While using the VACAY HOMES NETWORK platform, it is important that you understand how VACAY HOMES NETWORK uses the information you provide so that you know we value your privacy and offer ways for you to protect it.
The VACAY HOMES NETWORK Privacy Policy explains:
The information collected by our various digital media services, including the VACAY HOMES NETWORK website, our mobile application, and social media sites we use (such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube).
Why and how we collect and use that information.
Methods available to you for updating, accessing, and guarding your information.
Information We Collect
VACAY HOMES NETWORK uses primary and secondary methods to collect information:
Primary Methods: We gather information directly from you, the user, based on the answers you provide in forms and questions we ask you directly. This includes your name, email address, credit card information, phone numbers, and other information based on your use of our services.
Secondary Methods: We collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you watch an embedded YouTube video, visit a website that links from our website, or view and interacts with ads and content on our platform. This information includes:
Device information
We collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information, including phone number). Our system might associate your device identifiers or phone number with your VACAY HOMES NETWORK account.
Log information
When you use our services or view content provided by VACAY HOMES NETWORK, we automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This includes:
details of how you used our service, such as your search queries.
Internet Protocol (IP) address.
device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your VACAY HOMES NETWORK reader or author Account.
Location information
VACAY HOMES NETWORK uses the services of certain providers (such as Facebook and Google Analytics) that may, in turn, utilize various technologies to determine your location (including IP address). As a result, when you use VACAY HOMES NETWORK ’s services, we may collect and process information about your actual location. GPS and other sensors may also furnish these providers with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points, and cell towers.
App Numbers
Certain apps and services include a unique application number. This number will be sent to VACAY HOMES NETWORK when you install or uninstall that service or when that service periodically contacts our servers, such as for automatic updates. Information about your installation (for example, the operating system type and application version number) may also be sent to VACAY HOMES NETWORK.
Local storage
We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your devices using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.
Cookies and similar technologies
We use Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, and other social media analytics to view and analyze the traffic to our website, social media pages, and app. We also use other third-party services, such as Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. This information is anonymous, as it provides statistical data about users’ online activities. Below is Google’s statement about these uses:
“When used in conjunction with our advertising services, such as those using the DoubleClick cookie, Google Analytics information is linked, by the Google Analytics customer or by Google, using Google technology, with information about visits to multiple sites.”
Here is a link to Google’s Cookie Policy
And here is Facebook’s statement about third-party statistical data collection from companies that use their services:
“We collect information when you visit or use third-party websites and apps that use our Services (like when they offer our Like button or Facebook login or use our measurement and advertising services). This includes information about the websites and apps you visit, your use of our Services on those websites and apps, as well as information the developer or publisher of the app or website provides to you or us.”
How We Use the Information We Collect
VACAY HOMES NETWORK uses information gathered via certain technologies (such as cookies and pixel tags) when providing you with our services. However, we will not use or share sensitive information (related to race, religion, sexual orientation, health condition, etc.) collected either directly from you or via these technologies.
Because we use services by Google, Facebook, Pinterest, and other companies, these third-party service providers may obtain information from your usage of VACAY HOMES NETWORK ’s services to gather their own data. These companies may use this data for their own purposes, as set out in their own privacy statements. Please consult these companies’ privacy statements for details about how they use this information, as VACAY HOMES NETWORK cannot control that usage. As Google has noted in its own privacy statement: “Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be associated with your personal information in order to improve Google’s services and the ads delivered by Google.” This includes your use of the VACAY HOMES NETWORK platform and any applications associated with it.
We will ask for your consent before using the information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.
Transparency and choice
People’s privacy concerns vary widely. To fulfill your own privacy needs, you might be interested in customizing the settings of your browser (or other interfaces) while using our website, social media pages, app, or any other media related to VACAY HOMES NETWORK. You might, for instance, prefer to set your browser so that it blocks all cookies—our cookies as well as others set by other websites. You might also be interested in being notified whenever our site attempts to set a cookie. Your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) allows you to do this in different ways, depending on its type. You will need to consult the methods peculiar to each browser to learn how to do this. Be advised that blocking VACAY HOMES NETWORK’s cookies might cause the services we offer via the internet to function incorrectly.
Information you share
We collect information directly from you, such as your name, date of birth, and email address. We do this to create and personalize your VACAY HOMES NETWORK account. We use your email only to create a unique VACAY HOMES NETWORK account, to verify that account, and to communicate with you. We use your date of birth to ensure that you are old enough to purchase and use some of our services. Such personal information shared via forms required for services related to your account will not be shared. Some information (such as reviews) that you share on our website, app, or social media pages will be visible to the public.
Information we share – With your consent
We collect personal data, such as names, email addresses, and credit card information, for the purposes of making business transactions associated with your use of VACAY HOMES NETWORK ’s platform. We do not share this personal information—neither with persons in VACAY HOMES NETWORK not responsible for making transactions nor with any person or entity outside VACAY HOMES NETWORK.
For external processing
We provide personal information to reputable financial institutions (such as PayPal, Stripe, etc.), whose services we must utilize to collect payments. These external processing companies treat this information according to their privacy policies.
For legal reasons
We will share your personal information with law enforcement agencies when requested to comply with the regulations of the respective countries and jurisdictions in which we do business.
If VACAY HOMES NETWORK becomes involved in a merger or acquisition, the privacy statements of the parent company or the newly formed company may supersede this privacy statement. In the event of such an action, you will be informed of the new privacy statement via email, and the new statement will be posted.
When this Privacy Policy applies
This privacy agreement applies to all services provided by VACAY HOMES NETWORK. It excludes services by affiliates and associate companies as well as any services offered by sites displayed as advertisements or via searches done on our pages. VACAY HOMES NETWORK is therefore not responsible for information gathered when you click links to other websites or perform searches that require and process your information. This policy also excludes the methods of information gathering exercised by other entities that advertise the services of VACAY HOMES NETWORK.
Changes
While this Privacy Policy is subject to change over time, VACAY HOMES NETWORK will always alert its users to these changes. Should any changes be made to this policy that significantly curtail your rights, VACAY HOMES NETWORK will notify you via email or other method based on the latest contact information you provide to ensure that you stay informed. You can always find the most current privacy policy at this location, and earlier versions will also be available in our archives.