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Bungalocals Privacy Statement

Effective Date: January 1st, 2012

This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) explains how American Bungalow, Inc. (D.B.A. Bungalocals.com) uses personal information (“Personal Information”) and applies to all new users who register on our site on or after the Effective Date. If you do not agree to our practices, please do not register, subscribe, create an account or otherwise interact with (D.B.A.) Bungalocals at www.bungalocals.com (or the mobile and touch versions as well as all other domain names pointing directly to bungalocals as a whole), and any individual, business partner-specific, merchant-specific, city-specific, or other area-specific sites we offer (collectively, the "Sites").
 

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this Privacy Statement. You can reach us online at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
 

Types of Personal Information We Collect:
Personal Information is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. It also includes other information that may be associated with Personal Information. We collect the following types of Personal Information:

Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, postal addresses, email addresses, social media website user account names, telephone numbers, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of Bungalocals.

How Bungalocals Collects Personal Information

We ask you for Personal Information (including Contact Information, Relationship Information, and Financial Account Information) when you register, subscribe, or create an account or through Facebook Connect.

If you use a social, media platform or your mobile device (or other method of communication) to interact with Bungalocals or the Sites, the application may have a specific privacy statement that governs the use of Personal Information related to that application. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.

How Bungalocals Uses Personal Information

Bungalocals uses Personal Information to:

• Operate and improve our Sites;

• Provide customers with offers for products and services from participating merchants, including offers based on variables such as stated and anticipated customer interests, personal characteristics, or location;

• Evaluate eligibility of customers for certain offers, products or services;

• Evaluate the types of offers, products or services that may be of interest to customers;

• Provide customer support;

• Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about Bungalocals and our business partners;

• Send you reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins, or marketing;

• Provide advertisements to you through the Sites, email messages, text messages, applications, or other methods of communication;

• Administer surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us or our partners;

• Manage our everyday business needs such as Site administration, forum management, fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use or to comply with the law;

We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties except to:

• Affiliated companies (e.g., subsidiaries and other companies owned by or controlled by Bungalocals).

• Our service providers that provide services for us such as sending emails on our behalf and processing payments. Our service providers are bound by law or contract to protect the Personal Information and are only allowed to use the Personal Information in accordance with the terms of our service agreements with them.

• Merger, acquisition, or otherwise; to support the sale or transfer of business assets; to enforce our rights or protect our property; to protect the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request; or as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions. We may also disclose Personal Information to defend ourselves in litigation or a regulatory action, and when required or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate. If Bungalocals is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.

Cookies and Related Technologies

When you use our Sites, we collect certain information by automated or electronic means. Using technologies such as cookies, pixel tags and web beacons, browser analysis tools, and web server logs. As you use our Sites and applications, your browser and devices communicate with servers operated by us, our business partners and services providers to coordinate and record the interactivity and fill your requests for services and information.

The information from cookies and related technology is stored in web server logs and also in web cookies kept on your computers or mobile devices, which are then transmitted back to our Sites by your computers or mobile devices.

Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed specific actions. When you access these pages or open email messages, the pixel tags and web beacons generate a notice of that action to us, or our service providers. These tools allow us to measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions.

Accessing and Correcting Personal Information

Keeping Personal Information about you current helps ensure that we offer you the best deals available through our merchants and business partners. You can do several things to help keep Personal Information about you current. You can access, update and delete your Contact Information by logging into your account and accessing the “My Account” section of the Site or sending us an email at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

If you want to close your account or have other questions or requests, please contact us. While we are ready to assist you in managing closing your account, and removing your active profile, we cannot always delete records of past interactions and transactions. For example, we are required to retain records relating to previous purchases on the Sites for financial reporting and compliance reasons.

Communities

Our Sites may contain Communities and other areas such as discussion boards or blogswhere you may be able to publicly post information, review products and merchants, and submit media content. Prior to posting in these areas, please read our Terms of Use carefully. All the information you post will be accessible to anyone with Internet access, and any Personal Information you include in your posting may be read, collected, and used by others. For example, if you post your email address along with a public restaurant review, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. Please avoid publicly posting Personal Information If you do not wish to recieve unsolicited messages as Bungalocals has no direct controll over this situation! 

Facebook Connect

Bungalocals offers Facebook users the opportunity to interact with friends and to share on Facebook using Facebook Connect. If you are logged into both Bungalocals and Facebook, when you use the Site’s Facebook connection functions, we will link your Facebook account with your Bungalocals account if the email addresses match. If you are already logged into Bungalocals but not logged into Facebook, when you use the Site’s Facebook connection functions, you will be prompted to enter your Facebook credentials or to sign up for Facebook. By proceeding through any of these scenarios, you grant Bungalocals permission to access your Facebook profile information and to use it in accordance with the Facebook terms of use and this Privacy Statement.

If you are not currently registered as a Bungalocals user and you use the Site’s Facebook connection functions, you will first be asked to enter your Facebook credentials and then be given the option to register and join Bungalocals. Once you register with Bungalocals and connect with Facebook, you will be able to automatically post activity back to your Facebook wall. Please refer to the privacy settings in your Facebook account to manage the performance of your Facebook account.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Statement to clarify our practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices, such as when we add new features to our Sites. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of notice on the Sitebefore the change becomes effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information about our privacy practices.

California Privacy Rights

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California can obtain certain information about the types of Personal Information that companies with whom they have an established business relationship have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the proceeding calendar year. In particular, the law provides that companies must inform consumers about the categories of Personal Information that have been shared with third parties, the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed by those third parties. To request a copy of the information disclosure provided by Bungalocals pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, please contact us by writing us at the following address:

American Bungalow Inc. 
Attention: Bungalocals Privacy Office
California Customer Choice Notice 
P.O. Box 756
Sierra Madre, CA 91025-0756 
USA
 

Please allow 30 days for a response.