WHO ARE WE?
Snowbird’s Nook is a massive project brought to you by Aqua Blue Advertising and SeeMyBeach.com with editorial, language translations and promotional help by CanadaFest and Le Soleil De La Floride Newspaper and is designed to enhance the quality of Canadian’s visits to the area between Aventura and Ft. Lauderdale. The assistance and support of CanadaFest and Le Soleil De La Floride Newspaper is vital to the success of this project as they will assist in French Translations, content, promotion and more.
The website is managed and organized by Aqua Blue Advertising and the media rich content will be created by SeeMyBeach.com.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY
Snowbird’s Nook uses cookies and other resources to make your exploring experience smooth and easy. The data we collect is generic and will tell us what city you are in, how long you stayed on the site and will record when you return. This information lets us know if the information we are providing is keeping your interest and helps us provide a better experience.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The IP address also indicates the country, city, state, etc. where the device used to browse the site is located. No personal data of any kind is acquired.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. This is not data we acquire, but rather is exposed if you upload it with the embedded information.
Contact forms
About cookies. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA.
(SSL Certified) SnowbirdsNook.com is a secure site, which you can always verify by the address of a website. Non-secure sites begin with “HTTP” and secure sites begin with “HTTPS”. SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key on the Snowbird’s Nook’s details page. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the HTTPS protocol and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.This includes videos from our You Tube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/snowbirdsnook
Analytics
The data acquired on the SnowBird’s Nook is shared only with the principals, AquaBlueAdvertising, SeeMyBeach.com, CanadaFest, Le Soleil De La Floride Newspaper.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. This is monitored by Aqua Blue Advertising.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE ON YOUR DATA?
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, which stays protected by the SSL Certificate. Other than that, your data remains protected by our encryption. Your data is never shared or sold.