Privacy Policy

This privacy statement covers westbayadventures.com. We understand that booking online involves significant trust on your part. We value your trust, and make it a high priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us. Please read this policy to learn about our privacy practices. By visiting this Website, you are accepting the practices described herein.

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Information Collection

West Bay Adventures is the sole owner of the information collected on westbayadventures.com and its affiliate's websites. We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), such as your first and last name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, fax number, and billing information (such as credit card number, cardholder name, and expiration date). You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to complete a booking; complete a traveler profile; participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes; ask us a question; or initiate other transactions on our site.

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Use of Information

We use sensitive billing information (such as cardholder name, credit card number and expiration date) for the purpose of completing the booking you conduct on our website. We use other personal information for the following general purposes: to provide you with the booking information you request; to provide you with booking confirmation and updates; to manage your account, including processing bills and providing booking notifications; to communicate with you in general; to respond to your questions and/or comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and website; to notify you about special offers that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with this website; to solicit information from you through surveys and other means; to resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

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Legal Obligations

West Bay Adventures may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining its travel products or services. West Bay Adventures may also disclose information against someone who poses a threat to its interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others. In addition, it may be necessary for West Bay Adventures to provide customer information to third parties, such as credit card companies, for the purpose of resolving disputes that arise in the normal course of business.

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Your Rights

As discussed above, you can choose not to provide us with any information, although it may be needed to book a stay or to take advantage of certain features offered on this website. We provide various ways for you to 'opt-out' of receiving additional information from us. These are offered at the time you provide us your information, when you receive an e-correspondence and/or by sending an email tours@westbayadventures.com or a written inquiry to West Bay Adventures, West Bay, Roatan. If you do not wish to continue receiving promotional communications from West Bay Divers, such as emails or online newsletters, you can opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the e-correspondence received.

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Cookies and other web technologies

Cookies: A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our website. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. You can always choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your Web browser to refuse cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie. Be advised that, by refusing to accept a cookie, you will not be able to access some of the tools offered by this Web site.

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Computer Information

West Bay Adventures collects certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to the Web site. This information is collected from your computer's Web browser and may include your IP address, operating system, Web browser software (i.e. Internet Explorer), and referrer Web site. We may also collect information about your online activity, such as pages viewed and bookings made. Our goals in collecting this automatic information include helping customize your user experience and inhibiting fraud. Wireless users: Please check with your wireless company if you are using your cellular phone to access the Internet to understand whether your information may be collected and thus may be used to identify you.

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Information Protection

We want you to feel confident about using this website to reserve your bookings, and we are committed to protecting the information we collect. While no website can guarantee security, we have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect the personal information you provide to us. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information, and they may only do so for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your sensitive personal information between your system and ours, and we employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your information.

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Copyright

All material contained within this website is the sole property of West Bay Adventures and cannot be used, reproduced, copied or modified, in its entirety or in part, without prior consent by an authorized agent of West Bay Adventures.