLV co-branded partners or affiliates, you may be asked to
provide additional personally identifiable information. Information
submitted as part of any co-branded or any other offer may
be shared with these partners and affiliates in which case
the partners’ use of such information will be governed
by the privacy policy of that particular partner.
Contests/Promotions -- When you enter a
contest or other promotional feature, we may ask for your
name, address, e-mail address and other contact information.
Other times, you may enter by simply entering your username
and password. At no time will eligibility require a purchase
on your part, but you may be required to become a member of
the site.
Discussions and Community Tools -- Beach
Life Vacations offers a community section including discussions
(chat and threaded discussion pages) and, in the future, individual
profile pages available to all users. Your posts to the Web
site become available for the public to view immediately after
you post. Please be considerate and respectful of others while
using the community to share your opinion, see Terms of Use
for complete community rules.
Other Site Features -- Certain other features
of the Beach Life Vacations web may also require us to collect
personally identifiable information such as name and email
address of both the sender and the recipient.
2. How we use and disclose your information
In general, we do not sell your personally identifiable information
to third parties or mass marketers. For example, we will not
sell another company your name or email address. On occasions,
we may ask for your consent to share particular data with
a third party. In addition, Beach Life Vacations reserves
the right, without disclosing your personally identifiable
information to third parties, to use the information you provide
to offer you additional Beach Life Vacations or third party
products and services that we think will be of interest to
you, unless you notify us that you do not wish to receive
this information from us.
We use your information to deliver personalized services,
content, discounts and advertisements to enhance your experience
with Beach Life Vacations. For example, you may receive an
email with a special offer or discount on Spring Break travel
because you selected "travel" as an area of interest
under your personal profile when you registered to use the
site.
We do disclose aggregated data to our advertisers and co-branded
partners to generate reports and marketing research. For example,
we tell advertisers how many people saw or clicked on an ad
and additionally, how many people saw or clicked on ads in
different portions of our service. Where available, we may
offer additional information about viewer characteristics.
However this does not include personally identifiable information
about you or your online usage patterns. Our advertisers allow
us to provide our service to you. In return, they need to
know how to effectively place their ads to potential customers.
You have the option to subscribe to receive Beach Life Vacations
Email Updates when you register on the site. We will use these
updates to provide you with additional discounts, special
offers, site upgrades, new features, events, promotions, and
much more. You have the option to email us to opt out of receiving
the emails at the bottom of every email you receive.
On occasion, Beach Life Vacations may use the content you
post in the community section including chat rooms and discussions
or any other public section of the Beach Life Vacations for
promotional purposes in email newsletters, in promotional
collateral, or elsewhere and by using any site in our Beach
Life Vacations you agree that we may do so. You should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal information
in these areas.
We may share your personally identifiable information with
third parties with which we contract to help enhance the functionality
of the Beach Life Vacations and provide new products, services
and content. We make sure that these 3rd parties do not use
this information for any other purpose and do not share the
information with any other third party.
We use cookies to enhance your experience at Beach Life Vacations
and other sites in the Beach Life Vacations and to give you
better, more personalized service once you've purchased or
registered. We use this information for internal use only;
we don't share it with others. When you log in, we use cookies
to make sure you only have to log in once that session, and
so that we don’t have to ask you to enter your information
again on every page. Cookies are used by many of the most
popular and well-respected web sites in order to make your
experience easier and more valuable.
Third Party Advertising: We use MaxWorldwide and other third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web
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
on this site and other sites about goods and services that
may be of interest to you. If you would like more information
about this practice and to know your choices about not having
this information used by these companies, please click here.
Third Party Cookies: In the course of serving advertisements
to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize
a unique “cookie” on your browser.
3. Opt-in/Opt-out or deactivating account
You have the option to sign up for free Beach Life Vacations
Email Updates when you apply for a Beach Life Vacations Card
or Register to use the Web site. You will also have the option
to opt out of receiving the updates. This opt out messaging
will appear at the bottom of every email that is sent out.
Beach Life Vacations gives users the option to remove their
information from our database completely. If you don’t
want to receive any form of direct contact from Beach Life
Vacations whether it is email, discounts, The Beach Life Vacations
Magazine, or other promotional offers, email info@beachlifevacations.com
or call our Customer Service Department at 1-301-864-1000
to cancel your account. Beach Life Vacations is not responsible
for removing information from third-party lists or databases.
4. Reviewing or changing your information/Profile
Page
In order to ensure that the information we maintain is accurate,
Beach Life Vacations gives users the option to change or modify
their information previously provided. If you would like to
change your information currently in our database, please
login or contact Customer Service at 1-301-864-1000.
5. Improper Conduct
The restrictions above will not apply in the event that you
engage in certain improper conduct. Specifically, Beach Life
Vacations shall have the right to itself use or release to
third parties personally identifiable information regarding
users who are suspected of having used this web site or any
other site in the Beach Life Vacations for any fraudulent
purposes or having otherwise violated any law rule or regulation.
6. Security -- transaction
We make a diligent effort to ensure that our secure server
software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best
software available today for secure commerce transactions.
Our SSL encrypts all of your personal information, including
credit card number, name, and address, so that it cannot be
read as the information travels over the Internet.
7. Protection for Children
We have no intention of collecting personally identifiable
information from children (i.e., individuals under the age
of 13). Where appropriate, we take reasonable measures to
inform children not to submit such information to our site
or in response to advertisements. If a child has provided
us with individually identifiable information, that child's
parent or guardian should contact our Customer Care Department
at info or call if they would like this information deleted
from our records.
8. Your Consent
By using any web site in the Beach Life Vacations or any other
site that we own or control, you consent to the collection
and use of information by Beach Life Vacations in the manner
explained above. If we decide to change this privacy policy,
we will correct it to reflect those changes so you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
what circumstances we disclose it.
9. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you
can contact us at: info@beachlifevacations.com.
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