Privacy Statement

Drake Passage Weather respects your privacy and is committed to protect the personal information that you share with us. Below is our privacy policy that applies to www.drakewx.com. This Site is intended for use by persons who are residents of the United States of America and who are over 18 years of age. By using this Site or communicating via telephone or otherwise with Drake Passage Weather, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

When you browse the Site and have not registered for any online service from Drake Passage Weather, you browse anonymously. Personal Information (“Personal Information” is defined as any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains including, but not limited to, a first and last name, E-mail address, a home, postal or other physical address, or other contact information) is not collected as you browse. Drake Passage Weather does, however, use “cookies,” “client variables” and “session variables” to collect information about how the Site and server are used and to recognize you as a Drake Passage Weather online service user when you re-enter our Site. Information, such as the server your computer is logged onto, your browser type, and whether you entered the Site via a Web site or E-mail hyperlink, is collected and tracked in aggregate. This information is used for the purpose of measuring response rates to Web page and E-mail hyperlinks as well as overall Site activity and performance.

When you register for or request any Site service, you may be asked to provide us with Personal Information which is used to enhance your Site experience, expedite communications, allow you to receive electronic/postal mailings from Drake Passage Weather, or to be contacted as requested. Additionally, we may request your upcoming travel plans and the next destination you plan to visit which allows us to further personalize your Site and E-mail messages you may receive to meet your specific needs, as well as make Drake Passage Weather product improvements. We may also use this Personal Information in aggregate to generate market research reports.

IP ADDRESSES

Drake Passage Weather collects the IP addresses used to access our Site and the dates and times of access. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not personally linked to identifiable information.

REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE PRODUCTS & SERVICES

In order to provide you with a particular Site product or service, we may request that you voluntarily supply us with Personal Information for purposes such as correspondence, Site registration, submitting an application or booking request, placing an order, requesting product descriptions, or participating in Site surveys and/or contests. If you are known to us as a registered user of a Drake Passage Weather Site, we may combine information about your use of Site products or services with certain other online and offline information we have about you as a Drake Passage Weather customer as well as information available from external sources in order to customize your Site experience and present you with relevant online and offline communications.

INFORMATION USE

We may use Personal Information you have given us to, for example, provide a service, ensure proper booking, measure consumer interest in our various products and services, and inform you about products and services. If you have provided your E-mail address to us or to a company we’ve partnered with to make their products and services available to you, we may send you E-mail. These E-mails may be based on Personal Information you provided in your initial transaction with us, in surveys both online and offline, from information that may indicate purchasing preferences and lifestyle, as well as available from external sources. These E-mails come directly from Drake Passage Weather. You can opt-out from receiving E-mail from Drake Passage Weather as described below in the section, “Declining E-mail.” When we send you E-mail, we may use your E-mail address to identify information about your receipt of the E-mail, including whether the communication was opened, how many times it was viewed, and whether you clicked on an embedded hyperlink to reach a particular product or service. This information is used to measure response rates to E-mail communications as well as enhance your Site experience.

Drake Passage Weather does not provide your Personal Information to our business partners. However, we may send you offers on behalf of our business partners. If you take advantage of an offer from a Drake Passage Weather business partner and become their customer, they may independently wish to send E-Mails to you. In this case, you will need to inform them separately if you wish to decline receiving future E-mails from them.

We may share Personal Information with law enforcement agencies in the event of a criminal investigation or suspected illegal activity.

FORWARD/E-MAIL THIS PAGE

Site users can choose to request that a Site Web page be sent electronically to another person. When you elect to do this, you will be required to enter your E-mail address and name, the receiver’s E-mail address and name, a subject line, and a text message that will go to the receiver. This will generate a preformatted E-mail message that will go from you to the receiver’s mailbox with your message embedded in the text of the E-mail. Forward/E-Mail This Page is completely voluntary and you will therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose the required information.

CONTESTS

When you enter a contest or other promotional feature on the Site, we may ask for your Personal Information so that we can administer the contest and notify winners. Participation in these contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose the required information.

ADVERTISING

Third party vendors, including Google, show our ads on various web sites on the Internet. These third party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. You may opt out of third party use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page found at: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

We use reasonable efforts and take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information. Hotels For Everyone however is not responsible for any breach of security or loss of data.

ONLINE SURVEYS

We value opinions and comments from Drake Passage Weather customers, and you may have the opportunity to give us your feedback through Site surveys. In conducting these surveys, we may ask for your Personal Information so that we can appropriately identify you. Survey and Personal Information collected will be aggregated and used to make improvements to the Site and improve Drake Passage Weather products and services. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose the required information.

MESSAGE BOARDS

Users of Site Message Boards agree not to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of any individual’s privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law. Users agree not to post any copyrighted material unless they are the owners of the copyright. Users remain solely responsible for the content of their messages, and agree to indemnify and hold Drake Passage Weather harmless with respect to any claim based upon the transmission of their message(s). As a user of a Message Board, in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any posted message, Drake Passage Weather reserves the right to reveal your identity (or any other information about you in our hands). Drake Passage Weather does not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any message, and is not responsible for the contents of any message. The messages posted express the views of the author of the message and not necessarily the views of Drake Passage Weather. As a user of a Message Board: (a) you automatically grant to Drake Passage Weather (or warrant that the owner thereof has granted to Drake Passage Weather), a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, transfer or sell any such content, for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, a commercial purpose, without any compensation to you; and (b) you agree that you will not publish, submit, or display such content to or on any other commercial travel-related web-site or on-line service without Drake Passage Weather‘ prior written consent, which consent may be withheld by Drake Passage Weather in its discretion. Drake Passage Weather reserves the right to edit or delete messages prior to their appearance on the Site. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact Drake Passage Weather immediately by E-mail at info@drakewx.com

DECLINING E-MAIL

Drake Passage Weather provides customers with a means to decline receiving E-mail. At any time, you may request to discontinue receiving E-mail from Drake Passage Weather by following the opt-out instructions included within any Drake Passage Weather E-mail and informing us of your preference.

CHILDREN

This Site is not used to knowingly solicit Personal Information from or market to children under the age of 13. This Site is intended for use by persons who are over 18 years of age.

CUSTOMER INFORMATION

If you would like information about your account, you believe that Drake Passage Weather has not complied with this Privacy Policy with respect to your Personal Information, or you have other related inquiries or concerns, you may email info@drakewx.com. In your letter, please describe in as much detail as possible the nature of your inquiry or the ways in which you believe that the Drake Passage Weather Privacy Policy has not been complied with. Drake Passage Weather will investigate your inquiry or concern promptly.

LINKED INTERNET SITES

You should be aware that other Internet sites to which you link to from this Site may contain privacy provisions that differ from the provisions of our Privacy Statement. Drake Passage Weather is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other such sites. We encourage Site users to be aware when they leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by this Site.

SECURITY

Drake Passage Weather uses Secure Socket Layers (SSL), the industry standard in transferring information to process your orders. The SSL encrypts, or translates, your order information into a highly indecipherable code, which is processed immediately. When you begin the transaction process, you will move into the secure area of our Site. A warning window may pop up to notify you that you are entering this “safe” area. Once you’ve entered, the page address (URL) will change from http to https, to let you know you are in a secure area. You will remain in this secure zone for the entire transaction process.