Las Perlas Adventures recognizes that respecting user privacy over
the Internet is of utmost importance. This privacy statement is
designed to provide information about the privacy and data collection
practices for the site:
The web site is operated by Las Perlas Adventures.
Identifying Information
In general, you can visit this site without telling
us who you are or providing any information about yourself. In some areas of the
site, we ask you to provide information that will enable us to process an charter,
offer services that require registration, assist you with technical support
issues or to follow up with you. Generally, Las Perlas Adventures requests
identifying information when you:
- Register on our web site.
- Book a sailing or diving charter.
- Provide feedback to an online survey or tell us about an
idea or suggestion.
- Participate in a rebate program, contest, or other
promotional offer.
- Request a special service.
In these instances, Las Perlas Adventures will ask for your name, address,
e-mail address, phone number and other appropriate information needed to
provide you with these services. In all instances, if you receive a
newsletter or other mailing from us, you will always be able to"unsubscribe"
to these mailings at any time. If you choose to give us personal
information for any of the purposes above, this information is retained by
Las Perlas Adventures and will only be used by Las Perlas Adventures
to support your customer relationship with us. We will not add you to a
mailing list, or newsletter without your registration for this service.
We will only contact you if further information is required from you to
complete a service.
Sharing Your Information
From time to time, Las Perlas Adventures may use agents or contractors who
will have access to your personal information to perform services for Las
Perlas Adventures. Las Perlas Adventures does not share, rent,
or sell any personally identifying information provided through our web
site such as your name or email address to any outside Las Perlas
Adventures (such as database maintenance); however, they are required
by us to keep the information confidential, and may not use it for any purpose
other than to carry out the services for Las Perlas Adventures. In addition,
Las Perlas Adventures may also share aggregate information about its customers
and its web site visitors to advertisers, business partners, and other third
parties. For example, we might share that our users are X percent PC users
and Y percent Macintosh users. None of this information, however, will
contain personal identifying information about our users.
Third Party Links
www.las-perlas-adventures.com does provide links to other sites. Other
Internet sites and services have separate privacy and data collection practices.
Once you leave www.las-perlas-adventures.com, Las Perlas Adventures cannot control, and
has no responsibility for, the privacy policies or data collection activities at
another site.
Cookies
At times, we will use a feature on your web browser to send your computer a
"cookie". We do not use cookies to retrieve any personal information
from your computer. We only use cookies to learn ways to enhance our web site, and
to give you better, more personalized service while in our web site. You can reset
your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is sent. However, some
functions of the web site will not function if you refuse cookies. These areas
of our web site will have information posted about cookies, and when a cookie
will be uploaded to your computer.
Children's Privacy Protection
Las Perlas Adventures is sensitive to the
heightened need to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13. The vast
majority of the material on our web site is not intended for children and is not
targeted to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect data from
children, and if we learn that we have received personal data from a child, we
will remove this information from our database.
Changes to this Policy
Las Perlas Adventures may from time to time
revise its privacy policy. You should therefore periodically visit this page, so
you are aware of any such revisions. We will not, however, use your existing
information in a manner not previously disclosed. You will be advised and have
the opportunity to opt out of any new use of your information.
Credit Card Security
We know customers are concerned about credit card security. We use one of the
worlds largest funds transfer agencies -- PayPal. If you choose to use a
PayPal account, your personal credit card information will not be given to
Las Perlas Adventures. If you choose to use a credit card, we will use the credit
card information to process a payment, and then this information will immediately be
deleted from our records. Subsequent payments will require you to resubmit your credit
card information.