Privacy Policy

Who we are

Antigua Villa is a short-term rental on Marco Island, Florida, operated by Antivida LLC, a Florida limited liability company. In this policy "we", "us" and "our" mean Antivida LLC, and we are responsible for the information described below.

You can reach us about anything on this page at marcoislandantigua@gmail.com.

What we collect

When you send an enquiry. Your name, email address, phone number if you give one, your message, and any dates you are asking about.

When you book. Your name, email address, phone number, the dates of your stay, the number of guests, and a reservation code we generate for you.

When you pay. Payments are handled by Stripe. Card numbers never reach our systems — we receive a payment reference, the amount, and whether it succeeded. What Stripe collects during the payment step is covered by Stripe's own privacy policy.

When you use the guest portal. A cookie naming your reservation, described under "Cookies" below, and a record of when you checked in.

When you sign the waiver. The name you type, the signature you draw, the date and time, the IP address it was sent from, and your browser's user-agent string. We store the exact wording of the version you signed alongside it. This is the record of an agreement, so it is never edited or deleted — see "How long we keep it".

Your guest list. Our house rules require the full names and ages of everyone staying overnight, at least 24 hours before arrival. That list reaches us from the adult who made the booking, including details of any children in the party.

If your booking came from a third-party booking platform. We receive whatever the platform passes on, which is usually a name, the dates, and a relay email address rather than your real one. What the platform itself collects is governed by their policy, not this one.

Automatically. Our host keeps ordinary server logs — IP address, the page requested, the time, and the browser user-agent — for security and troubleshooting.

Cookies

We use two cookies. Both are strictly necessary for the site to work. We do not use analytics, advertising, social media or tracking cookies, we do not use web beacons or tracking pixels, and there is nothing optional here to agree to — which is why you will not see a cookie banner.

• guest_session — set when you sign in to the guest portal. It names your reservation and nothing else. It is cryptographically signed, so it cannot be altered to point at somebody else's booking; it cannot be read by scripts on the page; and it expires after 14 days. Signing out deletes it.
• Owner sign-in — a session cookie used only by the owner's dashboard. It is never set on a guest's browser.

Stripe sets its own cookies on Stripe's payment page, which is a separate site under Stripe's own policy.

Why we use it

• To take and manage your reservation, answer your enquiry, and talk to you about your stay — we need this to carry out our agreement with you.
• To take payment and to prevent fraud.
• To keep the signed waiver as a record of what was agreed, which protects you as much as us.
• To meet our tax and record-keeping obligations, because the law requires it.
• To send you marketing — only if you ask us to. We do not currently send marketing of any kind. Email you receive from us is about a booking you made.

Who we share it with

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information, and we never have.

We use a small number of service providers who process data on our behalf and only on our instructions: our payment processor, Stripe, and the providers who host the website, store our booking records and deliver our email. All of them are located in the United States and are bound to keep your information confidential.

We also share information where we have to: with tax authorities as the law requires, with law enforcement on a valid request, and with our insurers or lawyers if there is a claim arising from a stay.

If the business is ever sold or transferred, reservation records would transfer with it.

Security cameras at the property

The property has security cameras covering the front, back and side yards, the inside and outside of the garage, and facing the rear boat dock. They monitor entry and exit points and stay operational throughout your stay. This is also disclosed in the waiver you sign before check-in.

Footage is used for the security of the property and is not used for any other purpose.

How long we keep it

• Enquiries that do not become bookings — 2 years, then deleted.
• Booking and payment records — 7 years, which is what tax record-keeping requires.
• Waiver signatures — 7 years after the stay. Florida's limitation period for a negligence claim is four years, and a claim on behalf of someone who was a child at the time can be brought later, so the signature is kept well beyond the stay itself. These records are never edited.
• Guest portal cookie — 14 days.
• Server logs — for as long as our host retains them, typically a matter of weeks.

Your choices

You can ask us to show you what we hold about you, correct anything that is wrong, or delete it. Email us and we will deal with it.

Two honest limits on deletion: we cannot delete a booking or payment record while tax law requires us to keep it, and we will not delete a signed waiver, because it is the record of an agreement and destroying it would defeat the purpose of signing it.

You can unsubscribe from any email we send that is not about a booking you have made.

Children

This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information directly from anyone under 13. We do receive the names and ages of children in your party, because our house rules require a full guest list — but that comes from the adult who booked, not from the child. If you believe a child has given us information directly, email us and we will delete it.

Guests from outside the United States

We are a Florida business and your information is stored in the United States. If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you have rights over your information under the UK GDPR and the GDPR — access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection — and you can exercise them by emailing us. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will post the new version here with a new effective date. A change will not be applied retroactively to a booking you have already made.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about information we hold: marcoislandantigua@gmail.com