BeachGuide.com Web Site Information Privacy Statement

Welcome to BeachGuide.com. We at BeachGuide.com are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the Personal Information of all the visitors to this web site as well as our media partner websites. As a part of that commitment, BeachGuide.com is in the process of implementing our Information Privacy Statement to reflect the current needs of our visitors to know what information about them we collect, why we collect it, and where it goes. We encourage you to read this Information Privacy Statement.

At this web site, visitors are allowed to request information from resorts. At the initial time of request, visitors are prompted to input personal information to be sent to the resort of thier choosing. This information is stored on the BeachGuide.com database and is passed to the resort as so the resort may contact the visitor with such requested information. We also use a cookie to allow the BeachGuide.com system to know if you have already inputted that information. The cookie does not expire. However, you are only allowed to request information from a resort once in a 30 day period.

We use the information we receive from your requests to see which pages you visit within our site, which site you visited before coming to ours, and where you go after you leave. We also determine which resorts are requested more information from and what areas of the Gulf Coast, visitors are interested in as well as what types of recreation information is requested. We at BeachGuide.com can then develop statistics that are helpful to understanding how this site is used by our visitors. This statistical data is interpreted by BeachGuide.com in its continuing effort to present the web site content that visitors are seeking in a format they find most helpful. We may also use this to show our advertisers and potential advertisers the trends and or requests of beach visitors.

BeachGuide.com will not share or sell with a third party (sans on media partner site in which you voluntarily enter contact information), any information collected at this page for direct marketing purposes. Because of the nature of the Internet, we may transmit the information to another country, but within BeachGuide.com, for purposes other than direct marketing, such as for storage, or because of where our servers are located. We may also use it to investigate security breaches or cooperate with authorities pursuant to a legal matter. We may also remove all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical, statistical or scientific purposes.

If you e-mail us, you are voluntarily releasing information to us. Your e-mail address will be used by BeachGuide.com to respond to you. We may, on a periodic basis, use your e-mail address, for marketing purposes to announce new additions, rate specials, and other information pertaining to the Resorts, Beach Area or our site. You will have the opportunity to be removed from such emails.

In the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or acquisition of BeachGuide.com, or a BeachGuide.com business or business unit, information BeachGuide.com has collected about you may be part of the sale or otherwise transferred. However, this will only happen if the party acquiring the information agrees to be bound by the terms of BeachGuide.com's privacy policy and the notice provided to you when the information was collected.

While BeachGuide.com has posted an appropriate Information Privacy Statement throughout our web site, we can make no promises or guarantees regarding data collection on the hyperlinked pages and sites that are not owned by BeachGuide.com such as our media partner sites. We therefore recommend that you read the privacy policy/ statement for each site you visit.

If you are concerned about our use of your Personal Information, please contact us at webmaster@BeachGuide.com, with the subject line, "privacy."