The Travelling Squirrel is serious about protecting your privacy and about disclosure terms
. Below you can find out disclosure and privacy policy.
Disclosure
While we endeavour to keep information on The Travelling Squirrel up to date and correct we make no guarantees of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability or suitability of the information and therefore any information used is at your own risk.
The Travelling Squirrel reserves the right to change the focus of this website or change the terms of use at my own discretion.
Every effort is made to keep this website available and running smoothly but The Travelling Squirrel is not responsible or liable for temporary unavailability due to technical issues.
Comments are published at the discretion of The Travelling Squirrel and any comments with the intention of financial gain, affiliate-based comments, for SEO purposes or abusive comments are prohibited.
Copyright
Unless otherwise stated The Travelling Squirrel is the legal copyright holder of all content and it can not be used to published elsewhere without consent.
All photos are the property o The Travelling Squirrel unless otherwise cited or under a CC0 licence and may not be used or reproduced elsewhere without permission.
Partners
Although all travel undertaken is paid for personally, at times The Travelling Squirrel will accept monetary compensation or an exchange of services for the promotion of services or products, however, this will be disclosed.
Current partners include Booking.com, Get Your Guide, World Nomads Travel Insurance, Amazon Affiliate Program, Tourradar, TakeWalks, Intrepid Travels.
The Travelling Squirrel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
Privacy Policy
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 The Travelling Squirrel (“the website”).
What information we collect and how it is used
Information you voluntarily submit to the website: The Travelling Squirrel 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.
Automatically-collected information: When you use this website, 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: The website may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by 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.
How we may use your information
- To operate and maintain the Website
- To respond to your comments or inquiries
- To track and measure statistics/advertising on the Website
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorised or illegal activity
Third-party use of personal information
Additionally, The Travelling Squirrel 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:
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.
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.
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.
Cookies
The website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customise website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.
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 to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
The Travelling Squirrel is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
The Travelling Squirrel is also a participant of the Booking.com Affiliate Program, Get Your Guide Affiliate Program, World Nomads Affiliate Program, and the CJ Affiliate Program, Tourradar Affiliate Program, Take Walks Affiliate Program; Intrepid Tours Affiliate Programs.
Rights related to your personal information
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request trough the contact form.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request through the contact form.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Contact information
At any time, please contact me through the contact form for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
