PuertoRealEstate.com Privacy Policy

PuertoRealEstate.com is the premiere online destination in for finding out about real estate, vacation rentals, activities and other recreational pursuits in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. We at PuertoRealEstate.com know that you care how information about you is used and shared. We designed our website with both its usefulness and your privacy in mind. This policy describes the types of personal information we may collect and how we use it. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that PuertoRealEstate.com does not own or control, or to people that PuertoRealEstate.com does not employ or manage.

By using PuertoRealEstate.com, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this policy. If we make any significant changes to this policy, we will notify you by posting a notice of such changes on the PuertoRealEstate.com home page.

You should know:

• We only collect limited information and store and maintain your information on our secure servers.
• We do not sell or share information that personally identifies you for marketing purposes. We would only do so with your express permission.
• We may communicate with you directly from time to time but no more than four times per year.
• You can update or remove your information and preferences at any time.

What types of personal information do we collect and how do we use it?

If you browse PuertoRealEstate.com's web site, you do so anonymously. During that process, we do not collect any personal information, including your email address.

PuertoRealEstate.com does collect personally identifiable information when you contact PuertoRealEstate.com using our online contact form. PuertoRealEstate.com may also receive personally identifiable information from our business partners. When you contact us through our Contact Us page, we ask for certain personal information including but not limited to your name, phone number and email address. You are then no longer anonymous to us.

PuertoRealEstate.com also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address and the page(s) you requested.

PuertoRealEstate.com uses information for two general purposes only: first, to fulfill your requests for certain services, and second, to contact you about those services, new services or news that PuertoRealEstate.com may consider of interest to you. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us, you may request removal simply by sending us a blank email to the email address at the bottom of any marketing email communication from us or by contacting us through our Contact Us page.

PuertoRealEstate.com does not sell or share your personal information, including your email address or other personally identifiable information, with any third parties for marketing purposes. We would only do so with your express permission.

Log information

When you visit PuertoRealEstate.com, we collect the same information that most web sites log when they are accessed. This information, contained in the "header" of your request to access PuertoRealEstate.com, usually includes the computer and browser type you used, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, and the date and time of day.

We may take notice of your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, only to help us understand what parts of our site are most interesting to you, how long you spend in certain areas of our site, and how often you visit. We do not link your computer's IP address to anything personally identifiable. This information may also allow us to display pages that work best with your operating system and browser or to direct you accordingly to a page with information about browsers. In addition, we log this information for internal business purposes. For example, this log information helps us determine how well our website is working so we can continually improve the quality of PuertoRealEstate.com. Should we ever need it, the log information is also important for security and audit information.

When we may disclose your personal information.

As a standard email protocol, when you send an email to or receive an email from PuertoRealEstate.com, your email address and /or name are included in the header of the email. And, as a client, if we correspond with you by traditional offline methods, your information may be displayed on mailing labels and possibly stored by carriers such as UPS and USPS. We may need to share or send the information to companies or suppliers who work on behalf of PuertoRealEstate.com to provide a product or service to you. Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.

Beyond this, we do not disclose your personally identifying information to third parties unless we believe we are required to do so by law or have a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (b) enforce the PuertoRealEstate.com Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues (d) respond to user support requests, or (e) protect the rights, property or safety of PuertoRealEstate.com, its users, customers and the public.

Transfer of information.

Personal information collected by PuertoRealEstate.com may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which PuertoRealEstate.com or its agents maintain facilities.

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of PuertoRealEstate.com, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. In such an event, PuertoRealEstate.com will notify you before information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Updating your information.

PuertoRealEstate.com gives you the ability to edit your PuertoRealEstate.com account information and preferences at any time, including whether you want PuertoRealEstate.com to contact you. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us, you may request removal simply by sending us a blank email to the email address at the bottom of any marketing email communication from us or by contacting us through our Contact Us page.

We typically deactivate accounts within ten business days of such requests. You should be aware, however, that residual copies of information may remain stored on our systems even after the deletion of information.

How does PuertoRealEstate.com safeguard your information?

We pay close attention to security. Visiting PuertoRealEstate.com is safe and secure.

We utilize technology as well as implement electronic, physical and managerial procedures to try to make sure that external parties cannot access or modify user's or our clients personal information on our servers. These technologies and procedures include industry standard methods.

However, while we strive to protect your personal information, it is impossible for PuertoRealEstate.com to guarantee the security of the information you transmit to us. In this regard, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data while you are on the internet. At a minimum, we encourage you to change your passwords often, using a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure that you are using a secure browser as you surf the Internet.

We hope you enjoy visiting PuertoRealEstate.com and we hope to see you in Puerto Escondido real soon.