This Privacy Policy sets out the privacy policies and practices for The Mason Cottage (also referred to herein as “we”, “our” and “us”) with respect to how we collect personal information. It also describes how we maintain, use, and disclose personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected from you by us via this website. This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can access certain information that we may collect about you. In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information or opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained from the information or opinion as further defined under applicable privacy laws, including, but not limited to, your email address and other personal information collected through the Services.

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Please note that this site contain links to other third-party websites that are not controlled or operated by us. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites, and we are not responsible for the content of such third-party websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. Therefore, we encourage you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties before disclosing your personal information to such parties or when visiting such third-party websites.

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We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate our Services;

2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance;

3. To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

Making an Online Reservation

ThinkReservations, provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our services to you. Your data may be stored through ThinkReservations Software data storage, databases. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  All direct payment gateways offered by ThinkReservations Software and used by us adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

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We may contact you regarding a past or future reservation, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed or to send updates about our company.  For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone and postal mail.

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Third Party Analytics and Tracking

The Mason Cottage uses Google Analytics to evaluate usage of our site and services. We use Google Analytics to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.  We use these tools to help us improve our services, performance, and user experiences.  We do not share personal information that we collect directly through Google Analytics. However, Google Analytics may collect personal information directly through the use of cookies and other tracking technologies. For an explanation of the information collected by Google Analytics and their respective privacy policies, please go to the  Google Analytics privacy policy. Those wishing to opt out of Google Analytics data collection should use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

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We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at info@themasoncottage.com or send us mail to: The Mason Cottage, 623 Columbia Avenue, Cape May NJ 08204