Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously.

We will not share your email address with anyone else, period.

When you subscribe to Offshore Living Letter via email, your email address is placed in a database and used to send your issues of the Offshore Living Letter and occasional alerts from Live and Invest Overseas.

You can remove your address from our emailing list by clicking the link at the bottom of each email we send.

Any email you send to Offshore Living Letter or Live and Invest Overseas is considered confidential unless you tell us otherwise. We will not add your name to our email list without your permission.

If you believe that Offshore Living Letter has sent you unsolicited commercial email (spam), please send an email to customerservice@offshorelivingletter.com.

We will never ask you for personal information–your credit card number, for example–except when you place an order. At that time, we will provide a secure (SSL, encrypted) connection and require you to submit only the information needed to complete and fulfill your order. This information will be used to process your order, providing compliance with proper and safe data processing by Authorize.net and PayPal.

We use Authorize.net CIM, which supports customer profiles that include billing, payment and shipping information. Each profile is stored on their secure servers and assigned an ID that is used in place of all customer information. Here is the full Authorize.net privacy policy.

PayPal also provides our customers with secure privacy protection, here is a link to their full privacy policy.

Offshore Living Letter and Live and Invest Overseas will not sell or rent your personal or credit information to anyone, nor share it in any other way, unless required to by a law enforcement agency that takes the proper steps to acquire it.

Offshore Living Letter and Live and Invest Overseas follows all legal requirements to protect your privacy. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your name, email address, and other related information that you have provided to us or that we obtain about you. It is only used with your consent, allowing us to explicitly provide your with legitimate interests the content, paid or otherwise, which you have requested. All data is used under the expected behavior of business interest and with customer data privacy at the forefront.

All information you’ve provided can be provided to you at your request (under GDPR guidelines).

Our website(s) use “cookies” to identify the pages and articles that visitors have read.

What is a cookie? – A cookie is a tiny data file that is stored on your web browser and typically includes non personal information about your visit. This non personal information is not personally identifiable to you.

Why do we use cookies? – As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies. We use them to make sure our users are having their interests and needs met by our content. Cookies help to tell us if, in general, our readers enjoyed a piece of content and stayed to read it or if the content wasn’t good or out of date and visitors are not enjoying what they’re reading. Cookies are overall used in an effort to improve the user experience of our website.

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies – You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Account related cookies. If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
• Login related cookies. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
• Email newsletters related cookies. This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
• Orders processing related cookies. This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.
• Forms related cookies. When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. We have set our Google Analytics data to expire after 38 months. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
• As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
• Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
• Other cookies used include; Wistia, VWO, and other behavioral analytics to better tailor our content to your personal interactions.