Privacy Policy
NC IslandGuide takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following
to learn more about our privacy policy.
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What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how NC IslandGuide
treats personal information that NC IslandGuide collects and receives,
including information related to your past use of NC IslandGuide products
and services. Personal information is information about you that is
personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or
phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to
the practices of companies that NC IslandGuide does not own or control, or to people that NC IslandGuide does not employ
or manage. In addition, certain NC IslandGuide associated companies
such as have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking
on the links.
Information Collection and Use
General
- NC IslandGuide collects personal
information when you register with NC IslandGuide, when you use NC
IslandGuide products or services, when you visit NC IslandGuide pages
or the pages of certain NC IslandGuide partners, and when you enter
promotions or sweepstakes. NC IslandGuide may combine information
about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners
or other companies.
- When you register we ask for
information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender,
zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some financial
products and services we may also ask for your address, Social Security
number, and information about your assets. Once you register with
NC IslandGuide and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous
to us.
- NC IslandGuide collects information
about your transactions with us and with some of our business partners,
including information about your use of financial products and services
that we offer.
- NC IslandGuide automatically
receives and records information on our server logs from your browser,
including your IP address, NC IslandGuide cookie information, and
the page you request.
- NC IslandGuide uses information
for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and
content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services,
improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous
reporting for internal and external clients.
Children
- When a child under age 13 attempts
to register with NC IslandGuide, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a NC
IslandGuide Family Account to obtain parental permission.
- NC IslandGuide will not contact
children under age 13 about special offers or for marketing purposes
without a parent's permission.
- NC IslandGuide does not ask
a child under age 13 for more personal information, as a condition
of participation, than is reasonably necessary to participate in a
given activity or promotion.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
- NC IslandGuide does not rent,
sell, or share personal information about you with other people or
nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've
requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information
to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with NC IslandGuide
under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal
information to help NC IslandGuide communicate with you about offers
from NC IslandGuide and our marketing partners. However, these companies
do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We have a parent's permission
to share the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents
have the option of allowing NC IslandGuide to collect and use their
child's information without consenting to NC IslandGuide sharing
of this information with people and companies who may use this information
for their own purposes;
- We respond to subpoenas,
court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our
legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary
to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations
of NC IslandGuide's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information
about you if NC IslandGuide is acquired by or merged with another
company. In this event, NC IslandGuide will notify you before information
about you is transferred and becomes subject
to a different privacy policy.
- NC IslandGuide displays targeted
advertisements based on personal information. Advertisers (including
ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view,
or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example,
women ages 18-24 from a particular geographic area.
- NC IslandGuide does not
provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact
with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing
an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser
will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used
to display the ad.
- NC IslandGuide advertisers
include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents,
stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies
(such as stores, airlines, and software companies).
- NC IslandGuide works with vendors,
partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries
and categories of business. For more information regarding providers
of products or services that you've requested.
Cookies
- NC IslandGuide may set and access
NC IslandGuide cookies on your computer.
- NC IslandGuide lets other companies
that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their
cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is
subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or
other companies do not have access to NC IslandGuide's cookies.
- NC IslandGuide uses web beacons
to access NC IslandGuide cookies inside and outside our network of
web sites and in connection with NC IslandGuide products and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information
and Preferences
General
- You can edit your NC
IslandGuide Account Information, at any time.
- New categories of marketing
communications may be added to the Marketing Preferences page from
time to time. Users who visit this page can opt out of receiving future
marketing communications from these new categories or they can unsubscribe
by following instructions contained in the messages they receive.
- We reserve the right to send
you certain communications relating to the NC IslandGuide service,
such as service announcements, administrative messages and the NC
IslandGuide Newsletter, that are considered part of your NC IslandGuide
account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving
them.
- You can delete your NC IslandGuide
account by visiting our Account Deletion page.
Please click here
to read about information that might possibly remain in our archived
records after your account has been deleted.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- NC IslandGuide may update this
policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we
treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email
address specified in your NC IslandGuide account or by placing a prominent
notice on our site.
NC IslandGuide Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
108 Blockade Punner
Holden Beach, NC 28462
(910)846-9992
Effective Date: February 21 2006
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