Spot Vacation Rentals Privacy Statement

Spot Vacation Rentals is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

1.  What personally identifiable information does Spot Vacation Rentals collect from me?

Spot Vacation Rentals collects information from persons interested in vacation rentals (“Visitors”), Renters and Vacation Property Owners and Managers (“Listers”) in several ways. Some personal information is gathered when Listers register. During registration, Spot Vacation Rentals asks for your name, email address, birth date, zip code, travel dates, and number in party. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate, detailed the information is), the better we are able to customize your experience.

In addition, we may ask Visitors, Renters and Listers for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when Site Visitors make inquires to Spot Vacation Rentals; when Renters make inquires to Listers about their vacation property; when Visitors, Renters, and Listers report a problem with our services. and when Listers register their vacation property with us. If you contact Spot Vacation Rentals we may keep a record of that correspondence. Spot Vacation Rentals also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever Spot Vacation Rentals collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

2.  What are cookies and how does Spot Vacation Rentals use them?

As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, Spot Vacation Rentals uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. All sites on Spot Vacation Rentals where you are prompted to login or that are customizable require that you accept cookies. (See “What are my choices regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?” for more information on cookies.)

Generally, we use cookies to:

1. Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register or “Sign In” and is modified when you “Sign Out” of our services.
2. Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing Spot Vacation Rentals is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behavior.
3. Measure certain traffic patterns, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users’ habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on Spot Vacation Rentals a better one. We may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users will see on our sites.

Advertising networks that serve ads onto Spot Vacation Rentals may also use their own cookies.

Spot Vacation Rentals also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.

3.  How does Spot Vacation Rentals use my information?

Spot Vacation Rentals primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized browsing experience. This includes personalization services, interactive communications, vacation property viewing and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. By knowing a little about you, Spot Vacation Rentals is able to deliver more relevant content, and hence better service, to you.

Spot Vacation Rentals does research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Spot Vacation Rentals may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

4.  Who is collecting information?

When you are using Spot Vacation Rentals and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Spot Vacation Rentals alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. For example, some Spot Vacation Rentals services are offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to provide this co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Spot Vacation Rentals, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

Please be aware that Spot Vacation Rentals advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those web sites linked to Spot Vacation Rentals are not covered by this privacy statement.

5.  With whom does Spot Vacation Rentals share my information?

As a general rule, Spot Vacation Rentals will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below.

Third Party Data and Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, Spot Vacation Rentals may match user information with third party data. Also, Spot Vacation Rentals discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 35% of Renters make travel reservations in June) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: Spot Vacation Rentals may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Spot Vacation Rentals Terms and Conditions of Use or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Spot Vacation Rentals rights or property, other Spot Vacation Rentals users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Spot Vacation Rentals may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

6.  What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

Spot Vacation Rentals may, from time to time, send you email regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from Spot Vacation Rentals and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only Spot Vacation Rentals (or agents working on behalf of Spot Vacation Rentals and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information. Or, at any time you can easily edit your Spot Vacation Rentals Account Information to no longer receive such offers and mailings. You will need your Spot Vacation Rentals ID and Password in order to access your Spot Vacation Rentals Account Information.

You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will be unable to use those Spot Vacation Rentals services that require registration in order to participate.

Spot Vacation Rentals does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

7.  What is Spot Vacation Rentals policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your Spot Vacation Rentals Account Information at any time by using your Spot Vacation Rentals ID and password. If you have forgotten your password, please click here to request a new password. For all other problems signing in to Spot Vacation Rentals, please click here.

If you wish to delete your Spot Vacation Rentals Account please contact customer service.

8.  How does Spot Vacation Rentals  protect my personal financial and health-related information?

Keeping your personal financial and health-related information private is vitally important to us.

Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial product or service usage on Spot Vacation Rentals are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.

Please note that there are several places on Spot Vacation Rentals where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a registration process, for reserving, or paying for, a vacation property, or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

9.  What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your Spot Vacation Rentals Account Information is password protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your Spot Vacation Rentals Account Information by using your Spot Vacation Rentals ID and password.

We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. Spot Vacation Rentals will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your Spot Vacation Rentals account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe.

As a global company Spot Vacation Rentals has international sites and users all over the world. When you give Spot Vacation Rentals personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information.

Whenever Spot Vacation Rentals handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, Spot Vacation Rentals takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms and Conditions of Use and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Spot Vacation Rentals cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

10.  What else should I know about my privacy?

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, for example on guest entries, through email, or in chat areas that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you’re online.

Additional Information:

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to customer service.