Privacy Policy

Abilene RV and Boat Storage Privacy Policy

Introduction

We appreciate your visit to the Abilene RV and Boat Storage ("ARVBS") website ("Website"). This Privacy Policy outlines the policies implemented by ARVBS concerning the collection and use of personally identifiable information about users of our Website and our services.

As a user ("User") of this Website, you have the RIGHT TO KNOW about the personal information that ARVBS collects and how it is used. We have adopted this Policy, which guides how we collect, store, and use the information you provide online. Please note that this Policy applies only to sites maintained by or on behalf of ARVBS, and not to websites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we link. This Policy does not apply to “offline” activities or activities unrelated to the Policy unless otherwise expressly stated herein.

By accessing and using the Website, User accepts and agrees to be legally bound by this Policy. If User does not agree with all of the terms of this Policy, User must discontinue access to and use of the Website. The terms and conditions below are incorporated by reference into the Terms of Use Agreement of users of ARVBS’s products and services.

The Website contains links to other sites, including links to social media websites. Links to other websites, including social media websites, may also use cookies or other technologies to track your online activities. Your interactions with these links are governed by the policies on those websites and not ARVBS or ARVBS’s Website. ARVBS is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site, a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the Website. Links to social media websites, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, may collect information from Users, such as your IP address, your social media account information, or the webpage you are visiting. ARVBS may maintain pages on social media websites. Your interactions on those websites are governed by the policies of those websites and not ARVBS or ARVBS’s Website.

When ARVBS is contracted to submit a website to search engines, some Personally Identifiable Information (as such term is defined in this Policy) may be required by such services, for example: contact’s name, company’s name, email, website address, etc. ARVBS is in no way responsible for how this information is used beyond this point.

Information Collection

Children's Privacy

Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under the age of 18, please contact us.

You can generally visit our Website without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Website, we may require you to submit your personally identifiable information to us and we may invite you to submit questions, comments and request information.

Due to the nature of some of our services, you may provide us with personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, username, password, address, phone number, postal address, social security number, driver's license number, birth date, credit card information, account number, and any other information that you voluntarily transmit with your communication to us that can be used to identify or could reasonably be linked to you ("Personally Identifiable Information").  

ARVBS also logs non-personally-identifiable information or information that is deidentified or aggregated, including IP address, profile information, aggregate

User data, and browser type, from Users and visitors to the site. This data, which cannot be used to identify Users, is used to manage the Website, track usage, and improve, enhance, and maintain the Website and other services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User profile information including members' pictures, names, and contact information are displayed to ARVBS employees to facilitate User interaction in the ARVBS social networking community. Email addresses are used for inviting new people to join ARVBS, to add Users, and to send notifications related to the service. We may also use a User's email address to send updates, a newsletter, or news regarding the service. Users may unsubscribe from electronic newsletters or cancel their account if they no longer wish to receive transactional emails (which do not contain an option to unsubscribe). You may also have the ability to access and update some of your Personally Identifiable Information through your account with ARVBS. If you have trouble accessing your account, wish to set up a new account, wish to have Personally Identifiable Information deleted, or wish to lodge a complaint please contact ARVBS at contact@abilenervboatstorage.com. If you request the deletion of Personally Identifiable Information, ARVBS will make all attempts to do so in a reasonable time period, but may retain some Personally Identifiable Information in order to comply with applicable laws, regulations, ordinances, and the like.

We may also collect and group demographic and preferences information, responses to surveys, and other Personally Identifiable Information that we collect from you into an aggregate, non-personally identifiable form for disclosure to our existing or potential business partners, affiliates, sponsors, or other third parties. This aggregate data does not personally identify you or any other visitors to the Website.

We may also collect general, non-personal, statistical information about the use of the Website, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Website, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they "click" on. We collect this information in order to determine which areas of the Website are most popular and to enhance the Website for visitors. As with other aggregated data, we may disclose such data to our existing or potential business partners, affiliates, sponsors, or other third parties, but this aggregate data does not personally identify you or any other visitors to the Website.

With respect to all communications that User makes to ARVBS, including but not limited to feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, and with regard to patterns of usage by the User (such as links accessed): (a) User shall have no right of confidentiality in its communications and ARVBS shall have no obligation to protect User's communications from disclosure; (b) ARVBS shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute User's communications without limitation; and (c) ARVBS shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, content, or techniques contained in User's communications for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to the development, production, and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information.

From time to time, ARVBS or a partner, may sponsor a societal cause or contest on one or more of the Websites. ARVBS may share User information such as email addresses with these partners.

Information Use/Right to Know

We may use your Personally Identifiable information to deliver our services or information you have requested, verify your authority to enter certain password-protected areas of the Site, verify that you are a customer or prospective customer, send you information that you have signed up to receive, notices about our products and/or services that you have

used or that may be of interest to you, and notices about events, and improve the content and general administration of the Site and our services.

This information will only be used in direct conjunction with your account and website needs.

We use information about you for the following general purposes:

• - To provide you with the products and services you request;
• - To communicate with you in general;
• - To respond to your questions and comments;
• - To measure interest in and improve our products, services, and Websites;
• - To notify you about special offers and products or services that may be of interest to you;
• - To otherwise customize your experience with the Websites
• - To solicit information from you, including surveys; to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems;
• - To prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
• - To enforce our Terms of Use;
• - To create and manage your account; respond to individual inquiries; and
• - As otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

You have the right to request that ARVBS disclose to you what information it collects, stores, and uses (both categorically and user-specific), the business purpose for which we collect and use such information, and third parties that we share information with. If you want to make a request fill out the form linked here Privacy Policy Inquiry Form. You may also use this number 325-272-0911, make your request via e-mail at contact@abilenervboatstorage.com or mail to 112 Market Street, Tye, TX 79563. ARVBS reserves the right to verify the Customer’s identity prior to responding to any request by asking the Customer additional questions or requesting additional information.

Sale of Personal Information/Right to Opt-Out

We will not sell or intentionally distribute Personally Identifiable Information to any sources outside ARVBS.

Although we do not sell any of your information, you have the right to Opt-Out of the sale of personal information. If you want to Opt-Out of the sale of personal information, fill out the form linked here Privacy Policy Inquiry Form. You may also use this number 325-272-0911, make your request via e-mail at contact@abilenervboatstorage.com or mail to 112 Market Street, Tye, TX 79563. ARVBS reserves the right to verify the Customer’s identity prior to responding to any request.

Cookies, Pixel Tags, and Web Beacons

We and our third-party service providers may use a standard technology called a "cookie" to collect information about how you use the Website. Cookies reside on your computer and help the Website recognize your computer's browser as a previous visitor. On occasion, our Website may also set a "session cookie" which helps us administer the Website. The session cookie expires when you close your browser and does not retain any information about you after it expires. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you should be able to modify your browser preference to provide you with choices relating to cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may be unable to use certain services on the Websites (e.g., those services that require you to log on to the Websites in order to participate).

We and our service providers may also use so-called "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs" or similar means (collectively, "Pixel Tags") in connection with some Websites’ pages and HTML-formatted email messages to track your use of our Websites in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience the next time you visit. Pixel Tags do not contain any Personally Identifiable Information and allow us to count users who have visited certain pages of the Websites, to deliver branded services, and to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns. When used in HTML-formatted email messages, Pixel Tags can tell the sender whether and when an email has been opened.

Ads that may appear on ARVBS Websites may be delivered to Users by ARVBS or one of our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize Users’ computer each time they send User an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where Users, or others who are using User’s computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to Users. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by ARVBS and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Third-Party Analytics Tools

Beyond the personally identifiable information you voluntarily provide to us, ARVBS utilizes analytics tools including third-party technologies, such as Google Analytics, to collect non-personally identifiable information utilizing cookies. Certain types of information, including geolocation, device type, onsite website usage and behavior, demographic data, and purchase history, is collected and aggregated across ARVBS Site users for our analysis and advertising efforts.

ARVBS uses Remarketing with Google Analytics and Google Adwords to display relevant advertisements to users who have previously visited our Site. Referred to as remarketing or retargeting, ARVBS may utilize previous session information to serve display advertisements to you on the Site and based on such session information Google may set a cookie and serve ads to you on third-party websites on the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors such as Google may display ARVBS ads on websites across the Internet. Aggregated user data may be utilized to create remarketing/retargeting “lists,” or groups of users with similar onsite behaviors or demographics.

ARVBS also uses Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting and Interest-Based Advertising to display advertisements to users based on their inferred interests and demographics. ARVBS does not run interest-based advertising campaigns that collect personally identifiable information.

Users may learn more about Google Analytics use of cookies by visiting the Google Privacy and Terms page at http://www.google.com/policies/. You may opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics by i) Turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser ii) Downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ iii) Opting out of user interest and demographic categories in the Settings for Google Ads feature to manage or opt out of Google interest-based ads at: or iv) Managing cookies used for online advertising across multiple companies at the US-based Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

Aggregate Information

The Website may track the total number of visitors to our Website, the number of visitors to each page of our Website, browser type, IP addresses, External Web Sites (defined below) linked to and other aggregated data collected through our services and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information

We may provide your Personal Identifiable Information in the following circumstances: (i) to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you along with the data generated by cookies and third-party analytics tools and the aggregate information, provided that any such Personally Identifiable Information shared with vendors and service agents will not be used in any manner other than as necessary to perform business purposes; (ii) in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights, to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law, provided that in such cases we reserve the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us; (iii) when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company or the Websites, our customers, or others; (iv) in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements; and (v) in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Other than as set out above, you will be notified when Personally Identifiable Information about you will be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to have us share such information. Unless you have authorized us to do so, we will not disclose Personally Identifiable Information to third-parties who may want to offer you their own products and services.

Retaining Information

Any information collected, including Personally Identifiable Information, shall be retained by ARVBS for as long as necessary for ARVBS to fulfill your request, administer various programs, provide services, and/or for other business purposes.

Correcting/Updating or Deleting Information

ARVBS Users may modify or delete any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account or by filling out a form linked here Privacy Policy Inquiry Form. If User’s account has been suspended or deactivated for any reason the User must contact ARVBS directly. You may also use this number 325-272-0911, make your request via e-mail at contact@abilenervboatstorage.com or mail to 112 Market Street, Tye, TX 79563. ARVBS reserves the right to verify the Customer’s identity prior to responding to any request.

Email Choice/Opt-out

Users who do not wish to receive ARVBS electronic newsletters or information may unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting ARVBS. You may also use this number 325-272-0911, make your request via e-mail at contact@abilenervboatstorage.com or mail to 112 Market Street, Tye, TX 79563. To stop receiving transactional emails a User must cancel their account.

Non-Discrimination

Users have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by ARVBS for the exercise of their privacy rights.

Authorized Agents

Users may designate an authorized agent to make requests on behalf of the User concerning the User’s privacy rights. ARVBS reserves the right to verify the authenticity of any authorization presented.

Links to Third Party Sites

The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which ARVBS does not have control ("External Web Sites"). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by ARVBS of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that ARVBS is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that ARVBS is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites. Your use of External Web Sites is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies located on the linked to External Web Sites.

Security

We may employ industry standard procedural and technological measures that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. ARVBS may use, without limitation, firewalls, password protection, secure socket layer, and other security measures to

help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information.

While ARVBS takes security measures to help safeguard your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access and disclosure, you should be aware that it is impossible to guarantee absolute security with respect to information sent through the Internet. Accordingly, we do not guarantee that any and all safeguards that we use to protect your Personally Identifiable Information will work.

ARVBS’s User accounts are secured by User-created passwords. ARVBS takes precautions to ensure that User account information is kept private. ARVBS uses reasonable measures to protect User information that is stored within the ARVBS database, and ARVBS restricts access to User information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that ARVBS cannot guarantee the security of User account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of User information at any time.

No Liability

You agree that ARVBS is not responsible for any electronic communication and/or Personally Identifiable Information which may be lost, altered, intercepted or stored without authorization during the transmission of any data whatsoever across networks not owned or operated by ARVBS. ARVBS does not guarantee that your Personally Identifiable Information will not be misused or disclosed to third parties. ARVBS will not have any liability to you for any such misuse or disclosure.

Tenant Insurance Program

We understand that the personal property you store in your storage unit is valuable and important to you. However, our storage facility is not responsible for property stored at our facility. That is why our lease requires that each tenant maintain insurance coverage on their stored property.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time. If we make material changes to this policy, we may notify you by updating the policy on our website and setting a prominent notice. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect.

Data Breach Notification

In the event that your data is compromised, we will notify you and competent Supervisory Authority(ies) within 72 hours by e-mail with information about the extent of the breach, affected data and our action plan for measures to secure the data and limit any possible detrimental effect on the data subjects.

Contact for more Information

ARVBS respects our Users online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy, please contact us at:

By email: contact@abilenervboatstorage.com

By mail: 112 Market Street, Tye, TX 79563

By phone 325-272-0911