Privacy Policy
Our website address is: https://thebudgetmindedtraveler.com (“Website”). This Website is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), and this Privacy Policy applies only to this Website.
We recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit our Website, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information voluntarily submitted
We may collect your name and email address if you submit it via a form on this Website. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about news, new products or opportunities, or changes to this Privacy Policy.
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. We use the Disqus Comments system, you may read Disqus’ Privacy Policy here.
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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics to automatically collect information. This includes certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. This helps us improve the quality of the Website.
See Google’s Privacy Policy here. You may opt-out of sharing your data with Google Analytics here.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Chrome or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Children
This Website is intended for use by a general audience and does not offer services to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond to that child to inform him or her that they cannot use this Website.
How your information may be used
We may use your information to send administrative or promotional communications via email, to respond to your comments, to track and measure advertising on the Website, to operate, maintain, and improve the Website.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter. We use Convert Kit to manage our subscribers and send newsletters. Convert Kit may use web beacons to track who opened the emails and clicked links to measure campaign performance and improve features for Customers. They also use web beacons in the emails they deliver for Customers to create reports about campaign performance and determine what actions Subscribers took.
Cookies
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
Advertising
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. 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 click here.
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.
How we protect your personal information
We have implemented the following measures to protect and safeguard your personal information:
- Limiting the amount of personal information that we collect to strictly necessary only;
- Using ssl or other secure connection technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks.
- We do not sell your personal information.
What rights you have over your data
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:
- Unsubscribe from our newsletter using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Depending upon where you reside, you may have the following rights with regard to your personal information:
| Right | Applies To |
|---|---|
| The right to access the personal information that we have collected about you. | Residents of Canada, Australia, the European Union and/or the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to say no to the sale of your personal information. | Residents of Nevada only |
| The right to request that we delete all or some of the personal information that we have collected on you. | Residents of the European Union and/or the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to ask us to transmit your personal information that we have collected on you to another provider (where technically feasible). | Residents of the European Union and/or the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you. | Residents of Canada, Australia, the European Union and/or the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data. | Residents of Canada, the European Union and/or the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to request that we restrict the processing of your data. | Residents of the European Union and/or the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to lodge a complaint regarding our collection, sharing and processing of data with competent authorities in the proper jurisdiction. | Residents of Canada, Australia, the European Union and/or the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom only |
| The right to not have to identify yourself, or of using a pseudonym in certain circumstances. | Residents of Australia only |
| The right to stop receiving unwanted direct marketing. | Residents of Australia and the European Union and/or the European Economic Area only |
You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to info@thebudgetmindedtraveler.com. We will need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, you will need to provide us with your email address.
Additional information
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
The Budget-Minded Traveler is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. See our Affiliate Disclosure here.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website.
Please direct any communications regarding doubts or concerns about your personal data to info@thebudgetmindedtraveler.com.
Last updated Jan 16, 2023