Safeguarding your privacy and the security of your personal information is important to us.

You can shop at www.OBXRentDirect.com with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to accept credit cards and electronic check payments safely and securely for our customers. The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the electronic check and credit card processing networks. See an online payments diagram to see how it works.

The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy. www.OBXRentDirect.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

Please take a few minutes to read the following policy so that you understand how we treat your personal information. As we continuously improve and expand our services, this policy may change. If you have questions about our policy, please contact us.

By signing up for our service you are agreeing to all the terms and conditions of OBXRentDirect.com. These include representing your vacation rental home accurately and correctly without misleading information of any kind.

OBXRentDirect.com reserves the right to remove any member from the site at any time for misuse of the website or violations of our Homeowner Agreement.

Each member takes full responsibility for making the vacation rental experience as efficient and positive as is within their power.

Any and all tax consequences of renting your vacation property are as stated by the local, state and federal government and are the sole responsibility of the home owner.

We collect information in the following ways:

• Like many websites on the Internet, our website uses cookies. Cookies are small strings of data placed on users' personal computer hard drives during the exchange of data that happens when your browser points to our website. We also use cookies to make your experience personalized and convenient.
• How we store the information we collect:  We store the information you provide to us and the information we collect electronically in our computer databases. We own, maintain and operate our computer servers containing our databases. Access to our computer servers is controlled by firewalls and security gatekeepers.
• What personal information we collect from our users:  When you set up an account at OBXRentDirect.com to use our vacation home listing service, you are required to provide us with your full legal name, email address, full street address including city, state and zip code, and telephone number. You must also choose your Username and Password and provide those to us. To protect ourselves and our other customers from fraud, we may collect additional information from credit bureaus and other consumer information services. We reserve the right to obtain any source of collecting payment including a credit card and credit service voluntarily disclosed to us.