The Ya Gotta Live! is committed to protecting your privacy online. We also want to provide you with the best possible experience on our site. In order to do this, we do gather some personal information about you that helps us to make this site everything our guests desire. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our website. This policy is subject to change, so please be sure to check back periodically.

What information do we collect?

The Ya Gotta Live! collects information from its guests in a few different ways.

NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP: When you sign up for our newsletter, you fill out a form that asks for personal information that allows us to send you the newsletter (name, email address), questions that help us to better understand the demographics of our guests (sex, age, city, state, zip code and country), and questions that allow us to understand what draws our guests to the site (island interests, how you found us).

SERVER ACTIVITY: When you initially log on to the Ya Gotta Live! site, our server, like most, automatically records your generic IP address (usually the name of your internet service provider) the site that referred you to us, the pages you request and information about the brand and version of your browser. For example, if you found us through Yahoo and AOL is your internet service provider, when you log on to our site, our server would record that an AOL user logged on to the Ya Gotta Live! and was refereed by Yahoo. Our server does not know your name, your user name, or any other personal information - only the name of your ISP.

What information do third parties on yagottalive.com collect?

Due to the nature of the Ya Gotta Live!, we have many links to sites not on yagottalive.com. Those sites may ask for additional personal information as part of doing business. For example, when purchasing a CD featured at the Ya Gotta Live!, your browser will open up a new window at Amazon.com. In order to complete the sale, Amazon.com will most likely ask for your name, address, credit card information and more.

When you leave the Ya Gotta Live!, we have no control over the information that third parties collect or how they use that information. The acts and practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those sites individually if you have concerns about the information they request.

What are cookies and how do we use them?

Cookies are small bits of data that are sent to your browser and stored on your computer. Cookies are generally used to record the preferences of users and to facilitate a more personalized web experience.

What do we do with the information we collect?

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to better understand the demographics and collective makeup of our guests to allow us to make the Ya Gotta Live! everything our guests desire. For example, if we know that 90 percent of our guests are here seeking drink recipes, we can devote more resources to expanding that section of our site.

Here is a summary of how we use your personal information:

We collect your name and email address when you fill out the form signing up for our newsletter, and use this information exclusively to send you the newsletter. We do not sell or distribute our email list to third parties or advertisers without your consent. However, our monthly newsletter does contain a limited amount of advertising.

We share aggregate information with our sponsors and advertisers such as the number of visitors we receive, the percentages of males and females, the percentages from certain cities and states, and percentages of what our guests were seeking. For example, we might share with an advertiser that 40 percent of our guests were females between 30-40 and of that percentage, half were looking for information on cigars. This allows us to attract advertisers that better represent the interests of our guests, but under no circumstances do we share your email address or names with these advertisers.

We generically track the pages requested by guests to better understand the collective browsing habits of our users. For example if 90 percent of our gests are going to the drink recipes page, it allows us to know that perhaps we should expand that section. At no point are we able to determine that a particular person used a particular page, nor are we able to link that activity with your name or email address.

Third-Party Warrantees

Due to the nature of the Ya Gotta Live!, we have many links to retailers and sites other than yagottalive.com. Although we do our best to ensure that all sites listed here are reputable, inclusion on yagottalive.com does not imply an endorsement or approval of a site, and we make no warranties or guarantees, implicit or implied, to the services provided or the products sold on those third-party sites. If you have a dispute with a third-party site that was linked to the Ya Gotta Live! you need to contact that site direct to resolve that dispute.

We are, however, interested in knowing if several of our guests have a problem with a specific site. If you should have a problem with a site (even if it's just a broken link) please email us at info@yagottalive.com .

Your Consent

By using our web site you consent to the collection of your personal information as outlined in this privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

This policy is subject to change and all changes will be posted here. It is our goal to allow our guests to know at all times what information we collect, whom we share it with and how we use it. We take your privacy seriously.