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My Latin Escape Travel and Living, LLC PRIVACY POLICY
My Latin Escape (also known as My Latin Escape Travel and Living, LLC) (“My Latin Escape
Travel and Living,” “we,” “us” or “our”), is committed to making your experience online
satisfying and safe. Your privacy on the Internet is of utmost importance to us.
We provide this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the
collection, use and disclosure of information, including personally identifiable information, that
we receive from users of our websites, southernlights.biz (collectively, the “Sites”), through our
applications for future mobile devices (“Mobile Apps”), and through various offline information
collection methods including without limitation the completion of lead forms sourced by
third-party data aggregators. This Privacy Policy applies only to information that you provide to
us through the Sites, or any of our offline information collection methods.
As used in this policy, the terms “using” and “processing” information include using cookies on
a computer, subjecting the information to statistical or other analysis and using or handling
information in any way, including, but not limited to collecting, storing, evaluating, modifying,
deleting, using, combining, disclosing and transferring information within our organization
within the United States or internationally.
Information Collection and Use
Personally Identifiable Information. When you use the Sites, we may ask you to provide us with
Personally Identifiable Information. As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personally Identifiable
Information” means any information that can be used to contact or identify you such as your
name, home address, email address, and telephone number. We collect Personally Identifiable
Information for a variety of reasons. My Latin Escape Travel and Living also collects
information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These voluntary
submissions include making an online request that My Latin Escape Travel and Living send you
additional information about its programs, via email or regular mail, and submitting an
application to My Latin Escape Travel and Living.
We also collect the other information that you provide as part of use of the Sites (e.g., without
limitation, zip code (on its own), city and state, age and individual preferences)
(“Non-Identifying Information”).
We use your Personally Identifiable Information (in some cases, in conjunction with your
Non-Identifying Information) mainly to administer and provide the Sites and to administer your
inquiries.
Certain Non-Identifying Information, which would be considered a part of your Personally
Identifiable Information if it were combined with other identifiers such as your zip code and
street address in a way that enables you to be identified, is considered to be Non-Identifying
Information when it is taken alone or combined only with other non-identifying information. We
may combine your Personally Identifiable Information with Non-Identifying Information and
aggregate it with information collected from other users of the Sites and Mobile Apps to attempt
to provide you with a better experience, to improve the quality and value of the Sites and Mobile
Apps, and to analyze and understand how our Sites and Mobile Apps are used.
Usage Tracking Information
My Latin Escape Travel and Living collects aggregated information regarding user traffic
patterns mainly by tallying page views throughout the Sites ("Usage Tracking Information").
My Latin Escape Travel and Living does break down overall Usage Tracking Information
according to a user’s domain name, browser type, IP address and MIME type by reading this
information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser). Usage
Tracking Information may also include the pages you were visiting before you came to our Sites,
the time spent on those pages, search terms that you enter into our Search function, access times and dates, and other statistics. Nevertheless, we do not correlate Usage Tracking Information with data about individual users. We use Usage Tracking Information to determine which areas of our Sites that users visit based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build better Sites for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie
itself contains no Personally Identifiable Information although it will enable us to relate your use
of the Sites to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only
information a cookie can convey to us is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read
data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. My Latin Escape Travel and
Living uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to
warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You
do not need to have cookies turned on to use the Sites. Nevertheless, there may be certain
portions of the Sites that can only be used if cookies are turned on. For example, cookies are
necessary for a user to access portions of the Sites that require a valid user account.
Phishing
Identity theft and the practice currently known as “phishing” are of great concern to My Latin
Escape Travel and Living. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a
top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, your login
information, or national identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited e-mail or telephone
communication. For more information about phishing, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s
website.
My Latin Escape Travel and Living Limits Information Shared with Third Parties
My Latin Escape Travel and Living does not share Personally Identifiable Information with
third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve third-party advertisements on the Sites.
Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information. We may share aggregated information
that includes your Personally Identifiable Information, Non-Identifying Information and Usage
Tracking Information with third parties for industry analysis and demographic profiling and to
deliver targeted advertising about other products and services.
Service Providers. We may engage certain trusted third party companies and individuals to
facilitate the Sites on our behalf, to perform Site s-related services (e.g., without limitation,
hosting and maintenance services, customer relationship services, web analytics, payment
processing and database storage and management services).
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement. My Latin Escape Travel and Living cooperates
with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and to comply with
applicable law or valid legal process. My Latin Escape Travel and Living may disclose
information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our
sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process
(including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of My Latin Escape
Travel and Living or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person or to prevent
or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any illegal, unethical or legally
actionable activity.
Business Transfers. My Latin Escape Travel and Living may sell, transfer or otherwise share
some or all of its assets, including your Personally Identifiable Information, in connection with a
merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.
Changes to Privacy Policy
If we decide to make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting
the new Privacy Policy on the Sites. You are advised to consult this policy regularly for any
changes.
Updating Your Privacy Preferences and Information
To update or correct your information and privacy preferences (such as whether you wish to receive promotional communications), you may write Southern Lights at:
My Latin Escape Travel and Living, LLC
2416 S. Wolf Creek Road
Carbondale, Illinois 62902
info@mylatinescape.com
Security
We do not take measures to protect non-sensitive Personally Identifiable Information. Southern
Lights is very concerned with safeguarding your information. The security of your Personally
Identifiable Information is important to us. But remember that no method of transmission over
the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. When you enter sensitive
information (such as credit card number or social security number) on our registration or order
forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). In some cases,
we also encrypt sensitive information where it is stored on our systems.
International Transfer
Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your
state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as
protective as where you live. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide
information to us, we may transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to the United States
and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such
information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links to Other Sites
The Sites may include links to other websites maintained or controlled by third parties unrelated
to My Latin Escape Travel and Living. If you click on such a link, you will be directed to that
third party’s website. The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement or representation
of our affiliation with that third party, nor is it an endorsement of their privacy or information
security policies or practices. We do not exercise control over third party websites. These other
websites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit
Personally Identifiable Information from you. Other websites follow different rules regarding
the use or disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information. We advise you to review the
individual privacy policies of each external site that you use.
Our Policy Toward Children
The Sites are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personally
Identifiable Information from children. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her
child has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information without their consent, he or she
should contact us at info@mylatinescape.com. If we become aware that a child under the age of
13 and has provided us with Personally Identifiable Information without verifiable parental
consent, we will delete such information from our files.
Effective Date
The effective date of this Privacy Policy is May 8, 2025.