PRIVACY POLICY, DISCLAIMER & COPYRIGHT
The information provided by www.globeabout.com (or the Website, we, us) is for general use only. Although we do our best to keep it as up to date as possible, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website, for any purpose.
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. The Website utilises the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear.
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies Policy:
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalised experience on the Website.
Third Party Use of Cookies:
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED:
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customise the Website for your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorise us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion. Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganisation proceeding brought by or against us.
SOCIAL MEDIA:
- Information from third party social networking sites, including information that social networking sites provide to us if you use your credentials at such social networking sites to log into some of our Services (such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign-up form).
- The information you allow us to access varies by social networking site, and depends on the level of privacy settings you have in place at the social networking site. You can control and find out more about these privacy settings at the applicable social networking site.
ANONYMOUS DATA:
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION:
If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.
Additional info on the Privacy Policy in compliance with the GDPR for EU residents (From May 25th, 2018):
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.This website currently uses the following third-party service providers that can also collect some of your data, more detailed info on the list below. This additional section is addressed to all the users who are resident in the EU community, in accordance with the GPDR law guidelines that are aimed to guarantee even more security and control over the private data collected and processed on this website.
- Google Analytics: This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. The private non-sensitive data collected on Google Analytics is used and stored for monitoring the traffic on the Website. No commercial use is done with this data and the info stored will never be released or given to third parties. For more info on how they treat the data, please refer to Google’s general Privacy Policy in here , for the specific privacy policy for Google Analytics, read here.
- Contact Form 7: A Plugin used to allow you contacting us via a form on the Website. Data collected: Name and Email. To be compliant with the GDPR law, I implemented a box you have to click before being able to send me a message via contact 7 form. You will have to read this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms on how I use and store your personal data and keep it secure. By clicking the box on the form you are agreeing to the terms stated in here.
- Disqus: Plugin used to manage the comments you leave on our blog posts and pages. Data Collected: Name, email address. The plugin will let you tick a box to give me explicit permission to collect the above mentioned data for internal use only in accordance with this privacy policy before you can leave your comment. Disqus is powered by Gvector.com and is GDPR compliant too. For more info on their Privacy Policy, read it in here.
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Your rights related to your personal information: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to hello@globeabout.com. You may contact us at hello@globeabout.com to amend or update your personal information. In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to hello@globeabout.com Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law. SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION: At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION: The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at hello@globeabout.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. DISCLOSURE POLICY AND ADVERTISING: Display Ads We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. Retargeting Ads From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website. Affiliate Program Participation The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. Please note that although we fully pay for all expenses of our trips, www.globeabout.com website may contain some Affiliate links in the form of Banner Ads and Text Links. We may receive a small commission every time you purchase something on our website at no extra cost for you. Although these Affiliate links are trusted resources that we use ourselves, please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each website that might collect personally identifying information. Changes: We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy. CONTACT INFORMATION: At any time, please contact us at hello@globeabout.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy. |