Effective: July 2018
My Travelanthropy/www.mytravelanthropy.com is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information. Our privacy policy is in compliance with GDPR (Global Data Protection Regulation).
(1)Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interacts with our website. By accessing this website, you acknowledge and fully understand our Privacy Statement and freely consent to the Terms of Use described in this privacy statement. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use this website.
(2)Disclosure of Information
My Traveanthropy.com will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site.
(3)Commitment to Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, anyone under the age of 18, may only use this site and its services in conjunction with and under the supervision of their parents or guardians. For this reason, we ask that anyone under the age of 18 not submit any personal information through our site. This website collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, information provided by the user, and with Cookies.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please email hello@mytravelanthropy.com.
(4)Information We Collect and How We Use It
As a business, we collect personal data from you in a number of ways including:
a. Opt-ins: Your name and email address.
b. Comments: Your name, email address, and comment. Please note by posting a comment on this website, you consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide. You should be aware that such Personal Information can be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public areas. We have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.
(5)We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us
(c) information about (any) transactions carried out over this website
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters.
(e) any other information that you choose to voluntarily send us
a. Web Server Logs
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
- Number of links you click within the site
- Date and time of your visit
- Web page you linked to our site from
- Pages you viewed on the site
Under GDPR compliance, you may request to have this information removed from our web server logs. To have your information removed, please send us a message to hello@mytravelanthropy.com.
b. Use of Cookies
This site uses cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality. We reserve the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies. For more information about how our third-party service providers may use cookies, please see Section 4, below. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
A cookie can easily be deleted in your web browser. Please see your particular web browser documentation for instructions on removing cookies. Please note that cookies need to be removed once for each web browser you use to visit our website.
(6)We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the website
(b) improve your browsing experience by personalizing the website
(c) enable your use of the services available on the website
(d) send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications
(e) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested
(7)Participating Affiliate / Merchant Policies
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including affiliate sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in our services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties. My Travelanthropy has relationships with a number of affiliates and mytravelanthropy.com may be compensated if you book via the links on this website. Currently, the third parties operating on our website include CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction), Get Your Guide, Amazon Associates Program, Awin, Shareasale.
Amazon Affiliate Disclosure Notice: It is important to also note that My Travelanthropy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
It’s important to note that I take great pride in ensuring that the content on this site is from a company I personally believe in. If I don’t believe in the company or what it has to offer, I won’t recommend it. My readers are more important than compensation.
(8) Security of your personal information
My Travelanthropy will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to the website).
(9) Third-party disclosure
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist me in operating the website, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. I may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce the site policies, or protect mine or others’ rights, property or safety.
a. Third Party Advertisers, Use of Web Beacons or GIF Files
This website contains electronic images known as Web beacons, sometimes also called single-pixel gifs, that allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. This information in addition to the web searches you make while visiting this website and your web surfing behaviour on this site and other websites you may visit is used to show you advertisements tailored to your interests on other websites and other forms of media. If you would like to know more about these practices and your choices about not having this information used to target ads to you, please click here. We prohibit Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information. Third party Web Beacons on this website include Facebook.
b. External Web Sites
Please note that mytravelanthropy.com contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by mytravelanthropy.com. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact: hello@mytravelanthropy.com
(10)International data transfers
Information that My Travelanthropy collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which My Travelanthropy operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website may be published on the internet and may be available around the world.
You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.
(11) Policy amendments
We have the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
(12) Copyright
Unless otherwise noted, the design, content and all components of the Website are copyrights owned by My Travelanthropy or third parties and are protected by Canada and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.
(13) Visitors’ GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include: We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it. You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data. You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data. To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent. Should you wish to have your information deleted, please email us at hello@mytravelanthropy.com and submit a request.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to hello@mytravelanthropy.com. This was last updated July 2018.
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