Our website address is: https://www.traveltips4trip.com, known as Tips 4 Trips.
Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
When accessing the https://www.traveltips4trip.com website, Tips 4 Trips will learn certain information about you during your visit.
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called ‘cookies’ (see explanation below) and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
We collect your personal data when you comment or register on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to help you with your experience.
We also collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
We may collect the following data from you:
Some or all of this information may be collected from one of the following sources.
If you choose to correspond with us through a contact form your message will be sent to us via direct email. We may retain the content of your contact form messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
We have obtained your email address in the one of following ways:
We will only use your email for its intended purpose.
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and we will not provide your personal information to any third party individual, government agency, or company at any time unless strictly compelled to do so by law.
We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
This website uses cookies. Like all websites, we use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website, and can edit your options here or in the cookies section of our privacy policy page.
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This website may place the following cookies:
You can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser.
You can choose to delete cookies at any time; however, you may lose any information that enables you to access the website more quickly and efficiently.
Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. See below.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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 anonymised 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 collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data related to a users visit to the website. This includes: pages visited, time spent on the website and how the visited was referred to the website. This data is retained for 26 months. For more information about Google Analytics https://policies.google.com/privacy.
We use Google Adsense to place advertisements on our website.
Tips 4 Trips uses affiliate links to earn commissions. Learn more about this on our Disclaimer. These affiliate links use cookies. Please refer to the individual affiliate programs Privacy Policy:
We may share your data with the following group for the following reasons:
1. To run the website Tips 4 Trips
2. To send email marketing and newsletters
We use MailChimp to send you updates on our website (a double opt-in service). You can request at any time to stop receiving these emails by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.
MailChimp uses a two-factor security system. MailChimp nor Tips 4 Trips sells or forwards your personal data to any other services.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Your email address for the newsletter will be kept for as long as you wish to continue receiving updates from us.
If you contacted us via email or contact form your email address and communication may be kept by us indefinitely.
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet).
When signing up to receive our newsletter your information is securely collect by MailMunch and forward to MailChimp. We do not forward or sell your information onto any other companies.
If you wish to access or amend your personal data information, would like to be forgotten, or believe something is incorrect please contact at [email protected]
Should you have any further queries please email me at [email protected]
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