PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

Our website address is: https://curiouswanderess.com.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, 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.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We may also use cookies, tracking pixels, and similar technologies from affiliate partners to track referrals and ensure affiliate commissions are properly credited.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How your information might 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 customize 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 protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

This Website may contain affiliate links. This means that if you click on a link and make a purchase or booking, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. These commissions help support the operation of this Website and allow me to continue creating travel guides and content.

I only recommend products, services, and travel resources that I personally use, trust, or believe will provide value to readers. Your decision to purchase or book through an affiliate link is completely optional, and you are under no obligation to do so.

For more information about how data is collected and used, please refer to the sections below.

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.

The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

GoDaddy – GoDaddy is our hosting platform. It may receive your IP address, cookie information, and any data it needs to ensure our website is visible and running to the public. Your data may be stored through its data storage, databases, and general GoDaddy.com applications. It stores your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

WordPress – WordPress is the company we use to create our online website. They may receive analytics data from you, such as your IP address, your name, and email, if you comment on our posts and other data.

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.

Mail Chimp – this service is used for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for the purpose of delivering such communications.  Please refer to Mailchimp’s privacy policy for further information.

Travelpayouts and SafetyWing (Affiliate Programs) – the Website participates in affiliate marketing programs, including, but not limited to, Travelpayouts and SafetyWing. These programs allow the Website to earn commissions when users click on affiliate links and make purchases or bookings. These affiliate partners may use cookies, tracking pixels, or similar technologies to track referrals from this Website. These technologies allow affiliate networks to attribute commissions and may collect non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address, browser type, and referral data. Please refer to each provider’s privacy policy for more information.

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 reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Opt-out – You may opt out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at hello@curiouswanderess.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to us at hello@curiouswanderess.com.

Amend – You may contact us at hello@curiouswanderess.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to hello@curiouswanderess.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

At any time, please contact us at hello@curiouswanderess.com with any questions related to this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.