Privacy Policy

At The Emerald Beach Resort, we recognize that many consumers who visit our web sites are concerned about any information they provide us on-line and how we maintain and use this information. To address these concerns and to demonstrate our commitment to privacy, we have developed and implemented this Privacy Policy for our domestic (i.e., U.S.) company. As this policy may change from time to time, we encourage you to check it periodically. 

WHAT WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT: 

We only collect personally identifiable information that you voluntarily and knowingly provide us. 

We use the information that you provide us only for the purpose(s) for which you specifically provided it or for specific additional purposes for which we receive your prior consent. 

We do not share any information you provide us with anyone outside of The Emerald Beach Resort and its affiliates.

These affiliates are legally obligated to maintain the confidentiality of any information we provide them, including your information. We may use a technology called "cookies" to enhance your experience on our sites. 

We employ appropriate security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of any information you provide us. 

We provide you with choice and control over the collection and use of any personally identifiable information that you provide us online and a means for updating, correcting or removing this information. 

 

GENERAL 

We only collect personally identifiable information on a voluntary basis. We do not require that you provide this information to gain access to our sites and we do not require you to disclose more information than is reasonably needed to participate in an activity on our sites. We collect personally identifiable information primarily to email updates and news, for entry into promotions and to notify subsequent winners, to send out brochures, etc. via regular mail to subscribers and to respond to your questions or suggestions. We do not sell any information we gather at our web sites to anyone outside of The Emerald Beach Resort and its affiliates. We do not transfer or disclose any information we gather at our web sites to anyone outside of The Emerald Beach Resort and its affiliates without your prior consent, except (1) in cases where we believe in good faith that we have a legal obligation to disclose such information in maintaining and managing the activities on its web sites. Please be assured that these suppliers are legally obligated to maintain the confidentiality of this information and do not acquire any rights to use your information for their own benefit. We may share non-identifiable aggregate information about our users (for example, the % of male and female visitors to our sites) with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties in an effort to customize or enhance the content and advertising on our sites for our users. 

 

COOKIES

Visitors to our website: When someone visits our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting any of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. 

Use of cookies by our website: Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work or work more efficiently as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why. 

Google Analytics - _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz - These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. 
Server side web analytics cookie - ASP.NET_SessionId - These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. 
Server side web analytics cookie - VisitorLocationID* - These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. 
Internet booking engine progression cookie - jsaction - This cookie is set by our internet booking engine platform to record the visitor's progression during the booking process. This cookie is deleted when a user closes the browser. 
Internet booking engine multiple room cookie - teasermultiroomversion - This cookie is used to record that users have initiated a multiple room booking. It collects information in an anonymous form. This cookie expires when you close your browser. 
Most web browsers allow some control of the majority of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit this website www.allaboutcookies.org

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit this website http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 

SECURITY 

We employ appropriate security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. For our Emerald Beach Resort site, we employ Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input as an additional security measure. However, as no on-line data transmission can be guaranteed to be totally secure, we (like all web sites) cannot warrant or guarantee 100% the security of any information you transmit to us at our web sites. 

 

LINKS TO OTHER SITES 

Neither The Emerald Beach Resort nor any of its affiliates shall have any responsibility of any nature whatsoever for other web sites linked to this web site or any information contained thereon, none of which has been verified or endorsed by either The Emerald Beach Resort or any of its affiliates.