Privacy Policy - Commitment to your Privacy
This site is owned and operated by Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC. Your
privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC, we want to
make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our
users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses
what information we gather and how we use it.
Information Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC Gathers and Tracks
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC gathers two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary
submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters,
to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation
in polls and surveys:
- Information Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC gathers through aggregated tracking
information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers
and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC derives
its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances
does Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of
our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual
users. Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string
(information contained in every user's browser).
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms
that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with
individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps
us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser
files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information
although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you
have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie
can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your
hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC uses cookies to
track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers
a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive
the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on
to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message
boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Use of Information
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC uses any information voluntarily given by
our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide
interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content
based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily
provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate
in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special
editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something
we are doing. Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas
of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not
track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms
entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users.
But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC creates aggregate reports on user demographics
and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers
to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that
are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their
ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply
with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
Sharing of the Information
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC uses the above-described information to tailor
our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information
about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law
or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Security
Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC operates secure data networks protected by
industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy
policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and
use of this information by Lake Havasu Houseboats, LLC. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.