This
privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for RealKauai located
at http://RealKauai.com
Because RealKauai wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to notify you of:
1. What
personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally
identification is collected from you through the web site
2. The
organization collecting the information
3. How
the information is used
4. With
whom the information may be shared
5. What
choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
6. The
kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse
or alteration of information under Real Kauai's control
7. How
you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Registration
In order to use certain areas
of this domain, a user must first complete a registration form. During
registration a user is required to give their contact information (such
as name and email address). This
information is used to contact the user about the services on our site
for which they have expressed interest. It
is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as income
level and gender), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized
experience on our site.
Order
We request information from
the user on our order forms. Here
a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address)
and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This
information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders. If
we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to
get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data
stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage
of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information
while on our site. Once the
user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. For
instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log
in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If
a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The
only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of
our site. For example, the
user will not be able to participate in any of our Sweepstakes, Contests
or Drawings that may take place from time to time. Cookies can also enable
us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience
on our site.
Some
of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However,
we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze
trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. IP
addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated
demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not
linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We
use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing
company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain,
share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary
purposes.
We
partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user
signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information
that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.
These
parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except
for the purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links
to other sites. Please be aware that we RealKauai are not responsible for
the privacy practices of such other sites. We
encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the
privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletters
If a user wishes to subscribe
to one of our newsletters, we ask for contact information such as name
and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site
requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation
in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore
has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information
requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address),
and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact
information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey
information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use
and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our
referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for
the friend’s name and email address. RealKauai
will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit
the site. RealKauai stores
this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The
friend may contact RealKauai at remove@RealKauai.com to request the removal
of this information from their database.
Security
This
website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When
users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is
protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with secure encryption software. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices.
If
you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send
an email to security@realkauai.com.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If
a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip
code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to
provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided
to us. This can usually be
done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer
Support.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity
to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for purposes not directly
related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For
example, our order form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users who buy a product
from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their email address
off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at support@RealKauai.com
Users
of our site are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We
do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should
proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our
privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users
are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If
at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a
manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will
notify users by way of an email. Users
will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this
different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy
policy under which the information was collected.