Fire Island Pines By Owner, LLC

Privacy Policy

We take the protection of the privacy of our users very seriously, which comprise individuals who are seeking a property to rent or to purchase, as well as individuals who are offering such properties on this Site. We use information collected about you only as permitted in this Privacy Policy. This is our privacy policy, but please be aware that if you follow a link to another Web site, you will no longer be covered by this Privacy Policy. It is advisable to understand the privacy policy of any Web site before sharing personal information with it. Words and phrases used in this policy have the same meaning as in the Terms and Conditions of Use – available at http://www.fireislandpinesbyowner.com/t-termsandconditions.aspx (the "Terms").

Your personal information
Your personal information – that is, information that identifies you, or from which you are identifiable – will be collected, processed, stored and used by us, and passed to and processed by our affiliated companies and other data processors acting under contract with us.

The information we gather
At various times you may contribute your personal information to us. For example, in order to process a request or inquiry you may make concerning a property or transaction, we need to know all or some of the following: your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and, in the case of a landlord's advertisement, a method of payment.

Use of your personal information
Your personal information will be used to provide and promote our Site, to process payments landlords make to us, to provide user support, and for other purposes referred to in this Privacy Policy and the Terms.

We will also use the personal information users provide to us to contact users from time to time with critical user or service updates, and to send other messages that are integral to the service we provide on the Site.

Your personal information is not shared with third parties, except: 1) where a third party performs services on our behalf and has agreed to keep such information confidential (such as the processing of your credit card payment or the conduct of an online survey for example); and 2) our affiliates, but only for the purpose of performing under the Terms or this Privacy Policy.

In the event that we or the Site are acquired by a third party, your personal information may be transferred to any such acquirer.

Inquiries

Site users may send inquiries regarding certain advertisements to landlords via clickable links on Site listings. If you choose to send an inquiry through these links, your personal information, including your e-mail address and any other information you supply, will be visible to the landlord in question so that they might reply directly to you. If you call the landlord, you may be asked to leave a return telephone number. Do not share information in the e-mail or phone call that you are not prepared to allow them to have, including, but not limited to, credit card and bank account information. These inquiries are sent to both us and to the individual landlord you selected. The resulting inquiry is available for review only by the landlord to whom they were initially addressed and to our customer service employees, who may be asked by landlords for their past inquiry information. While the content of these inquiries is not shared with any other party, the Site may, from time to time, use third party e-mail servers to send and track receipt of the inquiry e-mails, and analyze the pattern of inquiry usage reported by these third party tracking systems; the resulting information is used and stored only in an anonymized form.

How Do We Protect Your Personal Information Once We Have It?
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to guard against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal information and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal information. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. We have security measures in place to protect our user database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each user's responsibility:
a. to protect against unauthorized access to your use of the Site;
b. to ensure no one else uses the Site while the Site is open on the user's machine; and
c. to exit from the Site when not using it.
All personal information is stored on a secure server. We do not store credit card numbers or related identifying information on any Site server. Please remember that many services and transactions may be performed by our business partners. This Privacy Policy and our security or common practices do not apply to other companies.

What is a Cookie and Why Do We Use Them?
A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a Web server to store in a Web browser so that it can later be read back from that browser. We may use cookies to store some personal preferences for your future visits. Cookies allow us to recognize you more quickly; therefore, your time spent on our site can be more personalized and productive. You'll find that cookies are an industry standard and are used at most major Web sites in much the same way we use them here at our Site.

We may use third-party site usage tracking companies to analyze your Site visit or to conduct surveys. In the course of serving our pages, these third parties may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to the Site and other Web sites in order to help us understand how to serve you better.

We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. When you view a web page on our Site that contains advertising provided by one of these third parties, the service provider may place a cookie on or retrieve a cookie from your computer if you have not disabled your browser from receiving cookies.

If you wish, you can prevent cookie files from using (non-personal) information about you by either deleting the cookie folder in your browser or by putting your browser's Privacy setting higher, but doing so will mean that (a) your use of the Site will be adversely affected (and quite possibly entirely prevented), (b) your experience of this and other sites that use cookies to enhance or personalize your experience will be adversely affected, and (c) you will not be presented with advertising that reflects the way that you use our, and other, sites. You can find out how to make these changes to your browser at this site: www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

How we protect your privacy with third parties
As indicated above, we may work with other companies who place cookies on our Site. These companies help operate our Site and provide you with additional products and services. They are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions. We do not permit any of these companies to collect personal information using cookies on our Site.

How do I correct or update my information?
We allow our users the option to change or modify information previously provided. This may be done through the following methods:
1. (1) submit the request through info@fireislandpinesbyowner, or
2. (2) mail the request to us at Fire Island Pines By Owner, LLC, PO Box 5231, Fire Island Pines, NY 11782.

How do I opt-out of receiving marketing communications from you?
You may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by the following means:
1. use the unsubscribe function below,
2. follow the instructions included in each communication or newsletter,
3. submit the request through info@fireislandpinesbyowner, or
4. mail the request to us at Fire Island Pines By Owner, LLC, PO Box 5231, Fire Island Pines, NY 11782.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and post the new version on the Site. When we do so, we will notify you of the fact on the main screen of the Site and the new version of this Privacy Policy will take effect, and will govern all Site services and your relationship with us:
a. commencing one month after the date of posting;
b. if earlier, when (following posting of the new Privacy Policy) you make an inquiry or otherwise interact with us or another user; or
c. immediately upon the date of posting, if the changes are not to operative provisions, or not capable of adversely affecting you - examples of which would include, without limitation, changes to contact details referred to, or the refinement of provisions that are already included, in this Privacy Policy.

How long will we keep your personal data?
We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes to which you consent under the Terms and this Privacy Policy, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.

Disclosure for legal reasons
Your personal data may be disclosed if we or an entity processing your data on our behalf are compelled to do so by law, or receive a valid, legally compliant request by a law enforcement or governmental authority.

How do I contact you?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, we encourage you to contact us through info@fireislandpinesbyowner.com.