Privacy Policy
Last updated July 24, 2023
Your privacy is important to Adventures with Pinny (hereinafter ‘Adventures with Pinny,’ ‘us,’ ‘our,’ or ‘we’). This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that we collect and describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:
Visit our website at https://adventureswithpinny.com/, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
By visiting https://adventureswithpinny.com/ (hereinafter ‘the Website’ or ‘our Site’), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.
What information do we collect?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect your information when you voluntarily enter it into the Website. This can include signing up for our newsletter, commenting on a post, using the Contact Us page, or otherwise entering information on the Website. We also collect your information when you email us directly, message us using Instagram direct messaging, Facebook Messenger, Etsy messaging, or reply to our newsletter.
We do not process sensitive information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information about you and the computer or mobile device (collectively, the “device”) with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, operating system version, device type, web browser type, language of the website, email (in hashed form), pages you viewed, and the time when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take while using the Website, such as links clicked. In addition, we will automatically receive information about you when you purchase an item from our Etsy storefront. And if you link to the Website from another website then we will automatically be sent information about the referring website.
How do we process your information?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services.
We use your information when answering comments on posts, responding to your message inquiries, sending out emails or our newsletter, for maintaining the Website, to deliver targeted advertising to you, to protect our Services, to identify usage trends, to determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns, and to save or protect an individual's vital interest.
We will not use or disclose information that could be used to identify an individual member in any circumstances except to respond to your inquires, to protect against unauthorized activity, to ensure the proper functioning of our business and the Website, to communicate promotional offers and special events to you, to allow our trusted third parties, including our advertising partners, to communicate promotional and special offers to you, and where the law requires us to do so.
What legal basis do we rely on to process your information?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent later in this Privacy Policy.
Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
Develop and display personalized and relevant advertising content for our users
Analyze how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users
Support our marketing activities
Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations
When and with whom do we share your personal information?
In Short: We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.
Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will also not share your personal information with any organization apart from us. They also commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. The third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:
Advertising, Direct Marketing, and Lead Generation: Google AdSense
Affiliate Marketing Programs: Amazon Affiliation, Travelpayouts Affiliate Programs
Content Optimization: Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, Instagram embed, YouTube video embed, and Travelpayouts widgets
Social Media Sharing and Advertising: ShareThis, Pinterest social plugins, Instagram social plugins, and YouTube social plugins
Web and Mobile Analytics: Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager
Website Hosting: Squarespace
What is our stance on third-party websites?
In Short: We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our Services, but are not affiliated with, our Services.
The Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other websites, services, or applications. Accordingly, we do not make any guarantee regarding any such third parties, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such third-party websites, services, or applications. The inclusion of a link towards a third-party website, service, or application does not imply an endorsement by us. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this privacy notice. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services, or applications that may be linked to or from the Services. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.
Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, 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.
External Links
We often use external links to provide you with additional information. We accept no responsibility for the content of these links and they are provided as an additional tool to help you in your travel planning.
Third-Party Service Providers
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Adsense: We may use Google Adsense advertising along with any other third party advertising on the website. Google is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.
Google Analytics: This service tracks the 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.
Etsy: We use Etsy as an online marketplace for selling print friendly digital downloads of our content. Please refer to Etsy’s legal terms and policies for more information.
The Website also links to several affiliate marketing websites. See the “Affiliate Marketing” section of this Privacy Policy for more information.
Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
Like most websites, we use cookies and similar technologies.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your device by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device (such as the device’s IP address, operating system type, operating system version, device type, and web browser type), language of the website, email (in hashed form), demographic data, and if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
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.
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 the Website. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
How long do we keep your information?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
How do we keep your information safe?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
Do we collect information from minors?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.
What are your privacy rights?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
Opt-Out: You can opt-out of future newsletters by using the unsubscribe link in the newsletter. You can also notify us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.
Amend: You may contact us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services. You may also opt out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Services.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.
Do we make updates to this notice?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. This privacy policy is effective as of July 22, 2023 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Affiliate Marketing
We engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding a tracking link into the Website. If you click on one of these affiliate links, a cookie is placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commission.
Adventures with Pinny participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn compensation by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As part of our participation in this program, we post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track referrals to their website. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purpose of assigning commission to these sales.
Adventures with Pinny also participates in the Travelpayouts Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn compensation by advertising and linking to Booking.com, GetYourGuide, and HostelWorld. As part of our participation in this program, we post customized links, provided by Travelpayouts, to track referrals to these websites. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purpose of assigning commission to these sales.
We use Google Gmail, hereinafter “Gmail”, as our email provider. The information you transmit to us by emailing us directly, submitting a message via our Contact Us page, or leaving a comment on an article is stored within Gmail. This may include your name, email address, message subject, the message/comment itself, IP address, and a URL (if provided when leaving a comment).
If you link to the Website from another website then we will be notified via Gmail. This notification is called a pingback and it includes the referring URL, referring article name, a text excerpt from the referring article (also known as a pingback excerpt), and IP address. This information will be stored in Gmail.
If you purchase an item from our Etsy storefront or send us a message via Etsy messaging then we will be notified via Gmail. And thus your name, username, email address, order number, transaction ID, item(s) purchased, and amount paid may be stored within Gmail.
As a result of any of the actions described herein you may receive an email response from us.
Terms and Conditions
By using the Website you do so at your own free will. You agree to use the information on the Website for information purposes only and at your own risk. In no case will we be liable for any damage or loss due to using the Website.
To read more about our terms and conditions, click here.
Contact
For any questions or comments regarding the privacy policy, please contact us at pinny@adventureswithpinny.com.