Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of www.bookshortlet.com (the “Site”), its subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners. We value you as our customer and respect your privacy.

This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit the Site, how that information is used, and how you can “opt-out.”

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also let you know why we’re collecting it and how it will be used.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

We don’t share any personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except when required to by law.

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices around privacy and personal information. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site. We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us. You may contact us via the various methods provided on the contact page.

How is personal information secured?

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.

Only authorised personnel and third-party vendors have access to your personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not obtain access to your personal information.

Use of Personal Information Collected

BookShortlet may collect personally identifiable information from you, meaning information about you that can be used to contact or uniquely identify you (“Personal Information”), only on a voluntary basis. Such Personal Information may include information such as your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number.

We collect Personal Information from you if you request information from us or sign up to join our email lists. Personal Information we collect is internally reviewed and used to improve our Sites, notify you of updates to our Sites or any products or services we offer, respond to visitor inquiries, carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, and fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your Personal Information to us, such as newsletters.

Your Personal Information, including without limitation your email address, will not be sold or provided to third parties except as set forth in this Privacy Policy. We will seek to obtain written or active email consent from you if we intend to use information collected from you in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection.

Does BookShortlet share personal information with others?

We will not share your personal information collected from this website with an unrelated third party without your permission, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy.

In the ordinary course of business, we may share some personal information with companies that we hire to perform services or functions on our behalf.

In all cases in which we share your personal information with a third party for the purpose of providing a service to us, we will not authorize them to keep, disclose or use your information with others except for the purpose of providing the services we asked them to provide.

We will not sell, exchange or publish your personal information, except in conjunction with a corporate sale, merger, dissolution, or acquisition.

For some sorts of transactions, in addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses, and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect personal information directly from you to assist you with your transaction.

We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use your personal information before they collect it.

If you submit a review for a third party (person or business) using our Google or Facebook Fan Review Application, during the submission process we ask your permission to gather your basic information (such as name and email address) which we then share with the third party for whom you are submitting the review.
We may be legally compelled to release your personal information in response to a court order, subpoena, search warrant, law, or regulation.

We may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating and prosecuting website visitors who violate our rules or engage in behaviour, which is harmful to other visitors (or illegal).

We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we feel that the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect someone’s health, safety or welfare, or to comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal processes.

As discussed in the section on cookies and other technologies, from time to time we may allow a third party to serve advertisements on this website.

If you share information with the advertiser, including by clicking on their ads, this Privacy Policy does not control the advertisers’ use of your personal information, and you should check the privacy policies of those advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology before linking to an ad.

We use third parties to help us provide services to you such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, maintaining our database, administering emails, and administering drawings or contests. Third parties also provide aggregate, comparative information on the performance of our Site to us.

You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, conform or comply with the law, or is necessary to protect us, the users of our Site or others.

If we ever merge with, are acquired by, or acquire another business entity, some or all of the personal information collected about you may be shared with this entity, as well as retained by us.

In the event we transfer any of your information in connection with such a sale, we will post a notice on our website or via email and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser of your information honors your opt-out requests if any.

Other than as set forth above, we will not share or sell your information to any outside organisation without your written or electronically-indicated consent.

HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE, AND/OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

If you do not wish for us to use your Personal Information to send you promotions regarding our products or services, you can opt-out of such use by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your Personal Information or at any other time by sending an email to [email protected] stating your request.

If we have sent you a promotional email, you may choose not to receive further promotional emails from us by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such email.

Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies.

Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all of our Site’s features.

How is personal information used for communications?

We may contact you periodically by e-mail, mail, or telephone to provide information regarding programs, products, services, and content that may be of interest to you.

In addition, some of the features on this website allow you to communicate with us using an online form.

If your communication requests a response from us, we may send you a response via e-mail. The e-mail response or confirmation may include your personal information.

We cannot guarantee that our e-mails to you will be secure from unauthorised interception.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information?

If you have submitted Personal Information to us and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please click on the “Contact Us” link on our Site and contact us as indicated.

BookShortlet will use commercially reasonable efforts to make corrections or remove your Personal Information from our records.

Log Files

BookShortlet follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting services’ analytics.

The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

The purpose of the information is for analysing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons.

Like any other website, BookShortlet uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited.

The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors browser type and/or other information.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on BookShortlet, which are sent directly to users’ browser.

They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that BookShortlet has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Behavioral Remarketing and Third Party Privacy Policies

BookShortlet uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our website.

We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

BookShortlet’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information.

It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

Public Discussions

This site may provide public discussions on various topics. Please note that any information you post in these discussions will become public, so please do not post sensitive information in public discussions.

Whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information could be collected and used by others. We are not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose in any such forums on the website.

BookShortlet does not agree or disagree with anything posted on the discussion board. Also, remember that you must comply with our other published policies regarding postings on our public forums.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.

These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.


Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site.

We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Information and Children Under the Age of 13
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

BookShortlet does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13.

If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

The Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information or other information from children under age 13.

If you are under 13 years old, do not use or provide any information on or through the Site. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

If you believe we might have any Personal Information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact BookShortlet using the contact information provided above.

Updates and Effective Date

BookShortlet reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time.

If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on the Site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new policy.

In the event we make a material change to how we use your Personal Information, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of such new or different use.

The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page. You are responsible for periodically reviewing our Sites and this Privacy Policy to check for any updates or changes.