Privacy Policy

We receive and store any information you provide via our website or supplied to us by you in some other medium. This information may include your first and last name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, fax number, and billing information (such as credit card number, cardholder name, and expiration date). We may also request information about your travel preferences, such as hotel preferences, frequent flyer and car rental programs. You can choose not to share information with us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to interact with OCoceans.net and/or any of the website’s affiliated entities. An example may be asking us a question or the use during and/or sign-in of our forums and/or other social interactive environments.

Travel Companions. There may be affiliated entities associated with OCoceans, who may request personal information and travel preferences about your travel companion(s). These affiliated entities would be the third-party suppliers and third-party vendors, whose websites and contact information found on OCoceans.net, you could use for ordering and booking purposes. When you are making a reservation or order for such travel companions, It may be in everyone’s best interest for you to obtain the consent of your travel companion(s) prior to providing us with their personal information and travel preferences. This prior-consent gathering could become especially pivotal, as any access to view or change their information will be available through the accounts you set-up.

Information from Other Sources. We also may periodically obtain both personal and non-personal information about you from affiliated entities, business partners and other independent third-party sources. Such information may be added to our account information. Examples of information we may receive include: updated delivery and address information, purchase history, and demographic information.

Automatic Information. We automatically collect some information about your computer when you visit this website. For example, we will collect your IP address, Web browser software (such as Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), and referring website. These type of statistics help to better guide our services to the needs of our clientele.

How your information is used

In general, to communicate with you. Communicating with you may be to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and website; to notify you about special offers and products or services that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with this website; to reward you as part of any reward and recognition program you choose to join; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection. We want to make it easy for you to take advantage of travel-related opportunities on our website and with our affiliates. One way we do this is by sending you email messages that contain information about your apparent travel-related interests. Once you leave our website, and interact with our affiliated entities, please be aware they often have their own privacy policies. Our affiliated entities use sensitive billing information (such as cardholder name, credit card number, and expiration date) for the purpose of completing the travel bookings you conduct after passing through our website.

With whom we share your information

This website may share your information with the following entities:

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Suppliers, such as hotel, airline, car rental, and activity providers, who fulfill your travel reservations. Throughout this site, all services provided by a third-party supplier are described as third-party suppliers, affiliates, affiliated entities and/or business associates. We do not share your email address with these suppliers unless they need it to verify the referring website (OCoceans.net) during the travel reservation process you have made with them. We do not place limitations on our suppliers' use or disclosure of your other personal information. Therefore, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any travel supplier whose products you purchase through this site. Please note these suppliers also may contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about you, facilitate your travel reservation, or respond to a review you may submit.

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Third-party vendors provide services or functions on our behalf, including credit card processing, business analytics, customer service, marketing, distribution of surveys or sweepstakes programs, and fraud prevention. We may also authorize third-party vendors to collect information on our behalf, including as necessary to operate features of our website or to facilitate the delivery of online advertising tailored to your interests. Third-party vendors have access to and may collect information only as needed to perform their functions and are not permitted to share or use the information for any other purpose. They are also suggested to follow similar data security practices that we have established.

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Business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be offered on our website. Third party involvement in a product or service you have requested is usually detectable by their name and/or logo independently appearing or co-appearing with ours. If you choose to access these optional services, we may share information about you, including your personal information, with those partners. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners.

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Referring websites. If you were referred to this website from another site, even if that referral is self-initiated manually, we may share some information about you with that referring website. We have not placed limitations on the referring websites’ use of your personal information and we encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website that referred you to OCoceans.

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Anonymous information. We also may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors our website receives or the most popular vacation destinations. This information does not contain any personal information and is used to develop content and services we hope you will find of interest.

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In response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

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When we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company or this website, our customers, or others; and in connection with our Terms of Service and other agreements.

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In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or bankruptcy.

Other than as set out above, you will be notified when personal information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information.

Your personal information gathering choices

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As discussed above, you can choose not to provide us with any information, although it may be needed to interact with features of OCoceans.net

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You also can add or update information and close your account as mentioned above.

Protection of your information

We want you to feel confident about using this website, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no website can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, and technical procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may only do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we employ firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and two to four systems to continually monitor for foreign files that do go undetected as an intrusion to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information.

Children's privacy

This is a general audience website and does not offer services directed to children. Should a child, whom we know to be under 13 years of age, send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information. However, if a child were to access our third-party suppliers and/or third-party vendors from within OCoceans.net, sharing information, such as IP address; operating system; referring website; and other automatic (statistical) type information will be automatic and completely out of our control. Many websites use third-party business analytics to compile business trends. The information basis for these business statistics (IP address; operating system; referring website) are automatically acquired by the third-party vendor, and viewable by the involved businesses.

External Links

If any part of this website links you to other websites, those websites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. We recommend you examine the privacy statements posted on those other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing personal information. However, the pages within OCoceans.net do operate under this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy in the future. The changes to this Privacy Policy can be viewed by accessing this policy or by any emails sent to you in regards to any changes that may occur. Emails potentially used to send updated Privacy Policy information would be those acquired by individuals using features of OCoceans.net, which requested account information including emails.

How you can contact us

If you have questions about either this Privacy Policy (or your travel planning or purchases), please email us at inquire@OCoceans.net

This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 8, 2011.

Privacy Policy