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Privacy Policy

FARAWAY VACATION RENTALS
PRIVACY POLICY FOR OUR GUEST

In this policy 'Faraway Vacation Rental ' means Faraway and its affiliated companies, as they may exist from time to time, which include, without limitation, the subsidiaries which carry on business that use the following names: Faraway Vacation Rentals. The words 'we' and 'Faraway VR' do not include third parties involved in the delivery of services, however we have requested any such third party suppliers to abide by the terms of our Privacy Protection Policy.
Our policy outlines the type of personal information we collect and receive, the circumstances in which we collect or receive personal information, the policies and procedures we have established outlining its use and storage, and for sharing certain types of personal information in certain limited circumstances, the procedures you should follow if you have any questions or requests in respect of your personal information or our policies and procedures and the person to whom such questions or requests should be directed, and the means by which to communicate with that person.

At Faraway VR we stress the importance of privacy and are committed to earning the trust of our clients by adopting high standards for the protection of personal information. Personal information means information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, e-mail address or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available and is not part of your work identification.
It also includes information on our client preferences and usage, when such information is supplied to or recorded by the Faraway VR in the course of transacting business with an individual.
The Privacy Protection Policy does not apply to information regarding Faraway corporate customers. However, such information is protected by other Faraway VR policies and practices and through contractual arrangements.

HOW YOU MAY PROVIDE US YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. By listing on Faraway VR and booking on Faraway VR.
2. By providing it to us in communications regarding service delivery such as comment cards.
3. By providing the information to us by participating in a marketing initiative.
4. By visiting our websites.
Below we will outline the type of information normally collected in each of these circumstances, the reasons for doing so, how we will use it and store it.

MAKING A RESERVATION

When making a reservation or using Faraway VR and its member services it is necessary to have information in order to identify you, contact you and to process your purchase and requests. This information usually includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card number and expiration date, and language preference. It may also include, if you choose to share that information with us, your preferences regarding the delivery of your service such as type of room, type of bed, and the like(s).

We also offer special discounts from time to time that may have qualifying criteria. Sometimes we offer special offers to, for example, seniors or for children.

To assess your eligibility and process your reservation correctly, we need to record your date of birth at the time of booking. You may be required to provide personal identification with your date of birth in order to verify this upon check-in.
From time to time, we offer packages or other services that involve third parties. If you are partaking of such a package or service your personal information will be shared with that third party to the extent necessary to provide that service and process the purchase or request.
BBI VR members may use the information you provide to send you offers and information about our services and those of select third parties. Your information will not be given to these third parties but rather the offer of the third party will be provided to us which will manage the distribution.

INFORMATION PROVIDED TO US IN COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING SERVICE DELIVERY SUCH AS COMMENT CARDS (FOR EXAMPLE SURVEYS)
Information provided to us in such a fashion will be used solely for the purpose of recording your comments, communicating with you in respect of them, reviewing them with the subject place you stayed and subject personnel, for the purposes of recognizing employees for excellence of service delivery and for developing improvements in service delivery.
FARAWAY VR OFFERS YOU THE ABILITY TO RECEIVE TARGETED, TIMELY NOTIFICATION OF TIME SENSITIVE OFFERS
To sign up for this service we require you to provide us with your e-mail address, first name, last name, language preference, and country of residence. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link provided on every e-mail message and you will no longer receive e-mail offers and promotions for the specified subscription or website, as the case may be. You may at any time in the future opt-in to receive e-mail offers.

BY VISITING OUR WEBSITES

We use "cookies" on our website. Cookies are pieces of information that an Internet site transfers to your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. The use of cookies is an industry standard -- you'll find them almost everywhere on the Internet. FARAWAY VR uses cookies to recognize visitors when they return to our sites. Once we know it's you, we can customize your online visit.
We may also evaluate our content and services and tailor our websites, for visitors, based on other information we collect such as IP addresses, which are numbers assigned to your computer whenever you use the Internet, pixel tags (or clear gifs), and the type of Internet browser or operating system you are using. This information is collected in the aggregate, but we may tie it to your personal information through cookie use as described above.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. To establish and maintain a responsible commercial relationship with you and to provide ongoing service.
2. To understand your needs and preferences. We maintain a record of the products and services you receive from us and we may ask for additional information so that we can serve you better. For example, we may record your preference for type of room.
3. to develop, enhance, market or provide products and services. For example, we look at our guests' use of our services so that we can better understand how to improve our services.
4. To manage and develop our business and operations. For example we analyze guest patterns of usage of our properties and services to help us manage them efficiently and plan for future growth.
5. To meet legal and regulatory requirements.

WHEN DO WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We disclose personal information only in these limited circumstances:

1. We may disclose a guest's personal information to a person who, in the reasonable judgment of FARAWAY VR, is seeking the information as an agent of the guest - for example, a travel agent who is booking a reservation on behalf of the guest.
2. Personal information will be shared with the agent for whom your reservation has been made so that they may provide the services you have reserved.
3. Personal information may be shared with other FARAWAY VR group member so that they may better provide services to you in the event you wish to travel to OTHER Group Member location in the future.
4. Personal information will be shared with a third party involved in supplying the guest with the services they have purchased to the extent necessary to affect the supply and the processing of the transaction.
5. Personal information may be shared with a third party retained by FARAWAY VR, to perform functions on its behalf such as reservations handling, data processing or storage, guest surveys or research.
6. Personal information may be shared with an agent retained by FARAWAY VR Member to evaluate a customer's credit worthiness or in order to collect a customer's account.
7. Personal information may be shared with a public authority or an agent of public authority if in the reasonable judgment of FARAWAY VR if it appears that there is an imminent danger to life or property which could be avoided or minimized by disclosure of the information, or which disclosure is compelled by legal authority.

Any such disclosure of a guest's personal information by FARAWAY VR members to a third party will be made only on a confidential basis conditioned upon the information being used only for the purpose for which it has been disclosed.

PRINCIPLES

1. FARAWAY VR will not collect, use or disclose your personal information for any other purpose than those identified above, except with your consent.
2. FARAWAY VR will protect your personal information with appropriate security safeguards.
3. FARAWAY VR will take appropriate steps to protect the confidentiality of your personal information when dealing with third parties.
4. FARAWAY VR will strive to keep your personal information as accurate and up to date as is necessary for the purposes identified above.
5. FARAWAY VR will honor your request to access your personal information in as timely fashion as is reasonably possible.
You are always free to refuse to provide personal information to us.
You may also withdraw your consent with respect to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by e-mailing us and using 'Unsubscribe' as the subject line, and providing us with sufficient personal identifiers so we can act effectively on your request.
However, in either case, this may limit our ability to serve you.

If you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices or wish to make a request in respect of your personal information please contact our Privacy Officer at or if you prefer by writing to us