1. WHO WE ARE
Our website address is: https://lifeuntraveled.com. You can contact Life Untraveled at this email address: lydianasso@lifeuntraveled(dot)com.
2. LIFE UNTRAVELED PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy sets out how Life Untraveled uses and protects any information that you give Life Untraveled when you use this website.
Life Untraveled is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Under no circumstances do we sell or share private information to third-parties of any kind (companies, organizations, associations, etc).
Life Untraveled may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from April 3rd, 2020.
3. WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, Life Untraveled collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Life Untraveled’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Life Untraveled’s visitors use its website.
Life Untraveled also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Life Untraveled only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
4. GATHERING OF PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
We may collect the following information:
- name and blog URL
- email address (Only with your consent)
- other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers when user is prompted
- Google Analytics tracking data (anonymous data that we use to see how many people visit our site)
Certain visitors to Life Untraveled’s website choose to interact with Life Untraveled in ways that require Life Untraveled to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Life Untraveled gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Life Untraveled updates via email, we collect their emails.
In each case, Life Untraveled collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Life Untraveled. Life Untraveled does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
5. PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Life Untraveled discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Life Untraveled's behalf or to provide services available at Life Untraveled’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Life Untraveled’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Life Untraveled will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Life Untraveled discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Life Untraveled believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Life Untraveled, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an Life Untraveled website and have supplied your email address, Life Untraveled may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Life Untraveled and our products. Life Untraveled takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
6. 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 that 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.
If you’ve entered your email to receive our newsletter, then we will keep that data until you unsubscribe from our lists. You may unsubscribe at any time by using the "Unsubscribe" option.
7. WHAT PERSONAL DATE WE COLLECT & WHY WE COLLECT IT
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.
8. 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.
9. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
10. 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.
11. CONTACT FORMS
We use an embedded contact form to make it easy for readers to contact us. When you fill out this contact form, we are automatically given your email so that we can reply. We will not use the email to send you any promotional emails, only to reply to reply to our emails.
12. ANALYTICS
We use Google Analytics to track the visitors on this site so that we know how many people we have visiting our blog.
13. EMAIL NEWSLETTERS
The only time we actually use your email to send you a message is if you request that we do so. On this blog, you will see opt-in forms that ask for your first name and email address. If you do choose to enter this information, we will send you an email including our newsletter. Life Untraveled will never share your email with anyone and you can unsubscribe from all of our emails at any time.
14. AGGREGATED STATISTICS
Life Untraveled may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Life Untraveled may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Life Untraveled may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Life Untraveled does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
15. COOKIES
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Life Untraveled uses cookies to help Life Untraveled identify and track visitors, their usage of Life Untraveled website, and their website access preferences. Life Untraveled visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Life Untraveled website, with the drawback that certain features of Life Untraveled’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
16. AKISMET COMMENTS
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. BUSINESS TRANSFERS
If Life Untraveled, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Life Untraveled goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Life Untraveled may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
20. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Life Untraveled may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Life Untraveled’s sole discretion. Life Untraveled encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.