Privacy Policy at Heatheronhertravels.com
Heather on her travels is found at https://www.heatheronhertravels.com (Website) is governed by the following privacy policy.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy will tell you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
Other policies relating to the Website may be found on our Policies Page.
How information about you is collected
Information you submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address, for example when you leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, download an information sheet or subscribe to receive regular updates.
Automatically collected data: Some information about you is automatically collected when you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, data such as your IP address, operating system, dates / times, links clicked may be automatically collected.
This site uses cookies which are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. Cookies are used to retain user preferences and provide anonymous tracking data to third-party applications such as Google Analytics. You may prefer to disable the use of cookies on this site and on other sites through your browser settings.
How your information may be used
Information that we collect about you may be used in the following ways.
Advertising: We have partnerships with advertising networks such as Mediavine which may serve advertising on the Website using Cookies and other automatically collected data. We may also use remarketing advertising with partners such as Facebook, Instagram using Cookies or other automatically collected data.
Affiliate links: The website may include affiliate links to Affiliate partners who may use cookies and other automatically collected data.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics for website statistics based on automatically collected data from your use of the Website.
Comments: We collect information such as name, email, website when you make a comments which is used to reduce spam on the Website.
Mailing list: We use Mailchimp to manage our mailing lists, and collect information such as name and email when you sign up to receive our newsletter or other updates. If you download information sheets you may be asked for our name and email so that we can send you further relevant information. In all cases, you can automatically unsubscribe from our mailing lists using the unsubscribe feature within our emails.
RSS Feed Management: We use Feedburner or other similar services to manage an RSS Feed which enables you to be automatically sent updates such as new articles as they are published.
Content from external platforms: We may use widgets that enable us to display content from other website such as YouTube video, Google Maps.
Social Media: We may use social media buttons and widgets that enable us to display social media content.
Except where required by law, or with your permission we will not sell, distribute or reveal your email address to third parties.
Rights relating to use of your personal information
You may opt-out of future email communications using the unsubscribe links in our emails or by contacting heather(at)heatheronhertravels (dot)com with a request to be removed from the mailing list.
You may access the personal information we have about you or request to have it amended by submitting a request to heather(at)heatheronhertravels(dot)com
We will not ask you to submit sensitive information via this website, such as information about children under 16, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships.
Further information: If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy please contact our Privacy Officer, Heather Cowper by email. Heather(at)heatheronhertravels(dot)com
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
Last updated: June 2022