Privacy Policy & Cookies
Privacy Policy for Crystal Beach Break Website
At our short-term rental website, we respect the privacy of our users and are committed to protecting their personal information. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you use our website.
Information We Collect
When you visit our website, we may collect certain information about you, including:
- Personal information: If you make a direct booking through our website, we collect your name, email address, phone number, and payment information. We also collect a copy of your rental contract, which includes details such as the dates of your stay, the number of guests, and the rental fee.
- Website usage information: We may collect information about how you use our website, including the pages you visit, the links you click, and the amount of time you spend on each page.
- Device information: We may collect information about the device you use to access our website, including your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
- Cookies and other tracking technologies: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your usage of our website and to deliver personalized content and advertising.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Process your direct bookings: We use your personal information and rental contract to process your booking and to communicate with you about your stay.
- Personalize your experience: We use your website usage information and cookies to personalize your experience on our website and to deliver targeted content and advertising.
- Improve our website: We use your website usage information to understand how our website is used and to improve its functionality and performance.
- Communicate with you: We use your personal information to communicate with you about your bookings, to respond to your inquiries and requests, and to provide customer support.
How We Share Your Information
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- With payment processors: We may share your payment information with payment processors to process your payment.
- With Airbnb and VRBO: We may share information about your booking with Airbnb and VRBO if you click on the links to their websites.
- With service providers: We may share your personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, and customer support.
- With legal authorities: We may disclose your personal information if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal process.
Your Rights and Choices
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You may also opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the instructions in those communications. However, please note that even if you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing communications related to your bookings.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post the updated policy on our website and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or this privacy policy, please contact us at https://crystalbeachbreak.com/#contact.
Cookies
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Our website, https://crystalbeachbreak.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. Cookies
When you visit our website it can be necessary to store and/or read certain data from your device by using technologies such as cookies.
2.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
2.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website.
2.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
3. Placed cookies
Most of these technologies have a function, a purpose, and an expiration period.
- A function is a particular task a technology has. So a function can be to “store certain data.”
- Purpose is “the Why” behind the function. Maybe the data is stored because it is needed for statistics.
- The expiration period shows the length of the period the used technology can “store or read certain data.”
4. Browser and Device based Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. You do have the right to opt-out and to object against the further use of non-functional cookies.
4.1 Manage your opt-out preferences
5. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
6. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- you may submit a request for access to the data we process about you;
- you may object to the processing;
- you may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you;
- you may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you. https://crystalbeachbreak.com/#contact
