Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Latin World Media Corp. d/b/a LifeStyle Miami (“LifeStyle Miami”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares and protects any personally identifiable information you may provide to us via the website www.lifestylemiami.com (“Site”) and/or our Services. This Privacy Policy constitutes part of the LifeStyle Miami T&C (“T&C”). Terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the T&C.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of this Privacy Policy at any time without further notice to you. If any material term of this Privacy Policy is changed, we will post notification of such change on the Site and also revise this Privacy Policy to reflect such change. We will indicate at the bottom of this Privacy Policy the date this Privacy Policy was last revised. It is your (“you”, “your”) responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine if there have been changes to the Privacy Policy and to review any such changes. In the event we modify this Privacy Policy, such modified Privacy Policy shall be effective upon posting, and your continued use of the Site will signify your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.
BY ACCESSING OR USING OR CONTINUING TO ACCESS AND USE THE SITE OR SERVICES, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE WITH THE COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, LIFESTYLE MIAMI IS NOT WILLING TO PROVIDE YOU ACCESS TO THE SITE AND/OR SERVICES AND YOU SHOULD NOT PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND ANY OF OUR SERVICES. YOU MAY TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO: cancel@lifestylemiami.com
Collection of Information
Personal Information. Currently, you are not required to provide any personally identifiable information in order to gain access to the non-password protected portions of the Site. However, to use access certain Content or Services provided by LifeStyle Miami via the Site, you may need to register as a member of the Site and create a profile. At the time you become a registered member of the Site, we may request that you provide us your first name, last name, age, income range, email address and username. Registered members may also make required subscription payments, if any, through the Site. Those members that choose to make any such subscription payments via the Site will also be requested to provide a mailing address, billing address, telephone number, credit card number and/or other payment information necessary to facilitate the payment thereof. Additional personally identifiable information may also be voluntarily added by you to your profile at a later date.
The Site also permits you to contact us via email and via our Contact Us form. Whenever you send an email via an email link or through the Contact Us form on the Site, you may be providing us with your name and email address and any information you choose to include in the text of your message. For example, you may choose to provide your mailing address or other information necessary or helpful for us to address your query or other concern.
Your personally identifiable information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where LifeStyle Miami may have facilities and/or servers, and by using the Site or any of our Services, you consent to the transfer of your personally identifiable information outside of your country of residence. We will endeavor to adhere to the principles set forth herein, regardless of whether information is collected, transferred or retained in countries or jurisdictions that do not require a similar level of protection of your personally identifiable information.
We may use the email address you provide to us, as well as the Site’s messaging system, to send you updates, newsletters or news regarding our Site and/or the Services, and to provide you with information regarding advertisers who may have relevant offers (subject to the terms set forth below).
Interactive Tools. Certain features on the Site provide you an opportunity to interact with other users and submit User Generated Content. These may include tagging, rating, voting, discussing and commenting on articles and events, message boards and so forth. When you use these features you should be aware that any User Generated Content and other information you submit, including your user name, location, e-mail address and any other personally identifiable information you choose to include in any User Generated Content you submit or post, may be publicly available to others unless you have specified otherwise using the Display Name settings in your profile. We are not responsible for any information you choose to submit through these interactive features. When you choose to use the sharing features on our Site, for example, to send a story to a contact, we will ask you for your email address and your contact’s email address, and we may retain such information in order to fulfill your request and let the recipient know who sent the story.
Use of Information. We collect, retain and use the personally identifiable information or other information you provide to us via the Site for legitimate business purposes only, including without limitation in the following ways: (a) to qualify you as a registered member with access to the password-protected portions of the Site; (b) to provide our Content and Services to registered members and to otherwise operate the Site; (c) to respond to an inquiry from you or address a request submitted by you (including contacting you directly to request additional information to process your inquiry or request; (d) to contact you and provide you information regarding LifeStyle Miami and/or our business partners and affiliates; (e) to notify you about your accounts or transactions with us and to otherwise contact you with information we believe is of interest to you; (f) to correspond with you about our Content, Services or special offers related thereto; (g) to facilitate the payment of any subscription fees necessary to access any of our Content or Services; (h) to enhance or develop the Site, Content and Services; (i) to monitor Site visitor traffic patterns and Site usage; (j) to provide third parties with aggregate non-personal information about our user base and usage patterns; (k) to personalize the Services and, if relevant, to provide advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences; (l) to conduct promotions, sweepstakes and contests and to select the winners, notify them of results or otherwise connect with users with respect to the administration of such promotions, sweepstakes or contests, When participating in such promotions, sweepstakes and contests be sure to read the applicable Rules as they may include additional and specific uses of your personal information that could expand the scope of uses set forth herein and may amend this privacy policy by reference; (m) to conduct voluntary surveys, the results of which to be published on an aggregated basis, (n) to comply with applicable laws, regulations and rules, and requests of relevant regulatory and law enforcement and/or other governmental agencies; (o) to enforce our T&C; and/or (p) to protect the rights, property, or safety of LifeStyle Miami, our users, and others.
Sharing of Information. LifeStyle Miami is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals who utilize our Site or any of our Services. We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to third parties. We share your information only with our business partners, affiliates or Third Party Content providers, or as otherwise described herein in order to provide you the Site and our Content and Services, and to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and rules, and requests of relevant regulatory and other governmental agencies.
In order to carry out your requests and respond to your inquiries, we may share your personally identifiable information with third parties that perform functions on our behalf (or on behalf of our partners), such as companies or individuals that deliver merchandise, participate in our promotions, administer our promotions, provide marketing or promotional assistance, process credit card payments, analyze data or provide customer service (but such information will be shared only to the extent they need such information to perform their functions). Your personally identifiable information (except any credit card information provided) may also be used by us or shared with our subsidiaries, affiliates, sponsors, partners, advertisers or other third parties to provide you with product information and promotional and other offers. You may always direct us (by contacting us at the address listed below) not to share your personally identifiable information with these parties or not to use your personally identifiable information to provide you with such information or offers. Except as provided herein, your personally identifiable information will not be provided to any third parties without prior approval from you.
LifeStyle Miami may make certain offers or services available to our users from third party advertisers. If you provide us your permission to allow such third party advertisers to contact you, your personally identifiable information (such as your contact information and other information collected during your visit to our Site) may be shared with such advertisers, including data aggregators, marketers and other organizations.
Also, we may share in aggregate, statistical form, non-personal information regarding the users of the Site, traffic patterns, and Site usage with our partners, affiliates or advertisers. In addition, we will disclose information we maintain, including personally identifiable information, when required to do so by law, or may disclose such information in response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority.
Note that certain Third Party Content providers may condition provision of their services with access to certain personally identifiable information of users as part of reporting/audit provisions in their agreements with LifeStyle Miami or to investigate violations of their rights. LifeStyle Miami will use its good faith judgment in cooperating with any such Third Party Content providers’ requests, and solely in compliance with LifeStyle Miami’s agreements with such Third Party Content providers.
Except as provided herein, your personally identifiable information will not be provided to any third parties without prior approval from you.
Tracking Technologies. The Site and the Services utilize “cookies” to, among other things, allow you to navigate quickly through our Site, facilitate the login processes and allow you to personalize and store your settings. Cookies are small strings of text that are sent by the Site to your browser and then stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We also use cookies to collect Site usage information and help us improve our Site experiences by measuring which areas are of greatest interest to users. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but it is possible to change your browser setup so that it does not accept cookies. However, rejecting cookies may prevent you from taking advantage of certain portions of the Site and/or Services.
We may allow third parties that serve advertisements on our Site (including our promotion partners) to place and access cookies on your computer, but they will not be able to access our cookies. The use of cookies by such third parties is not subject to our Privacy Policy, but is subject to their own respective privacy policies. You have the option to decide whether or not to accept a cookie by resetting your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is being sent to your hard drive. You may also delete a cookie manually from your hard drive. Please note, however, that some parts of this Site will not function properly or will be considerably slower if you refuse to accept a cookie or choose to disable your cookies settings.
In addition, we may use tracking technologies, including web beacons and URL shorteners, on our Site and the Services that may record information such as Internet domain and host names; Internet protocol (IP) addresses; browser software and operating system types; clickstream patterns; and dates and times that our Site is accessed. We may also include web beacons and cookies in our e-mail messages, including newsletters, to among other things, determine how many e-mail messages have been opened.
Security. LifeStyle Miami employs security systems to protect the personally identifiable information we receive from you from unauthorized disclosure. If you are a registered member, you should not share your password with anyone. In addition, if you suspect unauthorized access to your information, it is your responsibility to contact LifeStyle Miami immediately. LifeStyle Miami personnel will never ask you to divulge your password in written or electronic communications. Please be aware that Internet data transmission is not always secure and we cannot warrant that information you transmit utilizing the Site or Services is secure. Because security is important to both LifeStyle Miami and you, we will always make reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems.
Information Retention. We retain your personally identifiable information for as long as necessary to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you and to comply with applicable laws, rules or regulations.
Links to Other Sites. The Site and the Services may contain links to third party websites that allow users the ability to download or access software or content. LifeStyle Miami neither controls nor endorses such third party websites, and has not reviewed or approved any content that appears thereon or the privacy practices of such third parties. LifeStyle Miami and its Third Party Service Providers shall not be held responsible for such third parties’ privacy practices. You should review the privacy policies posted on such third party sites.
Modifications. We strive to maintain the accuracy of any personally identifiable information that may be collected from you, and will use our commercially reasonable efforts to respond promptly to update our database when you tell us the information in our database is not accurate. It is your responsibility to ensure that such information is accurate, complete and up-to-date. You may review and update your personally identifiable information that you have provided to us at any time by signing in and visiting your profile.
Opt Out. You may opt out of receiving communications from us and our affiliates by following the opt-out link provided in any email received from us or by emailing us at support@lifestylemiami.com.
Consequences of Not Providing Information. You may choose not to provide us with your personally identifiable information. However, choosing not to provide certain requested personally identifiable information may prevent you from accessing and taking advantage of certain aspects of the Site and/or Services offered by LifeStyle Miami.
Business Transfer. LifeStyle Miami may, in the future, sell or otherwise transfer some or all of its assets to a third party. Your personally identifiable information and/or technical information we obtain from you via the Site and/or the Services may be disclosed to any potential or actual third party purchasers of such assets and/or may be among those assets transferred.
Residents of the European Union or Others Countries. As the Internet is a global environment, collecting and processing personal information may involve the transmission of personal data internationally. Therefore, by communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to your personal data being processed in this way. If you are a resident of a country within the European Union or any other country, by using this Site and/or the Services and providing us your personally identifiable information, you explicitly acknowledge and agree to (i) the transfer of your personally identifiable information to the United States and (ii) the collection and use of your personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Eligibility and Children Under 13. Without limiting the generality of the T&C, the Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older. Certain portions of the Site may indicate they are accessible solely for users who are eighteen (18) years of age or older and who are not considered to be minors in the state of residence.
We do not intend to collect personally identifiable information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age, except for the limited circumstances described below. In the event a child under the age of 13 submits a question to us on this Site and identifies his or her age, we may use the child’s e-mail address for the sole purpose of responding to the child’s question on a one-time- only basis. However, we will not use the child’s e-mail address to re-contact the child and we will make all reasonable effort to delete it from our records once we have responded. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 13, we will make all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records.
Effectiveness. This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 2, 2011.
Your California Privacy Right. California Law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding or to opt out from our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at: support@lifestylemiami.com.
Questions, Comments and Concerns. Please address any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy to support@lifestylemiami.com