Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: 12/26/2023
Introduction
Carehosts, LLC (“Company” or ”We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it
through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types
of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit
the website or on our application Carehosts.com (collectively the “Website”) and our practices for collecting,
using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to
information we collect:
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On our Website App.
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In email, text, and other electronic messages
between you and our Website.
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When you interact with our advertising and applications
on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising
include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information
collected by:
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Us offline or through any other means, including
on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our
affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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Any third party (including our affiliates and
subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including
advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully
to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we
will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice
is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to
this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of our
Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so
please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children
Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for
children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information
to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children
under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this
Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any
purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment
features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us,
including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen
name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received
Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any
information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at
care@carehosts.com.
Information
We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of
information from and about users of our Website and App, including information:
· By which you may be personally identified, such
as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, geolocation, credit
card number, date of birth or /any other identifier by which you may be
contacted online or offline (“Personal
Information”);
· That is about you but individually does not
identify you; and/or
· About your internet connection, the equipment
you use to access our Website, App, and usage details.
We collect this information:
· Directly from you when you provide it to us.
· Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
· From third parties, for example, our business
partners.
SMS Messaging Policy
Subscriber Opt-in Flow:
Users may optionally consent to receive text messages by providing their phone numbers on our website. You can find the opt-in form at https://stay.carehosts.com/users/edit.
No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or
through our Website may include:
· Information that you provide by filling in forms
on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering
to use our Website, subscribing to our service, creating your profile, posting
material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information
when you report a problem with our Website.
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Records and copies of your correspondence
(including email addresses) if you contact us.
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Your responses to surveys that we might ask you
to complete for research purposes.
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Details of transactions you carry out through
our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders.
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Payment information.
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Sharing information between members for listings
or bookings.
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Reviewing your stay.
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Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or
displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on
public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or
third parties (collectively, “User
Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to
others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, you may set
certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account
profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with
whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and
do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by
unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic
Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact
with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect
certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns,
including:
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Details
of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and
other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the
Website.
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Information about your computer and internet
connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. In
some location we understand that this is considered Personal Information, as
such, we cannot guarantee we can safeguard this information as we would other
Personal Information, so please use all measures to safeguard your Personal
Information.
We also may use these
technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and
across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect
automatically may include Personal Information, and we may maintain it or
associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from
third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and
more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Store information about your preferences,
allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this
automatic data collection may include:
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Cookies
(or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of
your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you
may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
· Flash
Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or
Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and
navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the
same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about
managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
· Web
Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small
electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel
tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count
users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related
website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website
content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect Personal
Information automatically, but we may tie this information to Personal
Information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
Third-Party
Use of Cookies
Some content or applications,
including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including
advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web
beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when
you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your
Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal
Information, about your online activities over time and across different
websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide
you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third
parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any
questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact
the responsible provider directly.
How
We Use Your Information
We use information that we
collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal
Information:
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To present our Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you with information, products, or
services that you request from us.
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To fulfill any other purpose for which you
provide it.
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To create your listing or book your stay.
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To notify required third parties, like hosts or residents, about your stay.
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To provide you with notices about your account,
including expiration and renewal notices.
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To carry out our obligations and enforce our
rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including
for billing and collection.
· To notify you about changes to our Website or
any products or services we offer or provide through it.
· To process your payments.
· To identify your reviews and profile.
· Analyzing your information for purposes of fraud
prevention, analytics, enforcement, customer support, and other reasons related
to our service.
· To allow you to participate in interactive features
on our Website.
· In any other way we may describe when you
provide the information.
· For business transfers or successions if our
Company ownership changes.
· For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information
to contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may be
of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way,
please adjust your user preferences in your account profile.
We may use the information we
have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our
advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal
Information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or
otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you
meet its target criteria.
Information you post on your
public profile or in reviews of listings or bookings, will be shared publicly
on our website. If you do not wish to share this type of information publicly,
you may not be able to use our service.
Disclosure
of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated
information about our users, and information that does not identify any
individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal
Information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy
policy:
· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
· To contractors, service providers, and other
third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual
obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the
purposes for which we disclose it to them.
· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a
merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale
or transfer of some or all of Carehosts, LLC’s assets, whether as a going
concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which
Personal Information held by Carehosts, LLC about our Website users is among
the assets transferred.
· To third parties to market their products or
services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We
contractually require these third parties to keep Personal Information
confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you
provide the information.
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With your consent.
- We may also disclose your Personal Information:
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To comply with any court order, law, or legal
process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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To enforce or apply our terms of use and other
agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or
appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Carehosts, LLC, our
customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies
and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
Choices
About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with
choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created
mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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Tracking
Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or
some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how
you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page
on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse
cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or
not function properly.
·
Disclosure
of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to
share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for
promotional purposes, you can opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting
your user preferences in your account profile or by sending us an email with
your request to care@carehosts.com.
·
Linking
Third-Party Accounts. You can link
third party accounts, like Facebook or Instagram, to share your information
with those third-party accounts. If you choose to link accounts, you consent to
Us accessing the information in your third-party accounts, and your activities
may be displayed publicly on your third-party accounts. You can change your
settings to what is shared in your third-party account dashboard.
We do not control third parties’
collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising.
However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have
your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving
targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
California residents may have
additional Personal Information rights and choices.
Accessing
and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your
Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account
profile page.
You may also send us an email at
care@carehosts.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal
Information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your Personal
Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a
request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or
legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User
Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain
viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by
other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the
Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.
California residents may have
additional Personal Information rights and choices.
Your
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident,
California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your
Personal Information. California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section §
1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request
certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third
parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please
send an email to care@carehosts.com.
Data
Security
The safety and security of your
information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have
chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are
responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share
your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out
information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information
you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission
of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our
best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of
your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of
Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for
circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the
Website.
Changes
to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any
changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the
privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material
changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by
email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on
the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is
identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an
up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically
visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about
this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
care@carehosts.com