Effective Date: May 12, 2026
Last Updated: July 1, 2026
Hawaii’s Best has operated HawaiisBestTravel.com / LiveHawaiisBest.com since 2017. This Privacy Policy applies from the effective date listed above and replaces any prior privacy policy posted on this website.
This Privacy Policy explains how Shorebreak Media Group LLC, doing business as Hawaii’s Best (“Hawaii’s Best,” “Hawaii’s Best Travel,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects information when you visit or use HawaiisBestTravel.com, our podcast pages, newsletters, free guides, trip-planning tools, digital products, consultations, social media links, affiliate links, advertising, and related content or services.
By using this website, submitting information to us, subscribing to our emails, downloading a guide, booking a consultation, purchasing a product, or interacting with our content, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not use this website, services, forms, downloads, or related content.
Who We Are
Business Name: Shorebreak Media Group LLC
DBA: Hawaii’s Best
Website: https://hawaiisbesttravel.com
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Mailing Address: 200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170, Honolulu, HI 96817, United States
Shorebreak Media Group LLC is a limited liability company formed and organized under the laws of the State of California, with a registered agent in Riverside, California, and an operational mailing address in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hawaii’s Best Travel is the travel media website and podcast operated by Shorebreak Media Group LLC, doing business as Hawaii’s Best. Hawaii’s Best Travel is an independent Hawaii travel media site and podcast that provides general travel information, podcast episodes, newsletters, free guides, trip-planning resources, affiliate recommendations, sponsored content, and optional travel planning consultation services.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
We collect personal data in several ways, including information you provide directly, information collected automatically through website technology, and information collected through third-party tools and service providers.
The types of personal data we may collect depend on how you interact with Hawaii’s Best Travel.
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect personal data when you:
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Download a free guide or resource
- Fill out a contact form
- Submit a question
- Leave a comment
- Book a consultation
- Purchase a product or service
- Complete a quiz, survey, or trip-planning form
- Reply to an email
- Leave a review or testimonial
- Communicate with us through social media
- Participate in promotions, giveaways, or campaigns
- Send us information related to your Hawaii travel plans
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, if provided
- Mailing address, if provided
- Billing information
- Travel dates
- Island preferences
- Lodging plans
- Itinerary details
- Group or family travel details
- Budget range
- Activity preferences
- Dietary, accessibility, mobility, or health-related information you choose to provide
- Comments, questions, reviews, testimonials, or feedback
- Any other information you voluntarily submit
We collect this information to respond to you, deliver requested resources, send emails, provide services, prepare consultations, process purchases, improve our content, and operate our business.
Sensitive Personal Data
Please do not submit sensitive personal data unless it is necessary for the service you are requesting and you are comfortable sharing it.
In some cases, you may choose to provide information related to:
- Accessibility needs
- Mobility concerns
- Dietary restrictions
- Health-related travel concerns
- Family or children’s travel needs
- Other personal trip-planning details
We use this information only to provide relevant travel planning guidance, respond to your request, or prepare for a consultation.
Hawaii’s Best Travel does not provide medical, legal, financial, or professional safety advice.
Comments
If you leave a comment on our website, we may collect the data shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible publicly in the context of your comment.
Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services.
Media
If you upload images, files, or other media to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, also known as EXIF GPS data.
Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images or files that are publicly available on the website.
Most users do not have permission to upload media directly to our website. If you send media to us by email, form, social media, or another method, we may store and use it only as permitted by law, our Terms of Service, and any permission you provide.
Contact Forms
If you submit a contact form, consultation form, quiz, survey, or trip-planning form, we may collect the information you provide, including your name, email address, message, travel details, and any other information included in the form.
We use this information to:
- Respond to your request
- Provide customer support
- Prepare for consultations
- Deliver requested resources
- Improve our services
- Maintain business records
- Protect against spam, fraud, or abuse
We may retain contact form submissions for as long as reasonably necessary for customer service, business records, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or operational purposes.
We do not use contact form submissions for marketing unless you separately opt in to receive marketing emails or unless the form clearly states that submitting it will add you to our email list.
Free Guides, Downloads, Quizzes, and Trip-Planning Tools
We may offer free guides, checklists, quizzes, calculators, downloads, and other resources.
When you request a free guide or use a trip-planning tool, we may collect:
- Name
- Email address
- Island preferences
- Travel dates
- Travel interests
- Trip type
- Budget range
- Quiz answers
- Other information you choose to provide
We use this information to deliver the requested resource, send related travel planning content, understand what our audience needs, improve our resources, and offer relevant products or services.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.
AI Planning Hub and Trip Planning Tools
If you use our AI Planning Hub, trip-planning tools, forms, quizzes, calculators, or related digital resources, we may collect information you choose to provide, such as your travel dates, destination preferences, island choices, budget range, group size, lodging preferences, activity interests, accessibility needs, email address, and other trip-planning details.
This information may be used to provide trip-planning suggestions, improve our tools, respond to your requests, personalize your experience, deliver free or paid resources, provide customer support, and improve Hawaii’s Best Travel content and services.
You should avoid entering sensitive personal information, medical information, financial account information, government identification numbers, or private information about children into our AI Planning Hub or trip-planning tools unless specifically requested and necessary.
Consultations and Travel Planning Services
If you book a one-on-one consultation or travel planning service, we may collect information needed to prepare for and provide that service.
This may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Travel dates
- Island preferences
- Lodging plans
- Flights or transportation details you choose to share
- Itineraries, notes, or documents you submit
- Activity preferences
- Restaurant preferences
- Budget range
- Family or group travel details
- Accessibility, mobility, dietary, or health considerations you choose to disclose
We use this information to review your plans, prepare for your consultation, provide recommendations, communicate with you, process payments, and maintain business records.
Hawaii’s Best Travel provides independent travel planning guidance and educational consulting services only. We are not a travel agency and do not book, guarantee, insure, or operate flights, hotels, tours, transportation, activities, or other third-party travel services unless explicitly stated.
Payments and Transactional Data
If you purchase a product, book a consultation, or make a payment, payment information may be collected and processed by third-party payment processors.
We may receive transaction-related information, such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Billing details
- Product or service purchased
- Payment status
- Date and amount of purchase
We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers on our own servers.
Payment processors handle payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.
Email Marketing and Newsletters
If you subscribe to our email list, download a guide, register for a resource, or otherwise opt in to receive emails from us, we may send you:
- Hawaii travel tips
- Hawaii travel news
- Podcast updates
- Free guides and resources
- Product or service updates
- Consultation information
- Promotional emails
- Affiliate or sponsored recommendations
- Surveys or feedback requests
You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing email or by contacting us at:
Commercial emails from us will include a valid mailing address and a way to unsubscribe.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send transactional or administrative emails related to purchases, consultations, legal notices, or other business matters.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. They help websites function, remember preferences, understand visitor behavior, improve performance, support advertising, and track affiliate referrals.
We may use cookies for:
- Website functionality
- Comment forms
- Login sessions, if applicable
- Security
- Spam prevention
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Affiliate tracking
- Embedded content
- Social media features
- Personalization
Third-party providers may also set cookies through our website.
You can adjust your browser settings to refuse or delete cookies. Some website features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.
For more information, please review our Cookie Policy.
Analytics
We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors find and use our website.
Analytics tools may collect:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages visited
- Links clicked
- Time spent on pages
- Approximate location
- Search terms
- Conversion events
We use analytics data to improve our website, content, podcast, newsletters, services, and user experience.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors find and use our website. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, browser type, device type, approximate location, referring websites, and interactions with our content. Google may process this information according to its own privacy policy, available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Analytics providers may process information according to their own privacy policies.
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/
We may use advertising networks, programmatic advertising partners, pixels, remarketing tools, cookies, tags, device identifiers, and similar technologies to support advertising on this website.
These tools may collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet to:
- Serve ads
- Measure ad performance
- Prevent fraud
- Personalize advertising
- Understand audience behavior
- Build or use advertising profiles
- Track conversions
- Support affiliate or sponsored campaigns
This may include data collected through:
- Cookies
- Pixels
- Tags
- Device identifiers
- IP addresses
- Browser data
- Page views
- Click behavior
Where required by law, visitors may be presented with a cookie banner or consent management platform to manage advertising and tracking preferences.
Affiliate Links and Sponsored Content
Some content on Hawaii’s Best Travel may contain affiliate links, referral links, sponsored links, or brand partnerships.
If you click an affiliate link or make a purchase through a link, we may earn a commission or receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate partners or networks may use cookies or tracking technologies to determine whether a purchase, booking, or other action came from our link.
Affiliate relationships may include, but are not limited to:
- Travel booking platforms
- Hotels and lodging partners
- Tour providers
- Rental car companies
- Travel insurance providers
- Product retailers
- Amazon Associates
- Travel affiliate networks
- Other referral programs
Our participation in affiliate programs does not give us control over third-party websites, products, services, data practices, prices, availability, or policies.
Please review our Affiliate Disclosure for more information.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, podcast players, maps, images, posts, advertisements, or social media content.
Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if you visited those websites directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, monitor your interaction with the embedded content, and track your interaction if you are logged into their service.
Examples may include:
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- Buzzsprout or podcast hosting services
- Google Maps
- TikTok
- X / Twitter
- Threads
- Other media or social platforms
We do not control the data practices of embedded third-party content.
Social Media
If you interact with Hawaii’s Best Travel on social media platforms, those platforms may collect information about you according to their own privacy policies.
We may receive information you make public or send directly to us, such as:
- Comments
- Direct messages
- Public profile name
- Public handle
- Public profile photo
- Reactions, likes, shares, or engagement
- User-generated content you tag us in or send to us
We may use social media interactions to respond to you, improve our content, understand audience interests, share user-generated content with permission where appropriate, or run promotions and campaigns.
Your use of social media platforms is governed by the privacy policies and terms of those platforms.
Who We Share Your Data With
We may share information with third parties that help us operate our website, business, content, advertising, email, payments, and services.
These may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Domain and DNS providers
- WordPress plugins and security tools
- Email marketing providers
- Form providers
- Payment processors
- Booking and scheduling tools
- Analytics providers
- Advertising networks
- Affiliate networks
- Social media platforms
- Podcast hosting and distribution platforms
- Customer support tools
- Contractors, freelancers, editors, designers, consultants, or service providers
- Legal, tax, accounting, insurance, or professional advisors
- Government authorities, if legally required
- Successors or buyers in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, or transfer of business assets
We share information only as reasonably necessary for business, operational, legal, security, marketing, advertising, or service-related purposes.
We do not sell your name or email address to third parties for their own direct marketing lists.
However, certain privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” broadly. Some advertising, analytics, affiliate tracking, and social media technologies may be considered “sale” or “sharing” under those laws.
How Long We Retain Your Data
We retain personal data only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required or allowed by law.
Retention periods may vary by type of data.
Examples:
- Contact form submissions may be retained for customer service, legal, and business record purposes.
- Email subscriber data may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion, subject to legal exceptions.
- Consultation records may be retained for business, legal, tax, dispute resolution, and service history purposes.
- Purchase and transaction records may be retained for tax, accounting, payment, fraud prevention, and legal purposes.
- Comments and related metadata may be retained indefinitely unless removed.
- Analytics data may be retained according to the settings of our analytics providers.
- Legal, security, and compliance records may be retained as long as necessary.
You may request deletion of certain personal data by contacting us at:
We may retain some information where required or permitted for legal, accounting, tax, security, transactional, fraud prevention, or legitimate business purposes.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal data.
These rights may include:
- The right to know what personal data we collect
- The right to access personal data we hold about you
- The right to correct inaccurate personal data
- The right to request deletion of personal data
- The right to opt out of marketing emails
- The right to opt out of certain sale or sharing of personal data
- The right to limit use of sensitive personal data, where applicable
- The right to withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent
- The right to request data portability
- The right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
- The right to appeal a privacy request decision, where applicable
To make a privacy request, email:
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
California Privacy Rights
Because Shorebreak Media Group LLC is organized and based in California, California privacy laws apply to our business and to California residents.
California residents have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), including the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and share
- Access personal information we hold about you
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Delete personal information, subject to certain exceptions
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
- Limit use of sensitive personal information where applicable
- Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
- Appeal a decision on a privacy request
Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing. We do not sell your name or email address to third parties for their own direct marketing lists. However, some advertising, analytics, affiliate tracking, and social media technologies may constitute “sharing” of personal information under California law. You may opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information at any time by:
- Clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer of our website
- Enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) in your browser, which we honor where required by law
- Adjusting your preferences through available cookie consent tools
- Emailing contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com with the subject line “California Privacy Request”
To submit any other California privacy request (access, deletion, correction, etc.), email:
contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
Subject line: California Privacy Request
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.
California “Shine the Light” Rights. California residents may request information about disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, if applicable, by emailing contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com with the subject line “California Shine the Light Request.”
Categories of Personal Information We May Collect
In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email, IP address |
| Contact information | Email, phone, mailing address |
| Commercial information | Purchases, consultations, downloads |
| Internet activity | Pages viewed, links clicked |
| Geolocation | Approximate location from IP |
| User content | Comments, reviews, messages |
| Inferences | Travel interests, island preferences |
| Sensitive information | Only if voluntarily provided |
We collect this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging your name, email address, or contact information for money.
However, some advertising, analytics, affiliate tracking, remarketing, and social media technologies may be considered “sharing” or “sale” under California law.
You may opt out of certain tracking through available cookie settings, browser controls, Global Privacy Control where supported, or by contacting us.
California Privacy Requests
To submit a California privacy request, email:
Subject line:
California Privacy Request
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
California “Shine the Light” Rights
California residents may request information about certain disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, if applicable.
To submit a request, email:
Subject line:
California Shine the Light Request
Nevada Privacy Rights
Nevada residents may have the right to opt out of certain sales of covered information.
We do not currently sell covered information as defined under Nevada law.
Nevada residents may submit privacy requests to:
European, UK, and International Visitors
Our business is based in California, United States, and our website is operated from the United States.
If you access our website or services from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
These countries may have data protection laws different from those in your location.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with privacy rights, you may have rights to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct your personal data
- Delete your personal data
- Restrict or object to processing
- Withdraw consent
- Request data portability
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
Where required, we rely on appropriate legal bases for processing personal data, which may include:
- Consent
- Contract performance
- Legitimate business interests
- Legal obligations
- Protection of rights and safety
To submit a request, contact:
Where Your Data Is Sent
Information collected through this website may be processed in the United States or in other countries where our third-party service providers operate.
This may include providers for:
- Web hosting
- Email marketing
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Affiliate tracking
- Payment processing
- Spam detection
- Security
- Cloud storage
- Forms
- Podcast hosting
- Social media platforms
When legally required, we rely on appropriate safeguards, contractual commitments, consent mechanisms, or service provider privacy terms to support lawful processing and transfer of personal data.
How We Protect Your Data
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or loss.
These measures may include:
- HTTPS / SSL encryption
- Secure website hosting
- Password-protected accounts
- Limited administrative access
- Anti-spam and security tools
- Reputable third-party service providers
- Payment processing through third-party processors
- Internal access controls
- Periodic review of tools and services
No website, email system, online service, database, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place
If we become aware of a data security incident affecting personal data, we will take reasonable steps to investigate, contain, and respond to the incident.
This may include:
- Reviewing the nature and scope of the incident
- Working with service providers, hosting companies, or security tools
- Taking steps to secure affected systems
- Preserving relevant records
- Notifying affected users where required by law
- Notifying regulators or authorities where required by law
- Taking reasonable steps to reduce future risk
What Third Parties We Receive Data From
We may receive data from third parties, including:
- Analytics providers
- Advertising partners
- Affiliate networks
- Payment processors
- Email marketing platforms
- Social media platforms
- Form or quiz providers
- Podcast hosting platforms
- Scheduling tools
- Security or spam detection tools
This data may include website activity, referral data, purchase confirmation, campaign performance, subscriber activity, engagement metrics, social media interactions, or other information needed to operate and improve our business.
Automated Decision Making and Profiling
We do not use personal data to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, such as credit approval, insurance eligibility, employment decisions, or financial determinations.
We may use analytics, advertising, email segmentation, pixels, cookies, and similar tools to understand audience interests, personalize content, measure performance, and show more relevant advertising.
You may opt out of certain marketing emails, cookies, and tracking technologies through unsubscribe links, cookie controls, browser settings, Global Privacy Control where supported, or by contacting us.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals.
Because there is no uniform industry standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, our website may not respond to all such signals.
Where required by applicable law and technically feasible, we may honor Global Privacy Control or similar legally recognized opt-out preference signals.
You may also manage cookies through your browser settings or available cookie consent tools.
Children’s Privacy
Our website, podcast, newsletters, consultations, products, and services are intended for adults and general audiences, not for children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13.
If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal data to us, contact us at:
Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements
Hawaii’s Best Travel is an independent travel media and educational consulting business.
We are not a travel agency, tour operator, airline, hotel, transportation provider, insurer, medical provider, legal advisor, financial advisor, or government agency.
We do not book, guarantee, insure, operate, or control third-party travel services unless explicitly stated.
Travelers are responsible for verifying important details directly with official sources, service providers, parks, airlines, hotels, tour operators, lifeguards, local authorities, and other relevant parties before making travel decisions.
AI-Assisted Tools and Internal Workflows
We may use artificial intelligence tools, automation tools, transcription tools, editing tools, research tools, or content workflow tools to help with business operations.
These tools may support:
- Drafting
- Editing
- Research organization
- Podcast transcription
- Content planning
- Customer support
- Search optimization
- Data analysis
- Administrative workflows
We do not intentionally submit sensitive personal data to AI tools unless reasonably necessary for a business purpose and appropriate safeguards are used.
Published content is reviewed by a human before publication.
Legal Compliance and Protection
We may use, preserve, or disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to legal process
- Enforce our Terms of Service
- Protect our rights, property, or safety
- Protect users or the public
- Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, or security threats
- Investigate violations of our policies
- Cooperate with law enforcement or government requests
Business Transfers
If Shorebreak Media Group LLC, Hawaii’s Best Travel, or related assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, bankruptcy, transfer, or similar transaction, personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Any successor entity may continue to use information consistent with this Privacy Policy unless otherwise disclosed.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of our website, emails, products, services, or related content after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact Information
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact us at:
Shorebreak Media Group LLC
dba Hawaii’s Best / Hawaii’s Best Travel
200 N Vineyard Blvd Ste A325 #1170
Honolulu, HI 96817
United States
Email: contact@hawaiisbesttravel.com
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