Privacy Policy

We collect information from you when you register on our site, subscribe to our newsletter or fill out a form.

When registering on our site or publishing your home, you may be asked to enter your information including, but not limited to, your name, email address, and credit card information, as appropriate. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To enhance the online community experience (personal information you provide may be viewed and evaluated by other Members of our website with the goal of renting a local home)
• To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
• To improve our website (we continuously strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
• To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
• To process a payment (your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged or transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested)
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
• To send periodic emails (the email address you provide to register on our site will only be used to send you information and updates regarding your membership)

If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, you will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If, at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

In the case where we and/or our website are acquired by a third party, your personal information may be transferred to the acquirer.

Your personal information, including your private credit card payment information, will be collected, processed, stored and used by us. We may store, process and use your information in the United States or in any other country in which we or our affiliates operate. You acknowledge, agree and provide consent that you may be transferring your personal information outside the country in which you contributed it. These varying countries may have different data protection laws compared to those in your country. However, we plan to pursue and apply the same strict protection wherever your information may be managed.

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you register on our site, access your personal information or make a payment to publish your home.

We use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted (128-bit) into our Payment Gateway providers database only to be accessed by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private credit card information will not be stored on our servers. All such information is stored by our credit card processing affiliate and is protected in their secured server and by their proprietary methods.

Exact home addresses are never expressly solicited to protect your privacy.

Email addresses are never displayed to other Members on the website. However, when you, as Guest or Host choose to respond to emails/text messages/voice messages from other Members of the website, then your email address and phone number may be visible to other Members. If you are not prepared to share your contact information, do not respond to other Members' messages to you.

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service providers transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to help us understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads based on your visit to our website and other sites on the internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours and others rights, property and safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising and other uses.

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act) as we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years or older.

This online Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at www.LocalBigwig.com.

By using our site, you consent to our Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy. If we decide to do so, we will post the latest version on this page and update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may fill out the Contact Us from on www.LocalBigwig.com or write to us at admin [at] localbigwig.com or at:

Local Bigwig Inc.
137 Varick Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013