Privacy Policy

Introduction

Emerald Coast Retreats (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website located at www.emeraldcoastretreats.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

on this Website.
in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number (“personal information”);
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

directly from you when you provide it to us.
automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
speed up your searches.
recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

to present our Website and its contents to you.
to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
for any other purpose with your consent.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

to our subsidiaries and affiliates.
to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Emerald Coast Retreats’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Emerald Coast Retreats about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Emerald Coast Retreats, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit our Privacy Policy for California Residents.

Data Security

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Consent, Ownership and Disclosure

By using our website and/or using our services, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

We are the sole owners of the information collected and will not share your personal data (e.g., e-mail address, name, or contact information) with any third party not affiliated with absent your consent. However, we will use information provided for guest screening, and identity verification and will disclose personal information when required by law, in response to any demand by law enforcement or other appropriate government authorities, or if the personal information is pertinent in a legal proceeding or court action.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
Improve, personalize, and expand our website.
Understand and analyze how you use our website.
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
Send you emails.
Find and prevent fraud.

Opt-Out Options

You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do the following by contacting us via the email address on our website:

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Protected Information

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way.

External Links / Cookies

Our website contains links that may lead you to external websites. We are not responsible for the content of those external websites. Our website, external links, and third-party advertiser(s) may add cookies to determine targeted advertisements based on your preferences and your visit to our site and other sites on the internet. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options.

Marketing

The information we disseminate, such as monthly newsletters, will include a link to opt-out at any time. As soon as you opt out, we will remove your e-mail address from our marketing database.

Privacy Law Compliance

We are focused on leading our business as per these standards with a specific end goal to guarantee that the privacy of individual data is secure and maintained. We adhere to privacy laws set by the State of Florida, as well as all applicable Federal Laws regarding privacy of information.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Emerald Coast Retreats
16161 Panama City Beach Pkwy Unit B, Panama City Beach, FL