Privacy
Policy
GreatBarbados.com is serious about protecting the privacy
of our owners and our renting visitors. We use information
collected about you only to process and bill orders and to
make our Web site a more useful and valuable service. We respect
the privacy of those who visit or become advertisers. Our
privacy policy is stated below, but please be aware that should
you follow a link on our Web site to another Web site, you
are no longer covered by this policy. It's a good idea to
understand the privacy policy of any Web site before sharing
personal information with it.
Your Information: What, How, and Why?
Property Owners/Advertisers and Vacation Planning Visitors
In order to process a request you may have, we need to know
contact information that could include all or some of the
following: your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail
address, and, in the case of an advertising listing, a method
of payment. GreatBarbados will use this information to contact
you from time to time with critical customer updates and information,
or to send you information about new services or opportunities.
You will be able to "unsubscribe" and not receive
marketing information, but we must always be able to e-mail
you critical information about your account and our mutual
business relationship.
Your information is not shared with third parties, except:
- In the case of special promotions by GreatBarbados, or
one of its partners, about which you've requested to be
notified;
- Where a third party performs services on behalf of GreatBarbados
and has agreed to keep such information confidential (such
as the processing of your credit card payment or the conduct
of an online survey for example); and
- The aggregate use of the information of multiple GreatBarbados
advertisers and visitors where individual personal information
is not disclosed. GreatBarbados shares Web site usage information
about advertisers and visitors with a third-party tracking
company for the purpose of reporting statistics. For this
purpose, some of the pages you visit on our Web site use
pixel tags (also called clear gifs). GreatBarbados also
uses your information to market its services and to gain
feedback on potential new services.
Newsletters
As an advertiser or visitor to GreatBarbados.com, you will
receive either or both of our Owner or Traveler newsletters.
You may cancel your subscription to these newsletters at any
time.
Surveys
Surveys are another method by which we gather information
about our visitors. From time to time, we request owner or
newsletter subscribers' input in order to evaluate potential
features and services. The decision to answer a survey is
completely yours. We use information gathered from surveys
to improve our service.
Inquiries
Site visitors may send inquiries to our property owners/advertisers
via clickable links on GreatBarbados listings. If you choose
to send an inquiry through these links, your personal information,
including your e-mail address and any other information you
supply, will be visible to the owner of the property you inquired
about so that they might reply directly to you. Do not share
information in the e-mail that you are not prepared to allow
them to have, including, but not limited to, credit card and
bank account information. These inquiries are sent to both
the individual owner/advertiser you selected and retained
by GreatBarbados. The resulting inquiry is available for review
only by the owner/advertiser to whom they were initially addressed
and to GreatBarbados customer service employees, who may be
asked by advertisers for their past inquiry information. While
the content of these inquiries is not shared with any other
party, GreatBarbados.com may, from time to time, use third
party e-mail servers to send and track receipt of the inquiry
e-mails, and analyze the pattern of inquiry usage via these
third party tracking systems.
All inquiries sent through GreatBarbados are accepted and
are governed by our Terms and Conditions of Service and our
Privacy Policy.
What is a Cookie and Why Do We Use Them?
A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent
by a Web server to store in a Web browser so that it can later
be read back from that browser. GreatBarbados.com may uses
cookies to store some personal preferences for your future
visits. Cookies allow us to recognize you more quickly; therefore,
your time spent on our site can be more personalized and productive.
You'll find that cookies are an industry standard and are
used at most major Web sites in much the same way we use them
here at GreatBarbados.
We use third-party site usage tracking companies to analyze
your Web site visit or to conduct surveys. In the course of
serving our pages, these third parties may place or recognize
a unique "cookie" on your browser. These companies
may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail
address or telephone number) about your visits to GreatBarbados.com
and other Web sites in order to help us understand how to
serve you better.
By using our Web site and signing up for GreatBarbados services,
you consent to the collection and use of the previously mentioned
information by GreatBarbados and our affiliates. This policy
is subject to change without notice. Privacy issues represent
a growing concern for all Web users. To keep up-to-date with
our policies, please check this page frequently. We reserve
the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this
policy at any time.
What information do we share with Rentors.org?
GreatBarbados is a founding member of Rentors.org. Many of
our subscribers have pre-existing relationships with Rentors.org,
which provides services to property owners including but not
limited to the universal calendar and guestbook.
If you wish to use our calendar, you must be a member of
Rentors.org. In order to make this easy for you, we share
information, such as your name and your property ID with Rentors.org
so that updates you make to your calendar while on GreatBarbados.com
will update the calendar you have on Rentors.org or on the
other Web sites where you have posted your Rentors.org calendar.
You do not need to register with Rentors.org, because we pass
only the information Rentors.org requires through to them
so that they can properly update calendars and guest books
as they change from time to time. |
