Maui Net's Privacy Policy
Revised January 2, 2007
Maui.Net is owned and operated by Maui Global Communications Corporation, ("Maui.Net," "we," "us"). We provide travel information and services on our Web Site located at http://www.maui.net ("Web Site"). Maui.Net is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our Web Site.
This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Site, use of the services, and your receipt of Maui.Net's email newsletters. We respect the privacy of all those who visit our Web Site and use our services. We do collect online information from site visitors and our customers. Except as set forth within this Privacy Policy and in our Terms of Service, we do not release personally identifiable information you provide us. Personally identifiable information includes information that can be attributed to a specific person, such as name, address, phone number, e-mail address or credit card information.
This Privacy Policy covers the following areas:
- The information gathered through the Web Site
- The use of this information
- How you can change or remove your personal information
- Information about systems in place to protect your information
- Other issues regarding your privacy
We review our privacy policy from time to time, and these items are subject to change. We ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy Policy. To contact us about privacy issues, to report a violation of our Privacy Policy or for any questions, please email us at support @ maui.net
Information We Gather
When browsing our site, you are not required to provide any personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, phone number or email address, unless and until such time as you choose to sign up for a service such as an email newsletter or contest, as described below. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children (meaning minors younger than thirteen years of age).
Receiving Requested Email Messages.
You may choose to sign up for our feature emai
l newsletters, which contain news of Maui.Net special offers and discounts. In order to receive
the Maui.Net newsletters, you must provide us with your name, email address and your zip code.
Automatic Logging of Session Information.
We do automatically log technical inform
ation about your computer's connection to the Internet, which we call "session information",
that is anonymous and not linked to any personally identifiable information. Session
information consists of things such as your IP address, operating system and browser software
and the travel through the Site. Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached
to the Internet, such as our web servers, know where to send you information such as
the pages of the Web Site you wish to view. We collect session information because it helps
us analyze such thing as the way visitors are traveling through the Site, how many visitors
are surfing to various pages on the Site, how long visitors to the Web Site are staying
and how often they are visiting. It also helps us diagnose problems with our serve
rs and lets us better our servers. Although such information does not identify any visitor
personally, we can determine from an IP address a visitor's Internet Service Provider and
the geographic location of his or her point of access.
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small file containing a unique series of numbers or letters that is placed
on an Internet users' browser. One of the ways that we collect session
information is through the use of cookies. We also use cookies for other technical reasons.
Essentially, cookies are a visitor's identification for the Maui.Net computers, or the
visitor's servers that placed them there. There is much misinformation circulating about
cookies, but you should know that cookies are only read by the server that placed them,
and are unable to do such things as run programs on your computer, plant viruses or obtain
your personally identifiable information. Cookies allow us to serve you better and more
efficiently, and to personalize your experience at Maui.Net's web site. By changing the
options on your web browser or using certain software programs you can control how and whether
cookies will be accepted by your web browser. However, doing so may disable some features
on this and other web sites.
Blogs and Reviews
We cannot and do not control the acts of our customers or visitors.
All customers and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personally identifiable
information in our reviews section or other areas on the Site, the information may
be viewed and used by others to send that person unsolicited email. In the event that you
encounter any person who you believe is improperly collecting or using information about
you, please contact us.
How We Use (and Do Not Use) the Information We Gather
If you sign up to receive our Maui.Net newsletter, we use the personally identifiable information that you provided at sign up to personalize the email that we send you. Such emails are sent on a regular basis, and they will clearly provide you with a method of cancelling, if you decide you no longer wish to receive them. In addition, we may on occasion send you an email regarding an important announcement or policy change that may affect you.
Non-personally Identifiable Information.
We use non-personally identifiable information
in a summary form to build higher quality, more useful online services by performing
analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our customers and visitors,
and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Site. We provide
statistical information based on this data to suppliers, advertisers, affiliates and
other current and potential business partners. We may also use the aggregate data to inform
these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked on links to their web sites.
Changing or Removing Personal Information
We retain your personally identifiable information so that we can provide you with meaningful customer service. If at any time you would like to have the rest of your personally identifiable information removed from Maui.Net's database, please contact us and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. However, there will be technical information that remains in our databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. This information will not be used for commercial purposes although we may, from time to time, communicate with former customers of Maui.Net.
Safeguards to Protect your Information
We take reasonable precautions to protect our customers' information from unauthorized third parties. When you are prompted by the Web Site to enter sensitive information (such as your credit card number), that information is encrypted with the industry-standard encryption technology known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL). While on a secure page, the lock icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator becomes locked. The servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. However, no method of encryption or security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers, nor can we guarantee that information that customers supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.
Other Important Matters Regarding your Privacy
Links to Other Web Sites
The Web Site contains links to other Internet web sites,
including affiliated web sites that may or may not be owned or operated by us. We cannot
and do not review all of the web sites that are linked to the Site, and we have no control
over such sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy
or other practices of such sites, and the fact that we offer such links does not indicate
any approval or endorsement of any material contained on any linked site. We are providing
these links to you only as a convenience. Accordingly, we strongly encourage you to become
familiar with the terms of use and practices of any linked site.
Promotions and Contests
If and when we sponsor promotions or contests, or third
parties sponsor promotions or contests in conjunction with us, either we or the third party
will post relevant privacy information in the official rules and/or registration area for
the promotion or contests. That privacy information will govern that particular promotion
or contest.
Other Permitted Release of Information
Notwithstanding anything in this Privacy
Policy to the contrary, we reserve the right to release information contained within our
access logs concerning any visitor or customer when that visitor or customer is in
violation of our Terms of Service or other published guidelines, or engages (or is
reasonably suspected of engaging) in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena,
warrant or other court order, and to release such information in response to court
and governmental orders, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and as otherwise
required by law. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those
who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve
the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement individuals
or entities for investigation or prosecution. Please note that if we receive a
formal request to disclose your personally identifiable information in connection
with legal action, we will attempt to tell you about it before we respond to such
request, if permitted by law, via the email address you provided to us.



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