The Florida VIP Discount Card Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (”Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by The Florida VIP Discount Card, LLC (FVDV or “The Florida VIP Discount Card”), a Florida LLC, with its principal place of business at 450-106 SR 13 N, Jacksonville FL, 32259, USA, through the websites that The Florida VIP Discount Card operates at https://www.flvipcard.com and http://www.floridavipdiscount card  (collectively, together with all sub-domains thereof, that The Florida VIP Discount Card owns.

This Privacy Policy also explains our commitment to you with respect to our use and disclosure of non personal browsing and site usage data that The Florida VIP Discount Card collects as the owner of the Websites. That commitment is contained in a “Data Usage Policy,” below.

As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address.

By accessing the Websites of The Florida VIP Discount Card, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Principles

The Florida VIP Discount Card is committed to handling responsibly the information and data we collect about you through our Websites, whether personal information or non personal browsing and site usage data. We have designed our Privacy Policy and our Data Usage Policy consistent with the following principles (the “Principles”):

  1. Privacy policies and data collection and use policies should be human readable, comprehensive, and easy to locate;

  2. Only the minimum amount of information reasonably necessary to provide you with services should be collected and maintained, and only for so long as reasonably needed;

  3. Information you provide through our Websites, or that we gather as a result of your use of our Websites, will not be provided voluntarily (without your permission) to anyone else unless required; and

  4. Unless restricted or prohibited by law, you should be notified when The Florida VIP Discount Card is required to provide a third party with your personal information.

Personal Information FVDC Collects

We collect personal information at several places on the Websites, including without limitation:

When you provide us with your personal information such as by sending an email to us or signing up to receive a newsletter or our events listing or buy a product or become an affiliate or FVDC member;

  • when you subscribe to one of our email discussion lists;

  • when you donate money to us or purchase merchandise; and

  • when you join the The Florida VIP Discount Card network through our site, and when you thereafter create/edit your profile page, identify your content, share your story, and/or establish a The Florida VIP Discount Card Business account.

What The Florida VIP Discount Card does with the Personal Information

Emails and Newsletters. We use the personal information you provide to us when you send us emails or sign up to receive our newsletter or events listing in order to respond to your request — for example, to reply to your email or to send you communications about news and events related to The Florida VIP Discount Card and or our Florida VIP Discount Card Business Partners..

Donations. When you donate money to us or purchase merchandise via our support page, your personal information will be handled in one of two ways, depending on which option you choose.

  1. If you purchase a FVDV from The Florida VIP Discount Card, we will use your personal information for the purpose of sending you the items you purchased and for the purpose of special monthly deals that our VIP Business Partners offer to Florida VIP Discount Card cardholders..

When you join our affiliate network you provide personal information to create your account and establish a password and profile. We use that personal information to establish and maintain your accounts, provide you with the features we provide for account holders, to provide payment and 1099 for tax purposes and for the purpose of contacting you about upcoming news and events relevant to The Florida VIP Discount Card. .

Disclosures of Personal Information

In general, it is not The Florida VIP Discount Card’ practice to disclose personal information to third parties. We may share personal information in few  instances:

  • First, The Florida VIP Discount Card may share personal information with our contractors and service providers in order to maintain, enhance, or add to the functionality of the Websites and our Business Model.

  • Second, we may disclose your personal information to third parties in a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (b) enforce or apply our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy; (c) comply with legal process, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order; or (d) protect our rights, reputation, and property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.

If  The Florida VIP Discount Card is required to provide a third party with your personal information (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then FVDC will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless prohibited by law or FVDC is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Security of Personal Information Collected via the Websites

The Florida VIP Discount Card has implemented reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to and unlawful interception or processing of personal information that The Florida VIP Discount Card stores and controls. However, no website can fully eliminate security risks. Third parties may circumvent our security measures to unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We will post a reasonably prominent notice to the Websites if any such security breach occurs.

The Florida VIP Discount Card websites, has security risks in addition to those described above. Among other things, FVDC website is vulnerable to DNS attacks, and using FVDC websites may increase the risk of phishing..

Data Usage Policy: Non Personal Browsing and Site Usage Information

Our Data Usage Policy covers how we maintain and use information about you that is collected by our Websites and server logs, including when you log into a website using your The Florida VIP Discount Card member number.

Non Personal Information We Collect. When you use the Websites, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your “IP address”) about your activities while visiting the Websites and information about the browser you are using. In addition, whenever you use your The Florida VIP Discount Card ID or affiliate ID to log into a website, our servers (which, again, may be hosted by a third party service provider) keep a log of the websites you visit and when you visit them.

No Linking. We do not intentionally link browsing information or information from our server logs to the personal information you submit to us. We use this information for internal purposes only, such as to help understand how our Websites are being used, to improve our Websites and the features we provide, and for systems administration purposes. FVDC may use a third party analytics provider to help us collect and analyze non personal information through operation of our Websites for those same purposes; however, we will never use a third party analytics provider to collect or analyze any information through our operations.

No Selling or Sharing. Except in the unique situations identified in this Privacy Policy, The Florida VIP Discount Card does not sell or otherwise voluntarily provide the non personal information we collect about you or your website usage to third parties.

Notice. If The Florida VIP Discount Card is required to provide a third party with your non personal information or to log in on behalf of an affiliate or FVDC Member user (whether by subpoena or otherwise), then FVDC will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless FVDC is prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

Any other non-personal information that we collect which is not described specifically in this Privacy Policy will only be collected and used in accordance with the Principles.

Reorganization or Spin-Offs

The Florida VIP Discount Card may transfer some or all of your personal and/or non personal information to a third party as a result of a reorganization, spin-off or similar transaction. Upon such transfer, the acquirer’s privacy policy will apply. In such event, The Florida VIP Discount Card will use reasonable efforts to notify you and to ensure that at the time of the transaction the acquirer’s privacy policy complies with the Principles.

Children

Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent. Any person who provides their personal information to FVDC through the Websites represents that they are 13 years of age or older.

Third-Party Sites

The Websites may include links to other websites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other websites.

Special Note to International Users

The Websites are hosted in the United States. If you are accessing the Websites from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States which does not have the same data protection laws as the EU and other regions. By providing your personal data you consent to:

  • the use of your personal data for the uses identified above in accordance with the Privacy Policy; and

  • the transfer of your personal data to the United States as indicated above.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the Effective Date below. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Websites constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Questions?

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@flvipcard.com.

Effective Date: Jan 15, 2009

The Florida VIP Discount Card, Affiliates, Fundraising Partners and Independent Contractors cannot be held liable or responsible if a merchant chooses not to accept the Florida VIP Discount Card for any reason at any time or the quality of services rendered, operation hours, business closing or any other problem which may arise from any vendor for any reason.  Before doing business with any company make sure they are licensed and in good standing with the state, county or city they are doing business in.