Privacy Policy
Courage to Wander operates the https://couragetowander.com website (Referred to as the “Website”).
This privacy policy identifies how Courage to Wander uses and protects any information you give while using the Courage to Wander website. Please read our privacy policy carefully to understand how we collect, use, protect or otherwise manage your personal information. This information is subject to change without prior notice.
We use your data to provide feedback and improve the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use
We collect several types of information from you to improve our Website and services to you.
Personal Data
While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your first and last name, email address, and Cookies and Usage Data.
We may use this information to contact you about newsletters, promotional materials and other information that we think may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or by contacting us.
Cookies and Usage Data
We use cookies and other similar technology to track the activity on our Website and we may keep some information. Cookies are sent to your devices from a website and stored on your device. Cookies are small file which may include small unique, but anonymous identifiers.
Google advertising cookies
Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (You may opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
We may also collect Usage Data on how the Website is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, pages of the Website that you visited, the time you visited, how long you visited the page, and other diagnostic data.
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.
We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
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.
Contact forms
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.
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 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
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 that register on our website, 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.
Advertising
We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our website.
- You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Amazon Services LLC Associates Program
Courage to Wander is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affliliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
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.
You may have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or delete the information given to us
- The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you
- The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time
Use of Data:
Courage to Wander collects data for several reasons:
- To notify you of changes to our Website
- To provide customer service
- To better maintain our Website through detection of and addressing technical issues
- To allow you to participate in opportunities offered through the Website
- To improve our Website through analysis of use
- To monitor the usage
Retention of Data
Courage to Wander will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your this data as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve matters of dispute and enforce our legal agreements.
Transfer of Data
Courage to Wander takes the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an entity unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your personal data.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Disclosure of Data for Legal Requirements
Your Personal Data may be disclosed in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect against legal liability
- To protect and defend the Courage to Wander
- To protect the personal safety of users of the website
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, although we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: couragetowander@outlook.com
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