Villa World LLC is committed to safeguarding and protecting the information that Users entrust to Villa World and we will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully and in accordance with the data protection Act 1998.

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent and would point out that this web site is not directed at children.

In actual fact, you can visit the Villa World site without providing any personal identifiable information (?PII?). However, we may collect ?PII? from Users in a mixture of ways, via online forms for ordering products and services, and by other instances where Users request additional information from us.

In order to provide the best possible services to our Users we may also collect information about how Users use the Villa World web site, for example, by tracking the number of unique views received by the pages of the web site, the domains and originations or the Users' browser version.

Not all of the information that we collect from Users will be personally identifiable, although it may be associated with ?PII? that a User provides us through our web site.

In order to use the personalized features of our site, we use "cookies" to track our Users. A cookie is a piece of information that a web server can store on the Users' PC and use to identify the User. Our cookies are "session cookies". Session cookies remain on the Users' PC while they are on the site and possibly a short time thereafter. Session cookies are removed automatically by the Users' web browser simply by closing the browser program.

Villa World uses the latest industry standard security and encryption technologies to secure transmissions dealing with password and credit card information. The storage of this information and any credit card transactions is done using SSL (?Secure Sockets Layer?) for proven maximum secure encryption. In addition, we also operate behind a firewall to ensure there is no unauthorized access to our systems and the data (as soon at is received) is stored on a server which is not accessible from the Internet.

In order to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use our web site server uses log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user?s movements.

IP addresses, etc. are not linked to "PII".

On occasions Villa World may use ?PII? collected through its web site to contact Users regarding products and services offered by Villa World and its trusted affiliates to enhance Users? experience with Villa World and such affiliates. Villa World sometimes uses information collected through our web site for research regarding the effectiveness of the web site and for the marketing, advertising and sales efforts of Villa World and its trusted affiliates.

Villa World may disclose information collected from Users to trusted affiliates, who will use the information for the purposes outlined above. We may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from Users to investors and potential partners. Finally, we may transfer information collected from Users in connection with a sale of Villa World?s business.

Please note that any information you elect to submit to Villa World via the web WILL NOT be sold to any other corporation or entity.

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our web site.

Villa World uses an outside credit card processing company to bill users for services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

In the event Villa World goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users? personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Information about Users that is maintained on our systems is protected using industry standard security measures.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you should email us. Full contact details can be found on our contact page. We welcome your feedback.

RULES OF DISCUSSION

We welcome your participation in Villa-World?s member forum and encourage users to analyze, comment on and even challenge articles, blogs, reviews and features. It is our hope through this forum to offer you the chance to interact with other renters, home owners or indeed any other Villa-World.com users.

In order to keep these experiences enjoyable and interesting for all of our users, we ask simply that you follow these minimal rules. In addition to complying with these rules, we ask that you also exercise common sense and generally be considerate toward other users. By participating in the in the Discussion Forum or by submitting comments to articles, blogs, reviews or other features, you are consenting to these rules.

1. You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You will not knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. You will indemnify Villa-World its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted.

2. You understand and agree that Villa-World is not responsible for any content posted by third parties. You further understand that Villa-World may monitor any user-generated content as it chooses and reserves the right to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that it deems inappropriate for any reason whatever without consent. We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user's privilege to post content on our site.

3. You understand and agree that discussion forums are to be used only for non-commercial purposes. You may not solicit funds, promote commercial entities or otherwise engage in non-commercial activity in our discussion forums.

4. The discussion forums are for text only. Use of graphics and audio is not appropriate.

5. You acknowledge and agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. Villa-World is not in any manner endorsing the content of the discussion groups and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability.

6. For any content that you post, you hereby grant to Villa-World the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, exclusive and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part, world-wide and to incorporate it in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.