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.vacapedia.com ("Vacapedia.com"), you have the right to understand our information privacy practices prior to providing Vacapedia.com with any of your PII.

Vacapedia.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.
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Vacapedia.com provides you with the opportunity to specifically choose the promotional marketing communications you wish to receive from Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com provides, then Vacapedia.com will not send them to you.
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By providing you with this Privacy Statement, Vacapedia.com is pledging our continued commitment to protecting the information you provide us. Vacapedia.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.

Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com can be accessed without providing any PII.

Vacapedia.com collects PII when you:

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

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

Surveys
Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com when you participate in a survey may include your full name, e-mail address, and street address.

Our partners
Vacapedia.com has partnered with reputable third parties to offer our members and site visitors a variety of products and services. All travel services throughout Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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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Information collected on Vacapedia.com may be used to:

• Register you as an Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com, we use your information to create your member account. You will then receive a "Welcome to Vacapedia.com" e-mail that contains your Member ID and describes the benefits of using Vacapedia.com for planning and purchasing your travel needs.

Marketing notifications
As a registered Vacapedia.com member, you may receive e-mails from us about special promotions, surveys, contests, sweepstakes or other travel opportunities on Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com and its marketing partners. E-mail or postal marketing notifications containing offers for our marketing partners will be sent by Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com Web site, such as a flight origin or destination. No PII is used to deliver targeted advertisements.
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Vacapedia.com does not sell or rent your PII to anyone.

Service providers
Vacapedia.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.

Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com.

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

Our obligations
Vacapedia.com may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining our travel products or services. Vacapedia.com may also disclose information against someone who poses a threat to Vacapedia.com's interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others. In addition, it may be necessary for Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com that may link you to other Web sites that do not operate under Vacapedia.com's information privacy practices. When you click through to these Web sites, Vacapedia.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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Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com:

My Home
The My Home page on Vacapedia.com allows members to view and change their account settings.
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Members will receive communications from Vacapedia.com when they:

• Sign up to become an Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com with questions/suggestions
• Are asked to complete a survey about their experience on our site

We want our members and site visitors to feel confident about using Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com over the Internet, your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.

This Privacy Statement was produced and posted on Vacapedia.com on October 1st, 2005. Vacapedia.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 Vacapedia.com will use your PII, Vacapedia.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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