PRIVACY POLICY
At Free of Timeshare, d/b/a Free of Timeshare (“us”, “we”, “our” or the “Company”), we value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes our privacy practices for the activities set out below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, personal data (“Personal Data”) refers to any information that on its own, or in combination with other available information, can identify an individual.
We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under the below regulations:
- the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Brazil’s Data Protection Legislation (LGPD)
- California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
- Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
- Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
- Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
- Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
- South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
Scope
This policy applies to the Free of Timeshare websites, domains, applications, services, and products.
This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services, or platforms that may be accessed through (non-Free of Timeshare) links that we may provide to you. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any Personal Data that you provide to these websites will be governed by the third-party’s own privacy policy. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.
Processing Activities
This Policy applies when you interact with us by doing any of the following:
- Make use of our application and services as an authorized user
- Visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Statement
Personal Data Collection
When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data:
This includes:
- Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
- Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:
This includes:
- Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
- Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method
We also collect the following Sensitive Personal Data. When collecting this data, we will ensure to get your explicit consent:
How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect Personal Data from the following sources:
- From You. You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:
- Create an account or purchase products on our website;
- Use our products or services;
- Create content through our products or services;
- Express interest in our products or services;
- Download software and/or our mobile application;
- Subscribe to our newsletter;
- Complete a voluntary market research survey;
- Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
- When you log in to our website via social media;
- Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.
- Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:
- Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
- Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
- Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
- Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
- Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
- Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the “Contact us” section below.
Device and Usage Data
When you visit a Freeoftimeshare website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Data we collect from third parties
We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to Freeoftimeshare services, partners, and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Freeoftimeshare (contact details below).
Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties.
The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.
Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data
We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.
A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site in addition to potential partners and third parties related to that business. The collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.
How we use cookies
To give you the best experience possible, we use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary: As a web application, we require certain necessary cookies to run our service.
- Preference: We use preference cookies to help us remember the way you like to use our service.
- Personalization: Some cookies are used to personalize content and present you with a tailored experience. For example, location could be used to give you services and offers in your area.
How to control your cookies
So long as the cookie is not strictly necessary, you may opt in or out of cookie use at any time. To alter the way in which we collect information from you, visit our Cookie Manager.
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law. When we no longer need Personal Data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymize it.
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
We have appropriate organizational safeguards and security measures in place to protect your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
The communication between your browser and our website uses a secure encrypted connection wherever your Personal Data is involved.
We require any third party who is contracted to process your Personal Data on our behalf to have security measures in place to protect your data and to treat such data in accordance with the law.
In the unfortunate event of a Personal Data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.
We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16 Years
Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. These rights may include:
- Right to Access (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 15, CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, CTDPA, UCPA, LGPD, POPIA): You have the right to learn whether we are processing your Personal Data and to request a copy of the Personal Data we are processing about you.
- Withdrawing Consent: If you have consented to our processing of your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to opt out from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.
How to Exercise Your Rights
You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Data by sending the request to our privacy team by using the form below.
For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy then we will post an updated version of this Policy at this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.
To request a copy for your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we’ve made the process simple: