Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 17th, 2024

Effective date: January 1, 2021

Getaway House, Inc. (“Postcard Cabins”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”) takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy” )describes how we collect, use, process, store, and disclose your personal information on our website located at www.postcardcabins.com (the “Site”), when you book a Postcard cabin using our services, or when you otherwise interact with us, our products, or our services (collectively, the “Services”). Use of the term “Site” also includes any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site.

YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY. By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using the Site, you are creating a binding contract between you and us, and you are acknowledging that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Types of Personal Information We Collect

“Personal Information” refers to information that can be used to personally identify you, a specific individual. Different states and laws define Personal Information (or similar terms, such as “personally identifiable information”) differently, but Personal Information generally includes information such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number. It may also include the IP address of your computer or mobile device if that IP address can be associated with other Personal Information and used to identify a particular person, or geo-location information, again if that information can be used to pinpoint a specific party.

Information You Provide

We collect information you provide when you contact us, sign up for and use our services, subscribe to our newsletter, or otherwise provide us with information about you. We may collect, but are not limited to collecting, the following:

  • Basic user information. We collect profile information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, email address, and your date of birth.
  • Financial information. We collect your payment information such as your credit or debit card to complete your booking with our Services.
  • Information you give in correspondence with us. We will have access to your name, email address, and any other information you choose to include in your correspondence.
  • Information when you use our interactive chatbot, which may include providing your contact information.

Information We Automatically Collect

  • Website metadata and analytics, including IP address, device information, date/time of visits, new or returning visits, products viewed, page response times, URL clickstreams, how long you stay on our pages, what you do on those pages, and your coarse location.
  • We may use cookies, beacons, pixel tags, and other similar technologies to collect additional information automatically as you interact with the Services, to personalize your experience with our Services, and to measure the performance of our advertising and marketing efforts. Learn more about our cookie uses below.

Information from Third Parties

  • When you interact with our accounts on a social media platform, we may collect certain information that you or the platform make available to us such as Site metadata analytics (above), your social media account ID, your social media ‘likes’, click-throughs to our Site, or custom interactions.
  • We may also engage third parties to provide additional information about you.

How We Use Personal Information

We use the Personal Information we collect for the following purposes:

  • to provide you with our Services;
  • to respond to your inquiries or to otherwise provide customer support;
  • For advertising and marketing purposes;
  • To troubleshoot and improve our Services;
  • To understand how you use our Services;
  • For other business and legal purposes, such as to detect and prevent fraud, to collect amounts owing to us, and to maintain business records; and
  • With your consent.

How We May Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose your information with your consent. We may also share your information with our corporate affiliates, as well as vendors or service providers who:

  • Help us manage and optimize our Services;
  • Help us communicate with you, for example, with our vendors who help us provide
  • Help us provide our chatbot. This may include disclosure of the communications with our service provider, Zendesk. The contents of the communications will not be used for any purpose other than to support Playvox, but are also subject to Zendesk’s applicable terms of use, privacy and security policies which can be found here.
  • Provide marketing and advertising cookies (see ‘Cookies and How To Opt Out’ below);
  • For advertising and marketing purposes, including via social media.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

  • At the request of law enforcement or government agencies or in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process to establish, protect, or exercise our legal or other rights or to defend against a legal claim, or as otherwise required or allowed by law.
  • if we believe that such action is appropriate to (a) protect the rights, property, or safety of a user of the Site or any other person, (b) investigate or prevent a violation by you of any contractual or other relationship with us, (c) investigate or prevent your actual or potential illegal, fraudulent, or harmful activity, or (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
  • In connection with, during negotiations of, or as a part of the closing of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

We may share de-identified, aggregate, or anonymous information for any purpose. This means that the information we share does not identify specific individuals, or is combined with other data to protect your privacy in compliance with relevant data privacy laws.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Your Rights and How to Exercise Them

You have the right to exercise the following choices with our use of your personal information:

  • Access the personal information we maintain about you.
  • Delete the personal information we maintain about you.
  • Correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you
  • Opt out of certain uses of your personal information, notably:
    • Email marketing: unsubscribe to our email list by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of marketing emails.
    • SMS marketing: you can opt out at any time by replying STOP.
    • Tailored or interest-based advertising using third party cookies: refer to the ‘Cookies and How To Opt Out’ section below to learn how to opt out of these types of ads.
    • Tailored advertising on third party websites. you can opt out on our ‘Your Privacy Choices’ page.

You can exercise these rights by contacting us at [email protected]. Please note that we may not be able to completely remove Personal Information from our systems in certain circumstances, such as if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, if required by law, or as retained in our data backup systems or cached or archived pages. All of your Personal Information that we keep will continue to be subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy to which you have previously agreed.

In addition, please note that notwithstanding your email preferences, we may need to contact you as required by law, or to complete any open inquiries.

Cookies and How to Opt Out

Like many companies, we use cookies, pixels, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities, your interactions with our websites or emails, and to serve tailored ads. Cookies enable personalization of your experience on the Messaging Service (e.g., sending you personalized text messages such as shopping cart reminders). There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected through these services, which we summarize below:

Please note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use

U.S. State-Specific Notice

Some U.S. states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws. The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act or “CPRA” (collectively, the “CCPA”) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) create additional privacy obligations for businesses and provide Californians and Virginians with additional privacy rights.

Additional Privacy Rights

In addition to the rights granted above, if you are a California or Virginia resident, you have the right to:

  • Opt out of ‘targeted advertising’ or the “sale or “share” of your personal information.
    • Given the broad definitions of ‘targeted advertising’, ‘sale’, and ‘share’ under state laws, some third party cookies placed on our website may be considered a sale or share or used for targeted advertising. You may opt-out of such cookies as detailed in ‘Cookies and How To Opt Out’ (above).

You can exercise your rights by contacting us at [email protected] or via the ‘Your Privacy Choices’ page on the Site.

Legal Designation

  • Under the CCPA, we operate as a ‘Business.’
  • Under the VCDPA, we operate as a ‘Controller.’

Security & Retention

We use commercially reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing our files or tampering with our technology and to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However we cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information. This is especially true for any information that is transmitted electronically and that is unprotected until it reaches our servers. We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or internal policies.

The criteria we use to determine retention periods for each category of personal information is based on the type of personal information, contractual requirements, or with regards to product or service maintenance and improvements. We will also retain and use personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Children's Privacy

Our Site is not targeted to, and we have no interest in collecting information from, children. We do not knowingly gather any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 in California). If you are a parent or a legal guardian who believes that your minor child provided us with any Personal Information, please contact us at [email protected].

This website may contain links to other websites or services. We do not control what information you provide, or is collected by these third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other websites you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as we update or expand our services. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page with a “Last Updated” effective date of the revisions. We encourage you to look for updates and changes to this Privacy Policy by checking this page when you access our Site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your privacy choices, please contact us at [email protected]. Alternatively, you can contact us by phone at 888-814-8879 or write us at:

Getaway House, Inc
147 Prince St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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