PRIVACY POLICY

AdventureAwaitsTravels.org(“company,” “I,” “we,” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes what information is collected from you on www.adventeureawaitstravels.org (hereinafter the “Website”) and how it is used. This Privacy Policy applies to this website and any products or services we offer that link to this policy. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits, or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We respect the privacy of children, and “child” means an individual under the age of 13. This policy is in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). This website’s information and content are only intended for people over the age of 14. This website is not intended for children under the age of 13. Without prior parental or guardian consent, we do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that personal information was collected without parental or guardian consent from a child under the age of 13, please contact us to have that information deleted. 

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT IS USED

When you access the website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, and avatar image (“personal information”).

This information is collected when you register on the site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the website, provide comments or any other feedback, fill out a form, or use the live chat or enter any other information on the website to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information you submit when you participate in any online surveys we may post on our website.

Your personal information is used to personalize your experience, improve the website to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or products, provide you offers, promotions and to follow up with you through correspondence (email, live chat, or phone). We may also use this information to provide you with offers and promotions from our partners and/or affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Like other websites, this website automatically collects certain information about you through Log Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information, Internet Service Provider’s information, operating system, and browser type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, the equipment you used to access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the website.

This information is used to analyze website statistics related to user behaviour and interests, improve our performance and your use of the website, and further enhance our products and services offered. Please see Google’s Privacy and Terms to learn more about their privacy practices.

USE OF COOKIES 

The website may use cookies to facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data, including an anonymous, unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you view the website. Just like other websites, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference, and the date and time of visitors.

Some features of our website may use Flash cookies, which are small files stored on your computer by websites that use Adobe Flash Player. They can store data such as preferences, settings, and usage information like which pages you visit. The main difference between traditional cookies and flash cookies is that they are not managed through the browser but locally on your computer.

When you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

We may use cookies for various reasons, such as optimizing and personalizing your browsing experience, checking our website analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, serving ads based on your liking and interests, affiliate marketing, and posting comments on our website.

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website.  You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all the features and content of this website.

 USE OF WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS

In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, also known as clear GIFs, web bugs, or pixel tags, to collect general information about your use of our website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behaviour data. This information may be relevant to third parties, such as the ad networks used on our website, to tailor the advertising based on your behaviour and interests.

We may use social media pixels to track and collect general information about your use in compliance with different social media sites (Facebook, X, Pinterest, and others) to promote products, track conversions, remarketing, run target advertisements, and so forth.

Third parties like Facebook may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect and receive information from our website for the purpose of providing target advertisements. You may see our ads on Facebook or YouTube after you have visited our website.  

THIRD-PARTY LINKS AND USE 

We may include, offer or advertise third-party links, products, or services on the website. Once you click on a third-party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We may use Google AdSense advertising along with any other third-party advertising on the website. Google is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.

We have no control over these third parties, and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You also agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your risk.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As a general rule, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent, with the exception of the following circumstances:

1. We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that work with us, such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.
2. We may disclose your information to contractors or third parties we use to support our business. These parties may use your data only to provide the services requested by us and for no other purpose, and they are bound by contractual obligations to keep your information confidential.
3. We may disclose your information in order to comply with provincial or federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to the website.
4. We may disclose your information to enforce our website or product terms and conditions or terms of sale and any other agreements we may have entered into for billing and collection purposes.
5. We may disclose your information to our successor and/or acquiring party in the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution, or partial sale in the future. However, your personal information will be transferred to the acquiring party in accordance with this privacy policy.

EMAIL MARKETING 

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials, and any other content related to this website. When you send an email, your email message, email address, and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential, and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

If you are in the European Union and opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website, then you will be subscribed to our free email newsletter once you affirmatively consent to it. Please see the Opt-Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

But if you are NOT in the European Union, then you will be automatically subscribed to receive our free email newsletter once you opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website. Please see the Opt-Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

OPT OUT

We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and do not spam or send misleading information. Should you wish to no longer receive communication from us, you can unsubscribe by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email we send to you or by contacting us.

As for third-party websites, please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt out of their communications.

We are in compliance with the GDPR along with the email marketing service we use to collect your data.  

GDPR VISITOR RIGHTS (FOR EU AND UK CUSTOMERS AND VISITORS)

If you are located in the European Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you are entitled to certain rights and information listed below under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:

1. You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to ian AT adventureawaitstravels.org. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access paid or free content previously provided to you.
2. Our decision is to cease using our existing data providers.
3. The Company decides to no longer be in business or continue to offer the services.
4. The data is no longer needed to provide you service, is too costly to maintain further retention, or the Company finds it outdated.

You have the right to request access to your data that we store and have the ability to access your personal data.

You have the right to either rectify or erase your personal data. You have the right to verify the accuracy of your personal data and have it corrected or removed completely.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. When you restrict the processing of your data, we can store your data but cannot process it further.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances, including but not limited to direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes, automated decision-making and profiling, and tasks based on legitimate interests or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.

You have the right to the portability of your data. You have the right to request your personal data from us, receive it and transfer it to another controller.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you have 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.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority with jurisdiction over issues related to the GDPR.

We require only the reasonably necessary information to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING DATA UNDER THE GDPR

Under the GDPR, we may process your data under the following legal basis:

• Consent: when you give us clear consent to process your personal data for one or more specific purposes.
• Contractual Necessity: when processing your personal data is necessary to fulfill a contract with you.
• Legal Obligation: when processing your personal data is necessary to comply with the law, such as data related to taxes or employee records.
• Vital Interests: when processing your personal data is necessary to protect your life or health.  
• Public Interests: when the processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or for official functions.
• Legitimate Interests: when processing your personal data is necessary to further our legitimate interests, such as marketing activities.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE

We collect this personal information directly from you, your browser or device, the use of cookies, service providers, our business partners, affiliates, or third parties. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We use the information we collect for various purposes depending on how you interact with us. These purposes include:

• To provide our services or products to you, including invoices and statements.
• To create, maintain or secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments.
• To communicate with you about your account and our products/services.
• To market or advertise our new products and promotions to you via email or other social media, to answer your questions, and to understand your needs and preferences.
• To improve our website, products, services, content, and advertising and personalize them to your interests and preferences.
• To better understand our users’ demographics, analyze data and usage trends.
• To help you share our content, products, services, and your experience working with us with your friends and followers on social media.  
• To hire or evaluate you as a candidate when you seek employment with us.
• To protect our website, products and services from misuse and to ensure security.
• To process payments or to prevent theft and fraud.
• To transfer business in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy where we may sell, transfer or share some of our business assets, including information related to our customers. In those instances, you will be notified of such ownership changes as well as the rights you have regarding your personal information.
• To comply with legal requirements and to enforce our terms and agreements with you.
• To assess or carry out a merger, dissolution, restructuring, reorganization, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as part of a bankruptcy or similar proceeding, in which personal information about our website users, including our email list, is one of the assets transferred.

We may also use your information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection. We may combine different types of information that we collect about you for any of the purposes described above.

Please be advised we DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION to third parties and have never sold your personal information. We do not intend to sell your personal information in the future either.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may also retain and use your information to continue offering you our products and services, comply with our legal and accounting obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we strive to follow generally commercial industry standards to protect your personal information submitted to us voluntarily and automatically. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. When you make a credit card purchase or purchase through any means on the website, you will be directed to a third-party vendor to complete the transaction. Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our website but instead is provided to the third-party vendor that completes the purchase transaction.

By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES 

This privacy policy is effective as of August 1, 2024, and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after posting any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.

CONTACT

For any questions or comments regarding the privacy policy, please contact us at ian AT adventureawaitstravels.org